World's cheapest car gets a pop star welcome

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I can't imagine a man would be seen in a car like this."

Thousands of people pressed around the car.

"It seems like a real car. The windows actually wind down," said a smiling Gilles Levassor, who works for French carmaker Renault.

A few metres away, women protesting that farmers had been made landless because of Tata's car factory plans, stood by.

"It's subsidised by farmers' blood," said Anuradha Talwar.

Outside the auditorium, a contingent of Greenpeace activists stood with banners bearing slogans such as: 'CUT CO2 emissions'.

But they were largely ignored by the swelling crowds.