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Some 100,000 people were selected from a ballot to be the first recipients of the Nano, which reviewers have compared to the European Smart car and the classic "People's Car", the Volkswagen Beetle.
They include a roadside cobbler from Mumbai, who had been saving for seven years to buy a two-wheeler, but decided to wait and upgrade to four wheels on hearing that the vehicle would sell for just 100,000 rupees (2,055 dollars).
Others among the 203,000 people who placed orders was an 82-year-old former assistant commissioner of Mumbai police who used to ride a scooter and a market trader looking for an investment for his 12-year-old son.
What a truly wonderful feeling it must be to save for seven years and be able to afford your own car for the first time. The Nano is surely going to make the dreams of many individuals finally come true.
They don't mention anything about a frame? Is there something under that sheet-metal? Sheet-metal really helps to... not do much.
If the big competition on the road is scooters and motorcycles, maybe the all sheet-metal car will hold up well in the nastier collisions.
An interesing view on Indian social norms in photo #12. The women ride in the back of the car. There is nobody in the passenger seat yet FOUR people in the back seat.
Gotta love the 12" wheels. Think they could trick 'em out with 15s?