Micro to become macro? GM looking at competing with the Nano
by Dan Roth (RSS feed) on Jan 26th, 2008 at 2:02PM
Click image for a gallery of the GM China Chevrolet SparkIf everyone else is going to build cars like Tata's headline-grabbing Nano, GM's going to pile on, too. The Lutz cites GM's part-ownership stake in Wuling Motors, a Chinese manufacturer of sub-$3,000 utility vehicles as a possible source of a GM Nano competitor. Lutz went on to say that one way to make an inexpensive car for the developing world is to repurpose a legacy platform that has become obsolete. The tooling and design will have long been paid off, and there'll be plenty of experience from the manufacturing side, too. This is... Read More
