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VW, Porsche recalling 800,000 vehicles

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2015, file photo, the VW sign of Germany's Volkswagen car company is displayed at the building of a company's retailer in Berlin. Attorneys for Volkswagen are due in federal court, and the judge overseeing hundreds of class-action lawsuits against the company is expecting an answer about how it plans to bring nearly 600,000 diesel cars into compliance with clean air laws. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer is scheduled to get an update from the company’s attorneys about its remediation efforts at a status conference on Thursday, March 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2015, file photo, the VW sign of Germany's Volkswagen car company is displayed at the building of a company's retailer in Berlin. Attorneys for Volkswagen are due in federal court, and the judge overseeing hundreds of class-action lawsuits against the company is expecting an answer about how it plans to bring nearly 600,000 diesel cars into compliance with clean air laws. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer is scheduled to get an update from the company’s attorneys about its remediation efforts at a status conference on Thursday, March 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

By Wire Service March 25, 2016 1 min read

Volkswagen AG and its upscale Porsche unit are recalling more than 800,000 VW Touareg and Porsche Cayenne SUVs as a precautionary measure to fix a potentially faulty component on a pedal mechanism.

VW and Porsche said 391,000 Touaregs and 409,477 Cayennes built between 2011 and 2016 would be recalled.

The recalls are not related to VW’s emission scandal.