Even though Tata's Nano hasn't been launched yet, it has already made it to the 'Guinness Book of World Records 2009'. The 54th edition of the celebrated Guinness book, which was launched at London's Trafalgar Square, enlisted Nano as the world's cheapest car. Tata Motors has already been showered with a lot of bouquets from auto industry stalwarts, the media and the public, for its groundbreaking innovation in Nano. Apart being named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, head of Tata conglomerate, Ratan Tata, has also been named among the 73 biggest brains in business by Conde Nast Portfolio (a US publication) for setting a benchmark in the global automobile industry by making a US$ 2,500 car—Nano.The model is laurelled for bringing car ownership closer to millions of consumers in emerging markets like India.
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U.S. editions as The Guinness Book of World Records), is a reference book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of world records, both human achievements and the extreme of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted series of all-time.
