Once this diesel particle ‘crisis’ came up....the car-makers were everyone’s whipping boy. Toss in the fury by the environmental folks to force everyone to dump their gas/diesel cars. Two months ago, various car-makers were saying that the show in Frankfurt would be the last one. The protest movement from the past five days has virtually guaranteed that this show is finished in Frankfurt.
The real problem with the “German” car makers was the amount of Bad parts they had made in Mexico. I unfortunately purchased a Tiguan and before 40,000 miles the AC died, the retractable roof leaked, the plastic bushings on the rocker arms wore out, and it developed rust and a leak around the windshield. I traded it in on an F150. F the “German” car industry.