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Here's a closer look at the 2025 Tata Tiago EV

17th February 2025, 20:00 by R Patil

Small design changes in grill - keeps up with the family look. Trim below grill now gets a matte gunmetal finish instead of the cyan.

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Visited an EV store for an Evolve event and got a look at the Tiago EV facelift. Love the new 'Chill Lime' color in dual tone.

Exterior:

Not much has changed except for few updates on the grill, position of the antenna and new wheel covers. I feel the car looks quite dated for an EV - wish they updated the lamp clusters and added connected lights similar to the rest of their EV portfolio.

Small design changes in grill - keeps up with the family look. Trim below grill now gets a matte gunmetal finish instead of the cyan. Think this looks better and gels well with all colors compared to the cyan. Notice the missing fog lamps. Fog lamps are no longer standard fitment. Accessory catalogue for EV is not yet available with dealer hence not sure if this can be fitted without voiding warranty. There is a blank in the central console - where the fog lamp button used to be, so I'm hopeful that this will be an accessory.

New LED headlamps design is basic, can easily mistake this for a halogen unit:

Lower variants gets halogen - no changes here:

Antenna is now in the rear for all variants - so one can still swap this for Shark fin:

Top variant gets Shark fin antenna:

New design for wheel - matte instead of glossy. Love this:

Lower variants gets a different design for the wheel cover:

I loved the Arizona blue (similar to Nexa Blue) and Chill lime, Grey and white looks OK. Teal Blue (missing here) and Supernova copper didn't appeal to me (I feel this is a yucky color - but lot of folks I talked to, seemed to be OK with it):

Interior:

Colorway change in dashboard and door trim. Think I like the new light grey color. Reflection on windshield seems to be worse now though. Love the steering wheel from Punch - looks modern. Photochromatic mirrors are no longer standard. Might be available as an accessory (used to available earlier).

I believe the MID was updated at some point prior to the facelift; I am not a fan of this (or the older one). Looks very dated on an EV:

The mirrors have to be manually folded now :

Fabric seats instead of leatherette. Contours are the same. Living with the white leatherette on my Tiago has been a pain; Although this is welcome move, would have preferred ventilated seats and design similar to Punch:

Wish they included map pockets this time around and improved the rear headrest design. I thought these were taller from the images from press release and expo - but they are still tiny for taller passengers.

The roof lining has been swapped with felt material - wonder how much they saved by doing this:

Central console looks modern now. Display is crisp and bright. It's not feature rich as the Punch model - lacks 'Arcade.ev' features. The lettering on the console seems to glow - looks like reflective material. Tweeters have been removed, it's just a 4 speaker system now. I love the floating unit - hopefully this is plug and play and can retrofit this to my car post warranty. Since the car was prepped for a launch event couldn't test the unit.

Other variants keeps the older unit and layout - you miss out on pretty much all the goodies unless you get the top variant:

The rotary dial now gets a soft touch finish. I think I liked the old knurled finish:

Faster AC charger is now an accessory. A welcome move; Doesn't make sense to pay additional premium on insurance because of the higher sticker price because of the bundled charger.

Tata has simplified the variants and the car now has 4 variants with the base only available in MR. Only the top variant (with all the new goodies) looked appealing to me and this could be a nice small city car with more discounts (should kick in soon). Tata perhaps should have done a BASS scheme for marketing, just to get more footfall. The showroom looked empty compared to Mahindra & MG - which were packed on a weekend.