{"id":83815,"date":"2009-12-15T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/15\/report-gm-saic-pondering-tata-nano-fighter\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T22:32:00","slug":"report-gm-saic-pondering-tata-nano-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/83815","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: GM-SAIC pondering Tata Nano fighter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Budget<\/a>, China<\/a>, GM<\/a>, India<\/a>, Rumormill<\/a><\/p>\n

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Though the minuscule Tata<\/a> Nano hasn’t even been on the market for a complete year, the impact it’s had on the automotive world may be exactly inverse to its size and price. In other words, it’s had a huge effect, proving to the world that it’s possible to build a business plan around selling super cheap cars in rapidly expanding markets.<\/p>\n

You can reportedly add the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC<\/a>) and General Motors<\/a> joint venture to the list of automakers that have taken notice of the Nano. According to reports rolling in from China and India, the 50:50 JV is considering a vehicle that would be positioned below the Chevy Spark\/Daewoo Matiz that would sell for as little as $3,500.<\/p>\n

So far, GM\/SAIC isn’t commenting on the reports, but has indicated in the past that it plans to build small vans, SUVs and cars for emerging markets like China and India.<\/p>\n

[Source: WheelsUnplugged<\/a> | Image: Mark Ralston\/AFP\/Getty Images]<\/p>\n

REPORT: GM-SAIC pondering Tata Nano fighter?<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Budget, China, GM, India, Rumormill Though the minuscule Tata Nano hasn’t even been on the market for a complete year, the impact it’s had on the automotive world may be exactly inverse to its size and price. In other words, it’s had a huge effect, proving to the world that it’s possible to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}