If you have to save 10% of your income for 8 years to buy a car then you can’t afford that car.

Maybe I misunderstood, but it seems fairly clear you posited that the US government could force Volkswagen AG out of business by seizing assets of Audi and other US subsidiaries. Which it cannot.

A US bankruptcy of the US operating companies would still not allow the US government to seize assets of the Volkswagen parent company, or even sister US companies, or force it out of existence.

Separate legal entities. It doesn’t work like that.

Excellent article. Especially for buying a used Porsche!