Interesting Read

Boy that not taking to "outside scrutiny" is dead on, too. That may be a German thing, not just Volkswagen.

Odd that GM would pull out of India, because you'd think that their Chinese branches as well as the South Korean arm (Daewoo) would be able to come up with something to compete there. By the same token, it is somewhat shameful that Volkswagen, a company that popularized entry level cars, and whose name literally means as much, has to use Tata as a partner to make something happen.

Does this make my Jag a sort of VWAG diesel???

Interesting read indeed

oilhammer said:

... it is somewhat shameful that Volkswagen, a company that popularized entry level cars, and whose name literally means as much, has to use Tata as a partner to make something happen.

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And it could also be that India, as do a large number of countries, requires a majority locally owned company to handle manufacturing as well as importation, and VW couldn't come up with a situation they cared for. What protectionist policies that exist in the US are regularly denounced here; it should be unsurprising that such mechanisms are replete in the rest of the world as well.

Cheers,

PH