Tata Nano Review - The 1 Lakh Nano Small Car Review

The world's cheapest car and the one that is more popular as People's car, Nano, comes with a hatchback body and a 623-CC engine that is able to generate about 33-horsepower. As I review the car, I did see that the engine of Nano is fitted at the rear end, giving it a more-spacious look. The two-cylinder engine; however, is not otherwise made from iron. The engine is an all-aluminum make giving the weight advantage for fuel economy and also cost effectiveness to the manufacturer.



Additionally, the Nano car with a rear-mounted petrol engine seems to emulate the erstwhile Fiat 500, which is known to exert very little pressure on the steering. I will review the drive of Nano car like this: Maximum speed of the car is no more than 105 km per hour, however, the fuel efficiency is up to 21.9 km per liter of petrol. A review of the car engine of Nano further reveals that it has a multi-point fuel injection system, and it has bi-valved cylinders and an engine management platform taken from the Boschs’. There are 4-speed gears that are operated manually.

The fuel compression ratio of Tata Nano’s engine is 9.5:1 and it does comply with the Euro-IV and Bharat Stage III emission standards making it very friendly on roads (now you ponder what’s going to happen if there are too many Nanos on road? Well me too!).

Nano that aims to sell itself to the middle class two-wheeler riders deployed an indigenous engine (claims to own 10 patents). Although the power is 33HP, a drive will never let anyone get a feel of driving an underpowered engine. But let’s not be over excited, because this small car does get noisy at 60 km per hour speed (maybe designed to make us drive at 40-50 kmph speed on the Indian roads, especially the high-traffic city roads).

A little far from the engine, the Tata Nano is equipped with a manual gearbox. A review of the drive of the Nano reveals that in the first gear the car can be pushed 30kmph and 60 in the second gear and 90kmph achieved in the third gear.

The diesel model of the engine of Tata Nano is in the anvil. I will review that as well once it rolls down the roads.

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