Tata Telcoline

The Tata Telcoline is a mid-size pickup truck made by the Indian automaker Tata Motors since 1988. In India it began as the Tatamobile 206, was renamed the Tata 207 DI in 2002, and abroad it has been sold as the Tatamobile, Tata Loadbeta, Tata Xenon and Tata Pick Up. Introduced in July 1988, it was the first light commercial vehicle Tata launched after the heavy Tata 407, and it won 25 percent of the Indian light commercial vehicle segment. It is built on a flexible body-on-frame chassis called the X2 platform, as a two-seat single cab or five-seat crew cab with rear or four wheel drive, and the same platform later produced the Sierra, Estate, Safari, Sumo and Spacio. The first engine was a licence-built 2.0-litre Peugeot XD88 diesel of 63 hp, and Tata exported the truck to South Africa and Europe and had it assembled from kits in Malaysia. A second generation called the Xenon followed in 2007.