Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons was seen travelling his Tata Nano to the Taj Hotel without any security. 

Viral Bhayani uploaded a video of Ratan Tata being escorted outside the hotel by hotel employees. 

Shantanu Naidu, his deputy general manager, drove him to the venue.

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Tata’s grace and sincerity were praised by internet users.

One user wrote, “So simple and humble.”

“Great human soul with a true spirit of humanity,” said another. 

A third user expressed his gratitude towards Tata Nano and said, “Nano was a gift from him and we are all too proud to admit it.”

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Ratan Tata wrote a letter detailing what Tata Nano meant to him last week.

“What really motivated me, and sparked a desire to produce such a vehicle, was constantly seeing Indian families on scooters, maybe the child sandwiched between the mother and father, riding to wherever they were going, often on slippery roads. One of the benefits of being in the School of Architecture, it taught me to doodle when I was free. At first, we were trying to figure out how to make two-wheelers safer, the doodles became four wheels, no windows, no doors, just a basic dune buggy. But I finally decided it should be a car. The Nano was always meant for all our people,” he wrote.

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Nano, which was presented at the 2008 Auto Expo with high hopes of becoming the people’s car, fell short of expectations. The car was first introduced to the market in March 2009, with a base price of around Rs. 1 lakh, however, due to declining sales, Tata Motors stopped manufacturing in 2018. 

The Nano was marketed as the country’s most economical automobile, but it died slowly over the next ten years due to marketing failure, safety issues, and a drop in demand for cheap cars.