Tata Motors will roll out its Diesel variant of Nano by the end of March 2014.Currently petrol variant is only available in Nano.Tata plans to launch this diesel variant in order to increase its sales.It has undergone testing at Tata Motors, engineering and research facility at Pimpri and it has spotted near Pune.
It gets 800cc common rail-turbo diesel engine which can develop maximum power of 40 bhp. We can expect the price of this Nano diesel variant is Rs 50,000 higher than the current variant. It will be available in three variants.
Tata Motors, MD, Karl Slym said,”We have already made organisational changes in the company and strengthened the team. We recently introduced eight new products across five platforms under the Horizonnext intiative, which included CNG variants of some of our products. The diesel version of the Nano would follow soon within this financial year”