The updated Aria will be available in three variants, with the base model priced at Rs 9.95 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
"There was an unprecedented traffic flow of around 40 million and the website crashed for sometime. It was restored later," sources told Business Standard. A company spokesperson also confirmed the development, but added that the website was immediately restored. The website had put up information on Tata Nano, the application forms for booking, financing details, dealer locations and pictures of the car on its website.
The world's largest truck maker Daimler is understood to be selling off its residual stake in Tata Motors for over $400 million.
Tata Motors on Wednesday forayed into the CNG segment with the launch of Tiago and Tigor trims, priced between Rs 6.09 lakh and Rs 8.41 lakh respectively (ex-showroom Delhi). The Tiago iCNG range is priced between Rs 6.09 lakh and Rs 7.64 lakh while the three variants of Tigor iCNG are tagged at Rs 7.69 lakh, Rs 8.29 lakh and Rs 8.41 lakh respectively. With the launch, the homegrown auto major plans to strengthen its position in the CNG market which has been growing at a fast pace. "It is very clear that the CNG segment is going to witness a steep growth over the next few years.
After more than two years, Tata Motors has dislodged Korea's Hyundai Motors in India from the second spot in monthly domestic passenger vehicle sales. The spurt in Tata's June numbers has primarily been due to a dramatic increase in sales of the Nano, after the mother plant at Sanand in Gujarat went onstream last month, as well as a surge in that of the Indigo.
Tata Motors is planning to invest Rs 15,000 crore in the EV segment in the next five years, a top company official has said. The company, which is a leader in the newly emerging EV segment with offerings such as Nexon, is also planning to develop around 10 more new offerings in the segment, president for Passenger Vehicles Business of Tata Motors Shailesh Chandra said. "As far as future is concerned, in next five (years) we will invest Rs 15,000 crore in electrification.
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Tata Motors on Tuesday rolled out the first batch of CityRover cars, to be marketed by MG Rover in the highly competitive United Kingdom and European markets.
"My understanding is that the rules are weighted in favour of big cars, even though smaller cars emit fewer emissions per passenger, use less material, and consume less fuel," Bhargava said in an interview with Business Standard.
The price reduction across passenger vehicles is in the range of Rs 6,300 to Rs 69,000.
The scheme has been extended to all categories of employees.
The auto maker is on a rough road with demand for both CVs and cars sluggish. With sales of commercial vehicles having barely grown and passenger car volumes dipping in FY08, the street was not expecting much from India's biggest automobile company.
Kant, an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, was managing director of the company before being promoted as vice-chairman five years ago.
Tata Motors is seeking an image makeover with the curvaceous hatchback, Zica.
From a 15-16-level hierarchy, the organisation is moving to a flat five-level hierarchy.
After launching the Nano early this week, the country's leading truck and bus maker, Tata Motors, is now looking to set up a truck manufacturing plant in Myanmar with support from the Indian government in the form of financial participation.
"Tata Motors is taking a block closure at Jamshedpur from November 6 to November 8, 2008, to match production with the demand of vehicles produced at the Jamshedpur plant to avoid build-up of inventory either in the company or with our dealers," a company spokesperson said. In October, the company reported 29 per cent decline in commercial vehicles sales at 19,154 units, against 27,103 units in the same month last year.
A digital configurator comprising a three-dimensional graphics-based app will allow customers to choose specifications and align the output generated by the tool to company's back-end manufacturing.
RIL is also more profitable than Tata Motors.
India's largest auto maker Tata Motors on Tuesday said it will set up in Myanmar a heavy truck manufacturing facility with a capacity of 1,500 units per annum.
Block closure in the Jamshedpur plant is the second in a fortnight.
To deliver on strategy that late Slym was executing.
For hatchbacks and sedans, offers range between Rs 40,000 and Rs 80,000 while SUVs and multi-purpose vehicles carry benefits exceeding Rs 1 lakh.
Jaguar Land Rover will continue to be managed independently.
Every year, carmakers announce at the end of November or December their plans to increase prices of their vehicles by January.
The Argentinian becomes the first brand ambassador of the company in its 70-year history.
Tata Motors went ahead with mobilisation of construction equipment at Singur on Monday and enrolment of locals for work on the Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) greenfield plant amid heavy security.
Tata Motors has seen strong upgrades in volume, top line and profit estimates, after reporting an unexpectedly superlative quarterly global volume performance for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). It was led by strong demand for the Evoque SUV from the Land Rover stable.
The company's wholly-owned subsidiary PT Tata Motors Distribusi Indonesia has introduced Tata Aria, Tata Vista and Tata Safari Storme in the Indonesian market.
The company commenced production in January, 1999. While it achieved the 100,000th car in March 2001, and the 500,000th car in February, 2005, the progression from the 900,000th car to the millionth car was achieved in just 7 months.
He seems to have fallen from a higher floor of a hotel in Bangkok.
Total passenger vehicle sales in the domestic market stood at 18,031 units in November.
As part of other initiatives to connect with the people, the company is organising special training programmes for women in areas such as tailoring, hand gloves making, garments, food products and handicrafts.
Tata Motors on Monday said it would spend over Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 60 billion) in its different plant locations in the next five years for development of its products and assets.
Backed by strong demand for Indian vehicles from markets such as South Africa, Tata Motors has exported more than 50,000 vehicles during 2005-06 showing a growth of over 65 per cent over the previous year.
