rat-a-tat-tat!

On January 10th 2008 .. a new revolutionary car emerged under the scenes, and amazed us or at least me, with its shittyness wonderfulness. I will just firstly give a little insight on the companies background, etc.

Tata Motors Limited
established in 1945
is the largest automobile manufacturer in India
founded by Jamshetji Tata, now run by Ratan Tata

Im sure many of you don’t know this car company, or don’t care. Well my dad bought it once before, a pick up truck version a few years back. It doesnt have a catchy name like “Toyota vios” or “Honda Civic” .. its name actually sounds quite fierce, like got power~ ..

the infamous “207 DI EX”

doesn’t look too bad huh ? my dad bought it, used it for a year, wrote it off. Had to overhaul twice(due to leaking), and everytime you drive it you have to fill in water after every 30 minutes. In conclusion, the car SUCKS.

here are some jokes about the TATA company for your enjoyment =).

1. How do you Upgrade a TATA?

A: Put in an engine.

2. What’s the difference between a TATA and the principal’s office?

A. It’s less embarrassing if your friends see you leaving the
principal’s office.

3. What goes on pages 4-5 of the TATA’s user’s manual?

A: The train & bus schedule.

4. What is the sport-version of TATA?

A: The driver wears Nike shoes.

5. What do you call a TATA with brakes?

A: Customized.
Now back to the main point of this post, tata released the new car, it is called the

“Tata Nano”

we can assume from analysing the name that the car will be

Tata – shitty and useless
Nano – small

so when i read up about the release, i just had to see the car, and to my amazement, it wasn’t like what i imagined, it was even shittier =/ …

the car looks quite nice here. NOT

its a cross between the Smart car and a Perodua Viva. Running on a 623cc engine, it produces a very amazing 33hp. It is the worlds current cheapest production car, each costing around $100,000 rupees, or around $8,300 RM. which is very cheap. Now here comes the catch.

The standard model comes without power steering(no problem), no radio( -_-”) only four gear manual transmission, windows are wind-down, boot is big enough to fit “1″ duffel bag, and no air conditioning(OMFG) with the weather conditions in India, which can reach around 35 degrees celcius, people are gonna suffer. Only the ‘Deluxe’ version comes with air conditioning, but still no power steering, airbag and radio.

I hate how they are trying to make it seem like its a revolutionary car, when Mr. Ratan Tata was unveiling this car, he mentioned back on the Wright Brothers first flight, and the moon landing, and used it to compare with this car. you got to be kidding me.

let me show you what i mean, here are two pictures of posters for the car.

computer generated picture of the car, swirly lines, big building in india.. classic..i can do that in photoshop too =D ill put a picture of a forklift their instead though, rather drive that.

another computer generated picture, more of them swirly lines, you see how they have they have to put things in black and white. To cover up the dirtyness..

In conclusion, if i ever see this car, i will smash it into a billion nano pieces. =@ i thought looking at the Naza Sutera was bad enough (dedicated to basil) but now i found a new hatred, they are so lucky its now selling only in India, i was close to smashing my own computer, but i thought twice.. then three times, then i decided not to.