Shortly, the 2011 Tata Indica will go DICOR once more!

2011 Tata Indica DICOR

A visible sign of India’s economic boom is the ITES industry in the Indian metros as well as smaller towns now. Ferrying employees to and fro their workplaces, at almost all hours of the day, the Tata Indica has almost become synonymous as India’s enduring cab for it’s spaciousness, low purchase price and fuel economy. Introduced more than a decade ago as the car of the masses by Tata Motors, the initial batches of the first gen Tata Indica struggled with quality issues.

Tata Motors learned quickly and launched the V2 version of the Indica and soon enough, the car became a bestseller with numerous variants writing a success story for Tata. Tata slowly rebranded the Indicab as the workhorse car for cabbie duty by introducing the Indica Vista for families, thus making the Indica a huge seller in the cabbie market. Now, Tata Motors is set to give the Indica yet another refresh in the form of a CRDI system to make the car’s diesel engine BS4 compatible.

Recently, Indica sales in cities all but bottomed out due to the lack of a BS4 variant. To adress just this, Tata Motors Limited will launch an Indica variant with a common rail injection, which is expected to increase mileage and power while reducing tail pipe emissions. Incidentally, the Tata Indica was available in DICOR guise replete with a variable geometry turbo and a 16 Valve DOHC head for a short time before it was withdrawn due to tepid sales. Now, the 2011 Indica DICOR will be back in a BS4 variant and will be priced slightly higher than the BS3 variants due to the higher costs associated with the CRDI system.

Via TheEconomicTimes

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February 16, 2011 | By Jay Prashanth · Tags: 2011 Tata Indica DICOR

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3 Responses to “Shortly, the 2011 Tata Indica will go DICOR once more!”

suresh on February 17th, 2011 9:36 am

But what about the Tata Indica V2 turbomax? Tata launched this BS IV compliant vehicle in August 2010. So, will the turbomax sell alongside the upcoming Indica V2 DICOR?
Jay Prashanth on February 17th, 2011 10:53 am

Suresh,

Even we are flummoxed about this question as not many details about the Indica CRDI were revealed.

Probably both the cars will sell alongside each other as Tata cannot dump a car that has been launched very recently.

Cheers,

Jay
ashwin on February 19th, 2011 7:47 am

tatas are talking about their indica and nano products but can any one even tatas explain WHAT ABOUT TATA VENTURE. I had learnt that it will compete with eeco and maximoo but I feel they are fooling the indian public by comparing this car with eeco ect. actually, they might be comparing with honda toyota etc. Have you learnt, what they have coated the price on road for venture? If this goes on, I bet this van will ever be a success like the omni or the eeco. May be it will never catchup with maruti if they stickup with their rates as of now, and that too with BS3. HOPE TATA will reduce their price to 4.5 on road where it MAY be a boooooom. H O P E tatas will open their B….s.