The Tata Indica Vista EV is the electric version of the award winning Indica Vista with more environmental friendlyness. The Indica Vista EV is capable of carrying four individuals, adequate luggage space, with a predicted range of up to 200 km and acceleration of 0-60 kmph in under 10 seconds.

Tata Motors continues its innovative approach with the Indica Vista EV too, using super polymer lithium ion batteries which have superior energy density to conventional batteries. Tata Motors’ electric vehicles will be produced in association with Miljo Grenland/Innovasjon, Norway. Tata Motors’ UK subsidiary, Tata Motors European Technical Centre plc, has a 70% stake in Miljo. The first such vehicle to be developed by the company is the Indica EV, which is currently undergoing extensive tests in Europe.

The new Tata Indica Vista is exceptional value for money. Infact it has even won the car of the year award. Tata recently launched the limited edition Indica Vista to celebrate the Indica’s 10th anniversary and we must admit this limited edition Indica seems like a waste of time and energy.

Tata could have given the Vista a different look compared to the old Indica, specially at the rear. White is not available for the Indica Vista and thus Tata Motors have painted the limited edition in white. The roof is black, inspired by BMW’s Mini. The alloys don’t look any great and we are not suprised that Tata has posted their worse loss in a decade after designing such a limited edition version of their best selling car. Any average joe can do a better job in their back garage making this limited edition really limited in terms of sales.

Tata Motors celebrates the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Indica on December 30, 2008. To mark this milestone, a 10th Anniversary Limited Edition Indica Vista is being launched.

The car comes with an all new colour combination – Porcelain White with a Black roof. The exteriors wear alloy wheels, gold finished grill garnish, golden emblems & mascots and a specially designed number plate. The interiors have a more premium look and incorporate a new integrated music system, new seat fabrics in a double stitched pattern and subtle touches all around.

In the first decade, close to 940,000 Indicas have been produced and the platform has spawned off close to 1.2 million vehicles. The Indica has remained a bestseller throughout in the industry figuring in the top 3 selling list of cars for most of the years. It achieved a peak sale of 144,690 in 2006-07 and the new generation Indica Vista was launched in August this year to a continuing pull even in today’s depressed market conditions.

The Anniversary Quadrajet Diesel Indica Vista is priced at Rs. 504,045 (ex-showroom Delhi) and the Anniversary Safire Petrol Indica Vista is priced at Rs. 415,263 (ex-showroom Delhi).

Tata Indica Vista

The New Indica Vista, after loads of testing is finally being launched soon. You can check the details of the car by checking out the pictures in this post.

I really don’t understand why Tata has used the word Vista for this model. Windows Vista has been a step backward for Microsoft. Also Tata has got a penchant for copying names from American computer companies. First the Nano from Apple and now this. I really don’t like this car for several reasons. Design seems to be copied from a Peugeot, not that’s a bad thing, but why didn’t they copy the interiors too. The mid mounted instrument cluster looks a thing of the past, and the quality is typical Tata. Look at that steering wheel, looks bad. The tail lamps look the same as all Tata cars, from the Indigo to the Nano with a minor colour change. Tata you just acquired Jaguar, didn’t you?

Tata has named the top end model Aura, which again is not impressive. Hopefully mechanically this car should be good. Tata should have improved on the gearbox and handling. But wait, they are copy pasting Fiats fantastic 1.3 Litre multijet engine with a change of name, Quadra Jet. Also on the line up will be 1.2 Litre Petrol and  a re-worked version of 1.4 Litre Turbocharged IDI engine, for the Taxi segment, me thinks. It does get a host of features not seen in the segment like lumbar support (front seats), height adjustable driver seat, tilt adjustable steering wheel, a dual din audio system with USB and AUX input and a remote control, front and rear fog lamps as standard in the Aura. There will be slight price hike over the current Indica.