Tata Motors is considering allowing other car companies to assemble its low-cost Nano and sell it under their own brand, the Business Standard newspaper reported on Monday.
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Vice chairman Ravi Kant told a reporters at an awards function in Mumbai that Tata Motors might allow assemblers to set up micro-assembly sites across the country that could produce about 10,000 cars a year.
“We call it Nano, they don’t have to,” the paper quoted Kant as saying.
Tata began selling the Nano, the world’s cheapest car, in July, and has sold 7,500 units in the past three months.
After being forced to abandon a 95%-complete faclity due to local farmers’ land grab protests, it is building a relocated dedicated factory for the Nano with an annual capacity of 250,000 units, which is expected to be ready by the end of March.
Until then, it is making the Nano in smaller numbers at an existing plant.
