Motors and industry experts are waiting for bookings for Tata Nano' >Tata Nano" href="https://www.cartrade.com/new-cars">Tata Nano to open in all parts of the country soon. It will enable the auto industry to gauge the success of the model in the country and its probabilities in the world market. So far Nano sales have plummeted over past three months. Tata Motors sold 9000 Tata Nano in July while the sales dipped to around 8000 in August 2010. Sales figures of September 2010 reflected only 5520 Tata Nanos sold in the domestic market.
According to the company, Tata Nano fire incidents, delay in deliveries and unavailability of parts due to shifting of vendors from Pantnagar to Sanand may be some of the reasons for falling sales. Moreover, Tata Nano bookings are not open in all states of India. Currently, Tata Motors is taking bookings from 5 states of India including West Bengal, Maharashtra, UP, Kerala and Karnataka. Apart from this, company also states that many customers from the first phase of bookings have postponed their deliveries to more auspicious days of the festive season.
Tata Motors’ Sanand plant will be operative in March next year and will become fully operational and bookings will open pan India. It will be possible to gauge the success of the models thereafter.
