The petitions happened before all this went down. Anyone remember "Brock's VW Magazine" site? Truth is VW does not want to be associated with the old "cheap and simple" aircooled cars anymore. They want to up their image and sell in the same status as BMW, Jaguar, Mecedes, etc. It's all about $$$ in the future and they don't care about the past. In order to gain a higher status in the industry they took a big dump on us.