GM is looking at building cheap cars which compete with Tata's Nano. And GM's part-ownership stake in Wuling Motors, a Chinese manufacturer of sub-$3,000 utility vehicles as a possible source of a GM Nano competitor.
Lutz said that one way to make an inexpensive car for the developing world is to repurpose a legacy platform that has become obsolete. The tooling and design will have long been paid off, and there'll be plenty of experience from the manufacturing side, too. This is what GM China is already doing with the Daewoo Matiz/Chevrolet Spark. It might be not good of dumping an old product that isn't safe or clean enough for mature markets, but it is good enough in other parts of the world. That said, it could also be a way to maximize the life of an investment while also providing developing markets with a better product than they'd have otherwise.
