Tata Safari: The Second Coming

Tata Motors’ Safari, when launched in 1998, went on to take India by storm (and later by Storme), quite literally. Back then, it was the macho SUV that everybody wanted to own. It had the ‘go anywhere, do anything’ vibe and most people did take it places. Now, Tata Motors has brought us the Safari in a new avatar that has been built on the OMEGARC (Optimal Modular Efficient Global Advanced Architecture), derived from Land Rover’s D8 platform, which follows their IMPACT Design 2.0 philosophy. The folks over at Tata Motors are calling it a “fresh, new Safari, with hints of the past Safari.” Having extensively tested the new Safari on different terrains, (Including Khardung La), at varying temperatures from -10 degrees Celsius to +50 degree Celsius, Tata Motors engineers say that it has also been driven at 140 kmph for thousands of kilometers. They also claim that the new Safari does everything that the old one did. Well, like they say… the proof of the handling, is in the driving, so, we decided to get behind the wheel, to determine if the new Safari indeed has a good turn of speed.  But before that, a few words about the new