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All large corporations are corrupt and should be considered amoral at best. This applies to VW and any other multinational megacorporation.

If they can milk you dry and get away with it, they will do so.

I'm pretty sure that the good sentiment for German engineering is rooted in smaller and more specialized goods, i.e high quality gardening tools at this point. The time when carmakers considered anything but short term profits is long gone