Just read the Jalopnik article on VW.

This is the last sentence in the statement:

Volkswagen does not tolerate any kind of violation of laws whatsoever. It is and remains the top priority of the Board of Management to win back lost trust and to avert damage to our customers. The Group will inform the public on the further progress of the investigations constantly and transparently.

Let’s see where this goes. My first question is if you do not tolerate violation of laws whatsoever, who in the company thought the creative cheating was okay? Someone in engineering along with engine software writing decided to do it, so how did the higher ups not know. Fishy!