Volkswagen has always been a magnet for speculators.
Unforgettable when in 2008 the common stock of VW quasi quintupled in value within two days from nowhere.
At that time, the Wolfsburg-based company was for a short time the largest company in the world with a stock market value of 280 billion euros.
And that because hedge funds had gambled away and so drove prices up.
Soldiers of fortune are not attracted to VW because the business model is so shrouded in mystery. Rather, it is the very own share structure that has attracted many speculators. There are two classes of shares from Volkswagen: