Tata Commercial Vehicle

Tata Motors Limited is the largest manufacturer in Indian automotive industry.

Tata Motors is India's largest automobile company, with consolidated revenues of Rs1,88,818 crore (USD 34.7 billion) in 2012-13. Through subsidiaries and associate companies, Tata Motors has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, Spain, South Africa and Indonesia. Among them is Jaguar Land Rover, the business comprising the two iconic British brands. Following a strategic alliance with Fiat in 2005, it has set up an industrial joint venture with Fiat Group Automobiles to produce both Fiat and Tata cars and Fiat powertrains.

Tata Motors is the country's market leader in commercial vehicles and among the top three in passenger vehicles. It is also the world's fifth-largest truck and fourth-largest bus manufacturer. Tata Motors commercial and passenger vehicles are being marketed in several countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, South America, CIS and Russia. It has franchisee / joint venture assembly operations in Bangladesh, Ukraine and Senegal.

The company, formerly known as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company, began manufacturing commercial vehicles in 1954 with a 15-year collaboration agreement with Daimler Benz of Germany. It has, since, developed Tata Ace, India's first indigenous light commercial vehicle; the Prima range of trucks; the Ultra range of international standard light commercial vehicles; Tata Safari, India's first sports utility vehicle; Tata Indica, India's first indigenously manufactured passenger car; and the Nano, the world's most affordable car.

Tata Motors has over 4,500 engineers, technicians and scientists at R&D centres in India, South Korea, Italy, Spain and the UK.