REPORT: Nissan working on Tata Nano-like cheap car strategy
 

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India's <a href="http://green.autoblog.com/tag/tatanano">Tata Nano</a> has seemingly shown the world's remaining automakers that it's possible to build a small, inexpensive car for emerging markets that's still profitable. You can reportedly count Nissan among the companies paying close attention and the Japanese automaker reportedly has plans to launch a new small car platform in Thailand, India and China starting in March of 2010.<br />
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The new vehicle architecture is called V (as in Versatile), and it's been in development since 2005. According to drive.com.au, the car will sport 18-percent fewer parts than current Nissan compacts and as many components as possible will be sourced from local areas.<br />
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Crucial to the success of the program is a massive number of sales - a whopping one million vehicles per year by 2013, which would represent nearly a third of all Nissan's sold in the last three months. To make that goal a reality, sales in Europe and the United States are also planned, possibly as early as 2011.<br />
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[Source: <a href="http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?Articl eID=66937&vf=26">drive.co m.au</a>]<p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/02/report-nissan-working-on-tata-nano-like-cheap-car-strategy/">REPORT: Nissan working on Tata Nano-like cheap car strategy</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:29:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?Articl eID=66937&vf=26>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/02/report-nissan-working-on-tata-nano-like-cheap-car-strategy/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19217712/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/02/report-nissan-working-on-tata-nano-like-cheap-car-strategy/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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