Whatever happened to the Tata Nano?

That's what I asked myself, suddenly out of nowhere. The car that would put India's masses on four wheels, that would conquer the globe thanks to its low base price of $1,700? Well, it turns out that the Nano became a Nono for Tata and was discontinued in 2018. Introduced in 2008, Tata projected to sell 225,000 of them annual. But production never peaked over 70,000, and during its final years sales dropped from 16,000 to 7,500 or so. That low base p rice was still too high for India's motorbike buyers. Images of Nano's catching fire did not do a lot for its appeal either. And even though it looked like a hatchback, it did not even have a trunk, or a hatch for that matter. Tata did show a European version on the Geneva auto show in 2009 - longer and wider than the Indian version, and looking better too. But it was calculated that it would be too expensive to be competive here on the old continent. And publicity photo do not show the rear o