Off the shelf Tata Nano: How much more do you have to shell out?

Tata Nano

A week ago, Tata Motors announced that buying the Tata Nano off the shelf will be possible beginning from August-September this year. But the dealers however are promising the base version of the Tata Nano withing 2-3 days of booking and the mid and top end variants within two weeks of booking. This, even as the backlog for the first 100,000 Tata Nanos is yet to be cleared. When quizzed about how all this is possible, the dealers say that the off the shelf Nanos will be available through the “management quota” wherein the car buyer will have to write to Tata Motors requesting for a booking, after which the car will be delivered through the so called “management quota”.

What piques us no end is the fact that all this is being done even as thousands of eager Tata Nano owners are enduring long waits for their dream Nano cars to be allotted to them. This news is certain to anger the existing Tata Nano owners whose cars might be delivered later than that of those under the so called “management quota”. Wouldn’t it not be right for the dealers/Tata Motors to first clear the existing backlog before selling the Nano off the shelf?

This is the big question that Tata Motors and it’s dealers will have a tough time answering once Nano buyers get the wind of these seemingly unscrupulous deals happening. Meanwhile the buyers going in for the off the shelf Nano will be forced to pay about INR 5,000 to INR 15,000 extra. Also, while Tata Motors hasn’t come out in the public and hiked the cost of the second batch of the Tata Nano, it has already communicated to the dealers about a INR 5,000 to INR 15,000 price hike for the second batch of Tata Nanos. So, come August-September, buyers buying the second batch of Nanos off the shelf will most certainly have to pay more than the first batch Nano owners did.

News Courtesy: The Economic Times

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