He drove a car off a low bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

About 40 percent of households in this mostly African-American, low-to-middle income neighborhood don't have access to a car.

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Their entry is not surprising. India is home to the world's cheapest car, the $2,055 Tata Nano, a car which auto analysts say showed the world that India had the engineering skills and low cost facilities needed to make a small, contemporary car.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Low car ownership combined with rising disposable incomes bode well for the auto market demand in these countries in the long term.

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Going forward, we anticipate production volumes to rise even further driven by low car ownership rates in major emerging economies like China and India.

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The selling point of the E-rev is that is cuts out "range anxiety" because if the electric charge in the battery runs low the car can use petrol to generate more.

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