I will never forgive VW for cheating on diesel emissions. That corruption went so far throughout the org the entire company should've been criminally indicted and shut down.
And there was a solution available. AdBlue. Mercedes already used it, and so did BMW. But VW didn't want to use it.
And because of this scandal VW pulled their diesels, AND both Mercedes and BMW followed suit.
Quite sad, because an X5 diesel had really good mileage (if you used it for longer distances).
Compared to what diesel trucks running across the country are exhaling daily, then what VW did is absurdly negligible.