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Ratan Tata on the Nano: "It gained the stigma of 'I don't want to be seen in the cheapest car. My neighbors will think I have no money.'"

Lindsay Chappell

February 24, 2015 05:00 AM

GREENVILLE, South Carolina -- Tata Motors, producer of the car conceived as the world’s cheapest, is rethinking the “cheap” part of it.

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