The Tata Nano is a rear-engined，four-passenger city car built by Tata Motors, aimed primarily at the Indian market. The car is very fuel efficient, achieving around 26 kilometres per litre on the highway and around 22 kilometres per litre in the city. It was first presented at the 9th annual Auto Expo on January 10, 2008，at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, India. Nano had a commercial launch on March 23, 2009 and a booking period from April 9 to April 25，generating more than 200,000 bookings for the car. The sales of the car will begin in July 2009，with a starting price of Rs 115,000, which is approximately equal to UK ￡ 1,467 or US$2,421 as of June 2009. This is cheaper than the Maruti 800，its main competitor and next cheapest Indian car priced at Rs 184,641. Tata had sought to produce the least expensive production car in the world-aiming for a starting price of Rs 100,000 (approximately US$2,000 as of June 2009).
塔塔纳努是由塔塔汽车公司制造的引擎后置的4人座城市用 车,最初是针对印度市场生产的。这种车非常省油，在高速公路上 每升油可行驶近22公里，而在城市内则可行驶22公里左右。该车于 2008年1月10号在新德里Pragati Maidan展览厅举行的的年度汽 车展览会上首次亮相，纳努于2009年3月23日幵始正式上线，在其4 月9日到4月25日的预定时间内,一共受到了20多万张订单。该车的 销售将于2009年7月正式开始，初步的预定价格为11.5万卢比，略 等于1467英镑或2421美元(按2009年6月的汇率计算h这辆车比其 主要竞争对手Mamti800还要便宜,Maruti是仅次于纳努的印度第 二便宜的汽车，价格为18.4641万卢比。塔塔一直想要制造世界上 最便宜的汽车——目标将初次发售价定在10万卢比左右(约2000 美元)。
In early 2008 the news magazine Newsweek identified the Nano as a part of a “new breed of 21st-century cars’，that embody “a contrarian philosophy of smaller, lighter, cheaper” and portend a new era in inexpensive personal transportation-and potentially, “global gridlock”. The Wall Street Journal confirmed a global trend toward small cars, which includes the Nano. “Nano” from the SI prefix for one-billionth is often used to mean “small，，in colloquial English. Coincidentally，it also means “small” in Gujarati, the location of the factory.
2008年早期，新闻杂志《新闻周刊》将纳努定义为一部分“21世 纪的新汽车品种”，这也是对“更小、更轻、更便宜的逆向哲学”的诠 释，并且也预示着一个廉价个人交通工具时代的到来——也潜在地 预示“全球交通拥挤”的到来。华尔街日报证实了全球更倾向于小 型车的趋势，当然这些小车中就包括了纳努。“纳努”来自SI十亿分 之一的前辍,通常在英语口语中用来形容“小”，凑巧的是，“纳努” 在该车的制造工厂所在地古吉拉特也同样代表“小”。
The introduction of the Nano received media attention due to its targeted low price. The Financial Times reported: “If ever there were a symbol of India’s ambitions to become a modem nation, it would surely be the Nano, the tiny car with the even tinier price-tag. A triumph of homegrown engineering, the $2,200 (1,490, ￡ 1,186) Nano encapsulates the dream of millions of Indians groping for a shot at urban prosperity.” The car is expected to boost the Indian economy, create entrepreneurial-opportunities across India, as well as expand the Indian car market by 65%. The car was envisioned by Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group and Tata Motors, who has described it as an eco-friendly “people’s car”. Nano has been greatly appreciated by many sources and the media for its low-cost and eco-friendly initiatives which include using compressed-air as fuel and an electric-version (E-Nano).Tata Group is expected to mass-manufacture the Nano, particularly the electric-version, and, besides selling them in India，to alsoexport them worldwide.
由于低廉的价格纳努的出现得到了媒介的关注。经济时报报 道广如果要说有什么象征着印度意欲成为现代化国家的话，那么 这个象征一定是纳努，这辆小车和比起外形更廉价的标价。由于国内工程技术的成功，这辆标价2200美元（1490欧元，1186英镑)的纳努车装载了数百万印度人想要迅速繁 荣发展城市的梦想。”人们预计这辆车会促进印度经济 发展，为印度创造更多的就业机会，同时也将印度的汽 车市场扩大了65%。这辆车的构想来自由塔塔集团和塔 塔汽车的董事拉丹?塔塔，他称其是非常环保的“属于 人们的车”。纳努已经受到各界和媒体的广泛好评，因 为其低廉的价格和环保的设计,这还包括它可以使用 压缩空气作为燃料并且还拥有充电型的车型(E-纳努）。塔塔集团机会大规模生产纳努,特别是充 电性的，并且除了在印度销售外还将大量出口。
Critics of the car have questioned its safety in India (where reportedly 90,000 people are killed in road-accidents every year), and have also criticised the pollution that it would cause(including criticism by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rajendra Pachauri). However, Tata Motors has promised that it would definitely release Nano’s eco-friendly models alongside the gasoline-model.
在印度，人们对其安全性也提出了质疑(据报道印度每年有9万人死于交通事故），并且还有对 它可能导致的环境污染产生了质疑（包括诺贝尔和平奖获得者拉津德_帕乔里也对此表示了质 疑）。然而,塔塔汽车已经承诺他们将在生产环保型纳努外，也将同时生产汽油燃料驱动的纳努。
The Nano was originally to have been manufactured at a new factory in Singur, West Bengal, but increasingly violent protests forced Tata to pull out October 2008. Currently, Tata Motors is reportedly manufacturing Nano at its existing Pantnagar plant and a mother plant has been proposed for Sanand Gujarat. The company will bank on existing dealer network for Nano initially. The new Nano Plant could have a capacity of 500,000 units, compared to 300,000 for Singur. Gujarat has also agreed to match all the incentives offered by West Bengal government.
纳努原定于在西孟加拉的Singur新工厂进行生产,但是由于不断升级的暴力抗议使得塔塔在 2008年10月不得不撤出Singur。现在,据报道塔塔汽车现在在原有的Pantnagar工厂生产纳努，这 家工厂也被建议设为Sanand Gujarat的总厂。这家公司将会先利用现有的经销网络推销纳努。新 的纳努工厂比起Singur工厂的30万生产量可以生产50万辆纳努。Gujarat的工厂也受到了西孟加 拉政府的一切鼓励政策。