http://www.caradvice.com.au/141944/tata-motors-mini-cat-air-car-to-debut-in-2012/

Has any other country got this stuff coming? 

$2 to fill a tank!

To be honest it would be perfect for my kind of commute.

Through my sources I have obtained insider information that the first air model will be called the CurryVette.

I have had south asian cuisine.....my question is what would the exhaust smell like?? Especially after it warmed up?  And for that matter, would you be able to control

the speed and frequency of the engine emissions?

On a more serious note does this go in the too good to be true file?

Thanx for the post

I'd loved this from the comments -" Will this car contribute to global cooling and the need for a compressed air tax"

I'm pretty sure they came up with air chariots thousands of years ago in the bhagavata.  Pfft. 

I'm sure big oil will find a way to make all of the people associated with the air car disappear. 

Well, there was a Korean inventor who developed a hybrid car about 7-8 years back.  It ran on compressed air and a battery.  Things were looking pretty good for him when DaeWoo and the Korean government shut him down, bankrupted him, and locked him up for fraud. 

Just so you know

Tata is the company that bought jaguar, rolls royce, land rover and range rover iirc

Air Car?  I am disappointed by the headline... I thought it was about a flying car,  a futuristic  'air taxi'

(the 'car' - its more an 'UAV with passenger on-board' -  knows its position by enhanced GPS and also the velocity and direction of all 'cars' in its vicinity over a network, which constantly exchange the data between all moving objects in the dedicated air-lanes. In addition the 'car' has object collision sensors (radar, laser, ultrasonic,...) to avoid any crashes with fixed or moving objects that are not already in the database, which is updated by the scanners of all cars airborne, reporting in differences between the last transmitted 3D-map-of its vicinity and the on-board scanner readings) 

Originally Posted By destraex

Just so you know

 

Tata is the company that bought jaguar, rolls royce, land rover and range rover iirc

 

so if this car doesnt work we can start a "save the Tata's" thread!

Wargamers for Tatas.  I like it!

Adding "Bodacious" before Tatas would really rock the slogan.

^LOL!

Originally Posted By Azzurri

Through my sources I have obtained insider information that the first air model will be called the CurryVette.

It's only a matter of time before somebody starts calling them "Fart-mobiles". Put me down for saving the bodacious Tatas.

Save all the tatas.  Never met one i didn't like. Except that scary old lady on the beach at Nice.

Australian air engine

http://www.engineair.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=2

Air dog

The compressed-air propelled car is only a periodic and old fraud, also from some years damaging the Tata reputation, as we can see in the first refered page, the air car will be in the streets ever "the next year" (as the full electric car, mainly Renault, in the European streets the past 2011). In this concrete case, the air car mafia modus operandi is ever the same, they go to a second rate city/country/university, and obtain some benefits/money/aids, promises a factory in the town ... and don't return, many times associated with Tata old/light prototypes (and sometimes with other French technologies, as the wireless card for open/start the car, as has my now old 2005 Renault Megane):

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The Australian engine looks good... wonder if its in production anywhere.

I wonder whether something is going on behind the scenes with TATA. Something sinister and worthy of global conspiracy 

Tin foil hat on

As soon as they receive their backhand payment from the oil industry and the people who run energy across the world, the Tata will dissappear seemingly into (ironically) thin air. Like the oil industry is going to roll over and welcome something that would eat into their profits like a new system for running an engine in cars!

Tin foil hat off

The beauty of TATA though is they can do it once every couple of years and then negotiate for more ransom... tin foil hat never comes off!

Did Leia secretly wear tin foil earmuffs? Inquiring minds want to know.