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...degree day, he catches the corner-eyesight of a man about to use a cell phone. The spaceman turns and runs. Too late: BOOM! The bomb detonates and so does he. Blood seeps down his helmet visor like red rain on the wrong side of a car windshield...
Until now, the steep price of conversions and most car owners' lack of technical know-how have kept consumers at bay. And while the cost is still prohibitive for most folks, some of the safety concerns and technical hurdles have been alleviated. Hymotion's conversion kit comes with a three-year warranty and has been crash tested. Those worried about voiding their original warranty should know that it is illegal for a carmaker to do so solely because an after-market product has been installed. If that product causes any malfunction or damage to the factory-installed parts, however...
When Tata Motors unveiled designs last year to build the Nano - a cheap, two-wheel drive car for the people - it proudly declared its hopes for India's mass market. It's getting a dose of mass protest instead. Last week, Tata Motors shut down its plant in Singur, West Bengal, citing "obstruction, intimidation and confrontation" by protesters that had been demonstrating at the site for the past month...
...leaves Tata the option to change his mind if the protests subside. He has much less room to maneuver around the company's promise to launch the Nano by the end of this year. Tata has staked his reputation on successfully producing and selling the fabled world's cheapest car, which will sell for about $2,300 - a price low enough to turn India's millions of motorcycle and scooter drivers into car owners. "This is an iconic project," says Abdul Majeed, who follows the Indian auto industry as a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Chennai. "The whole world is watching...
...would be easy to cast Tata Motors as the villain in this story - it is run by a super-wealthy car buff who comes from one of India's most famous industrialist families. But the real - and much less colorful - bad guy in the Singur debacle is India's misguided industrial development policy. India wants booming manufacturing hubs like the ones that have transformed Chinese cities like Shenzhen. But instead of creating a handful of large special economic zones, or SEZs, and locating them strategically near ports and cities with large pools of labor, India has approved more than...