Nano passes Tests in Europe
Tata Motor’s Nano Which soon to be launched in European Market has now passed its first basic European structural safety tests and is on course for a European version to be available by 2012 as informed in the press meet few months back.
The Engineers from Tata Motors brought two Tata Nanos to the UK test house MIRA this month to put them through a 50 km/h side impact test and a 56 km/h offset frontal impact test as its the standard minimum required for a legal vehicle in Europe and will become the Indian structural safety standard in 2012 as well.
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The tests that Tata Motors has put the Nano through at MIRA are designed to demonstrate that the car, a low-cost vehicle aimed specifically at the Indian market, is nevertheless within the mainstream of vehicle development worldwide.
Tata wants to introduce a European version of the Nano by 2012 and has plans too to export the cars to other regions, including North America. It has also been stung by criticism that the basic vehicle does not meet safety standards – Indian standards are less demanding than European, but are planned to catch up.
To all those who thought reports of the Tata Nano passing European crash testing were worthless without pics, we now have a few of those plus one better: Video. It seems the actual Nano submitted for the 50 km/h side impact test and 56 km/h offset frontal impact test.
