Are you ready, Freddie?

About seven miles per gallon.

That's how much the mileage of a 2015 Jetta TDI droops after it gets "fixed" – a term also used by farmers and used in the same manner here as well.

The VWs in question – like young male calves – were not broken. "Fixing" is a euphemism for taking something away . . . .

In the case of the VWs, what's being taken away – by those who brought their cars in for "fixing"- is their formerly exceptional fuel efficiency.

And now we know exactly how much of that has been lost.