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Tata Tiago Review
By Siddharth Vinayak Patankar | Mar 21, 2016 ?
Highlights
The Tata Tiago looks like it can stand tall and proud amongst the clutch of global products.The handling is also much better than other Tata cars, and overall this car works.The interior has really surprised me just as much as the exterior has frankly! The car has a host of connectivity features and that includes a juke app - which allows you to pair one main phone and multiple others through it.The plastic treatment on the car's A-pillar is very neat and blends beautifully with a very well finished headliner.
Tata Tiago, which was initially unveiled byTata Motors as the Zica, is definitely the company's best yet. Now I remember saying the same for the Aria, and the Zest. And even though at the time, the statement held true for both those cars, it rings truer today than ever before. I'm trying not to gush because this is something that I've been waiting for, literally for years! Ever since I started tracking Tata Motors - first as a financial correspondent and then as a motoring journalist - I've been waiting for this big change, or a major turning point to come around. I've waited for a contemporary and modern product that is finally global and not just local in its promise and attribute. We have seen little hints of that in the past from the likes of Mahindra and Tata, but perhaps the bike makers have gone further in achieving this than the indigenous carmakers.
The company took the decision to rename the Zica as Tiago since it was uncomfortably similar to the 'Zika' virus that continues to spread across the world. The Tata Tiago name was chosen after a global crowd-sourcing competition called '#FantasticoNameHunt' was conducted in which fans got to vote for their preferred
