The $2500 car that world has never imagined. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book this week “ Small Wonder the making of the nano” by Philip Chacko, Christabelle Noronha and Sujata Agarwal gives a good insight into the how the nano transformed from a dream of Ratan Tata to a reality. Tata Nano garnered that much interest across the globe and people already identify the brand Tata world over so the expectations were all the more increased. And then he turned to the guys from TCS and asked isn’t this company same as the ones you guys come from ‘Tata’ and TCS guys beamed and proudly replied oh yes Tim, it’s from our company only (like there is no difference between TCS and Tata Motors). And then he started reading the features of the car and was visibly happy. I remembered some talk about such a car from Tata Motors coming up so realized, I said oh right. He showed me the New York times of that day which had a story about Tata Nano and he said see you guys have made the world’s cheapest car at $2500. It was a winter morning in 2008 as I walked in to my (then) New York office I saw one of the business guy (American) having an animated talk with a bunch of other guys (mostly Indian), who were also working in that office and were from TCS, I asked Hello Tim, whats the big news?
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