According to Tata Motors' managing director, Karl Slym, the company is developing a new modular platform, to be the basis of a "global" range of vehicles that it claims will "leapfrog" VW's MBQ technology. The new vehicles will be rolled out over the next six years.
Though Tata has had more success selling commercial vehicles than cars, Tata says that it is going to build a family of world class passenger vehicles based on what it's calling the Advanced Modular Platform (AMP). Tata badly needs new product to replace an ageing lineup of cars which has been doing poorly as the Indian market has experienced a downturn.
Tim Leverton, Tata Motors' head of R&D, told the Sydney Morning Herald that it had taken VW "six or seven generations" of products to get to MBQ, but that Tata would "go directly to a very interesting solution" and "leapfrog" the Volkswagen group. Leverton said that the AMP is scaleable in both length and width, making it possible to use the platform for a variety of size vehicles, from subcompacts to crossovers.
The Indian press is reporting that Slym said that the company began planning to make Tata a global automotive brand last year and that all of the cars in the pipeline based on the AMP are being designed for sale globally and will meet applicable emission and crash standards.
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