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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Volkswagen Group of America, which includes luxury brand Audi, didn't do any public testing in California.

旗下包括豪车品牌奥迪的大众集团美国公司就没在加州公开道路测试。

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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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Such indecision might be seen as a sign of disagreement within Volkswagen Group about the best way forward.

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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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