VW also own Audi, Skoda, and SEAT. It seems they are getting over the diesel emissions scandal.
If they are planning to keep production facilities up to date, invest in R&D,and their workforce, as have Toyota, BMW, and other profitable car makers, they might avoid the fate of the American Big Three.
They went to the brink in the late 1960's, after years of clinging on to their outdated air cooled rear engined cars, but managed to turn itself around with some very good modern cars.
For a long time VW was the biggest importer of cars into the USA, overtaken by the Japanese in the 1970's when the 1973 oil crunch led to huge demand for reliable gas miser cars.
Claud.