Tata is expected to price Aria somewhere between Toyota Innova and Ford Endeavour.
Ride quality is the car's biggest forte, and it glides over most potholes and bad roads smoothly.
The car would be in direct competition with existing players, including Ford Endeavour, Maruti Grand Vitara, Toyota Innova, Honda CR-V, Chevrolet Captiva, Toyota Fortuner and upcoming Skoda Yeti.
The Nano patrol car is fitted with visual and audible warnings, which include beacons, a siren and search lights apart from a medical kit.
Aria has a 14 per cent share in the UV segment, clocking in sales of 225-250 units a month.
The new model is also more fuel efficient and returns 15.05 kmpl mileage.
Tata displayed its facelifted Aria and Safari Storme Mountain Rescue concept cars at the Geneva Motor Show.
The craze over SUVs has just started in India.
Let's take a cursory glance at each of the brawny beauties we are soon going to see dominating the roads.
A number of carmakers have launched new products in the SUV/MUV segment within a span of few months.
The summer has set in with a vengeance. And even as the mercury heads north, carmakers in India plan to heat up the automobile sector further with the launch of some cool cars by June this year.
The segment is doing well and many new products are being developed for this space.
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.
We feel Tata Motors have done a really good job in developing the Hexa and it is honestly a good car that drives fairly well
Even with a brief look, one can notice that immense attention is paid to the meticulously crafted interior cabin and features
The Tata Hexa is a very important product for the Indian passenger car maker as it marks the resurrected era of Tata Motors after the blasphemous 2000's Indica era.
FIIs pump in Rs 2,075 crore in past three trading sessions.
It is not often that Goswami's Nation-Wants-to-Know shows become material evidence in a murder trial no less. Nor was it something CBI Special Judge J C Jagdale was wildly enthused about. It had to be done because as he put it to CBI Special Public Prosecutor Kavita Patil caustically: "Your witnesses gave interviews to channels about a serious crime."
Many say Tata Motors has perhaps paid the price for being too ambitious.
From a Rs 9-lakh Maruti to a Rs 2 crore-Nissan, Indian auto industry packs quite a surprise for car buyers
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