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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Mr. Samuelsson was viewed as an able manager, though he had clashed in the past with Ferdinand Piech, the chairman of both MAN .

萨缪尔森被看做一个有能耐的经理人，尽管他过去曾与曼公司与大众公司的主席费迪南德·皮耶希有冲突。

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Volkswagen's Ferdinand Piech is fanatical about cars and ruthless towards people ACCORDING to rumour, Ferdinand Piech likes to run chickens off the road in his Volkswagen Touareg.

传说德国大众汽车公司的费迪南·皮耶是个对公司员工冷酷无情的汽车迷，而且喜欢驾驶自己的那辆大众途锐汽车，赶着路上的鸡群跑来跑去。

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More than a decade ago, VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, commissioned a vanity project to rival the pyramids: to resurrect the great French luxury and racing marque Bugatti, right down to Ettore Bugatti's l'orangerie in Molsheim, in Alsace, France, and build there the greatest sports car of all time, with no compromise.

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In particular, the role of Ferdinand Piech, chairman of Volkswagen's supervisory board, is muddying the waters.

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Its previous chief executive, Ferdinand Piech , spent billions of dollars pushing VW up the income scale.

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