Martin Uhlarik: “We have nine full programs live in the UK at the moment, 13 globally”
By James McLachlan2025-05-20T10:53:00
Global design head of Tata Motors Martin Uhlarik speaks to Car Design News about the role of the studio, his current recruitment drive, the importance of diverse talent and hosting the live judging for the CDN People Awards
Car Design News: Always a pleasure to come to your incredible studio. Really beautiful. But why don’t you just give us, for those who don’t know, what is it you do here and how does that relate to what I would call the mothership back in India?
Martin Uhlarik: Alright, so first for our listeners at home, we’re in Coventry and on the grounds of Warwick University in the UK. We’re in the NAIC, which is the National Automotive Innovation Center. It’s a very nice modern building, a technical center, which is cross-functional. It is the University of Warwick, it is the Warwick Manufacturing Group, it’s JLR and it’s also Tata Motors, all four entities in this building. In this building we have Tata Motors Design technical centers.