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Hot stuff: India's £1,000 car

Updated on 01 May 2007

By Krishnan Guru-Murthy

The £1,000 car being developed in India is unlikely to do much for global warming.

It's been the hottest April in India for a decade, with temperatures at 48 degrees centigrade.

The jury may be out on whether or not this is the result of global warming. But if it is, the situation won't be helped by a car that, at a price of £1,000, is being hailed as the cheapest in the world.

Channel 4 News travelled from Mumbai east to Pune, where the new car is being developed, and from there on to the capital, New Delhi, across a country where the car is king.

Dr R. K. Pachauri interview

We met the chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, and asked him what he thought of the plan for big Indian industrialists to sell cars cheap to the population?

Watch his interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy here:

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