True. Imagine that I worked for VW or you. What could you do? Nothing. That was simply an atitude that 'no one will get use or touch us'. Who was in jail after that? One guy in US was in for some time, don't know how much.
But they could build great cars if they wanted. They also wanted to make VW to be the 'AUDI' VW and put AUDI in second place. There are so many stories to talk about VW that we would need an year.
But let's not forget the monkey story.