Vanishing Point

Come October 1, 2019, all four-wheelers on sale in India will have to meet the new mandatory safety norms. The applicable crash tests require vehicles to be tested for full frontal impact at 48kmph, offset-frontal impact with a fixed deformable barrier at 56kmph and side impact with a mobile deformable barrier at 50kmph. To meet these crash test norms, several manufacturers need to seriously restructure their vehicles, or withdraw them. Further, from April 1, 2020, the new Bharat Stage VI (BS6) emission norms shall apply, and several engines (and vehicles) will become non-compliant. So, in the next year or so, we could be bidding goodbye to several models. Here is saying adios to them.

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FAREWELL, TATA SAFARI

The only lines that matter, are the ones you make.” Ironically, that line, with the visual of an SUV making tyre trails in the dust, greatly contributed to the resounding success of India’s first homegrown all-wheel drive SUV, the Tata Safari. Reclaim your life, the commercials added, and after an illustrious run spanning over 20 years, the Safari will lay its life down.