Bajaj Auto quadricycle: The Qute infant of the four-wheel world

Bajaj Auto's quadricycle is finally set to hit the roads but the challenge of creating a new category in the competitive automobile market has only just begun

The arduous six-year wait included a bitter slugfest between Bajaj Auto's top boss Rajiv Bajaj and Tata Motors and Maruti Suzuki and a slew of public interest litigations. The motor industry competitors opposed Bajaj's quadricycles as a new category of vehicles on grounds of safety and the fact that it would bypass “emission norms” strictly followed by car makers. As for the court cases, they wound their way up to the Supreme Court, which finally pronounced on the matter this year.  

  

Last week, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari eventually announced that he has given the green signal to