Volkswagen's goal: Clean break from a dirty past: Money, new direction help company emerge from scandal

摘要

After five long years, the scars of the largest, most expensive scandal in automotive history are finally starting to fade. As a brand, Volkswagen's U.S. market share is back to where it was in the days before its $33.3 billion diesel emissions scandal exploded in public on Sept. 18, 2015. Its dealer network is once again selling more cars than it is buying back. And the last of 36 massive parking lots across the U.S., which once were filled with hundreds of thousands of illicit turbodiesels, finally emptied and closed just last month near the harbor in Baltimore.