Forbes had an article on VW in May:

http://tinyurl.com/c2crggq
or
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2013/04/17/volkswagens-mission-to-dominate-global-auto-industry-gets-noticeably-harder/

You can understand why VW would never make a vehicle like a
Vanagon again.  It is a different company from the one that
we knew and loved making beetles and buses.  Of course,
the world is different, too.

Richard