Kind of funny how people are incensed at the "lies", meanwhile expect cars to get bigger, faster (270hp needed for?) and magically continue progress with emissions efficiency.
I agree, on a corporate level its pretty despicable what happened. But come on, 18b$ fine? That would be better spent actually trying to figure out how to make a more efficient car.
Having 11m cars affected, well, that's the cost of
VW modular platform strategy. So much for saving some $.