Saar: The company will, however, continue to provide support in terms of service and spare parts for both the models.

Tata Motors is currently in a transition phase. It is reinventing the art of producing modern products for them to match up with the stiff competition in the mass market. To ensure that enough sources are available for the newer products to go into production, Tata Motors has reportedly pulled the plug on two of its oldies – the Indigo sedan and the Indica hatchback.

According to a report published by ETAuto, Tata Motors took this decision on the back of low sales numbers over the last fiscal year. The numbers shared by SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers), Tata Motors sold 2,583 units of the Indica and 1,756 units of the Indigo in the entire 2017-18 fiscal. For the month of April 2018, none of the aforementioned cars had any sales numbers.

A spokesperson from Tata Motors reportedly confirmed this development:

“With the changing market dynamics and the evolution of Tata Motors design language towards impactful design, we have decided to phase out the Indica and the Indigo eCS, a common phenomenon in a product lifecycle. We will continue to serve our extended family of Indica and Indigo customers by providing them the necessary service support.”

The very first iteration of the Tata Indica came out in the year 1998. That’s 20 years ago. Four years after that, the Indigo sedan was launched in India and in its eCS form, kickstarted the reign of sub-4 metre sedans. The full-blown Indigo was discontinued but until March this year, the moniker lived on only in the eCS form.

Both cars received several updates during their respective lifetime. Before they were put out of production, the last engine that did duty in both the cars was the 1.4-litre CR4 diesel engine that produced 70PS of power and 140Nm of torque. It came mated only to a 5-speed manual transmission. Over the years, even the variant-list was cut down to just two for both models – LS and LX. Since the production has stopped, whatever stock the dealers will have across the country will have an old manufacturing date. Chances are that dealers will give heavy discounts on both the models to clear out the piled stock.

Tata Motors has big plans for the next couple of years at least. Later in 2018, we could see the production-spec of the H5X Concept SUV that was unveiled during the Auto Expo earlier this year. Next year, Tata Motors is expected to launch a mid-size sedan, based on the EVision Concept, and a premium hatchback, which is codenamed as 45X. While the sedan and the SUV will share the same platform, which Tata Motors calls as the ‘Optimal Modular Efficient Global Advanced’ (OMEGA) architecture, the hatchback will be built on the ‘Agile Light Flexible Advanced’ (ALFA) architecture. All three cars will also flaunt Tata Motors’ Impact 2.0 design language.