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Product Woes 　　The direct shift gearbox （DSG） transmis- sion technology and its smooth shifting between gears has long been a bragging point for Volkswagon. 　　What Volkswagen didn’t anticipate in its highly touted technology was a defect， one that could be fatal. 　　A Shanghai native surnamed Li said he will never forget the day when his Volkswagen Octavia lost control. 　　“I bought the car in May 2011，” Li told a China Central Television （CCTV） investigative program. “One time， I was driving at 80 km per hour when I stepped on the accelerator to surpass the car ahead of me. The car suddenly