Perry, I understand your point of view and also I am aware that it would have tragic consequences if such a huge company like VW could be bankrupted. Regarding your example with GM, when I recall it in the right way they had to pay a fine not less than 3.5 Billion (in German Milliarden, 1000 times a Million) USD which is not pocket money.
But here in Germany what only a few can accept is that an a....le like Martin Winterkorn who was obviously aware about the whole fraud (if you believe in the latest news) was admittedly fired, ok, but afterwards the decision was to get him another 17 Million Euro paid.