Tata Nano

Tata is India's leading maker of cars and trucks, and its American Depositary Receipts, or shares that trade on the New York Stock exchange, have been on fire. They've hit $30 per ADR, up from $16 last May. They could have room to run higher.

A digital video camera for $53? A private plane for less than $20,000? The prices on some interesting consumer products have dropped over the years, resulting in surprising deals on items that were once more costly.

Ford Motor Co. (F) is on a roll. The lone U.S. car company not to have taken a government bailout, Ford said Wednesday it foresees a return to profitability within two years, as it unveiled an inexpensive compact car to be made in India. (Autoblog has a gallery of the new car here.) The Figo,...

It's cheap, it's boxy, and it's apparently safe. Word has filtered out that the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car, just passed EU crash test standards. This raises a very interesting possibility. The Nano, which will cost less than $3,000, was originally targeted at the developing world. But...

On Wednesday, insiders reported that Hummer, the ailing General Motors (GM) marque, was being bid on by three separate groups. The potential owners, one of which is based in the United States, would take control of the brand, although GM would continue to produce the actual vehicles. How quickly...

In the 1960s, the Volkswagen Beetle was looked upon with scorn by Detroit as a fly on the hood of the real car industry. Few anticipated the change that it would bring, as a generation of boomers jumped at the chance to buy a new car for under $1,600, far less than Ford's cheapest offering, the...

The world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano, goes on sale in India in the next few days. The price tag beats the price of even many scooters: just $2,000. Beside the fact the car looks like an enclosed golf cart, the features of the standard are plain as paper: four-speed rear wheel transmission, no...