Tata Motors at 80: The highs, the lows and the road ahead | Deep Drive Podcast Ep. 67| Autocar India

Опубликовано 5 июля 2025, 5:31

This special episode of the Autocar Deep Drive Podcast powered by Kotak Mahindra Prime is all about Tata Motors - its early years as a truck maker, journey as a carmaker, meteoric rise up the sales charts and also what's in store for the future. Hormazd Sorabjee - Editor, Autocar India - and Ketan Thakkar - Editor, Autocar Professional share their insights.

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Chapters -
0:00 - Introduction
2:57 - The early years
6:00 - 1980s and 1990s
10:36 - Ratan Tata's time at the helm
14:40 - Quality concerns
16:10 - Tata Indica
17:00 - Tata Estate and Sierra
18:50 - Tata Safari
19:50 - Shift in focus to smaller cars
21:45 - Tata Nano
25:00 - Tata Aria
25:25 - Tata Indica Vista
25:45 - Exports
27:10 - Jaguar Land Rover acquisition
28:14 - Tata Motors under Cyrus Mistry
29:35 - Tata Hexa
30:05 - Tata's cost structure
31:50 - Guenter Butschek's era
34:20 - Tata's platform strategy
37:20 - The Chinese connection
39:50 - The era of Chandra and Chandra
43:50 - Partnerships
46:40 - Post-Covid rise
52:00 - Raising funding
53:12 - Service and quality challenges
54:30 - Powertrain play
57:15 - Future plans
57:50 - Avinya
58:45 - 7 new models

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