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Article: Cheap car stirs pollution debate; Will attractive price tag lure millions who don't have auto now?; Caption Only [Photo: Gautam Singh AP / Tata Motors' Ratan Tata....]
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- December 14, 2007
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Tata Motors' ultra-cheap car will be the least polluting vehicle
on Indian roads, the company's chairman said Monday, refuting
criticism that the $2,500 car would add to traffic chaos and carbon
emission.
Ratan Tata said his company will bring what is being billed as
"the people's car" to market next year and its price of around
100,000 rupees would be on target, despite a sharp rise in costs for
steel and other raw materials since the project was announced three
years ago.
Automakers from around the world are keenly watching progress in
the Tata project, which analysts say could set new price benchmarks
and force other manufacturers to follow suit.
But Tata has been criticized by ...