Ratan Tata has been strong persona in the Indian automotive industry. The Chairman emeritus of Tata sons has reportedly been inducted in 2015 Automotive Hall of Fame owing to his remarkable contribution to the automotive industry. Speaking more on the occasion while receiving the award, Tata said, “This is a great honour, and a very humbling one for me, to be inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame. Nothing has equalled the excitement, the reward and the exhilaration that the car industry has provided. I owe this award to my colleagues in our companies who have transformed the business.”
Some of the other popular automotive figures like Karl Benz, Ettore Buggati, Henry Ford, Ferdinand Piech, Sergio Pininfarina and Ferdinand Porsche have been automotive maestros at the event that began in 1939. Some of the other popular figures honored at the event are former Ferrari Chairman Luca di Montezemolo, Elwood Haynes, Co-Founder of Haynes-Apperson Automobile Co and Roger Penske, Founder and Chairman of Penske Corporation.
