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The party at Auto Expo 2012 in New Delhi wouldn’t be complete without Tata Motors, and as expected, the Indian manufacturer has brought a number of new wares to the show, one of them being the Indica Vista Concept S2.
The car is a reinterpretation of the form, as previously seen on the Indica Vista Sport, which came about at the last Auto Expo in 2010. The Concept S2 has a wider and wedge-like stance, and the design features a central volume that’s encased by two arrow-like flanks. A two-tone paint scheme – a matte metallic dark shadow and bright silver combination – and the use of aluminium and red accents helps highlight the shape further.
Dress-up kit includes a metallic brow for the headlamps, a lower grilled with a polished black lip surround and signature LED daytime running lights at the front, while the rear gets a spoiler, restyled rear bumper and a stylised LED tail lamp cluster. The inclusion of side skirts completes the picture.
Inside, the Vista Concept S2 gets a black-themed cabin, with sporty race bucket seats clad in black leather and a smaller diameter, sportier steering wheel among the cue changes.
On the mechanical front, the car wears a turbocharged 1.4 litre petrol engine offering 140 PS at 6,000 rpm and 188 Nm of torque at 3,500 rpm, mated to a five-speed Fiat C510 manual gearbox with revised gear ratios. With disc brakes all around and a retuned and beefed up suspension, as well as 17-inch alloys and 205/40 series rubbers, Tata says this one is every bit the handler as it looks suggest.
savvy look alike .. shape
Look nicer than SAVVY.
Savvy lines I see…..
A Savvy with different face?
look like savvy shape
Hmm, the red badge looks awfully familiar to the Honda Type- R badge… could this be some sort of sport division for Tata ? Like Proton’s R3 ? Anyway, looks is one thing. I doubt this car will sell well in India.
100 bhp per litre doesn’t sound too shoddy…but the looks…oh God…why?
While it may look like a Savvy in first overall impressions,i must say that this concept vehicle to a production reality is an ace effort from TATA motors.
There may be lots of room for improvement in the near future if they want to really be a competetive player in the automotive industry,but this for me at least is a refreshing change from Tata.Kudos,a job well done.
Cheers.
This car does a little bit carry the lines of Savvy, which was not really a bad car; if only Proton did not do a half-assed job with it…
what an awesome looking car.. when will it come to South Africa?