The Tata 407 is a 2-door pickup truck from Tata Motors Ltd, built from 1986, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. Under the bonnet: 3.0L 4SP diesel engine.
The background
The Tata 407 is a light commercial vehicle manufactured by Tata Motors. Launched in February 21, 1986, as of 2011 the 407 model sold more than 500,000 units.
The 407 has a payload of 2.25 tonnes, an overall length of 4.7 metres, and a turning circle radius of 5.5 metres. Tata purchased all of the pressing tools for Steyr's 591/691-series of trucks in the mid-eighties, a truck which was itself derived from the 1967 Hanomag F-series. The shape of cab barely shares a close resemblance to the Mercedes-Benz Vario, however the only difference is the slope of the hood.
The engineering
Power comes from 3.0L 4SP diesel engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Jeep Wrangler, the BMW 5 Series, the Ferrari F40 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Tata Motors Ltd stablemates include the TaMo Racemo and the Tata Ace Zip.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Tata 407 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.