Marketed as the world’s cheapest automobile, the Tata Nano doesn’t have many attractive features except its price tag – not that it helps much when it comes to convincing customers. That’s why Tata Motors has promised to build improved, pricier models.
But until those upgraded Nano models arrive on the Indian market, a local tuning and racing specialist called JA Motorsport has taken the Nano to the extreme with a mean one-off model called Super Nano. Powered by a 1.3-liter engine producing 230 hp, the Super Nano has little in common with the production car. It features performance upgrades including a tweaked chassis and AP Racing disc brakes on all wheels.
The rear seats are gone to accommodate the mid-mounted engine which sends power to the rear wheels. The car looks very different thanks to the full body kit, the slick tyres, bolt-on roll cage, dark grey alloys wheels, MRF ZLO racing slicks, as well as the smoked head and taillamps. The interior gets Recaro seats, racing steering wheel with paddle shifters and a carbon fiber treatment on the dashboard.
Thanks to a claimed weight to power ratio of 2.6 kg/hp, the Super Nano can reach speeds in excess of 190 km/h (118 mph), with JA Motorsport calling it India’s fastest hot hatch. The company says the Super Nano cost about Rs 25 lakh ($39,050) to build, which means it’s the most expensive Nano ever made. That’s more than 10 times the price of a standard model.
Story references & image credits: IndianAutosBlog
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