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Just for Volkswagen - 11m vehicles.

Average price of new car is around $35,000

So, for this recall, we are talking a list price of over 350 billion dollars.

And that is just from what we know of VW.

They're not taking the cars back and destroying them. They'll send letters to all the owners telling them to come in to a VW dealer for some warranty service. A tech will flash the ECU and they'll be back out on the road in a minutes. It will definitely be costly but not $350B.

VW set aside 6.5 billion EUR provisions for the recall.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/22/vw-scandal-germanys-reputatio...

Will that leave the car with less horse power or reduced fuel consumption? If so more lawsuits around the corner

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