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Ratan Tata emphasized that the new car complies with India's emissions laws and even with Europe's much stronger Euro 4 standards. Emissions, Tata says, are "lower than a scooter's today". The company claims the car will also deliver 50 miles per gallon, or better than 20 kilometers per liter, which would make it one of India's most efficient vehicles, and vastly more efficient than the average in the U.S. Chief U.N. climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri, who shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, said recently that he was "having nightmares" about...
...riding on the the world's cheapest car. In the words of Ratan Tata, chairman of the company behind the upstart econobox, India's "People's Car" will be a "safe, affordable, all weather vehicle for a family which is today traveling on a two wheeler." The entry level model is ticketed at just over $2,500 - or the equivalent of 100,000 rupees or one Lakh - a revolutionary price where the average lower middle class income is $200 a month. (For comparison's sake, in the early 1970s, Honda introduced affordable, good quality Civics at about $2,200, which...
...car emerged at a much-anticipated launch on Thursday: a cute, short thing, with four doors, tiny wheels placed out at the far corners of the body and what looked like plenty of room inside. The Nano has just enough space for a briefcase or small bag under the hood. The engine - all two cylinders, 624cc and 33 horsepower of it - is in the back, just like the Volkswagen Beetle of old. The speedometer and other instruments cluster in a central pod in the middle of the dashboard rather than directly in front of the driver, the easier (and cheaper...
Buildings that were once thriving now look decrepit and dilapidated. An Internet café is now an empty shell of a concrete structure. Some restaurants have been hit four or five times in car bomb attacks. Wires and cables are strewn like drunken, haphazard spider webs from building to building and street to street. I saw the hotel room I lived in for six weeks in 2004. Not because the desk manager let me in - the place is now shuttered and boarded up - but because the windows are blown out. Banks, mosques, and hospitals, in addition to whole neighborhoods and private...
...tantamount to a death wish. Back then there was an overabundance of satellite dishes - these big metal pans - for sale at nearly every shop. Today commerce has slowed to a crawl. The traffic now is a bit more orderly, but the number of horse-drawn carts has increased. Fancy cars are all but absent. And everyone is on edge - get too close and you might be a victim of the car bomb in front of you. And 2.2 million Iraqi civilians have fled their homes and are living as refugees, one of the largest mass migrations in recent human history...