Nano mania is haunting car dealers across the country even after the termination of bookings on April 25. Surprisingly, dealers were found to receive booking orders on Sunday and Monday against the officially stipulated time. The huge response for Tata Nano in Mumbai has pushed the dealers to unofficially open the booking.
It is learnt that a couple of dealers in Mumbai and Goa sold application forms for the Nano and accepted bookings. Soon after the Tata Motors officials noticed it, they sent a directive asking them to stop all bookings for the car immediately.
The dealers defended themselves by saying that they accepted bookings only on outright purchases. No finance was available as banks have stopped all financial support on Saturday. Hence, only aspirants who were able to pay the full down payment were allowed to make the bookings.
The dealers were under pressure to meet their targets for Nano bookings. The company also admitted that most car dealerships saw immensely hectic activity on the last day of bookings. More applications were sold on the closing day than in the preceding days. The company is expected to disclose the total number of bookings received by the end of this week. The first phase of allotment of cars will be made 60 days after the closure of bookings.
Every news channel,every magazine it is about Nano. There is so much about Nano that now i started loosing interest in it. I think media is doing little too much about Nano. Every single thing some times irrelevant new on Nano is covered.
I think Shyam is correct. Media has reacted to Nano as if it has been the biggest invention of the century. A little less coverage of Nano would bring in a big relief to all- consumers and manufacturers. It is not that the country's economy is depending on Tata Nano. So why the big fuss about it?
I too completely agree with Shyam. When is the media going to put an end to Nano news. Tata has received heaps of bookings but will all these people will get their Nano on time? No, i don't think so. the wait is going to be really long.