Then there was the question of the car manufacturing facility itself. A new manufacturing unit could have cost more than $2 billion at that stage, a huge amount that possibly would have rendered the project a non-starter. Here, again, Ratan Tata and his team at Tata Motors took a road less travelled and it ended up making all the difference. They searched around the world and found a disused Nissan plant in Australia, which was offered to them for sale at barely one-fifth of the cost of a new plant. Engineers of Tata Motors carefully dismantled this plant—brick by brick—carried it across the
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