tata-nano20140422VW’s Type 1 (later finding its place in automotive history carrying the name Beetle). Ford’s Model T. Both cars had put hordes of masses on four wheels, changing the lives of millions, and altering the landscape of the places in which they were built and sold.

Tata’s Nano, which at around $2,000 was billed as the world’s cheapest car at the time of its release in 2008—and which was intended to draw the motorcycle-riding people of its native India—was supposed to do the same.

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