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Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry

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imageVolkswagen's woes will be shared by many. Reuters

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn paid the price of losing his job after last week’s revelation that software designed to circumvent emission testing was installed on as many as 500,000 “clean diesel” vehicles sold in the US and as many as 11 million worldwide.

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