Bodacious Tata
Friday January 11, 2008
Categories: Varia
I've really got nothing to say about the Tata, the new Hindu Volkswagen. I just wanted to use that headline....
Filed Under: Hindu Volkswagen, Tata
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Thankya!
Looks like a...uh...'Hindoo' version of the Smart car.
Did you see the pictures on the website? You know what they call that piece of material that covers the front bumpers....a bra. I can hear it now. Billy Bob says to his Charlene - Damn Charlene, that there's a mighty big bra on them Tata's.
Sez Charlene -
Yeah and you can't use your teeth to git it off.
Wow! A bodacious SET of Tata's. Good for India. I can't wait for the AFL CIO negotiations! It's time for a blood-letting of that org.
Hey, just a question. Do they rate Tata engines in horse power or Elephant power? Man, these things could be quite the street racers.
Well, they're cheap enough so you can get TWO.
Hindu car? Does Tata only sell to Hindus?
India just started a Formula 1 racing team. (No lie.)
If that's their car, though, they're going to get lapped ... well, every lap!
Because every developing country needs to adopt a lifestyle centered on the automobile.
"Great minds think alike (and so do we)."
Rod's headline has been on the tips of many a tongue, I'm sure, since at least October 12, 2007, when a New York Times article on the Tata appeared, leading to my forwarding it a day later under the header, "On the Road To New Delhi - with bodacious Tatas, Skodas and scooters."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/business/worldbusiness/12cars.html
Until the market for ultracheap cars blossoms, those seeking a bit more variety are SOL - it's TTFN.
The most pressing question, though: WWGD (What Would Gandhi Drive)?
I just wanted to post.
And *speaking* of elephants, the great gray beasts had best steer clear of the road, the better to 'scape a scrape: good pachydermatologists are in short supply.
Indians Hit the Road Amid Elephants
by SOMINI SENGUPTA
As incomes rise and cheap cars proliferate, many hurdles still litter the new Indian romance with the road.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/world/asia/11indiacar.html
The name needs work, but anything that puts a UAW member to flipping burgers is to be applauded.
Want one.
Out of curiosity I clicked on the link. Here's what came out of my mouth: ''Gawd, that's an ugly little car!''. Just my honest, off-the-cuff opinion.
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