&quot;Branches on a tree&quot; makes more sense if VW didn&#x27;t drag their feet for a year and a half when the report of the failing vehicles first came out. I agree that the whole company cannot be rotten, because it would have leaked to the public long before now, but upper management may be far too ok with rules skirting.<p>Look into the VW &#x2F; Porsche infinite share squeeze. These people aren&#x27;t affable fools. They didn&#x27;t just accidentally let engineers write code to skirt around international rules by a factor of 10-40.