India's famous industrialist Ratan Tata has passed away at the age of 86. The former chairman of Tata Sons breathed his last at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai. While assuming the responsibility of heading the Tata Group, he took many companies to great heights. One of these is Tata Motors, which is one of the leading automobile companies of India today. It was Ratan Tata who launched the first indigenous car in India. Today Tata Motors cars are considered very good in terms of safety.
Under the leadership of Ratan Tata, Tata Motors launched the first Indian car. Tata Indica Was launched. In 1998, Indica was presented to everyone as the first indigenous car. It was a compact hatchback car. It was completely designed and developed in India. Therefore it is considered to be India's first indigenous car.
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2023 was the 25th anniversary of Tata Indica. On this occasion, Ratan Tata also shared a post on social media. Then he had written that India's first indigenous car was born in the form of Tata Indica. Tata had told that this car is very close to his heart.
Tata Indica was designed to meet the demands of the Indian market. Then there was a need for a compact and good mileage car. Indica was a very comfortable car, which had a lot of space. It provided high seating position. Talking about mileage, Indica used to give a mileage of around 20 kilometers per litre.
Tata Indica. (Tata)
Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO) was established in 1945. Later its name was changed to Tata Motors. In 1948, Telco collaborated with Marshall Sun to create a steam road roller. After this, in 1954, the company, in partnership with Diamler-Benz AG, introduced its first commercial vehicle, the TMB 312 truck.
Telco used to prepare locomotives for Indian Railways. (Tata)
Ratan Tata became the chairman of Tata Group in 1991. Under his leadership, the face of Tata Motors changed and gradually the company became one of the leading automobile companies of India. Tata has also made the country's first indigenous SUV Sierra. This SUV came with the power of 2.0 liter diesel engine. Tata Safari was launched in 2000 after Sierra was discontinued.
In 2008, Ratan Tata bought the luxury car brand Jaguar Land Rover and included it in Tata Motors. Apart from this, he also launched the country's first luxury car Tata Nano in 2008 itself.
Even today Tata Motors is India's leading car company. In the SUV segment, Tata sells cars like Nexon, Safari, Harrier Punch. Coupe SUV Tata Curve is the latest car of this company.
