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Tata Safari

Two unrelated vehicles across two eras, and the name alone will mislead. The original Safari to 2019 is a ladder-frame four-wheel-drive SUV with the 2.2 DICOR diesel — a working vehicle with a transfer case. The 2021 Safari is a three-row Harrier: monocoque, front-wheel drive, no low range, and the OMEGA platform underneath. Nothing about diagnosing one prepares you for the other, and a code list for the older car will point at systems the newer one does not have.

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Tata Safari
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Generations

  • First generation 1998–2019

    Ladder frame with a transfer case and the 2.2 DICOR — a working four-wheel drive, and structurally unrelated to the car that took the name later.

    Body styles
    SUV
    Platform
    Tata X2
    Engines
    • 2.0 turbo — diesel · 65–69 kW (87–92 hp) · the 1,948 cc turbodiesel the Safari launched on in 1998 and shared with the Telcoline, the Sierra and the Sumo — indirect injection, a KKK turbocharger and two valves per cylinder. The range is two emissions eras of one engine rather than two tunes: 92 hp under Euro 2 falling to 87 under Euro 3. en.wikipedia states both figures and the transition, de.wikipedia gives 87 PS with its own Safari diesel range opening at 64 kW, and ru.wikipedia has the launch car at 90. Left uncoded for the reason the Sumo's turbo row is — the Safari and Sumo articles turbocharge the Peugeot XD88 where the Sierra and Telcoline articles turbocharge the 483 DL, at the same outputs, and a code that sends a technician to the wrong engine page is no better than none
    • 2.2 DICOR — DW12 · diesel · 103–105 kW (138–141 hp) · 320 Nm (236 lb-ft) · the PSA DW12 reworked by AVL, and the range is two states of one engine across the Safari's life rather than two tunes: 140 PS at launch and 143 PS from October 2007. de.wikipedia states both in sequence — the Euro IV engine shown at Bologna in 2006 at 140 PS (103 kW) and 320 Nm, then "eine höhere Leistung von 143 PS (105 kW)" in October 2007 — and it.wikipedia states both independently, 143 CV (105 kW) with 320 N·m held from 1,700 to 2,700 in its engine section and "il 2.2 diesel Dicor da 140 cavalli" twice in the Storme sections. The torque stays 320 Nm on one source short of a second: de alone gives the later vtt 300 Nm at 1,700, where en and it both give 320
    • 3.0 Di — 497 · diesel · 86 kW (116 hp) · 300 Nm (221 lb-ft) · the 3.0 DICOR, derived from a Mercedes-Benz commercial unit by way of the Tata 407, and the first direct-injection diesel Tata fitted — sixteen valves and common rail, 116 hp at 3,000 with the torque held from 1,600 to 2,000. The same 2,956 cc block the Sumo carries as the 497, in a stronger tune
    • 2.2 VariCOR — DW12 · diesel · 110–115 kW (148–154 hp) · 320–400 Nm (236–295 lb-ft)
    • 2.1 — 486PL · petrol · 99 kW (133 hp) · the sixteen-valve naturally aspirated petrol Tata developed with AVL, offered 2003–2005 only. de.wikipedia's engine range states 99 kW and en.wikipedia's body 135 horsepower, which is the same figure read as PS — and de is not repeating en, because it gives the 2.2 vtt 300 Nm where en and it.wikipedia both give 320. Its torque is refused for want of any source at all, and that is now measured against the closed set rather than against whichever languages somebody thought of: all fourteen versions the Safari article has were swept and three carry a torque figure anywhere — de, it and ja — every one of them about a DiCOR or VariCOR diesel. de gives this engine as the `Ottomotor: 2,1 Liter (99 kW)` endpoint of its infobox range with no torque, it.wikipedia does not mention it, and ru.wikipedia's Safari carries only the diesels
    Transmissions
    5-speed manual · 6-speed manual
    Drivetrain
    Rear-wheel drive · Part-time four-wheel drive with low range
  • Second generation 2021–present

    A three-row Harrier — monocoque, front-wheel drive and no low range, so the older Safari's whole drivetrain branch simply does not exist here.

    Body styles
    SUV
    Platform
    Tata OMEGA
    Engines
    • 2.0 — KRYOTEC · diesel · 125 kW (168 hp) · 350 Nm (258 lb-ft) · Fiat Multijet derivative
    • 1.5 turbo petrol — HYPERION · petrol · 125 kW (168 hp) · 280 Nm (207 lb-ft) · the same higher tune of the Hyperion T-GDi as the Harrier, launched with it and stated with it — indiacarnews gives 170bhp and 280Nm for the pair in one sentence and Tata's commercial officer names both cars in the same quotation. The Sierra's 160 PS and 255 Nm is this engine deliberately detuned rather than a contradiction; the Harrier row carries the full account of the split and the unit arithmetic behind 168 bhp against 170 PS
    Transmissions
    6-speed manual · 6-speed automatic
    Drivetrain
    Front-wheel drive

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