The Tata Group has over half a century of experience in the engineering business, including the automotive industry. A steel maker since the beginning of the 20th century, the Tata Group ventured into automotive manufacture with the incorporation in the 1940s of Tata Engineering &

Locomotive Company Ltd, now known as Tata Motors Ltd.

Tata Motors has, since its inception, been the leader in the manufacture of commercial vehicles. In the 1990s, the company launched the first indigenously developed car, the Indica compact, and followed it up with the launch of the Indigo sedan and Indica Marina estate car. The company also makes the Safari and Sumo SUVs.

Other Tata Group companies are into the design, engineering and manufacturing of a variety of automotive-related and other engineering and industrial products. The large pool of engineering talent at the Tata Group is unmatched in India, both for its size and its quality. The group has built this strength over the decades, while absorbing a range of technologies, honing skills, and building management and marketing competencies.

The group has consistently spent on research and development, and is now reaping the benefits of its past investments in a wide range of automotive-relevant areas, from metallurgy to plastics and from CAD/CAM/CAE to supply chain management, besides its investments in state-of-the-art manufacturing and testing equipment.

The Tata Group has all the skills and experience needed to build a global automotive manufacturing enterprise.