1. Consider the corporate culture of Volkswagen in Germany. How did it affect this situation? Volkswagen was meant to produce a "peoples" car. Their success helped heal West Germany. 2. Why did Volkswagen engineers decide to cheat the emissions tests? Should the engineers have consulted with executives? They cheated the system to reduce duplications and costs. Yes, they should have consulted with the executives. Their decision to cheat the system could go bad in so many ways. 3. What is your assessment of VW's sense of business ethics and fair play as manifested in the emissions cheating scandal? Based on them cheating the system, their business ethics is about the business and not the people. They will do what is best for the business. They did not play fair sense they decided to cheat the system. 4. VW has always been perceived to be a socially responsible corporation. In light of this, how could an emissions cheating scandal like this occur? This could be because the engineers made this decision on their own, without consulting the executives. 5. What roles should government regulators play in terms of emissions and fuel economy testing? They should make sure there is no way to cheat the system. The executives should also do more, to know if they are playing fair or not. Also, they shouldn't be selling a vehicle with altered software. 6. Assume that you are a consumer who purchased one of the affected diesel vehicles in 2014, before the EPA made its announcement. What might your reaction have been? What forms of restitution would you have sought from VWoA and Volkswagen? I would have been mad for getting sold a defected car. There could have been an accident or something worse. I would want all the money I spent on that car back. 7. Do research into what has taken place in the VW case since the end of this case. Are circumstances looking better or worse for the company