The Tata Indicruz crossover will be the star attraction at the Auto Expo
According to the media invite which has just come in, Tata Motors will launch three new products at the Auto Expo next week.
We’re guessing it should be the Indica Vista Ignis, Penguin truck and the new Indicruz crossover. The Indica EV will be the second electric vehicle after Chevrolet’s Spark EV to make a debut at the show.
Tata will also launch a new Jaguar luxury saloon at the event. No points for guessing what car that is. It has to be the XJ which was launched in London in June this year and ever since, it has attracted a lot of interest from Indians. Engine choices are not plenty. You get a 5.0-liter petrol (385 PS, supercharged 510 PS) and 3.0-liter good for 275 PS.
We hope Tata would comment on the future plans for the Nano at the press conference.
The Indicruz crossover debuts at the Auto Expo next month
Talking to the Financial Chronicle, Utility Vehicles head of Tata Motors confirmed expensive features on the upcoming Tata Indicruz like airbags, cruise control and automatic climate control.
Some of the mentioned features are absent in the current Tata line-up indirectly indicating this could be Tata’s most expensive vehicle manufactured till date.
The Indicruz MPV has been spotted during cold weather testing earlier in 2009. It has also been snapped when running its routine tests in the UK, where some of the car’s development took place. The vehicle will be launched during the Auto Expo next month.
He added that the Tata Indicruz will be positioned to compete with the Chevrolet Captiva and Honda CR-V. Priced much lower, we think the Indicruz will compete with these expensive SUVs in terms of looks and features.
The vehicle will be at least 20% more expensive than the Sumo Grande Mk2 launched last week adds the report.
Our photoshop chap SRK is back at what he does best. His latest rendering is a car that promises to get Tata back into action in the Utility Vehicles segment, if not anything else. It is none other that the Tata Indicruz!
Besides the rendering, sources tell us that the new Tata Indicruz (which is based on the old Xover concept) is a derivative of the Indigo Marina.
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Business Standard reports Tata Motors will roll out the Xylo/Innova slayer Indicruz next year.Equipped with Tata’s CRDI engines, the Indicruz has been styled by the same group which was responsible for cars like the Indica Vista and Sumo Grande.
The Indicruz, comprehensively evaluated at the Tata Motors European Technical Centre in U.K, the group which has closely worked with the ERC engineers here in Pune to fine tune the car.
Rumors of possible Land Rover powertrain application on the Indicruz has not been turned down by Tata thus far. Such a variant would be more suited for the European markets.
It’s been a while since we have heard anything on the Tata Indicruz‘s whereabouts, till our friends at TAI emailed us the link to new spy shot which has a group of camouflaged Indicruzes parked. The testers could have pulled over for tea. A Safari escort vehicle is also partly seen.
The Indicruz had been spotted cold weather testing and now it appears to be in the final stages of its development. We expect the Tata Indicruz to reach showrooms by the end of 2010. The Indicruz could also be offered in Europe next year and who knows, it might use a Land Rover engine.
