No, No, Nano!

Aston Martin Cygnet eat your heart out...

The Nano Goldplus - it's for real!

And the 2010 PH award for most sartorially-suspect supermini goes to Aston Mart... No, wait, this late entry just in!

May we present a rendered preview of the Nano Goldplus from our friends at JLR's Indian owner, the Tata Group.

No, you won't get one free with every XKR or V8 Rangie as a cunning ruse to keep JLR's carbon footprint in check. In fact it's a special (needs?) edition created in Tata's domestic market by Titan Industries Ltd.

Why? Well apparently sales of the Tata Nano are sliding at home, from a peak of 9000 units in July to a paltry 509 in November. This is not, as PHers might reasonably surmise, because the world's cheapest car is totally cr*p. No (we're informed by the International Business Times), there's been a tendency for the Nano to catch fire which has 'dipped the initial enthusiasm' of people to invest.