{"id":11877,"date":"2009-03-24T02:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T02:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/indias_tata_rolls_out_worlds_cheapest_car\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T02:01:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T02:01:59","slug":"indias_tata_rolls_out_worlds_cheapest_car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11877","title":{"rendered":"India&#39;s Tata rolls out world&#39;s cheapest car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Tata Motors on Monday launched the world&#8217;s cheapest car, the Nano, hoping to revolutionise travel for millions and buck a slump in auto sales caused by the global economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Company boss Ratan Tata said the no-frills vehicle, slated to cost just 100,000 rupees (2,000 dollars) for the basic model, will get India&#8217;s middle-class urban population off motorcycles and into safer, affordable cars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we are at the gates of offering a new form of transport to the people of India and later, I hope, other markets elsewhere in the world,&#8221; he said, describing the launch as a &#8220;milestone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20090323\/ts_afp\/indiacompanyautotata_20090323144905\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Tata Motors on Monday launched the world&#8217;s cheapest car, the Nano, hoping to revolutionise travel for millions and buck a slump in auto sales caused by the global economic crisis. Company boss Ratan Tata said the no-frills vehicle, slated<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11877\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,201,481,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-india","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}