One step closer to Nano

Tata Motors has completed the process of selecting the first 100,000 owners of the Tata Nano from among the 206,703 applicants who had booked the car.

The company will inform individual applicants about their status of being an allottee, retainee or an unsuccessful applicant shortly. The details have been uploaded on www.tatanano.com and applicants can log on with their booking application number to know their status or contact the company on 020-66495678.

Deliveries will begin from July 2009 and the first 100,000 deliveries are expected to be completed by the last quarter of 2010.

Tata says that it will be making all efforts to deliver the cars earlier, by ramping up production at the Pantnagar plant and the upcoming Sanand plant in Gujarat.

Tata also reconfirmed that the first 100,000 owners are price-protected, and will get their Tata Nano at the ex-showroom prices, announced at launch on March 23.