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The Tata Estate was a 
Tata was already a major player in the heavy vehicle segment and the Estate was the company's first attempt at building a passenger car. The car was considered fairly advanced during its production time and had many features which were not common among other Indian cars available at the same price range then. The car came with power windows, power steering and a tachometer.
The Estate's exterior is based on Mercedes-Benz station wagon design made at the time of conception, in particular the T-series estate-type cars.
The Tata Estate was introduced in 1992 and production ran until 2000.
The Estate was powered by a Peugeot sourced 1.9-litre diesel engine producing at 4500 rpm and torque of at 2500 rpm, mated to a 5-speed manual transmission.
The Estate followed after the production of the
The Tata Estate was a station wagon
A station wagon ( US, also wagon) or estate car ( UK, also estate), is an automotive body-style variant of a sedan/saloon with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume with access at the back via a third or fifth door ( ...
car produced by Indian car manufacturer Tata Motors (then known as Tata Engineering) between 1992 until 2000.
Tata was already a major player in the heavy vehicle segment and the Estate was the company's first attempt at building a passenger car. The car was considered fairly advanced during its production time and had many features which were not common among other Indian cars available at the same price range then. The car came with power windows, power steering and a tachometer.
The Estate's exterior is based on Mercedes-Benz station wagon design made at the time of conception, in particular the T-series estate-type cars.
History
The Tata Estate was introduced in 1992 and production ran until 2000.
The Estate was powered by a Peugeot sourced 1.9-litre diesel engine producing at 4500 rpm and torque of at 2500 rpm, mated to a 5-speed manual transmission.
The Estate followed after the production of the Tata Sierra
The Tata Sierra, was a three-door sport utility vehicle produced by the Indian carmaker Tata Motors It was based on the Tata Telcoline.
In export market the Sierra was sold as Tata Sport, Tata Telcosport and Tata Grand Telcosport, Tata Gurk ...
in 1991. It was initially plagued with problems due to high fuel consumption, faulty electrical systems and suspensions before they were fixed in subsequent productions.
Specifications
The platform of the Estate was based on theTata Telcoline
The Tata Telcoline is a mid-size pickup truck made by the Indian automaker Tata Motors since 1988. In India, it was originally known as the Tatamobile 206, and since 2002, the name was changed to the Tata 207 DI. In export markets, it has been ...
pick-up truck, which saved the company around Rs. 10 crore (at that time) in development costs.
References
Further reading
* Sen, Gautem. (2014). ''Million Cars for Billion People: The Story of India's 'Millionaire' Cars''. Mumbai, India: Platinum Press.Estate
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