DIMO opens new showroom

NEW SHOWROOM: Diesel and Motor Engineering Company Limited (DIMO), the sole agent in Sri Lanka for TATA vehicles is opening another showroom for TATA passenger cars to increase their network of showrooms and customer service centres.

The newest showroom will be located at 385, R.A. De Mel Mawatha, Colombo 3 with ample parking space for customers.

TATA Motors is India’s largest automobile manufacturing company, with revenue of US $ 5.5 billion in 2005-06. With over 4 million TATA vehicles plying in India, it is the leader in commercial vehicles and the second largest in passenger vehicles.

It is also the world’s fifth largest medium and heavy truck manufacturer and the second largest heavy bus manufacturer.

TATA cars, buses and trucks are being marketed in several countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and South East Asia and in Australia.

TATA Motors and Fiat Auto announced the formation of an industrial joint venture in India to manufacture passenger cars, engines and transmissions for the Indian and overseas markets.

TATA Motors already distributes Fiat-branded cars in India.

The company’s international footprint includes TATA Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Co. Ltd. in South Korea; Hispano Carrocera, a bus and coach manufacturer of Spain in which the Company has a 21% state; a joint venture with Marco Polo, the Brazil-based body-builder of buses and coaches; and a joint venture with Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant Company of Thailand to manufacture and market pick up vehicles in Thailand.

TATA Motors has research centres in India, the UK, and in its subsidiary and associate companies in South Korea and Spain.