World's cheapest car isn't the smallest

The Smart Car is 8 feet long, the Nano just over 10 feet long. (By way of comparison, a Mini is 12 feet long and a VW Beetle is 13.5 feet long.)

But that's interesting. A Smart Car is a micro car for the first world, the Nano a step up to an automobile from other forms of transportation, and likely the purchaser has multiple people to transport. The fact that there isn't enough oil to fuel cars for billions of Indians and Chinese, and millions of Americans, Europeans, and Japanese is something to worry about later.