Likewise, the Nano that followed in 2008 may have flopped but it put the country on the global map with its frugal costing structure that won the praise of top global CEOs such as Carlos Ghosn of Renault-Nissan. Big loss for VW From VW's point of view, this will be a big loss too especially in terms of time given that it had earmarked 2019 as the debut of its first car from the joint product development strategy with Tata Motors. Revisiting the MQB-A platform and working all over again on better cost-efficiencies will only delay the process and hardly do any good in boosting its market share (and Skoda's) in India. It would also be naive to expect a group like VW to solely focus on India when bigger markets such as China have offered far quicker growth prospects. The leadership team at Germany is, however, keen to revive its India business and leverage this market for other regions such as South Africa, Latin America and the ASEAN region.