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Tata Motors
Tata Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a part of Tata Group, whose products include passenger cars, trucks, vans, coaches, buses, sports cars, construction equipment and military vehicles.
Formerly it was known as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO), Tata Motors has auto manufacturing and assembly plants in Jamshedpur, Pantnagar, Lucknow, Sanand, Dharwad, and Pune in India, as well as in Argentina, South Africa, Great Britain, and Thailand. It has research and development centers in Pune, Jamshedpur, Lucknow, and Dharwad, India and South Korea, Great Britain, and Spain. Tata Motors purchased the English premium car maker Jaguar Land Rover (the maker of Jaguar and Land Rover cars) in 2008 and the South Korean commercial vehicle manufacturer Tata Daewoo in 2004. Tata Motors has a bus-manufacturing joint venture with Marcopolo S.A. (Tata Marcopolo), a construction-equipment manufacturing joint venture with Hitachi (Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery), and a joint venture with Fiat Chrysler which manufactures automotive components and Fiat Chrysler and Tata branded vehicles.
Founded in 1945 as a manufacturer of locomotives, Tata Motors manufactured its first commercial vehicle in 1954 in a collaboration with Daimler-Benz AG, which ended in 1969. The company entered the passenger vehicle market in 1988 with the launch of the TataMobile followed by the Tata Sierra in 1991, becoming the first Indian manufacturer to achieve the capability of developing a competitive indigenous automobile. In 1998, they launched the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car, the Indica, and in 2008 launched the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car.