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> There are no cars or electronics, or chip fabs in this country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Motors

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Anyone want to vouch for their great experience driving a Tata car?

Not exported outside the middle east and India.

Looks like they sold 5 of them in Europe in 2016.

https://carsalesbase.com/europe-tata/#:~:text=Tata%20cars%20....

You do know that Tata owns Jaguar and Land Rover... right?

Wasn't that a package deal? "Buy all of it or we won't sell you anything!"-style? IIRC they were shopping only for some tech not those brands.

Not really in the Jag or Land Rover game mate. That said, they have a horrible reputation for unreliability.

They bought them.

They are engineered in the Uk. Engines made in Uk and China. From memory India was assembly from knockdown unless that has changed. Supply is for the domestic market. Just because there is Ownership doesn't mean transfer of skills

Hyundai does some design work in India and manufacturing (i20) but hardly any exported, and for the domestic market.

Mahindra is probably doing the most exports, at a guess

Maruti, Kia, Volkswagen and Nissan are exporters of cars from India to 100 locations around the world. Simple search would have fixed this.

I do not have a Tata car, but its everywhere here in India. It gets the job done and it is reliable, cheap to service and maintain and has good fuel economy. They also have make so many heavy buses and trucks. Technology and reliability isn't an issue with them. The latest Tata cars score high in NCAP too. Only reason I don't like a Tata car is because they are not so great in styling their cars. If some of them have good front design, they look bad from the back. The one's that look nice from back or sides doesn't look so nice from in the front etc.

Only have good things to say about Tata Indica. My dad was a Cab driver. Indica's were big then. We had two cars, both crosses 2,00,000 kms. The last one not only crossed 2,00,000 kms, we still use it.

Very durable and value for money.

They appear to be the ones with 50% failure rate

> At an iPhone casings factory in Hosur run by Indian conglomerate Tata, one of Apple’s suppliers, just about one out of every two components coming off the production line is in good enough shape to eventually be sent to Foxconn, Apple’s assembly partner for building iPhones, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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