India's original SUV icon runs on a French heart — this Safari's turbodiesel is a licence-built Peugeot XD88 unit, the same engine family Tata used in its Telcoline pickup.
Median 197 hp across 432 similar cars
Lead trim: Safari 2.1 L 16V petrol four (135 hp) · up to 140 hp
Tata Safari first generationX2 · 1998–2017
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FactIndia's original SUV icon runs on a French heart — this Safari's turbodiesel is a licence-built Peugeot XD88 unit, the same engine family Tata used in its Telcoline pickup.
The first-generation Tata Safari, presented in India in 1998 and exported to Europe from the same year (UK sales from 1999), is a seven-seat body-on-frame SUV on the Telcoline's Tata X2 platform, sold rear-wheel drive with a four-wheel-drive option (part-time, with a self-locking rear differential), with front double swinging trapezium and torsion-bar suspension, a five-link coil-sprung rear axle, ventilated front discs and rear drums. Engines: a 2.0-litre (1,948 cc) Peugeot XD88 turbodiesel, 92 horsepower to Euro 2 and 87 horsepower to Euro 3 (its lead sentence gives 87 PS), so no power is entered; a 2.1-litre 16V petrol four added in 2003 (135 horsepower, dropped in 2005); the 3.0 Dicor common-rail diesel from 2005 (116 hp in one paragraph and 116 PS/114 hp in another, so no power is entered, with 300 N·m / 221 lb-ft between 1,600 and 2,000 rpm); and from the 2007 model year in Europe the 2.2 Dicor, based on the PSA 2,179 cc DW12 with AVL, 140 hp and 320 N·m (236 lb-ft), the first Euro 4 approved engine made. A 2005 facelift brought a new bumper, lights, grille, interior and a Borg Warner gearbox, and a 2010 facelift a new grille and interior. In 2017 Tata announced the Safari Dicor was phased out with the Storme remaining. Wheelbase 2,650 mm (104.3 in), length 4,655 mm (183.3 in), height 1,922 mm (75.7 in), width 1,855-1,965 mm, kerb weight 1,920 kg for the 2WD (plus 110 kg for 4WD).
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Trims & Figures
4 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safari 2.0 Peugeot XD88 turbodiesel, 1,948 cc | 1998–2005 | 1.9 L Inline-4 | 86 hp | — | — | — | — | — |
| Safari 2.1 L 16V petrol four (135 hp) | 2003–2005 | 2.1 L Inline-4 | 135 hp | — | — | — | — | — |
| Safari 2.2 Dicor DW12 diesel, 2,179 cc (140 hp) | 2007–2017 | 2.2 L Inline-4 | 140 hp | 236 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| Safari 3.0 Dicor common-rail diesel | 2005–2017 | 3.0 L Inline-4 | 116 hp | 221 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
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Photographs
This Safari dropped 25 years of body-on-frame tradition — it's now a front-wheel-drive monocoque crossover, sharing its underpinnings with the Tata Harrier (and, via the same JLR-derived platform, the Land Rover Discovery Sport).
The Indian Army chose the Safari Storme over the Mahindra Scorpio after snow, high-terrain and marsh testing, ordering over 3,000 to replace the decades-old Maruti Gypsy.
India's original SUV icon runs on a French heart — this Safari's turbodiesel is a licence-built Peugeot XD88 unit, the same engine family Tata used in its Telcoline pickup.
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