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"Nano" Will Be Launched In July

"Nano" Will Be Launched In July

The world's cheapest car "Nono" will be launched from July, India's Tata Motor announced.Tata Motors said the Nano would initially be available through bookings or reservations filed on a request form priced around $6, or Rs 300. Tata will accept the bookings from April 9 to April 25.

Tata Motors wants to make 350,000 Nanos a year from 2010 at another unit elsewhere in the country, a company statement said.

The car has 4 doors. Nano built in "limited numbers" at a company plant in the north Indian hill state of Uttrakhand.

"It is to the credit of the team at Tata Motors that a car once thought impossible by the world is now a reality. I hope it will provide safe, affordable, four-wheel transportation to families who till now have not been able to own a car. We are delighted in presenting the Tata Nano to India and the world," company chief Ratan Tata told a news conference in Mumbai to announce the "commercial launch" of the $2,000 car.