And then of course there is the fact that they basically built their profits on cheating the emissions systems of Europe and North America as an organized crime body

https://www.thelocal.de/20170721/german-car-giants-secretly-...

And used slave labor.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/german-car-maker-audi-reveals-n...

I think I'll stick to Tesla who probably won't have a perfect record across its history, but certainly is trending better than german automakers that lie, cheat and kill both in the past and currently.