Mahindra-Renault Logan named among the best cars not sold in US
22 Oct 2007
BusinessWeek''s ''The Best Cars Not Sold in America'' has Logan as the only Indian entry in a list dominated by 15 others being sold in the non-American markets.
The magazine says, "People may have "six degrees of separation," according to the play of the same name, but the Mahindra-Renault Logan is further removed than that from the US automotive market."
The BusinessWeek artice says that the Logan is originally a model from the Dacia''s stable, a Romanian automaker, which "has never sold cars here, despite some long-running attempts dating back to the mid-1980s".
"In turn, Dacia belongs to Renault, which bailed out of the US market in 1986. India''s Mahindra & Mahindra would probably love to export cars to this country some day, but that day is probably several years away. At any rate, Mahindra started building the Logan in India this year. The car itself is not that interesting by the standards of US consumers - for starters, it''s got right-hand drive and the base engine is only 75 hp, but its heritage shows how the world is shrinking."
The
other 15 cars on the list are from Europe and Japan, such
as Opel Zafira, Peugeot 308, Renault Scenic, Citroen C3
Pluriel, Alfa Romeo Spider, Ford Focus, Smart for Two
and Mercedes-Benz A Class. The list also has a Chinese
car Cherry QQ, the Japanese Nissan Pino, Australian Holden
VE Ute, Citroen C-Crosser, SEAT Altea Freetrack and Alfa
Romeo 8C.