Chapter 95: The Giants Are Happy to See It Come to Fruition (Part 3)
Before this, Anderson specially invited the people from Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and the Honda CBX1000 out, so at the moment, the Italians don't know the relationship between the V12 engine of Fernandez and Honda Motor Co., Ltd., and they look stupid when they look at the engine in front of them.
Although they wondered how Fernandez could have the ability to develop such an incomparably complex engine, the engine was in front of their own eyes, and with their understanding of the V12 engine, even if there was no V12 engine in the world with this displacement and looked like this, it would mean that this V12 engine was undoubtedly developed and produced by Fernandez itself.
But the Italians are not reconciled, which means that the face can't be beaten? Boss Ferruccio Lamborghini's face is cloudy as if it is about to rain heavily: "Is the V12 the same as the V12? Who knows how well your engine performs?"
Americans have never known what a reserve is, and Anderson is even more so, hearing that the Italians dare to underestimate their pride, he immediately stopped doing it, and sneered: "Our engine is nothing remarkable, the maximum safe speed is 9500 rpm, and we can achieve a maximum output of 267 horsepower in the naturally aspirated state, and we also have a turbocharged version, the maximum power of this version is more than 320 horsepower, but I don't know how this performance compares with your Lamborghini?"
Whether it is the maximum speed or liter power, or power per unit weight, the V12 engine of Fernandez Company has comprehensively crushed the 3.5-liter V12 and 4.0-liter V12 of Lamborghini.
Ferruccio Lamborghini's face was gloomy and he decided to go back the way he came: from the gearbox.
Looking at the stalker Ferruccio Lamborghini, Chen Geng now has no good impression of this guy at all, his ability is certainly good, but this guy is simply a "humanoid self-propelled Italian defect collector", the bad habits unique to Italians are all taken up by him, no wonder Lamborghini sports cars are so well-known, but no one is willing to lend him money, and finally has to go bankrupt, it is all Ferruccio Lamborghini's own death.
Since you are dead, then there is nothing to say, Chen Geng has never been accustomed to the stinky problems of such people: "Coincidentally, our other racing car has been almost debugged, and the gearbox is the gearbox of our own design, so ...... Mr. Lamborghini?"
The corners of Ferruccio Lamborghini's mouth twitched twice, as if he had been slapped hard......
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The cooperation contract with Lamborghini can not be drawn up in a day or two, this matter is not in a hurry, and there is no urgency, for Chen Geng, the top priority is to tell everyone the results and decisions of his trip around the world.
"So, boss, you mean we're going to make cars?" Rosemary was a little excited.
"That's right, but I don't know much about the relevant laws and regulations of the United States on the registration of motor vehicle manufacturers," Chen Geng nodded, turned his head to Rosemary and asked: "I have a few questions I want to ask: If we want to register a company that produces cars and motorcycles, will it be troublesome? How long will it take? In addition, will it be suppressed by the three major auto giants?"
Rosemary thought for a moment and replied: "It's not a hassle to register a car production company, it can be done in a few days, as for suppression...... BOSS, IMHO, in fact, for the three major auto giants, they are very much hoping for more small and micro car manufacturers. ”
"Oh?" Chen Geng raised his eyebrows: "How do you say that?"
Rosemary explained: "Because there have been public organizations and media accusing Ford, General Motors and Chrysler of the three major auto giants that have formed a de facto monopoly on the U.S. auto market, and they even doubt whether the three auto giants have secretly reached an offensive and defensive alliance in terms of certain interests, so for the three auto giants, there are some small and micro car manufacturers with an annual production capacity of several hundred, one or two thousand units in the U.S. market, and they are happy to see it, which is very helpful for them to break these voices...... Almost all of the small and micro automobile manufacturers in the U.S. market have received support and help from the three major automobile giants, of course, only limited to small and micro automobile manufacturers with an annual output of a few hundred units, at most one or two thousand. ”
I see!
As soon as Rosemary said this, Chen Geng understood, this is the same reason as when Microsoft obviously wanted to strangle Apple, but it just left Apple's dog life, in order to have a reason to refute when others say that they monopolize.
As for Rosemary thinking that she was just planning to be a small or even micro car manufacturer, Chen Geng was not ready to explain to her for the time being.
"As for motorcycles," made sure Chen Geng understood what he meant, Rosemary continued: "The motorcycle market in the United States is so big, but almost all of them are occupied by Dongying's motorcycles, only Harley, a half-dead American motorcycle company, if you can launch a good product in the motorcycle market, not to mention the three major automobile giants, even the US government will support you." ”
After explaining to Chen Geng, Rosemary couldn't help but ask, "Boss, what do you mean, we are going to produce cars?"
Chen Geng bowed slightly: "To be precise, the production of cars is a long-term plan, and in the short term, I am ready to purchase a complete commercial vehicle chassis for modified car sales." ”
The so-called complete chassis is not the steel welded girder in our usual sense, but all the core components of a car, including the girder, engine, gearbox, suspension system, transmission system, steering mechanism and braking system, etc., all that is missing is a car shell and seats, instruments and other systems, and some commercial vehicle chassis even give you good tires.
Automobile companies in the United States and even Europe have a tradition of selling their own commercial vehicle chassis, RV production and modification companies will purchase commercial vehicle chassis of buses, modified RVs and other special vehicles for various purposes, fire trucks and other special vehicle manufacturers will purchase truck chassis modified special fire trucks.
In the United States, the regulation of modified cars is relatively relaxed, as long as the car has a frame number and engine number on file with the government, it is a vehicle that can be legally registered, on the road and insured. If Chen Geng plans to purchase some commercial vehicle chassis and install their own tops to sell, it is very in line with the practice of the modified car industry, but several people at the meeting are a little worried, as the person in charge of the "devil's claw", Anderson was the first to express his doubts: "Boss, I don't doubt your decision, I just want to know, which chassis do you plan to use?"
"That's a good question," Chen Geng nodded and said, "My initial idea is to customize a batch of F-class pickup trucks with leaf spring rear suspension replaced with multi-link from Ford, and based on this chassis, we will produce a full-size SUV." ”
Building a full-size SUV based on the chassis of an F-segment pickup?
The idea worked, and Ford itself built the Bronco SUV (the predecessor of the Ford Explorer) based on the chassis of the F-segment pickup truck, and GMC also built two SUVs based on its own pickup truck chassis: the Chevrolet Saabban and the GMC Yukon, Chen Geng's idea is feasible, after having a complete chassis, all Fernandez needs to do is to develop a good-looking exterior and interior, because it is a directly purchased Ford chassis system, the quality of this car can also be guaranteed, but the question is, can Boss design a look and interior that is attractive enough for consumers?
In the face of everyone's doubts, Chen Geng turned the easel around: "This is the exterior and interior drawings of the full-size SUV codenamed 'Beast' that I designed, how about you take a look?"
What do you think?
Domineering, just at the first glance, everyone was attracted by the domineering appearance of this full-size SUV designed by Chen Geng, compared with these full-size SUVs at the moment, the full-size SUV called the beast designed by Mr. Fernandez not only has a larger and thicker body, but also gives people a stronger sense of momentum and oppression - can it not be domineering, can there be no sense of oppression, this is simply the favorite of the US government and the CIA and other departments, At the same time, it is also a representative of the American full-size SUV: the eighth-generation (1992-1999) Chevrolet Saab class.
Can be valued by the U.S. government and intelligence agencies, of course, there is no doubt about the aura and deterrence of this car.
Americans just love these big, powerful SUVs, and the first time she saw this rendering, Rosemary liked it: "Beautiful! If this car can be produced, I want to buy one." ”
Bob said from the perspective of production: "The center console, seats, these can be customized from the manufacturer, we need to start a small sheet metal stamping line, assembly line and spraying line can be done, the specific investment I don't know, but it will definitely not exceed 3 million US dollars." ”
Anderson immediately picked up: "I heard from a friend that GM has a production line in Mexico that needs to be eliminated. ”
"Really?" Chen Geng hurriedly asked.
"Really," Anderson nodded, "that friend of mine works as an engineer at GM's plant in Mexico, and he told me that this production line is too old, and General Motors is going to tear it down and sell it for scrap." ”
Chen Geng is overjoyed!
For a world-class auto giant like General Motors, which produces more than 2 million vehicles a year, of course, they have to pay attention to efficiency, but for a small and micro car maker like Fernandez, which only produces a few hundred units a year, they don't really care about production efficiency, as long as the production line is still functional.
He immediately said, "Anderson, you can contact your friend and ask him how much money it will cost if we purchase some stamping equipment, assembly equipment and spraying equipment? Well, according to the annual production capacity of 2,000 cars." ”
With stamping equipment, as long as you customize a set of stamping dies for body sheet metal parts, you can live immediately.
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PS: The third update arrives.
I originally wanted to protect three and fight for four, but I didn't expect to be able to protect three, I'm sorry everyone, the millennium is really not an outbreak of material, please allow the millennium to be slightly corrected for two days, 2 more per day in these two days, and then we will pay off the debt.