Re: The Tata Nano - An Engineering El Niño

On Jan 18, 6:23 pm, Kirk Gordon <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mich wrote:
There is a very interesting article about he significance of Indian
engineering. While China is competing with cheap manufacturing, Indian is
really coming through with engineering and the Nano is a symbol of it.

http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=6702

Yeah, that's what I'd say too, if I were trying to get people not to
be worried about a country with an insanely gigantic and out of control
population problem, polution that would choke a Chinese slumlord, a
legal/cultural system that treats certain castes and genders as if they
were rodents, and an insatiable hunger for food, knowledge, energy,
money, or anything else it can get by any means at all.

I liked the part about the "overconsumption" in the West. I guess
overpopulation, and the resultant exponential increase in consumption of
the most basic and vital stuff, isn't as big a problem as Americans and
their Hi-Def televisions.

And it's extremely impressive to note that the brilliant Indian
engineers, and their remarkably enlightened government "have
dramatically reduced requirements for wood fuel in rural areas." Give
'em a decade or three, and maybe they'll graduate completely to
something clean and plentiful, like coal.

India, like China, is trading on the basic cultural differences
between itself and other parts of the world. If life is cheap, then so
is labor; and that's the same as gold in a world where locations and
distances no longer matter. Even skilled labor is cheap, if you have a
big enough talent pool to draw from, if the Western world just happens
to be filled with colleges and universities willing to train whole
generations of students, and if learning is the only way for a young
person to escape some of the worst squallor in the history of the world.

But, that's just my opinion. I'm sure Ashutosh Sheshabalaya is more
objective, and less biased, than I am. I can't wait to see all those
Nano's rolling around on US highways. I bet they'll give Yugo a run for
it's money!

KG


Kirk, aren't you missing the real point here? That Tata Nano is such a
piece of *** it can be designed in it's entirety in Autocrap. ;>)

I read somewhere this shitbox on wheels has a 2 cylinder engine that
produces a whooping 35 H.P.

Here's what's really sad. Better crotch rockets produce close to 150
H.P. It's too bad that with all our government regulation and red tape
you don't see someone in the U.S. doing a better Tata Nano for US
drivers for say $8,000 with a crotch rocket motor.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWoNuwQ-_is









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