Tata Motors Chairman Ratan Tata believes that Tata Nano will bring happiness and pleasure to people those who will be buying their first car as also those who currently own a car but want a modern, emission-friendly and contemporary city car.

Mumbaikar Mr. Ashok Raghunath Vichare is the luckiest person of this world by becoming the first owner of the world’s cheapest car from the Tatas. But there were two other owners also. The keys of other two cars were delivered to Ashish Balakrishnan and A. Chandrashekaran.

Mr. Ashok Vichare has bought a Tata Nano LX (lunar silver), the top-end model,
Mr. Ashish Balakrishnan, an HDFC Bank employee, has bought Tata Nano LX (sunshine yellow) and Kores India also received Tata Nano LX (lunar silver) respectively.

To be the first recipients of the Nano, Tata Motors has already selected over 1.55 lakh customers, in which the first one lakh cars are price-protected. In 2003, at the Delhi Auto Expo in 2008, the car was first showcased and after a series of violent protests led by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, it hit the limelight when this project was shifted from West Bengal to Gujarat.

The project has cost over Rs. 2,000 crore. The 623-cc rear-engine car boasts a fuel economy of over 23 km per litre. The World’s cheapest car carries a price range of Rs. 1.23 lakh to Rs 1.72 lakh for the three different variants. Its standard model sells for 140,000 rupees including tax in the showroom. The deluxe models cost up to 185,000 rupees.

Tata Motors had promised that 100,000 Nano cars would be delivered to customers at Rs.100, 000 each by March 2010.

Five years after his promise to build a people’s car, Ratan Tata had finally fulfilled him dream. So, we can say that Nano was not only a dream of us but it was a dream of Ratan Tata also which has come true.