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.... 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.