Indian car manufacturer Tata Group is about to launch the cheapest mass car around. The car, named “People’s Car” (this reminds me of VolksWagen a bit 
) is going to cost about 2500 USD.
The motive for this car is driver safety. The traffic in India is 10 times more dangerous than that in the USA. You can see a family on a motorbike, a father, a child in front and a wife behind him driving in the streets. By using cars, the thought is, there will be fewer fatalities.
The car uses a 32 Horse Power Engine, weights about 600 kilograms and has it’s engine located in the rear. It is Euro 3 compliant, with manual and automatic transmission.
Here are the links and a look at how an Indian crosssection looks like: