In front of Li Weidong was a white sedan with a boxy front end, boxy headlights, and a silver crown logo in the middle of the boxy grille.

This is the first generation of the god car, the seventh generation of the Toyota Crown.

"You can even see this old cannon in China! It's quite new. Li Weidong leaned over, circled around the body, and then looked at the cockpit through the glass.

"It's still a right-hand drive car, and this is supposed to be the version sold at RB, not the one that Toyota is designed specifically for export. Li Weidong said secretly in his heart.

RB's cars are right-hand drive cars, but because most of the world's cars are left-hand drive cars, most of the cars exported by RB are left-hand drive cars, especially after entering the eighties, the United States has become the main market for RB, a large number of RB cars to be exported to the United States, RB produces more left-hand drive cars than right-hand drive cars.

In China in the early 80s, the management of imported cars was not standardized, and when importing cars, they did not choose whether they were right-hand drive cars or left-hand drive cars, as long as there were cars, so it was inevitable that some right-hand drive cars would be imported.

It was not until the state established the Automobile Industry Import and Export Company that China's automobile imports began to be gradually standardized.

Although this seventh-generation crown is a right-hand drive car, it still has to obey China's traffic laws when it hits the road, and still has to drive on the right-hand side. For right-hand drive drivers, driving on the right side is somewhat unaccustomed.

Li Weidong also wanted to open the car door and go into the cab to take a look, but a voice stopped Li Weidong.

"That comrade, what are you doing!"

Li Weidong followed the voice and saw an auto repair worker in his thirties walking over.

"Comrade, I'm just looking at this car. Li Weidong replied.

The auto mechanic saw that Li Weidong was a young face, and couldn't help asking: "Who are you? What are you doing in that department?"

"I came to visit and study from the Qinghe Regional Transportation Company. Li Weidong paused, and then said: "You Director Wei also know, he let me look at it casually in the workshop." ”

Li Weidong moved out of Wei Bin, the director of the repair workshop, and the auto repair worker was no longer easy to stop, he looked at Li Weidong with a cold and arrogant face, and said: "Then you just take a good look, don't do it blindly, you can't afford to pay for it." ”

"Don't worry, I'm also a mechanic, so I can't break it. Li Weidong replied.

"Auto mechanic, look at your age, you haven't repaired a few cars!" The worker snorted coldly, and then said: "Let you not do it blindly, it's good for you, the car in front of you is an imported car, not the old liberation you usually repair, you can't afford to pay for it." But you Qinghe probably don't have this kind of imported car! I guess you don't know what kind of car this is. ”

After all, Jicheng City is the provincial capital, and the Yellow River Automobile Factory is a key enterprise at the provincial level.

Li Weidong smiled, and then replied: "This is the seventh-generation Toyota Crown." ”

"What generation, what field, Crown, is it right, did you guess by looking at the sign on the front of the car?" the worker asked teasingly.

At that time, imported crowns were relatively scarce, and most people had never seen them. The auto repair workers at the Yellow River Plant only knew that the car was called the Crown, but they did not know that the Crown was produced by Toyota, let alone that it was the seventh-generation Crown.

Li Weidong had no choice but to explain: "Crown is a brand under Toyota, Toyota knows it, RB is the largest car manufacturer, and it can also rank in the top ten in the world." The crown car was produced in 1955, basically every four or five years will be replaced, eighty-three years has been changed to the seventh generation, is our current car. ”

"Really? It's not your kid who broke it blindly, right? But RB imported it, and you were right when the time came. The worker said with a skeptical face, but after listening to what Li Weidong said, the worker had already believed it for seven or eight points.

Li Weidong handed the worker a cigarette and asked, "What is the name of this comrade?"

The worker took the cigarette and put it in his chest pocket, then replied, "My name is Chen Jinlong." Little comrade, what's your name?"

"My name is Li Weidong, you can just call me Xiao Li. Li Weidong said and pointed to the seventh-generation crown, and said: "This crown car is also a luxury car in RB, and it is rare in China." Your Yellow River Factory is worthy of being a big enterprise, but it is so powerful that you can even get a crown car. ”

"Although our Yellow River Plant is a provincial key enterprise, it is not worthy of such a good imported car. This car is specially equipped for the reception of foreign guests, I heard that there are only two in our province, one is in the Dongdao City Foreign Trade Bureau, and the other is the one in front of us, the Provincial Foreign Trade Department. Liu Jinlong replied.

"It turns out that this car belongs to the Provincial Foreign Trade Department, is it sent for maintenance?" Li Weidong asked again.

Liu Jinlong shook his head: "No, there is no need to send us here for maintenance, this car is broken, and the general repair shop can't solve it, so it will be sent to us." Our technology here is still better than that of ordinary repair shops. ”

"That's right, you guys make cars!" Li Weidong complimented, and then asked: "Then this car is here, is it repaired?"

"I checked it, but it hasn't been repaired yet. Liu Jinlong replied.

"Find out what's wrong?" Li Weidong asked again.

"It should be a gearbox problem. However, the gearbox of this car is different from other cars, the gear of this car is not one, two, three, four, but English letters, as long as you hang the gear, just keep stepping on the accelerator, no need to change gears at all. You haven't seen a car that doesn't change gears!" Liu Jinlong said with some ostentation.

Li Weidong turned his head to look at the inside of the car, and saw the automatic gear knob and P/R/N/D/S gear, and knew that this crown used a continuously variable automatic transmission.

RB cars like to use continuously variable transmission, the biggest difference between the continuously variable transmission and the common hydraulic automatic transmission is in the structure, the automatic transmission is hydraulically controlled gear transmission, and the continuously variable transmission is composed of a transmission disc and a transmission belt.

Therefore, the structure of the continuously variable transmission is simpler, the volume is smaller, and the speed is more stable, without the feeling of "pause" when the traditional transmission shifts.

The reason why RB people are keen on continuously variable transmissions is also because of the small size of continuously variable transmissions, RB is more popular in China is small cars, and continuously variable transmissions do not occupy space, just can be used with small cars.

In the eighties, the domestic automobile industry was relatively backward, and the technology of auto mechanics was not high, and the domestic auto mechanics had not repaired the automatic transmission of the car, nor did they understand the structure of the continuously variable transmission, so they could not repair this seventh-generation crown.

I only heard Liu Jinlong continue: "We haven't repaired this kind of gearbox car, so we put the car here first, let the driver go back to get the vehicle manual of this car, and then disassemble the gearbox after we read the vehicle manual." ”

As soon as Liu Jinlong's voice fell, a person appeared outside the repair workshop and walked in quickly.

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive, and the driver of this car is here. Liu Jinlong looked at the man outside.

"Master Liu, I brought the vehicle manual. The driver of the crown car carried a cloth bag, then took out a thick vehicle manual and handed it to Liu Jinlong.

"Good work. Liu Jinlong took the vehicle manual.

"What's the hard work, as long as you can fix the car quickly, it's worth it for me to make two extra trips. The driver spoke.

At this time, Liu Jinlong had already opened the vehicle manual, and in the next second, Liu Jinlong's expression became embarrassed.

"How can it be in Japanese!