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Volkswagen recalls millions of vehicles for steering problems

Rank
Ran: 45h
Updated: 42h ago
Closed
Outlets: 9
Regions: 1
Countries: 5
Languages: 3

Der Spiegel Germany · German 2 Oct, 09:46 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Čeština (3) · +1 language

Read at Der Spiegel

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Der Spiegel, 2 Oct, 09:46 UTC.
Second country: Austria, with Kurier.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 3 Oct, 17:18 UTC.
Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Europe 9 outlets · 5 countries · 100%

First movers

Der Spiegel 2 Oct, 09:46 UTC
Die Zeit +3h 52m
Kurier +4h 30m
SRF +5h 15m
RMF24 +8h 46m

Last to join

Blick 4 Oct, 07:30 UTC
Seznam Zprávy 3 Oct, 18:15 UTC
iDNES 3 Oct, 17:26 UTC
ČT24 3 Oct, 17:18 UTC
RMF24 2 Oct, 18:32 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 9 outlets in 5 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 2 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 5: Austria, Czechia, Germany, Poland, Switzerland. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Czech, German, Polish.
Timeline: Earliest article Der Spiegel, 2 Oct 2026, 09:46 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 10:10 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 07:30 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.00, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Uzbuna za vozače Škode, povlači se 200.000 vozila: Hitan servis zbog kvara! Pogođene "oktavija", "kodijak" i "superb". A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

2 Oct 2026 320 3.58 5 4 5 4 4.0

3 Oct 2026 163 4.75 8 5 3 1 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 10:10 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 07:30 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Europe 9 outlets

Blick Switzerland 4 Oct, 07:30 UTC
Der VW-Rückruf und seine Folgen für die Zulieferer
Seznam Zprávy Czechia 3 Oct, 18:15 UTC
Volkswagen v Česku svolá do servisu zhruba 200 tisíc aut, většinou škodovky
iDNES Czechia 3 Oct, 17:26 UTC
Zhruba 200 tisíc škodovek musí v Česku na svolávací akci kvůli problémům s řízením
ČT24 Czechia 3 Oct, 17:18 UTC
Volkswagen svolá miliony aut. V Česku se akce dotkne dvou set tisíc vozů
RMF24 Poland 2 Oct, 18:32 UTC
Niemal 3 mln aut Volkswagena i Audi z poważną wadą. Grozi utrata kontroli nad pojazdem
SRF Switzerland 2 Oct, 15:01 UTC
Autohersteller unter Druck – Rückruf bei Skoda: Diese Modellreihen müssen in die Werkstatt
Kurier Austria 2 Oct, 14:15 UTC
Skoda ruft 1,7 Millionen Autos zurück: Problem an der Lenkung
Die Zeit Germany 2 Oct, 13:53 UTC
Rückruf bei Skoda: Škoda ruft mehr als eine Million Fahrzeuge zurück
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- KBA-Infos: VW-Tochter Skoda ruft mehr als eine Million Fahrzeuge zurück 2 Oct, 13:38 UTC
Der Spiegel Germany 2 Oct, 09:46 UTC
VW-Lenkungsprobleme: Škoda ruft weltweit noch mehr Autos zurück als erwartet

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
2 Oct 2026	320	3.58	5	4	5	4	4.0
3 Oct 2026	163	4.75	8	5	3	1	4.0