Tata

What comes to mind when you think of Tata? For most, the first image to pop up is the faceless Nano microcar, although car nerds will also recognize the Indian giant as the latest owner of Jaguar and Land Rover. You can imagine how surprised we were, then, when Tata unveiled the Racemo in Geneva.

There's some positive news on the air-car front from Indian auto giant Tata motors.

When the likes of Jaguar, Porsche, Ford, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Volkswagen, Renault and Chrysler introduce a new model series, it is equally or more reliable than the model it replaces. Right? Wrong!

Tata Technologies has unveiled its eMO EV concept car, that is designed to sell for US$20,000.

India's Tata group is to build the world's cheapest house - at 20 sq m, it will cost Rs 32,000 (EUR500 -GBP440 - US$715) and can be built in a week.

Tata has announced the Pixel European city car based on the Nano - an ultra manoevrable 2.6 metre turning circle and an infinitely variable transmission give the 1.2 litre turbo diesel a staggering 3.4 l/100km economy

The Tata Indica Vista EV will hit the market early in 2011, carries four people, can run 150 miles on a charge and is based on an existing car that sells for USD$9000.

India's Tata Motors yesterday pulled the wraps off a range of trucks from 10-to-75 tonne GCW, and 150-to-560 bhp. The power, carrying capacity and operating economy of the range will raise the global bar for performance at a lower life-cycle cost.

The worlds cheapest new car, the Tata Nano, is now available for sale at just $2,500.

The European version of the world’s cheapest car, the Nano was introduced at the Geneva Auto Show this week.