The Tata Indica is a hatchback

Hatchback

A Hatchback is a car body style incorporating a shared passenger and cargo volume, with rearmost accessibility via a rear third or fifth door, typically a top-hinged liftgate—and features such as fold-down rear seats to enable flexibility within the shared passenger/cargo volume. As a two-box...

 automobile

Automobile

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 range manufactured by Tata Motors

Tata Motors

Tata Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Mumbai, India. Part of the Tata Group, it was formerly known as TELCO...

 of India

India

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. It is the first passenger car from Tata Motors and is also considered India's first indigenously developed passenger car. , more than 910,000 Indicas were produced. The annual sales of Indica has been as high as 144,690 units in 2006-07 . monthly sales of Indica is around 8000 units. The models have also been exported to Europe

Europe

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, Africa

Africa

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 and other countries since late in 2004.
On 30 December 1998, Tata Motors

Tata Motors

Tata Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Mumbai, India. Part of the Tata Group, it was formerly known as TELCO...

 (previously called TELCO) introduced the most modern car ever to be designed by an Indian company: the Indica.