Mr Bear

So Volkswagen are the ONLY company that have done this? They have checked the other brands including the Chinese ones haven't they? Or is it just another excuse for the media and technically incompetent nincompoops (same thing really) to lay into a European company.

Ooh! Have I managed to cause any complaints yet? Is there a prize involved?

The Isle of Man used to have the birch until the legal industry realised that having such a formidable punishment was acting as a strong deterrent to criminals and thus compromising the legal industry's financial revenue. It was accordingly banned with the contrived excuse of being in breach of the Geneva convention* and crime exploded into popularity again with the legal industry reaping huge financial benefits as a result. *Geneva convention. A set of legal tools drawn up under the guise of "human rights" to protect the interests of criminals. It originates in Switzerland - the money laundering capital of the world for war-criminals, drug dealers and other large-scale organised crime.