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But here's the critical thing as far as dieselgate (the coverstory that VAG used to cover the Audi Sport pull out): Lamborghini doesn't have a diesel, while though sales of them are still strong in the EU and elsewhere outside of NA (not that they were setting the world on fire there anyways), Audi had tons of them throughout their model range, and even Porsche has cars that use Audi diesel engines in them.
Granted, I doubt that dieselgate in actuality has little to do with VAG scaling back from LM--it probably has a lot more to do with politics (both within VAG and between them and the ACO), relatively low ROI for the WEC outside of Le Mans on a dollar vs exposure basis, and the ACO painting LMP1-H teams into the 8MJ gasoline corner, not to mention that it's taken VAG between Audi Sport and Porsche Motorsport the budget of the Mercedes AMG F1 team to run two programs by two different VAG divisions.
Even TMG's budget, even if they're claiming that it's quarter of their F1 budget, is probably north of $100 million if they're using their biggest budget year as the example.
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