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Tara Tiny details and specifications

The best part of Tara Tiny below one lakh car is running cost of just 40 paise per km. And no noise, no extra maintenance like the petrol driven cars. TATA Nano gives 18 km per litre of petrol, which works out to more than Rs.3.00 per km.

Inside Tara

Specifications:

No of seats: 4

Net weight: 850 kg

Wheel base: 2,150 mm

Maximum speed: 50 km/h

Maximum grade ability: 15%

Motor power: 3 kW (4 hp)

Battery voltage: 6V*10 Recharge duration: 8 hours Driving charge: 120 km

Ground clearance: 150/mm

Running cost: 40 p/km

Battery capacity: 200/Ah

Tara Tiny details and specifications are better than TATA Nano.

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Tara Tiny and Tata Nano

People do not like to change easily. They do not like electric cars. They want to hear the engine run, smell the petrol and see the smoke coming out of the exhaust. Suddenly I do not like charging my car every day but can afford to spend more time in a petrol station waiting in the queue.

Tara Tiny

Tara Tiny is an electric car to be manufactured by India’s Tara International, in association with China’s Aucma.

The Tara Tiny is the cheapest car, priced at Rs. 99,000 which is less than that of Tata Nano. And the running cost is almost zero compared to TATA Nano, the petrol car.

Tara International will launch the Tara Tiny this August. Unlike TATA Nano it has other versions of the car: Tara Titu, Tara Micro and Tara Mini.

The electric car Reva is already there and it has nice models. It is being used by the postal department of Kerala. I have seen many Reva cars running in Bangalore. But Reva is expensive. It costs around two lakhs.

With the bookings of TATA Nano promoting premium price above one lakh and the rising cost of petrol, I have to test drive Tara Tiny.

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Lamborghini better than Ferrari

Lamborghini Ferruccio a car mad man owned sports cars, including Ferraris.

He was rich and initially manufactured tractors and air-conditioning systems after World War II,

He keenly observed that clutch components of tractors were the same as Ferraris, but not good.

He met Enzo Ferrari with his criticism. Ferrari insulted Lamborghini, saying that a tractor manufacturer was not qualified to criticize Ferraris. Affronted by Ferrari’s reaction, Lamborghini decided to “build better Ferraris than Ferrari”

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WW II depression auto industry

WW II auto industry depression made Rolls Royce and Bentley, the genius English automobile companies to be sold to BMW and VV, the German companies equally excellent in technology.

RollsRoyce

Rolls Royce first manufactured Aircraft Engines and was the second largest in the World, next to General Electric Aviation.

The automobile company was separated in 1973. Around half the aircraft engines used by the Allies World War I were made by Rolls-Royce.

Bentley was founded by *Walter Owen Bentley*, known to all as “W.O.” He was a born engineer, but had experience with trains. In 1905, aged 16, he went on his on his bicycle to work at the Great Northern Railway Locomotive Works in Doncaster, northern England.

Being a racer at heart, Bentley’s first products were high- performance open cars that immediately established themselves as winners in the hectic world of European racing between the wars. Bentley cars won the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times from 1923.

Bentley had realized that there was a limited market for “sporting” and race cars,

His company would have to make bread-and-butter vehicles that would pay the bills. To this end, his London-based company built rolling chassis that were fitted with very fancy coachwork bodies for wealthy clients. The last of the line was powered by a huge 8.0-liter six-cylinder engine. Bentley had become a major competitor for Rolls-Royce and other British luxury car builders.

BentleyBut the big Bentley couldn’t have come at a worse time. The Great Depression was on and the privately-funded Bentley Motors, Ltd. was broke.

Yet despite its racing record and public acclaim, Bentley Motors was beset by financial difficulty. By 1931 the golden age was over, but as closure loomed, Rolls-Royce stepped in to save the Bentley name - and a new era began.

World War II devastated the British industrial complex and Rolls-Royce suffered too.

The turbulent financial times of the ’60s culminated with the company becoming part of the Vickers conglomerate which in turn recently sold the Rolls-Royce name to BMW and the Bentley name, factory and assets to Volkswagen.

 

BMW

BMW

No matter what car, van or bike you drive, we’re all looking for great value and quality, but who is the best – who is the cheapest and who offers the great service is what needed today. It’s tough to decide on this issue. All foreign auto companies of the World have entered Indian market.

But TATA Nano has out-beaten them.

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Ferrari in India

It is a car world. TATA introduces Nano for one lakh. TATA joins Ferrari the expensive car Formula one car commercially.

Ferrari

FERRARI is a Formula 1 car and you know Shumaker’s passion

Racing cars are very expensive as they put the best metal, technology, professionalism, time management, team work, tire, and they build the Ferrari with the best combination of metal to withstand speed, road grip, driving conditions, panels, suspension and of course the Driver. It is not possible to bring a F1 Ferrari type car commercially

But Ferrari has plans to launch some models. The cheapest costs you around 1 crore Rupees and higher models costs more than 2 crores. They are bringing about 4 models.

You can import an F430 at about a crore and a half rupees. With Tata planning to bring Ferrari into India they will a lot cheaper and easier too.

Ferrari F 430

An F430 has its engine at the middle, a norm for super cars that boast of nearly 50:50 weight distributions. The engine is the mechanical centerpiece of every Ferrari, and the F430’s is on permanent display under a transparent glass hood behind the passenger compartment.

Over the years, many of the most famous Ferrari engines have been V12s, but the F430 features an all new twin-cam, four-valve aluminum V8 of enormous “specific power” — a figure that denotes how much horsepower per unit of displacement the engine makes.

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The F430’s 4.3-litre engine (the origin of the car’s name) produces 113 horsepower per litre for a total of 483 hp. Few production engines approach that figure without the aid of a turbocharger or supercharger.

The Honda S2000’s amazing little 2.2-litre four-cylinder cranks out 109 hp/litre. The quasi-racecar Porsche 911 GT-3 makes 106 hp/litre. A 550-hp Ford GT produces 102 hp/litre and the list tapers from there. The downside of the F430’s high specific power, say Ferrari technicians, is that typically a Ferrari engine of such power density will only run for about 60,000 miles before needing some serious top-end rebuilding (including the valve train and other such components).

Considering that most Ferraris are driven an average of a few thousand miles a year, it may take a long time to reach that threshold. The F430 coupe and Spider lean heavily on Ferrari’s Formula One racing technology. The most obvious attribute is the paddle-shifter sequential manual transmission.

The F430’s electronic differential and steering-wheel selector switch are also pulled from Ferrari F1 race cars. The latter allows drivers to instantly change suspension and drive-train parameters with five settings ranging from “race” to “ice”. Interestingly, the F430’s engine doesn’t sound like a typical V8 because of its crankshaft configuration. Most V8 cranks are designed for smoothness, allowing cylinders on both sides of the V to fire alternately, and balancing opposing pulses. The F430’s “flat” crankshaft, however, forces the engine to operate as though it were two four-cylinder engines running in tandem, thus creating a distinctive, ripping exhaust sound —- which is a good thing, because it wouldn’t do to have a Ferrari sound like a Corvette. Four-cylinder engines are vibration-prone, and two of them should be twice as

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The engine is superbly smooth. The F430 isn’t as intimidating to drive as some other super cars. For one thing, it doesn’t overwhelm with the sense of acres of expensive bodywork. Outward visibility is also good.

Lambhorgini

I like Lamborghini. But Ferrari attracts me for the sheer perfect work of Italians and Shumaker and his passion for Ferrari. Though Williams, Benz McLaren are superior, Ferrari has got the power and strength. The driver knows the best.

Shumaker has never had a crash with Ferrari in Grand Prix and is a Legend in Formula1.

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