Racemo Is Tata Motors’ Idea of a Mid-Engined Italian-Styled Sports Car

Sprints to 100 km/h in under 6 seconds and has a dedicated track version too

We know Tata for its cheap city cars and commercial vehicles, as well as having taken over the Jaguar-Land Rover group in 2008, but we really don’t associate the name with any manner of sporty cars. However, the company seems determined to alter that image with cars like the Racemo which it showed at the Geneva motor show under the TAMO sub-brand.

Tata Racemo was apparently designed at Tata’s Turin, Italy design center and features a 1.2-liter three-cylinder turbo gasoline engine with 190 hp / 210 Nm hooked up to a six-speed automatic gearbox.

As you may have noticed analyzing the photos, the engine is placed behind the seats – yes, this Tata is mid-engined.

Its makers claim it can sprint to 100 km/h in 6-ish seconds, which sounds about right for the amount of power it has.

Tata made two versions of the car to showcase at the auto show: the regular road-going Racemo and the track-focused Racemo+ which can be virtually test driven in Forza Horizon 3.

The CEO of Tata Motors, Guenter Butschek, remarked “We launched our sub-brand TAMO as our answer to new technologies, business models and partnerships. Racemo is the first innovation from TAMO, and our emotional, unexpected leap to the future. From styling and design to driver experience and technology, Racemo is an extension of customers' personality, as part of their digital ecosystem and will break the ice with the radical new presence and pique the interest in the parent brand."