Tata Motors may reopen Nano bookings before December
Monday, 8 February 2010
MUMBAI, Feb 7 (Business Standard): Customers who missed the Nano bus in 2009 will have something to cheer later this year, when Tata Motors reopens bookings for the world's cheapest car, perhaps before December.
The company had got 100,000 bookings in the first phase.
Production of the mini-car at the hitherto sole manufacturing unit at Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, is being raised, while the mother plant at Sanand, Gujarat, is being readied for operations.
Even as the deadline for delivering all the bookings is the last quarter of the current calendar year, the company is expected to complete this well before December.
Asked about reopening of bookings, Prakash M Telang, managing director (India operations) of Tata Motors, said, "We will open bookings when we come closer to completion of delivery. However, we will have some surprises this time."
Since mid-July last year, when the first customer got his Nano, the company has delivered 17,537 units. From producing 70 units a day from the excise-free zone of Pantnagar, the company now produces almost 150 units a day.
The company had got 100,000 bookings in the first phase.
Production of the mini-car at the hitherto sole manufacturing unit at Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, is being raised, while the mother plant at Sanand, Gujarat, is being readied for operations.
Even as the deadline for delivering all the bookings is the last quarter of the current calendar year, the company is expected to complete this well before December.
Asked about reopening of bookings, Prakash M Telang, managing director (India operations) of Tata Motors, said, "We will open bookings when we come closer to completion of delivery. However, we will have some surprises this time."
Since mid-July last year, when the first customer got his Nano, the company has delivered 17,537 units. From producing 70 units a day from the excise-free zone of Pantnagar, the company now produces almost 150 units a day.