I paint cars for a living. That's not $500k-$1M in damages. 98 cars, guessing generous at 3k per car.....$294k. That's guessing at repair and paint down both sides since that's what the article said was damaged. Hell, make it 4k per car, still not 500k, and nowhere near a mil. Don't get me wrong, that's still a lot of damage, but the media and victims always blow thing well out of proportion. A good friend of mine is a VW/Audi freak, so he'll love to see this.
that sucks those are expensive cars but I also agree its not that much in money to fix that I used to work for them and we sent cars that needed way more body work and paint then that and it still didnt cost that much.