Tata Motors would deliver 3,000 Nano cars in Orissa in 2009-10 and 2010-11. On a pan-India basis, the company aims to deliver one lakh units of the world’s cheapest car by that period.
Out of the targeted figure 1250 cars will be delivered through Swapna Motors, a leading Tata Motors dealer in the city, while the rest cars will be sold through other dealers.
Meanwhile, Tata Motors plans to come out with a modified variant of its utility vehicle Sumo Grande within a month or two and a new variant of Indigo during Diwali this year.
The much awaited crossover sports utility vehicle of the auto major is expected to hit the market in the January-March quarter of this fiscal.
Tata Motors has started delivery of its different Nano variants across the country in July this year.
The Nano cars are being despatched by Tata Motors to its dealer outlets from its manufacturing facility at Pantnagar in Uttarakhand.
In order to ensure smooth deliveries of the cars Tata Motors aims to ramp up production at the Pantnagar plant and also its upcoming plant at Sanand (Gujarat), said BN Saha, chairman and managing director of Swapna Motors.
Tata Motors today delivered the first Nano car in Orissa to Baljit Singh, a resident of Paradeep.
The company delivered Nano LX, a high-end Nano variant priced at Rs 1,84,673 (ex-showroom).
Tata Motors is aiming at 20 per cent growth in its sales in the passenger car segment (cars and utility vehicles) in the Orissa market in 2009-10.
The company sold about 4,200 units of cars and utility vehicles (UVs) in the previous fiscal.
The growth in sales is expected to come on the back of Nano and other new launches.
The company plans to strengthen its dealership network in the state by opening up two new outlets at Angul and Cuttack in this fiscal.
Tata Motors has 29 per cent market share in the overall car sales in Orissa and about 11 per cent share in the utility vehicle market in the state.
It may be mentioned that Orissa accounts for about 22 per cent of the company’s total sales volume in the eastern region.
