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India's Tata Nano – it's no iPod, it's a car.

Indian Tata Motors company announced a new car over the weekend: the Nano.  It’s cheap, and meant to be consumed by the “common man” in India.  While Detroit’s auto makers are failing, and Sweden’s Saab appears to be even worse off, Tata is so far putting its best foot forward and hoping a cheap product will yield significant profit.

 

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Christopher Herbert

Christopher Herbert is an analyst of foreign affairs with specific expertise in US foreign policy, the Middle East and Asia. He is Director of Research for the Denver Research Group, has written for the Washington Post’s PostGlobal and Global Power Barometer and has served on projects for the United States Pacific Command and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He has degrees from Yale University and Harvard University in Middle Eastern history and politics and speaks English, French, Arabic and Italian.

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US Foreign Policy; Middle East; Asia.

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