Tata Aeris Launched: Price, Variants, Features and What’s New From the Tigor

Tata Motors launched the Aeris in India at an introductory ex-showroom price of ₹5.29 lakh. The Aeris is a heavily updated successor to the Tigor compact sedan, styled to look like the Tiago while keeping the same underlying mechanicals, and it replaces the Tigor outright rather than selling alongside it. 

The car comes in five trims (Smart, Pure, Pure+, Creative and Accomplished), with petrol and CNG engines carried over largely unchanged from the Tigor, and a noticeably richer feature list built around a 10.25-inch touchscreen and a Tiago-style cabin.

This matters because Tata isn’t just refreshing the Tigor’s bumpers; it’s retiring a name that’s been on sale since 2017 and repositioning the car with new styling, new trim names and a heavier equipment list, while leaving the drivetrain essentially where it was. That combination shapes everything from how the Aeris compares with the Dzire, Amaze and Aura to what buyers should and shouldn’t expect from it on the road.

Tata Aeris Price in India

Tata is offering the Aeris in five trims, Smart, Pure, Pure+, Creative and Accomplished, with both petrol and CNG engine options. Here is the official variant-wise price list for the manual versions:

All prices are introductory, ex-showroom Delhi.

Tata has not yet announced pricing for the petrol-AMT and CNG-AMT versions. The AMT gearbox will be offered on both engines across every trim except the base Smart, but no timeline has been given for when those prices will follow.

This is explicitly an introductory price, so buyers should check the applicable price when booking. Separately, Tata is continuing to sell the Xpres nameplate for fleet and commercial buyers; the Aeris itself is being sold exclusively to private buyers, so anyone shopping for a taxi or fleet vehicle should be looking at the Xpres line instead.

Bookings for the Aeris are open across Tata dealerships and the official Tata website, with deliveries set to begin on November 11.

Tata Aeris: What Is It, and What Has Changed From the Tigor?

The Aeris isn’t a new model built from scratch; it’s the next update in the Tigor’s life cycle, given a new name instead of a “facelift” badge. Tata has retained the Tigor’s mechanical package while giving the car Tiago-inspired styling and a meaningful jump in equipment.

Exterior: New headlamp graphics, a redesigned grille and bumpers, revised tail-lamp treatment with a connected LED strip, and new alloy wheel designs

Interior: A new dashboard layout shared with the Tiago, a bigger touchscreen, a new driver’s display, and several comfort features the Tigor didn’t offer, including wireless charging and ventilated front seats.

Powertrain: Unchanged. The 1.2-litre naturally aspirated petrol engine still makes 86hp and 113Nm, and the CNG version still makes 76hp and 97Nm, with the same 5-speed manual and 5-speed AMT gearbox choices, the same engine family that powers the current Tiago.

Platform and dimensions: No change has been announced; the Aeris uses the same sub-four-metre sedan architecture as the Tigor.

Trim structure: Smart, Pure, Pure+, Creative and Accomplished replace the Tigor’s XM, XT, XZ, XZ+ and XZ+ Lux naming.

In short: this is a comprehensive cosmetic and feature update wrapped around the Tigor’s existing drivetrain and platform, sold under a new identity.

Design and Exterior

The Aeris takes on a sharper look borrowed heavily from the smaller Tiago hatchback. It gets sleeker, rectangular LED headlamps, a slimmer gloss-black grille, and a sculpted front bumper with LED fog lamps. The car keeps its notchback roofline, along with a sharkfin antenna and new wheel-arch cladding.

Wheel sizes vary by variant, with 14-inch and 15-inch wheels reported across the range, smaller wheels on the entry trims and CNG variants, and larger dual-tone alloys on the higher petrol trims.

At the rear, the Aeris gets a high bootlid, a roof spoiler, and a connected LED taillight setup with reworked graphics. The rear bumper is new and houses the number plate and a reverse lamp on its lower edge. Ground clearance is rated at 170mm.

Colour options at launch: Nitro Crimson, Pure Grey, Dandeli Drizzle, Pristine White, Daytona Grey and Dune Glow, six shades, each also available in an optional dual-tone scheme with a black roof.

Interior and Features

The cabin follows the same Tiago-inspired layout as the exterior, with a lighter beige-and-cream theme rather than the hatchback’s darker treatment. The centrepiece is a 10.25-inch touchscreen with wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, paired with a two-spoke steering wheel finished in matte black. AMT versions get steering-mounted paddle shifters for manual gear control.

Standard convenience equipment includes automatic climate control, cruise control, a wireless phone charger, ventilated front seats, power-adjustable and auto-folding ORVMs, a height-adjustable driver seat, an auto-dimming IRVM, keyless entry with push-button start, and selectable drive modes. The rear seat gets dedicated AC vents and a centre armrest with cupholders.

The Aeris gets a 4-speaker audio system according to Tata’s launch information, although some launch reports have listed six speakers. The exact equipment should be checked against the variant-specific specification sheet before booking.

Safety and ADAS

Six airbags, seatbelt reminders for all occupants, rear parking sensors and ISOFIX child-seat anchorages are standard across the entire Aeris range. Higher variants add electronic stability control, rain-sensing wipers, hill-hold assist, a tyre-pressure monitoring system, the dashcam recorder function, rollover mitigation, and a 360-degree camera with blind-view monitor. None of these are standard on every trim, so check what’s included on the specific variant you’re considering.

No ADAS suite is offered on the Aeris. No official crash-test rating exists yet either; the outgoing Tigor’s four-star Global NCAP result from its earlier generation cannot be assumed to carry over to the restyled Aeris, so it’s worth waiting for an Aeris-specific result before concluding how it fares in a crash.

Engine, Transmission and Performance

Petrol: 1.2-litre, 3-cylinder, naturally aspirated, 86hp/113Nm, with a 5-speed manual or 5-speed AMT.

CNG (factory-fit, twin-cylinder): Same 1.2-litre block, 76hp/97Nm, with the same 5-speed manual or AMT choice.

These are the same powertrains that were offered on the pre-facelift Tigor and are shared with the current Tiago; no new engineering here. For Indian buyers, that’s a familiar powertrain with an established service history and known behaviour in traffic.

Mileage: Tata has not published official ARAI-certified mileage figures for the Aeris. Since the petrol and CNG powertrains are carried over from the Tigor, certified figures may land in a broadly similar range to the outgoing car, but any specific number quoted before Tata’s own certification should be treated as unofficial.

EV: A separate Aeris EV is also expected, but Tata has not confirmed its launch timeline, battery specifications, or pricing. It was not part of this September 25 launch.

Practicality: Boot Space, Rear Seat and Everyday Use

Tata’s own figure for the Aeris is 419 litres of boot space, one of the larger capacities in the segment, comparable to the Honda Amaze and larger than the Maruti Dzire’s 382 litres and Hyundai Aura’s 402 litres.

Some spec aggregators list 419 litres for the CNG version as well, but Tata has not separately confirmed the Aeris CNG’s boot capacity. Treat this figure as reported until Tata publishes the official specification.

On rear-seat space, Tata hasn’t published fresh cabin dimensions, and since the wheelbase (2,450mm) appears unchanged from the Tigor, legroom and headroom should track closely with the outgoing car, adequate for two adults, workable for three on shorter trips. 

For city use, the compact footprint and 170mm ground clearance make it easy to place in traffic; on the highway, temper expectations of overtaking punch from the naturally aspirated 86hp petrol, particularly with a full load of passengers. CNG running costs remain the main trade-off against a mild power deficit versus petrol.

What Has Not Changed From the Tigor?

• Platform and basic architecture: same sub-four-metre sedan underpinnings
• Engine and CNG powertrain outputs: identical 86hp petrol and 76hp CNG state of tune
• Transmission choices: same 5-speed manual and 5-speed AMT options
• Wheelbase: 2,450mm, unchanged

Tata Aeris vs Tigor: Key Differences

Tata Aeris vs Rivals

Maruti Suzuki Dzire (₹6.31–9.54 lakh, ex-showroom): built on Maruti’s Z-series platform, offered with a naturally aspirated 1.2-litre petrol. Boot space (382 litres) trails the Aeris’s 419 litres.

Honda Amaze (₹7.65–10 lakh, ex-showroom): The Honda Amaze offers an ADAS suite, which the Aeris does not. It doesn’t offer a factory CNG option, so it isn’t a direct match for CNG-focused buyers.

Hyundai Aura (₹6–8.67 lakh, ex-showroom): the closest price match to the Aeris, and offers a turbo-petrol variant, which the Aeris doesn’t.

This is a comparison of documented differences, not a ranking; the right choice depends on which of these a buyer weighs most heavily.

Who Is the Tata Aeris For?

• Buyers wanting boot space: the 419-litre figure suits anyone regularly carrying luggage, for family trips or otherwise.
• CNG-focused buyers: CNG variants start at ₹6.29 lakh and offer a factory-fit CNG setup.
• Feature-conscious upgraders from an older Tigor: the wireless charger, ventilated seats, cruise control and larger touchscreen are real additions over pre-2025 Tigor variants, at broadly similar pricing.
• Buyers set on a sedan body style: in this price band, the Aeris adds one more option alongside the Dzire, Aura and Amaze.

An Aeris EV may eventually widen this list, but it’s a separate, unconfirmed model with its own timeline.

Final Verdict

What’s genuinely new is how the car looks and feels to sit in; the Tiago-inspired dashboard, larger touchscreen, wireless charger, and ventilated seats are real upgrades over the Tigor, and the 419-litre boot is a legitimate practical strength. What hasn’t changed is what determines how the car drives day to day: the same 86hp petrol and 76hp CNG engines, the same gearbox choices, and the same platform.

The result is a familiar drivetrain wrapped in a fresher, better-equipped package, with an introductory price that undercuts where the outgoing Tigor left off.

What buyers should still verify before booking: AMT pricing for both engines (not yet announced), the exact speaker count and wheel size on their chosen variant, which safety features are standard versus higher-variant-only, and the Aeris’s own crash-test rating once one is published.

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