Tata Nano CRDi to deliver 40 km/L!

**niky** · October 10th, 2012 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by bananatype

According to the article linked below, the LHD nano was still in development last April :

Tata Nano takes a left hand drive into overseas markets - 2

The 3-4 months development time mentioned brings us to August this year, so maybe the LHD isn't ready for export until Q3 2012. The next question will be whether it will be brought in CBU or CKD...

If CBU, then Nano is subject to 30% import duty. The base model is about US$2,500, on top of which logistics costs, import duty, excise tax, administrative costs, and local taxes are added. A resulting SRP of near PHP200k is possible...

If CKD, then 0% import duty but there will be assembly costs that need to be recovered. Jigs, tooling, EDP paint process, labor costs, overhead, etc. will be distributed over the total volume. It could easily cost more than the import duty if volume is low, making CKD unfeasible.

I'm very curious about how the importer will go about the Tata Nano.

Cheers!

Given my experience with Chinese cars, $2.5k equals about 250k pesos through a third party retailer.

**dfopiso** · October 10th, 2012 03:29 PM

in a few years more kasi hindi pa bayad MC

**dfopiso** · October 10th, 2012 03:30 PM

Originally Posted by niky

Given my experience with Chinese cars, $2.5k equals about 250k pesos through a third party retailer.

grabe about P100/$

**timrev** · October 10th, 2012 03:58 PM

Trendy to give Indians an opportunity to personalize their Nano have designer Dilip Chhabria of DC Design and Carnation Auto joined beaten to a modest tuning package development.

**niky** · October 10th, 2012 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by dfopiso

grabe about P100/$

Three wheelers: $2.3k. Landed, distributor price, Php200k. Dealer price, Php230k. That one failed to take off. Not enough market, not enough volume to get the manufacturer price down

Chery QQ. That started at $4.5k or so in China, and the base model was Php350k here. That's still about Php150k in mark-up.

Thus, expect the Nano to be between 250-300k. If they SKD here, then 200k and under is possible.

**timrev** · October 10th, 2012 05:40 PM

parang ang mahal sa 250-300k yan sa maliit na tata nano...pero kung 800cc na diesel pwede na...

**dfopiso** · October 10th, 2012 05:45 PM

hindi pwedeng pamalit sa MC kung ganon

**lowslowbenz** · October 10th, 2012 06:07 PM

250 - 300k ... magandang chedeng na yan, diesel pa!

**bananatype** · October 12th, 2012 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by niky

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Thus, expect the Nano to be between 250-300k. If they SKD here, then 200k and under is possible.

Here's an unscientific comparison:
India : Suzuki Alto K10 - 3.25 lakh Rupee (or INR 325k)
PHL : Suzuki Alto K10 - PHP 439k
Factor increase of 35%

So applying above factor increase to Tata Nano:
India : Tata Nano w/ AC & Power Steering - 2.14 lakh Rupee (or INR 214k)
PHL : Tata Nano w/ AC & Power Steering - PHP 289k

Yup, Sir Niky you're right.

Cheers

**niky** · October 12th, 2012 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by bananatype

Here's an unscientific comparison:
India : Suzuki Alto K10 - 3.25 lakh Rupee (or INR 325k)
PHL : Suzuki Alto K10 - PHP 439k
Factor increase of 35%

So applying above factor increase to Tata Nano:
India : Tata Nano w/ AC & Power Steering - 2.14 lakh Rupee (or INR 214k)
PHL : Tata Nano w/ AC & Power Steering - PHP 289k

Yup, Sir Niky you're right.

Cheers

Hey, I'm always right... except when I'm wrong. Then I'm always wrong.