Kato Masayuki shouted loudly, which instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the restaurant, and everyone's eyes were on Kato Masayuki.

The key is that Kato Masayuki still called "Ya Yan Butterfly", which made Li Weidong, who was sitting opposite, feel ashamed.

Kato Masayuki was also aware of the eyes around him, in RB culture, it is a very rude behavior to suddenly shout in public, Kato Masayuki immediately sat upright, looking guilty, and his mind quickly began to think about countermeasures.

Tian Feng's accelerator pedal has not been better for decades, from Carraro, Camry, to RAC4, Highlander, Land Patrol, and even Lexus models, there have been gas pedal problems. Sometimes it is just a small problem that will not affect the normal driving, and sometimes it is a major problem that affects the safety of driving and needs to be recalled.

In the eighties, there was no electronic accelerator pedal, and all the accelerator pedals used at that time were purely mechanical, and Tian Feng used his brains in the design in order to reduce costs, using a new type of pin parts, but this kind of pin parts may cause adhesion, resulting in the accelerator pedal will not rebound, so that a light foot on the accelerator, the engine will continue to output power.

Because the probability of this situation is not high, Tianfeng Automobile did not pay attention to it.

When a customer fed back this problem to Tianfeng Automobile, Tianfeng Automobile chose not to admit it, and their reply was that the customer's own operation caused this problem.

This fault has been back and forth for many years, Tian Feng has never admitted that it is a design problem, and once he admits that it is a design problem, a large-scale recall is inevitable.

The customers who use the car do not understand the structure of the accelerator pedal, and occasionally there are several failures of the accelerator pedal, as long as it does not cause a car accident, no one will go to the depth.

As a result, the problem of gas pedal failure was only revealed in the nineties, and Tian Feng at that time had already begun to use a new type of accelerator pedal.

It just so happened that at that time, Li Weidong was working as a trainee in RB's car repair shop, and there were many old Carraro to replace the accelerator pedal, so Li Weidong still remembered the failure of the Carraro accelerator pedal, and Li Weidong was very clear about the reasons for the failure and the consequences.

The fifth-generation Carraro is also a very popular car in RB, the two-door performance version of the fifth-generation Carraro, with a code name that everyone is familiar with: AE86.

It is the AE86 of Takumi Fujiwara, the god of the autumn mountain bike.

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As Tian Feng's automotive engineer, Kato Masayuki also knows that Tian Feng's accelerator pedal is not so perfect, and when he sees this article written by Li Weidong, he can basically judge that what Li Weidong wrote in the article is correct.

Once this article is submitted to those big car magazines, it will inevitably attract the attention of the magazines, and with the strength of top car magazines, they are fully capable of testing whether Tian Feng's accelerator pedal has design flaws. But Tian Feng's accelerator pedal can't stand the test.

For an automotive magazine, exposing the design flaws of a hot-selling car can attract the reader's eye more than doing a few new car reviews.

If the defect of Tianfeng's accelerator pedal is revealed, it will affect Carraro's sales, at worst it will be a large-scale recall, and in the most serious case, it will affect the reputation of Tianfeng Automobile.

The fifth-generation Carraro has sold millions of vehicles worldwide, and if a large-scale recall is carried out, it will also be a painful loss for Tian Fenglai.

What's more, Tian Feng at this time not only has to face the competition of European and American auto giants, but also RB's domestic auto manufacturers. Especially in the U.S. market, the competition between Japanese cars is particularly fierce because they are all positioned similarly.

Among the other two giants of the Japanese system, Honda's main model Civic has only come out of the third generation, and the design concept of the third-generation Civic is obviously not as good as the fifth-generation Carraro, Honda has also given up the third-generation Civic and devoted itself to the research and development of the next generation of models.

Nissan's flagship model, the Blue Bird, is Carraro's biggest competitor.

The appearance of the seventh generation of the Blue Bird is very fashionable, which is very suitable for the aesthetics of young people, and the seventh generation of the Blue Bird still uses front-wheel drive, which is ahead of the fifth generation of Carraro in terms of technology, so it is very popular in the American market. Influenced by the seven generations of Bluebird, Tian Feng also invested a large amount of money in the research and development of the front-wheel drive chassis.

In the 80s, Japanese cars were busy occupying the market all over the world, and this process was like sailing against the current, and at this juncture, if Carraro was exposed to quality defects, it would be directly killed by the seven generations of Blue Birds.

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Kato Masayuki held the article in his hand, he really wanted to tear this article apart, and then swallow the gold in his stomach, and come to a hundred.

But Masayuki Kato also knew that since Li Weidong could write one such article, he could write a second one.

Kato Masayuki quickly calmed down, and his reason gradually returned to his brain.

"This Li Sang, showing me this article, is nothing more than to seek money, otherwise he will spend one or two thousand dollars as a hush money for him. I still have the authority to transfer one or two thousand dollars. ”

Thinking of this, Kato Masayuki opened his mouth and said, "Li Sang, can you sell me this article, and then act as if nothing happened." In this regard, we can pay you 1,000 US dollars as a manuscript fee, which is definitely much more than the manuscript fee you voted for European and American automobile magazines!"

According to the official exchange rate in 1985, 1 US dollar could be exchanged for 2.937 yuan, and 1,000 US dollars was equivalent to 2,937 yuan.

If it is exchanged on the black market, 1 US dollar can be exchanged for 10 yuan, and if 1,000 US dollars are in hand, it will become 10,000 yuan in seconds!

In Kato's view, $1,000 is enough, and ordinary Chinese have never seen so much money in their lives.

However, Li Weidong smiled and shook his head: "Mr. Kato, I spent a lot of time and energy studying the problem of the accelerator pedal. The $1,000 manuscript fee is indeed more than that given by a car magazine, but if I submit my article to an automobile magazine, I can gain some fame. ”

"Well, our Tianfeng Automobile is willing to pay 2,000 US dollars to buy this article. "Masayuki Kato directly doubled the price.

Li Weidong still shook his head: "2,000 US dollars is indeed a huge amount of money for Chinese, many ordinary people can't earn so much money in their lifetime, but in China, people who are proficient in Japanese are also very rare, and those who are proficient in automotive technical terms are even rarer." If you were in your country, would a person who knows a foreign language and is proficient in automotive expertise receive the salary of an ordinary person?"

Masayuki Kato did not argue that although RB companies adopt a lifetime employment system, and salaries are directly linked to the length of service, the salaries of employees with special skills are indeed higher.

"This greedy guy!" Kato Masayuki cursed in his heart, and then asked, "Li San, how much do you want?"

Li Weidong stretched out ten fingers: "I want 100,000 US dollars!"