Launched in January 2008, India's "people's car", as it is already dubbed, is intended to put motoring within reach of Asia's masses. At $2,500 it's hard to see it how it won't sell, but even if it doesn't it will become the poster car for a new, stripped back style of engineering — glue instead of welds! — that could change the world.
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