The "Solution S" presented as an alternative envisaged a mitigated compromise solution. Only because of the company's social responsibility was it conceivable that, in the event of the closure of the Neuenstein and Heilbronn plants, the Neckarsulm plant would initially continue to operate on a single-shift basis "in order to avoid the complete abandonment of the Neckarsulm site with all its social consequences".

Nevertheless, 25,000 jobs were to be lost in the VW group, 21,000 of them within three months.