TATA Harrier 2020

INTRODUCTION:

This is best product yet from TATA, launched last year and now has got the facelift making it look fresher now, this car has the platform and the front suspensions from Land Rover Discovery. This means the car is based on an amazingly setup. Harrier’s major merits or advantage is it’s design, platform and the suspensions, and can called as,and yet i dare to say it is the Desi Land Rover having the DNA of the Land Rovers.

FEATURES:

The harrier gets a ton of features now, Updated with the Panoramic sunroof, Powered Driver seat, HID Projector headlamps, Auto Headlights,front and rear fog lights, Auto dimming inside rear view mirror, Auto Wipers, 8.8-inch touchscreen supports media, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, navigation and what not, and Cruise Control, Auto Climate Control, Leatherette upholstery.The fit-finish and quality of the cabin feelings very premium and appealing to the eyes, gets brownish treatment on the seats and the Dashboard. It gets many electronics which make it pretty capable off the road, such has wet mode, rough mode, city or normal road, sand mode or off road mode.

Safety Features :

Harrier gets 6 Airbags, Rear View parking camera, Hill start assist and hill decent control, ESP with 14 different other functions, Traction Control, Off-road ESP. The Car is TATA product, which means it is very safe car and if you search about the recent accident of the harrier, you will be astonished to know the even when the car rolled out on the road due to high speeding all the passengers are safe without the opening of the Airbags. This shows the build-Quality of the Harrier is nothing short of sensational.

COMFORT & SPACE :

The TATA had decided to built the Harrier with spacious rear seats and to deal with it, they decided to take the Land Rover Discovery Platform, the space at rear is pretty good even for a tall passenger there is good legroom, knee-room and headroom. The long journeys can be very comfortable in the Harrier, its gets an armrest with twin cup holders rear A/C vents are placed at B-pillar which is great touch and ergonomically better. You won’t feel Claustrophobic inside because the window area is large and the massive panoramic Sunroof brings in lot of airry feeling with light as well. The boot space is of 425 L, this means you can carry a lot of luggage while travelling with your family. The floor is almost flat and the cabin is wide enough for 3 people to seat in comfortably.

PERFORMANCE :

The heart of the matter lies with the 2.0L multijet Diesel engine, which Tata likes to call as Kyrotec, produces 170 PS of Power And 350 Nm of torque, it has been tuned and produces 30 PS more and this felt while you over-taking on highway and cruising comfortably. The harrier now gets an automatic transmission from hyundai it is a 6-speed torque converter unit, offers decent amount performance offers downshifts and upshifts whenever you want to extract the power , it is sleek but you can’t feel much inside. This diesel engine is offers punchy performance, there is some lag lower down but once you get into the mig-range pulls strongly towards the top end redlining at about below 5000 RPM mark. The refinement levels are as per the Tata standards, those noises, harshness and vibrations which we could hear after 3000 RPM from the pre-facelift are very well contained now, but they are still a there, the road and tyre noises filter through the cabin are also better contained.

RIDE & HANDLING BALANCE :

TATA motors has stunning ride in each and every car, obviously the newer ones. The Ride quality is the big strength of the harrier, the suspension at the rear are tuned by the tata motors and lotus and the front suspensions are taken from the Land Rover Discovery, the ride is stiff enough for the bad road and supple enough for high speeds, as you increase the speed of the vehicle the ride gets better and better. I personally love the ride quality of the harrier, bet me there is no car in the segment which can come close to harrier in terms of ride quality, feel of driving and the road presence it offers. the handling is also pretty nice i would say because there is feel and feedback from the steering wheel and has a haft and feels a bit heavy, but it also weighs up brilliantly at higher speed. There is body-roll on offer and naturally it should be there because after all it’s a SUV, but it better contained, the brakes offer decent stopping power.The ground clearance is great at 205 mm. This is the most capable front wheel drive SUV in the segment.

PRICING :

Let’s get the elephant in the room out so the pricing of the Harrier starts from 13.69 lakhs to 20.25 lakhs (ex-showroom), its priced quite attractively for what it offers.

Overview :

This is by far the best product from Tata Motors, rivals are Hyundai Creta, Jeep Compass, MG Hector etc. Overall i could say is that car is quite value for money for what it offers, those soft touch plastics and oak wood finish on the dashboard matching with the leather seats, gives very premiumness to buyers. Tata is back in the game with harrier.