A likelier explanation is that he clashed, not for the first time, with the chairman of the Volkswagen Group, the wily Ferdinand Piech.

一个更有可能的解释是，他不是第一次与大众集团主席狡猾的费迪南德·皮希发生冲突。

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Its bigger European rival, the Volkswagen Group, sold nearly twice as many cars last year, many of them in emerging markets.

而它的竞争对手，居欧洲第一的大众，去年的销售量几乎是他的2倍，并且销售量很多是在新兴市场。

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Using only four instead of the 17 original platforms, the Volkswagen group with its Audi, Seat, Skoda and VW makes is able to manufacture over 40 different types of vehicle.

只用4个，而不是原来的17日平台上，大众汽车个人的奥迪，西亚特，斯柯达和大众使得可能生产40多个不同类型的车辆。

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The Volkswagen Group now has 11 brands under its control, including Ducati motorcycles, which it added earlier this year.

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For the Volkswagen Group, that means China is the fast becoming the lead buyer of their Bentleys and Porsches.

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Much of the technology has been developed jointly by the Volkswagen Group Electronics Research Lab in Silicon Valley and Stanford University.

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