The (now resigned) CEO prided himself on being an engineer and in depth knowledge. I don&#x27;t believe he didn&#x27;t know how VW was able to market clean diesel engines in the US without having a clean diesel emission system for them.<p>His big thing was to be the largest car maker and he needed to juice US sales to get there. He had to have spent a lot of time on US strategy. The shitty part is that he succeeded--they became #1 (this year!) and he has a huge pension to retire on.