Volkswagen's chief executive, Martin Winterkorn, has gone and shareholders are slightly more optimistic today after a bruising start to the week. fastFT has done a quick round-up of how the German media is assessing the diesel emissions crisis at the world's second biggest carmaker.
Die Welt laments that Winterkorn could have been VW's most successful chief executive in the carmaker's history.
The newspaper's business editor, Nikolaus Doll, points out that the President of VW's supervisory board had been searching for a way through the diesel disaster all week and had wanted to know how much Winterkorn knew about the plot to fit some models with devices capable of cheating US emissions tests.