Volkswagen scandal: Britons could soon find out whether their cars are affected

500,000 people in Britain brought a car from the Volkswagen group in 2014.

Anyone who has a VW, Audi, Skoda with a diesel engine will also want to know if their car is going to be recalled.

You should find out more tomorrow. The company is hoping to publish more details about what happened and where.

Car dealers and shareholders are holding their breath. Lawyers will be licking their lips.

My understanding is that VW will revise the number of car involved in this emissions scandal "below 10 million", but that's still a very large number.

The car firm has hired Kirkland and Ellis, the US law firm that defended BP after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.

At the moment this looks like a case of German company making a bid for world domination and over-stretching itself. VW attempted to conquer the American market, cutting corners in the process.

That's bad enough, but if it turns out that VW was building engines that didn't even comply with European safety standards, if there's any hint that the abuse was more widespread within the industry, expect all hell to break lose.

The European Commission is determined to get to the bottom of this, welcoming investigations in Germany, France and Italy.

In Britain, Vauxhall, Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover have all told ITV News that they have not fitted any sort of technology to their vehicles in an attempt to cheat emissions tests.

I'm told that the licensing agency, the VCA, is in the process of checking that really is the case.