Let me get…
This right. If you’re a huge multi-national company with literaly billions of dollars in the bank, you can rip your customers off with almost complete impunity. The fines handed out to VW didn’t hurt them at all. VW are actively fighting the class action law suits against them, despite VW being guilty as hell.
If I knick a tube of Smarties from the local sweetshop, I’d be in more trouble than a large car maker.
As usual, the whole things stinks of corruption, cronyism and downright dishonesty.