News on Tata Motors and Jaguar exploring possibilities to share expertise is flowing thick and fast and it is only a matter of time before it becomes clear. To understand the kind of relationship between the companies, we need to fast-forward a few years.
Here’s a future model that might see the best of both worlds for the first time – the Tata Dolphin Concept.
We’ve not created a bigger Nano or a smaller Indica Vista. We instead mixed Jaguar’s design language to a small Tata hatchback and the outcome wasn’t bad.
It isn’t possible to bring out a Jaguar hatchback and price it at 3 lakh rupees (the Dolphin sits between the Nano and Indica). But what Tata Motors can perhaps do is design a hatchback like the Indica and finish it with Jaguar’s styling elements.
We’ve learned that Tata Motors has begun groundwork on the third generation Indica, and we don’t see them looking beyond the Jaguar range for design inspiration or direction. We felt the Tata Prima concept (which will see a production line soon) had a lot of Jaguar in it.
[...] Tata Motors has hinted that it would plug in the gap between the Nano and the Indica Vista. The new car on the anvil could compete with the Maruti Alto. The Nano is priced below 2 lakhs and the Indica range starts at around 2.8 lakhs and the huge gap between the models could be filled by the Dolphin small car. [...]
[...] he refused to comment on its future models, they certainly are looking at a small car to be placed between the Nano and Indica Vista, which would directly take on the Maruti Suzuki [...]
[...] competition from Ford and Peugeot who could also enter the Alto’s segment in the future. The Tata Dolphin if launched could kill the Maruti [...]