The Tata car Nano is a low-cost segment A developed by the Indian manufacturer Tata Motors. It was officially presented at the Salon de l’Automobile in New Delhi in 2008 and will be put up for sale in the middle of this year.

The selling price without taxes to the level of basic equipment will be approximately 100,000 Indian rupees (about U.S. $ 2,500 or € 1700). As a “hundred thousand” were translated into Hindi language as “lakh” This car has been named by the media as “the car of lakh” ( “the 1-lakh car” in English). The furnished versions will have more elements of comfort such as air conditioning and electric windows. It is planned to produce 200,000 units per year.

The Nano is a four-seater bodywork with five doors and rear traction. Its rear engine is a two-cylinder gasoline engine capacity of 624 cc, with multipoint fuel injection and a maximum power of 33 hp. Comply with the Euro IV emission standard and Bharat Stage-III, and will have a fuel consumption of approximately 4.5 litres/100 km city and 4.0 litres/100 km by road.

According to an article in Le Monde, [1] the Nano has a gearbox based on a design by Leonardo da Vinci.

The name comes Nano tax, as Ratan Tata, by the size of the car and the technology used for its development and manufacturing. Nano comes from the root Greek nanos, which means tiny, as in nanometer. Nano also means small in Gujarat, the native language of the Tata family. [2]
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* 1 Low Price
* 2 History
* Rear Engine 3
* 4 Features
or 4.1 engine and transmission
or 4.2 Features
or 4.3 Chassis
or 4.4 Dimensions
or 4.5 Security
* 5 References
* 6 External Links

Low Price

The factor most striking about this model is its cost, extremely low. This is because:

* There are no elements of comfort, power steering, folding mirrors, air conditioning, radio or electric windows.
* Lack of security systems, ABS or airbags; elements almost mandatory in the European Union.
* Presence of a large quantity of plastic instead of metal plates.
* Unions chassis welded rather than riveted.
* Low cost of labour in India.

History

The project to create a car of 1 lakh rupees began in 2003, under the mandate of Tata Motors and its owner, Ratan Tata. The strategy under the project was to provide the population india, saturated with two-wheeled vehicles, a car; based on the success of the brand in the production of the truck Ace in May 2005.

Industrialists were convinced that a reliable car could not be so inexpensive to manufacture, so the media speculated the possibility that it was a four-wheeled rickshaw. Both Times of India Ratan Tata as it refused. The rotary wrote that a car is properly designed, the company president said: “There is a car with cortinillas plastic or homeless, a car really is.”

During development, the company reinvented and minimized the manufacturing process, was an innovative design, and called on manufacturers of components to find work already made to produce simple and logical solutions.

The car was designed in Italy by I.DE.A. Institute, with Ratan Tata directing and ordering process changes, such as reducing the number of windshield wipers of two to one.

Inside the Nano is 21% larger and an external 8% smaller than that of his nearest rival, the Maruti 800. Will be presented with up to three different levels of equipment. The most luxurious equipped air conditioning but no power steering. Se cree que se produce en la planta de singur in West Bengal, still under construction. The company expects to produce 250,000 units per year.

Rear Engine

Using a rear engine to maximize interior space makes the Nano a car similar to the original Fiat 500, another “people’s car” very innovative, technically speaking. A concept car very similar in design to Nano, also with rear engine, was introduced by the British company Rover Group in 1990 to succeed the original Mini, but it was not brought to the assembly line. [3] The now non-existent Rover Group based its City Rover later in the Tata Indica, while the “new Mini” became larger and more conservative technically, manufactured by BMW MINI.

Features

Engine and transmission

* Two cylinders in line, multipoint monoinyector Bosch 623cc.
* Two valves per cylinder with a camshaft in the head.
* Tree balanced.
* Compression of 9.5 to 1.
* Diameter per stroke: 73.5 x 73.5 mm.
* Power: 33cv to 5500rpm.
* Torque: 48N m to 2500rpm.
* Drive back.
* Gearbox speeds of 4 and 4 th double, with more desmultiplicación.
* Address by rack and pinion mechanics.

Benefits

* Acceleration from 0 to 70km / h: 14s.
* Top speed: 105km / h.
* Fuel consumption in combined cycle (city and highway): 4.5 l/100km.
* Fuel consumption in extra cycle: 3.85 l/100km.

Chassis

* Front disk brakes.
* Rear drum brakes.
* Suspension front McPherson.
* Suspension rear spring.

Sizes

* Length: 3100mm.
* Width: 1500mm.
* High: 1600.
* Battle: 2230mm.
* Weight: 580kg.
* Route front: 1325mm.
* Way back: 1315mm.
* Wheels: 12 inches.
* Free height to the ground: 180mm.
* Boot: 150l.
* Fuel tank: 30L.

Security

* Seat belts front.
* Front fog lamps optional.
* Head restraints front.

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Specifications:

1. Length: 3.1 meters
2. Height: 1.6 meters
3. Width: 1.5 meters
4. Engine: Rear-drive the wheel, 2-cylinder, 623 cc petrol engine from multiple points of the fuel injection. The engine is mounted behind. Tata said it was the first time a gasoline engine of 2 cylinders was used in a car with the sole focus of tension.
5. Security: Tata said the nano is the whole body of metal sheet, with security features such as wrinkle areas, intrusion-resistant doors, seat belts, seats and the Anchorage strong and consolidated glass the rear door after the body. The tyres are without tube.
6. Atmosphere: Tata said regulatory requirements exceeded current functioning of the tailpipe emission, and the nano had a lower overall level of pollution that bicyclo made in India. He said little with high emissions of carbon dioxide secured the fuel efficiency (20 km / litre).