2012 Tata Nano CVT on the cards!

2012 Tata Nano CVT

Tata Motors is developing a CVT version of the Nano and contrary to many reports on the InterWeb suggesting a 2011 launch, the Nano CVT’s launch could still take some time, according to our source from Tata Motors Limited. The Tata Nano CVT seems to be Tata’s strategy of targeting the upwardly mobile city crowd as well as the first time car owners who would most certainly love the point-and-shoot comfort that the Constant Variable Transmission would bring to the table.

The challenge for Tata Motors, however, would be, mitigating the effects of the lower fuel efficiency that CVT transmissions deliver despite them being more efficient that conventional automatics. This could be one very crucial factor as most first time small car buyers place high priority over fuel efficiency and it would be very interesting to see how Tata Motors manages to walk the tightrope between convenience and fuel efficiency while retaining the Tata Nano’s USP of being the world’s cheapest-to-own car.

Tata Motors has been in active talks with C-Tech, a CVT transmision maker from Quebec, Canada. If all goes well, the firm, which has been developing the CVT transmission for the Nano, in close association with Tata Motors for the past year, could set up a plant close to the Tata Nano factory at Sanand, Gujarat in the coming few months. If all of this materializes, the Tata Nano CVT will be a terrific city option sometime in 2012.

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January 24, 2011 | By Jay Prashanth · Tags: 2012 Tata Nano CVT

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2 Responses to “2012 Tata Nano CVT on the cards!”

varun on January 24th, 2011 4:29 pm

wow,, now i know why Tata is not ready with Tatasky HD boxes yet..Mr. Ratan tat is busy making this stupid car !! lolzz..
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Mr. Ratan Tata, i have an advice for you.
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better buy separate designs for indigo,indica and marina..they have same deign since their birth !!
Andreas Herke on March 7th, 2012 4:06 pm

This article is rather poor…
CVT actually means Continuously Variable Transmission, therefore Constant is completely wrong also by its meaning.
Also I have a hard time imagining that a CVT will have a negative effect on fuel economy, since the engine is held in its most efficient operating speed band for most times with that type of transmission.
Also, “high priority over fuel efficiency” – what’s that suppposed to mean.. Think it should say buyers are “placing” high priority ON fuel eff.?