Thursday, February 18, 2010

'Avatars' from Tata Motors

My first experience with Tata's Marco polo gave a re-affirmation to my conviction that Tata Motors will introduce something crap which eventually causes agony to the public. Probably it is a curse eventhough they dont intend to do so.My start of the journey at Banashankari appeared normal in midst of traffic as it was inevitable to go slow.But when it reached Uttarahalli road where one can cruise easily, Marco polo was struggling to give a pull. I could see and hear vehicles honking at this tortoise bus to give them way to overtake.It was hot and one of the passenger asked the driver to switch on A/c which the driver did hesitantly. The speed went even more worse and driver had to switch off the A/c.Conductor started blaming government that they invested in this bus eventhough Marco polo was a failure in trial runs.

Government probably was in swadeshi mood when it decided to introduce these buses. Cost may be less, but this bus really adds to agony of already cramped roads.Tata's contribution to messing up starts with Tata indica. During this time, Grand old man Ratan tata with his profound thoughts wanted to give employment to every drop outs and runaway culprits from villages. This paved way for Tata indica and you must have seen how these beneficiaries of Tata rozgar yojana are mercilessly killing people in road accidents.Only Indica drivers could clinch this notorious title - 'Cab driver'.Its a feather on Ratan's cap too.

Having made people frantic seeing Tata indica and Tata sumo, Tata wanted to give another 'gift' to this nation.It seems he saw a family on a rainy day waiting for a bus. And instead of giving them a lift, he made a business decision to work on Nano. Best example of converting a socialist idea into a business strategy. Could not understand why Tata sobbed while narrating this story.

Instead of investing nearly 2lakh prinicpal amount in powerless Nano, that family would have afforded to go by an auto or even buy second hand maruthi 800 which could be used
comfortably even in highways.Tata could not understand that, Middle class indian mentality is to save money and not for any luxury.By any chance if indian middle class go by Tata's Nano, traffic in metros are bound to be more chaotic. Anyways, waiting what next Avatar from Tata motors.