Founded in 1945 as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. (TELCO), building trucks and locomotives long before it built a passenger car. The maker of the Nano is the same company that, in the same decade, bought Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford.[1] It traded as Tata Motors Limited for most of its life; a 2025 corporate restructuring renamed the passenger-car business Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Limited and split the commercial-vehicle side off separately.
Brand
Tata
Tata Motors Limited
- Founded
- 1945
- Origin
- India
- Nameplates
- 1
Identity
- Country of origin
- India
- Founded
- 1945
- Website
- tata.cars
Nameplates (1)
Computed from every entry that names this brand, never a hand-maintained list. Each nameplate is a hub over its own generations.
Cars (1)
Every generation and halo trim from this brand, with the figures each one carries. Sort by any column; a car we have not sourced a figure for sorts last rather than as a zero.
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Body style
Era
| Tata Nano | 2008–2018 | 28 kW | 30.0 s | 105 km/h | 600 kg |
Sources & attribution
- Last verified
- 2026-09-02
- Origin axis
- India
Logo: File:Tata Motors Logo.svg · Tata Motors. Displayed unmodified to identify this manufacturer's own vehicles, editorially and without any suggestion of endorsement or affiliation. Commons records the file as public domain for copyright purposes with an explicit 'trademarked' restriction; the basis for display here is trademark nominative use, not a copyright licence.
Accent colour: Sampled directly from the fill colour (#1467b3) used consistently across every path in the brand's own wordmark SVG on Commons. Tata does not publish a public brand-colour specification, so the badge artwork is the only self-consistent source. This is the same method the Mini entry uses.
References
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Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles. Wikipedia · revision 1372201752 · read 2026-09-02
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Article covering the entity that made the Nano, currently named Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Limited after a 2025 restructuring split it from the commercial-vehicle business; it traded as Tata Motors Limited for the whole of the Nano's 2008-2018 production run, which is the name recorded as this brand's legalName.