Tata Motors passenger vehicle sales cross
one-million mark
October 24, 2005

Tata Motors, India’s largest automobile company, has crossed a significant milestone in its emergence as a major global passenger car manufacturer. On October 21, the company crossed the one-million sales mark (including exports), since the first passenger car — the Tata Sierra —was rolled out in 1991. Earlier on October 2, the company had produced its one millionth passenger car.

Of the one million cars sold in the last 14 years, about 936,000 cars have been sold in India and the over 64,000 in various countries abroad. Of them, over half a million were Indicas, over 300,000 Sumos, close to 100,000 Indigos and about 40,000 Safaris.

Tata Motors is India’s second largest passenger vehicle player in the domestic market with a market share of 16 per cent. Starting with the Tata Sierra and the Tata Estate in 1991-92, the company launched Sumo in 1994, Indica, India’s first fully indigenous car, and Tata Safari, India’s first thoroughbred sports utility vehicle, in 1998, the Tata Indigo in 2002 and the Indigo Marina in 2004. All the five models currently in the company’s product portfolio have defined new segments on launch, and continue to be in leading positions in their respective segments.

Including commercial vehicles, over 3 million Tata vehicles ply on Indian roads. Besides India, Tata Motors has made significant inroads abroad. The company’s commercial and passenger vehicles are already being marketed in several countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South East Asia, South Asia and Australia.