[autobahn]

VW is a giant company and they're sitting on a giant pile of cash. Anyone that thinks this was going to kill VW is not very bright.

This will affect their status perhaps as the world's #1 automaker, but they'll be around for a long time.

[kuschku]

And they’re partially owned by the government of the largest nation that doesn’t run a deficit™, so even if they’d be at risk of default, no politician is willing to fire 600'000 thousand people.