I always thought that it was in bad taste that Porsche made a car to commemorate the WTC attack.

^has never drove a 911

cheaper

The funny thing is, I guarantee you right here and now that none of those cost savings will make it into the price of the final product.

China will learn how to cheat NOS emissions!?

And Tesla already walked right into that one. They produced their cars in China, starting up an ecosystem for EV parts, and that gave dozens of new Chinese car manufacturers the means to start up to become cheaper and more innovative. Now Tesla's sales are dropping and dropping there.

So of course Volkswagen is there to say "we can do that too".

Kinda of unfair. The Chinese government essentially mandated that cars needed to be built in China if OEMs wanted to sell cars in China, I doubt OEMs were willing to lose 40+% of their sales just because they didn't have factories in China.

Of course it was a lose-lose situation, as they will just get their parts copied and lose market percentage.