Technological Issues, Economics and Environmental Performance of Tata-JLR

Tata motors have been in the news in the past for their badly designed cars and technical issues. The Tata Nano fire incident was one such problem which brought about great scepticism about the safety of the car. It is also a known fact that Tata Motors did not recall the cars sold during that quarter, but instead dismissed it as a "Stray" incident. In December 2012, 337 JLR cars from a Chinese manufacturing subsidiary had to be recalled due to low quality steering and gear boxes. Tata cars are known to be some of the cheapest in the market, mainly because all their manufacturing space is leased or purchased from the government at subsidized rates. There are impending environmental issues about farmlands being converted to manufacturing plants and green house emission standards being violated. Tata cars meet the global emission standards only by 80%. The catalytic converters fitted in their cars are not as efficient as cars from other international brands, which have CO2 emissions of only 1%.