Tata Motors launches Magic and Winger
Domain-b — June 18, 2007

The Winger seats 9 to13 passengers, with generous saloon space, spacious head and legroom and wide luggage space. Passenger comfort has been further enhanced with all front-facing seats, each with magazine pockets, bottle holders, spot lamps and grab handles, besides a music system.

The fully enclosed body, uniquely placed fuel tank, seat belt for every seat, child lock, fog lamps and a demister (compartment ventilation fan) provide complete safety. The robust and rugged suspension ensures both ride comfort and load carrying capacity, while the monocoque design minimises NVH. The Winger is powered by a 2-litre turbo charged diesel engine.

The Winger's versatility allows it to be deployed for long-distance transportation across different terrains in all weathers and also intra-city needs and adaptation for staff vehicles, hotel and airport transfers, tourist usage, ambulance, and school van among others.

The Winger has 11 variants, in three levels of comfort - standard, deluxe and luxury - meeting BS-III emission norms and backed with a 1.5 lakh km / 18-month warranty.The Winger Range starts at Rs4.70 lakh (ex-showroom Pune).

In a snap interview with CNBC-TV18 today, Telang said he expected interest rates to impact CV sales. However, he qualified this, saying, the current slowdown was not due to fundamentals and the tight liqudity would correct in coming months.

Telang also added that Tata Motors has a flexible plant and production plan, which could be ramped up as volumes picked up.

He expected passenger carrier commercial vehicles to grow "upward of 15 per cent compounded average over the next few years," as a spin off benefit of developments like the national network of highways and Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Vikas Yojana.

"The growth is going to be substantially high," he said and also explained why despite the current slowdown in the commercial vehicle segment, Tata Motors was going ahead with the expansion of its passenger carrier commercial vehicles in the current year.

"We are going to see more and more growth in the transportation of Indians from villages to villages, villages to cities and between cities also.

"We have seen in few other developed economies like China, which is just about a decade ahead of India, that there is an exclusive movement of people transportation. We believe that India will start moving towards that and we want to be a part of it.

"We would like to make sure that we have the vehicles ready before the market starts asking" for vehicles, he asserted.