{"id":5369,"date":"2009-03-21T05:41:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2009-03-21T05:41:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:41:16","slug":"automobile-tata-hopes-tiny-car-is-a-big-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5369","title":{"rendered":"Automobile &#8211; Tata Hopes Tiny Car Is a Big Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5370\" title=\"nano\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/nano.bmp\" alt=\"nano\" \/>When the Nano minicar was conceived by India&#8217;s Tata family in 2003, patriarch Ratan Tata said he intended to provide an affordable, fuel-efficient, safer alternative to the motorcycles and scooters used by millions of low-income Indians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 10.2-foot-long car&#8217;s launch Monday will come at a very different time &#8212; for India, the auto industry and the Tata empire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The focus will be as much on whether the Nano will &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123754276641693961.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Nano minicar was conceived by India&#8217;s Tata family in 2003, patriarch Ratan Tata said he intended to provide an affordable, fuel-efficient, safer alternative to the motorcycles and scooters used by millions of low-income Indians. The 10.2-foot-long car&#8217;s launch Monday will come at a very different time &#8212; for India, the auto industry and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-new-automobile-products-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5371,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions\/5371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}