Mumbai / Vietnam - Tata Motors Ltd of Mumbai, has launched Ultra Business Utility Vehicles (BUV) range in Vietnam; the truck has been specially designed to meet changing customer needs in the light and intermediate commercial vehicle segments. It is to cater to payloads ranging from 4 to 11 tonnes with engine capacities from 85hp to 180hp. The launch model was the Tata Ultra 814¹truck model; the other models in the Ultra range to be gradually introduced to the market include: Tata Ultra 1518 /1518T, Tata Ultra 1412, Tata Ultra 1014, Tata Ultra T.7, Tata Ultra T16.S.

The new Ultra model is to be added to the smaller 1-tonne commercial vehicle models Tata Super Ace mini-truck and Tata Ace, which were introduced to the Vietnamese market by Tata Motors’ distributor, TMT (Trading and Manufacturing Equipment Materials for Transportation) Motors (TMT) of Hanoi, Vietnam in September 2016. (The launched had followed two agreements - Distribution Agreement (DA) and Supply Agreement and Technology License Agreement (TLA) between Tata Motors and TMT Motors in May the previous year (2015). TMT Motors, like the Tata Ace models, is to assemble the ULTRA range from CKD kits at the CUU Long Automobile Factory, which is owned by TMT in Hung Yen, near Hanoi, Vietnam.