Tata unveils its new, sub-$1000 car for the domestic market. It gets 50mpg, due to its tiny 33hp motor, but there will be a projected 10 million cars similar to this sold over the next five years in India, as incomes rise.
Most people on this planet are getting richer, which is great. At least for those people, and for now. We’ll see how it goes in the long run…
Photo from a BusinessWeek article about the Nano.
Guardian Unlimited reviewer Rory Maclean had this to say after reading Tim Butcher’s new travel account, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart:
In its final pages, Butcher writes of his extraordinary journey, I “touched the heart of Africa and found it broken”. We can weep for this betrayed, failed land, but please don’t go there.
The DRC is definitely one of the world’s most screwed-up places, but you should definitely go there. I just wouldn’t recommend motorbiking across the country, solo, with “a penknife and a packet of baby-wipes as his only protection,” as Butcher did.
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