Artist’s Impression: Tata Abarth 1-Lakh Car?
Artist’s Impression - Click to enlarge
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Artist’s Impression - Click to enlarge
This is a little bit of imagination going wild here… but something I think is interesting nonetheless. Most of you know that Tata is developing a 1-Lakh car (USD2,500), and we’ve seen an artist’s impression of it when I wrote about the car back in October.
Now, Tata currently has a JV with Fiat, and Fiat’s plant at Ranjangaon, Pune is making both Fiats and Tatas. Tata even uses Fiat diesel engines for its Tata Indica and Tata Indigo. Now, what if Fiat uses the Tata 1 lakh car as a baseline budget model, and a pure styling-enhanced Abarth model is created from it?
Seems like a long shot… but doesn’t stop the very generous Theophilus Chin from flexing his Photoshop muscles and creating something at a request from another paultan.org reader, who had this crazy idea in the first place.
Above is the result, along with a new artist’s impression of the Tata 1-Lakh car, looking alot better than the previous version I posted. The original 1-Lakh car is a 5-door, while the “Abarth” is a 3-door version.
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December 21, 2007 @ 5:56 am
Myvi looks better than that
December 21, 2007 @ 7:34 am
Truly budget car.
December 21, 2007 @ 9:58 am
looks like a frog if its is in green color…:D:P
December 21, 2007 @ 1:08 pm
Wow. Very cheap. I wonder whats their spending power like over there in India? USD2500 X 3.5 = RM8750. If their monthly salary is about an average of RM1500 for the middle income group, then it will be indeed very cheap for them. Correct me if i’m wrong.
December 21, 2007 @ 2:41 pm
ok, not bad…..
December 21, 2007 @ 6:05 pm
more aerodynamic then Myvi & Viva
December 21, 2007 @ 7:09 pm
looks humble
December 21, 2007 @ 10:53 pm
Hopefully this will cut the number of train roof riders in India by half…
December 22, 2007 @ 8:57 am
80% look like Mitsu COLT.
December 22, 2007 @ 8:43 pm
looks bad…
December 22, 2007 @ 10:38 pm
hmmm… the front light is not nice but the other part is ok… But then the blue one looks bad… big time!!
December 23, 2007 @ 7:23 pm
yer !
December 25, 2007 @ 2:24 am
woa,. behold, teh indian colt…. although it probably is a bit smaller.
March 25, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
Ok la!!! Not bad for budget car..
April 4, 2009 @ 11:55 am
With the country in another energy crises and the economy going south faster than a plane plunging into the earth, the USA government should rethink and relax the standards.
I have a 1988 Buick Lesabre, lost my first shift job and really nead a new car and can’t afford one. I would love one of these cars. I would love to get a big contract with my new company and I would love a girl friend