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Tata Motors may earmark its Ranjangaon facility (where it is jointly manufacturing cars with Fiat) as a satellite unit, for churning out its ultra-cheap car Nano, which will also help the Indian automaker to further its operations in the western part of India. The country's largest commercial vehiclemaker is aiming to initially roll out 1,000 units from its Pune unit instead of Singur, after witnessing the turmoil in its mother plant. As the company had scheduled Nano's launch during October'08, it is all set to move out of Singur, where the construction has been indefinitely postponed. Highly-placed sources have revealed that Tata Motors has already scaled up the production of Indica at the Ranjangaon unit, and now Nano may also rolled out in this unit, in order to avail the humungous tax benefits provided to investors that state.

Currently, Fiat Palio is manufactured in the Ranjangaon unit, and the upcoming Fiat branded cars like Linea and Grande Punto will also be rolled out here. According to vendor sources privy with the news, Tata Motors is analysing the developments taking place at Singur and is also gearing up to rollout Nano in October'08. He further added if the pandemonium in Singur persists for more than a fortnight, the Indian automaker will ponder over the alternatives so that Nano's launch is not delayed.

When a battery of scribes tried to contact Tata Motors to ascertain the veracity of the speculation, one of them simply gave elusive replies by claiming the company intends to dissociate itself from any Nano speculation. However, he indicated that Indica models are into trial production at the Ranjangaon plant, till the time other prospective models are not rolled out.
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