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| Mona Lisa User ID: 339234 1/10/2008 2:34 PM | | Mr. Predictor   Forum Moderator User ID: 287257 1/10/2008 2:36 PM
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Here ya go.........
I gotta tell ya this POS car story. Long long time ago I had this Girlfriend. Well her mom bought her a Yugo, brand new, cheap crap mobile for her to drive around in, cost $3999.00. So I get in the thing brand new, go to roll the window down, snap the crank off like a twig, I felt bad, this is a brand new car. What it was is that the handles turned backwards, opposite from any American car, and the handles were really crappy plastic. So call the dealer to get a new one, back ordered to like 2012, lol, lot's of handles broken. Dealer says, "You know the crank turns backwards don't ya?" I say, "yeah now...",lol. So this was the beginning of the saga of "The Ugo"
So GF drives the thing around for awhile, some months, but not too long. Something happens, develops a cooling leak, and she is just putting water in, never says anything. Kinda mostly living with me, but not 100% so I don't notice. After a while, really leaking bad, she tells me, water pump is shot. So she borrows Moms old car, which was a Honda, 10x better car. Driving that for a couple weeks, Ugo sits in my apartment parking lot until I can repair, couple few weeks girlfriend is driving Honda Mom says I will just buy a brand new Honda, gives GF older Honda...now Ugo is second fiddle and unwanted.
So Ugo sits, which was no issue, and GF goes down the road of turning into a Piece of shit herself. So she is fired from being my Girlfriend. She owes me some money, bout 3-400 bucks if I remember, tell her I am keeping Ugo hostage until she forks up. Welp, poor Ugo doesn't get ransomed, some months go by. Time has come that I am going to move to new apartment. Ugo can't stay, but I have a brilliant plan. Since my new Apartment is farther away from my job and my 400 FireBird has never met a gas station it didn't want to have sex with, I will re-animate Ugo and drive it back and forth to work and if anything happens, Ugo gets left where it does, not my car, XGF is POS, so I don't really care.
So I re-animate Ugo with a new water pump, Ugo has 1900 miles on it. So I make my move and I am driving Ugo back and forth to my job. Now Machinists are like work in a Firehouse so I get some joking about Ugo, Where's the Bird man? and what's up with that POS? So I don't give a crap about Ugo either, just driving it to keep miles off the Bird and it's a disposo car. So we all have fun goofin on Ugo, couple guys we could lift up the back end and put it sideways in a parking spot, could almost flip it, and my buddies are generally wanting to do experiments to it like flip it upside and spin it around, but I say no, not to be destroyed.
So some time goes by and lemmie tell ya driving that thing was like driving a mailbox on wheels. Semi's going by would almost blow Ugo off the road, and it was all Ugo could do to get up to 65mph for the few exits I drove on I-95 everyday. I have a lot of miles driving different and various levels of crappyness vehicles as well as motorcycles so I can deal with it, but I think that this is never a vehicle I would give to an average driver.
So one day at work shipping Dude comes up to me and says some Fed spooks are bringing some nuclear power plant thing to test out this out this nuclear power plant thing we were building and the parking has to be clear in the corner where Ugo parks so they can park the thing there and baby sit it over night, do the fitting test in the morning and be gone. So Ugo has to move, I am busy, so he says do I want to him to fork lift it to another spot. I say no I need a break anyway, I'll move Ugo. So I get in, start up, begin backing out and crash, and Ugo's whole nose on one side is on the ground. I think Bastards un-did Ugo's front wheel? but this would not be something the guys would do. So get out, shipping dude is laughing, and saying holy shit, and I look and Ugo's entire drivers side control arm and wheel assembly is flat out splayed out on the ground, still attached and wheel still bolted on. Dude says, "What the fuck happened?" I say, "Got me, but might as well fork it now, lol" So he scoops Ugo up and forklifts it into a corner. I look at it and it seems like nothing is destroyed, I assume a tie rod or something broke. So grab a ride home and come back next day with my FireBird and some tools to check on Ugo.
So jack Ugo up and checking around, I grab the little baby control arm assembly and shove it back where it is supposed to be, damned if Ugo isn't lookin repaired already. Now this is kinda mystifying me, because this was a pretty massive failure, I mean the entire wheel assembly was flat as a pancake on the ground and it looked like Ugo did a Dukes of Hazzard jump and didn't survive, now Ugo looks almost as good as new and I haven't done squat yet. So I am poking around and it looks to me as is a cross pin broke and fell out and that was the cause. So there is an auto-parts store right across the street so I walk over. On the way I see a bolt on the ground, has that yellow Iridide plating on it common for auto parts so I grab it, thinking that this could be the bolt that held in the cross piece that is now gone that caused the catastrophic failure of Ugo. I check it out and it is broken on the end, and rusted there too, so I think I think I have some Ugo failure debris and pocket it and walk to store.
So go to parts counter and tell dude what I am looking for and he gets out a parts book and we look through to find Ugo's front wheel assemblies. So we find it and we are looking at exploded view and I am saying I am looking for whatever goes here and holds the control arms assembly to the frame, we can't find anything. Dude says to me, "It looks like just a bolt man, but that's kinda fucked up" I say yeah it is, but got a part number, maybe there is more to it than it shows, got that part? He says yeah, he goes and gets it. It is the bolt I found, only with a nut and threads. He is scratching his head and I take bolt out of my pocket, same thing. I say that has got to be it, tell him what happened and we agree, that is pretty fucked up, but it looks like how it is, he cannot believe that there is no cross pin with cotter pins and nuts on it or something, and neither can I. I am still not 100% sure of this, so I buy the bolt, a 9mm by about 2 inches for like $1.59 and head out the door.
Return to Ugo on a jack, put bolt in, tighten, look around and nothing seems missing, BTW couple washers came with, so all put together. I snoop around on the other side, same thing, one bolt. I am sorta stunned now, take Ugo off the jack, drive around the lot a bit and Ugo is 100%, for what that was worth. I shut door, look at Ugo and say, "Ugo, you got to go" start putting away gear and a buddy pulls in who said he would try and make it to give me a hand because we assumed big job. He says damn man you're an animal, all done? I say, wasn't anything to it, tell him the story and we are both pretty stunned by it. I say yeah man, and I was drivin this POS on 95, and that bolt was rusted, it was likely broken for a while, could you imagine what would have happened if that came apart doing 60 on I-95? I'd be dead, or worse....we aren't too happy and we both are looking at Ugo now like a killer. So I tell him, I think I know what to do, we both split and Ugo sits alone in the corner......
I come into work on Monday, tell some of my buds, This weekend, Ugo takes one last drive up to where we shoot and it's gonna get swiss cheesed, I have declared Ugo un-safe at any speed and it must be put down. So bout 4 or 5 guys, all put up about 50 bucks and we'll get a 1000 rounds for the AK-47 and some skeets and shells and various other ammo and make a day of it. We have gone shooting before so a few of the regulars are, "I'm in, or I can't make it" and we got some dudes ready to go Ugo blastin......
So old guy I work with comes up to me..."isn't that thing like brand new?" I say yep, got like 3500 miles on it, but it's got to die, too bad soo sad sucks to be Ugo. So he says, "well my daughter..." I cut him short, I say forget it, not gonna happen, and you don't want your daughter in that shitbox, trust me. He says no, daughter has a small farm about 60 miles north and they need a farm buggy, they are shopping around, but they are pretty expensive, couple or few grand, he's thinking that Ugo might be good for one. I am skeptical and say that Ugo cannot be allowed on the road with Human beings in it and must be put down. He says he would be willing to put it on a recovery truck and flat bed it up there, then cut Ugo up so it could never be used on the road again, torch the roof off etc and make a little farm buggy out of it. He is a good guy so I trust him, I make him swear he will chop Ugo up, no gettin second thoughts, he promises he will and how much for the car. I say gimmie a hundred bucks for some ammo cause all the guys want to go shooting now and will be disappointed no Ugo blasting so I'll spend it on ammo and all will be cool, so we agree.
Next weekend some of my buddies and I go shooting and have a great time. Come back to work on Monday, I see Ugo is gone from parking lot. See the old guy and say how'd it go? He said well I got a recovery truck and got it up there no sweat, bout another 100 bucks. Says he breaks out the torch and daughter starts saying, "this car is almost brand new, it only has 3500 miles on it, we should keep it as a car" He says no I promised the guy, and starts torching. Cuts off the roof and hatch back, rips out back seats and they got a little Ugo buggy. He tells me, well my daughter got in it, said it was a shame to break a brand new car, lol, but I told her that was how it is, she drives away in the dirt and he tells me that little Ugo was bendin and flexing like a slinky-mobile as it rode away on the farm. He said he never saw anything twist so much, lol, that next weekend would get some metal and weld it in so the Ugo buggy wouldn't be so much like a wet noodle, lol. We laughed and said he probably had the only farm buggy with AC a stereo and bucket seats, rofl.
Wonder if Ugo is still on the job today...maybe.......
That's about all these cheapo POS little tin boxes are good for. Kind of a sad story for a car, but I had no sympathy for Ugo, he was killer that just got caught before he could kill, at least he got re-habbed......;) Quoting: SHR
YOU DATED A GIRL THAT HAD A YUGO ?????
YOU LOOSE 50 POINTS those who beat their swords into plowshares will find themselves plowing for those who don't |
| SHR   Forum Administrator 1/10/2008 2:41 PM
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YOU DATED A GIRL THAT HAD A YUGO ?????
YOU LOOSE 50 POINTS Quoting: Mr. Predictor
Define "Dating" Oh and define it twice....once for her sister.....;)
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| Dervish User ID: 231115 1/10/2008 2:50 PM
 | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | Small little thing ain't it.
I will take two. One for each testicle. "Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war"
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 258525 1/10/2008 3:03 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote |
They are kinda proud of the fact that it comes with brakes.
I guess it's kind of a big selling point.
I mean, if the car didn't go really fast, it wouldn't NEED brakes.
I guess they are saying it goes really fast?
What ever they are trying to say, I'm glad it has brakes. |
| Mr. Predictor   Forum Moderator User ID: 287257 1/10/2008 3:04 PM
 | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote |
YOU DATED A GIRL THAT HAD A YUGO ?????
YOU LOOSE 50 POINTS
Define "Dating" Oh and define it twice....once for her sister.....;)
 Quoting: SHR
FIELD RULING HAS BEEN CHALLENGED
WE NEED TO GO TO THE VIDEO REPLAY those who beat their swords into plowshares will find themselves plowing for those who don't |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 316544 1/10/2008 3:07 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote |
When oh WHEN is this coming here? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 284011
Never. American corporations don't let there be competition. The only we have Toyotas and Hondas is because of trade agreements in the 80's, when things were still fair.
You do know that Coca COLA HAS 136 PRODUCTS, NOT TEN, RIGHT? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 258525 1/10/2008 3:12 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote |
YOU DATED A GIRL THAT HAD A YUGO ?????
YOU LOOSE 50 POINTS
Define "Dating" Oh and define it twice....once for her sister.....;)
FIELD RULING HAS BEEN CHALLENGED
WE NEED TO GO TO THE VIDEO REPLAY Quoting: Mr. Predictor
NICE TATAS!!!! |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 325789 1/10/2008 3:34 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | Yeah. The Indians do such a great job of customer service on the phone for the card companies. I really want to go out and buy one of their cars and be talking to someone with an accent on an 800 number for the rest of my life!
Hmmm.. Although maybe you could buy one and then force AMEX to double the warranty. That should pay them back for shipping the customer service offshore to India a few years ago!
PIECE OF SHIT CAR NEVER WILL BE SOLD IN THE US |
| None User ID: 353480 1/10/2008 9:49 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | Hey, wow im impressed did you guys here that they are actually
putting a compact coffin in the trunk about 3 feet long and made of durable plastic. For easy access. |
| snwmann13 User ID: 353677 1/11/2008 7:52 AM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | So now I have the question will the American biggets alow this car into the US or the us govt. or is the car a threat like thew Geo Metro was. The US govt. has got there ways to keep great stuff like this off of the american market because of the financial gain thing, yeh, right, hell The USCORP. tok the mettro 3 cylinder off the market and sold it out to the 4-68-cl. engines and I totally convinced that individual american has to pay the price and the US threat and all, yea right, it will never pass the US standards of business implemation of a product. I am working on some thing now that will get 50 mph-2000 miles between refills, and is built of recycled parts, so we will see how fast THE US CORP WORLD buys out tato nano to keep them off the american market, and if they will pass mine in about a year, huhh!!!
So what is the hooplah about, the car is made out of recycled pop/beer cans, and probably this cat got his start doing what, yeh , ok I am very skeptical if I will ever see the car being sold here in the states, so again what is the big wooplah??????????????????
Sincerely, Snwmann13 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 331367 1/11/2008 8:06 AM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | In 10 years you will be proud when you still can drive a car like this that get´s decent mpg.
Like Dacia they say; not for the western market ... wait a year or two.
Dacias sell like bread here in western europe, the local highway parking lot is filled with trucks carrying 10 Dacias each.
A brand no one ever heard of just 3 years ago.
Full size car that seats 5 comfortable, has a big trunk and low consumption for 8000 euros (about 10000 dollars).
Oh i forgot, it has no rain sensors, no dual climate control, no bord computer, no ...
But who needs that crap anyway when all you drive is to work and back ? You are stuck in the daily traffic jam anyway.
That Tata sounds like a car for the future. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 353137 1/11/2008 8:09 AM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | those tyres are worth shit in snow though...
but in warm cities, good deal. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 353837 1/11/2008 2:05 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote |
When oh WHEN is this coming here?USA Arkansas. what kind of import taxs is the US goverment going to put on this? what is the new total after the goverment does there thing? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 284011 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 354046 1/11/2008 9:37 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote |
YOU DATED A GIRL THAT HAD A YUGO ?????
YOU LOOSE 50 POINTS
Define "Dating" Oh and define it twice....once for her sister.....;)
FIELD RULING HAS BEEN CHALLENGED
WE NEED TO GO TO THE VIDEO REPLAY Quoting: Mr. Predictor
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| Hounsell User ID: 354050 1/11/2008 9:42 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | I want to purchase the tato nano today, how much can it be purchased for in Sasktachewan, CANADA |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 354502 1/12/2008 6:28 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote |
I want to purchase the tato nano today, how much can it be purchased for in Sasktachewan, CANADA Quoting: Hounsell 354050
you can't, you're not allowed to import that car here... you can't even import the VAUXHALL VX220. it has to pass the 15 year rule, why? i have no clue.. and besides... sasktachewan? buddy, that place has dreadful winter doesn't it? i don't think this car will be able to stand the coldness... considering it's made in india. "warm climates." i ono, totally just my opinion i have no facts to back my theory up. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 253965 1/12/2008 6:58 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | I'm driving down the road one day in my 1 ton GMC van. Going like 35, in a residential nieghborhood. Exactly the speed limit. Cause I got experience.
This woman runs a stop sign without even slowing down.
A midsize GM something or other, don't remember the model.
I hit her in the driver's side rear door. Going 35, cause I didn't have time to realize what was happening before I creamed her.
That car did a 360, traveling about 50 feet before hitting the curb and bouncing over it. Pretty much totalled, obviously.
But she lived. She went to the hospital, of course, but she just looked like she was just shaken up, and no lawyer ever called me.
My bumper got bent, and I had to do a little body work on the fenders.
Now imagine what would have happened to that woman if she was driving one of these Tato Nanos. |
| Matrix User ID: 321343 1/12/2008 9:10 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | Car bombs are the main killer, so build cheap cars to multiply the danger..  |
| Matrix User ID: 321343 1/12/2008 9:22 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | The smaller the car, the more survivability odds for the cows on the road.  |
| Natabulous User ID: 269684 1/14/2008 10:08 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | AND WE SHALL CALL THESE TATO NANOS.....AMERICAN DISPOSABLE CARS
But seriously when I heard about these I was like heck yes...but now that I have read up on them I am so like heck no Tato Nano! Would be cool if they become American standardized, you know safe and stuff and still $2500...Oh the possibilities.
At that time then...."I'll take 5!!!" |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 345340 1/14/2008 10:17 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote |
$2,500 is incredible.
DAMN right man. Quoting: markusmaximus
An incredible death trap.
An incredible piece of shit. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 349310 1/14/2008 10:59 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | What a rolling turd. I just laugh thinking the "average American" climbing into that POS. My 12 yo. and I would have a hard time getting ourselves ( I'm 6'2",215 lbs. and my son's 5'10" 160 lbs.) in that cracker box, much less 4 people.
I just had a freakin' hilarious thought.....My 400lb. neighbor and his 300 lb.kid cramming their fat, McDonald's fed, asses in that little thing. Damn, that would be a sight ! |
| Beingsouthern   Forum Moderator User ID: 113248 1/14/2008 11:13 PM
 | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | Cute price...but the look of that "car" is another thing entirely. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 360593 1/23/2008 3:00 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote |
When oh WHEN is this coming here? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 284011 |
| peschileps@yahoo.com User ID: 362469 1/26/2008 2:34 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote |
When oh WHEN is this coming here? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 284011 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 310071 1/26/2008 2:52 PM | | Anonymous Coward User ID: 330782 1/26/2008 4:51 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | In 1980 I drove a Toyota Starlet two door with hack back, It got 52MPG @ 75MPH. Had expected then that by the year 2000 we would all be driving something that got 75-90 MPG at 75MPH. |
| :O User ID: 79810 1/26/2008 5:10 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | American Tractor trailer trucks will crush them like a frog crossing a road, they look very unsafe.
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 245668 1/26/2008 5:17 PM | | Re: Tato Nano ~ World's Cheapest car unveiled today. $2,500 ~ 4 passenger ~ 50 Mpg ~ 65 MPH ~ Cute Car | Quote | Have you been to India? Anyone who thinks that this thing is anything more that a 2-cycle scooter with some sheet metal is nuts. The MSM loves it, but that doesn't mean it will run.
Besides, the mechanical engineers in India suck. |
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