Tata Motors’ new sub-brand Tamo will unveil its
first product named ‘Tamo Futuro‘ at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show tomorrow. The
Tamo Futuro will showcase the company’s advancements in connected car
technologies.
It
seems that the Tamo Futuro concept won’t just preview a future sports car, but
also a host of connected car technologies aimed to make the company
future-ready. Billed as the country’s first connected car, the Tamo Futuro concept
is, reports say, a mid-engined sports car like the Opel Roadster, Saturn Sky
and Pontiac Solstice. While the connected car tech is unlikely to appear in the
company’s production cars anytime soon, a road-ready model derived from the
concept will reportedly hit the market next year at a price of INR 25 lakh.
Some reports say that it will sit on a new platform co-developed
by the company’s Engine Research Centre in Pune, India and Tata Motors European
Technical centre based in Coventry, UK, while some say the Tata Bolt and Tata
Zest’s Tata X1 platform will form the basis. Under the hood, a 1.2-litre
twin-turbo petrol engine with a potential to deliver over 180 bhp will rest.
The Tamo Futuro will reportedly see a limited
production run, meaning that it will serve as a halo product for the company.
Tata Motors won’t make it at the facilities where it builds the current
mass-market models.
