Chapter 221: Transatlantic Cooperation

Giugiaro is not moved because of anything else, but because since the second half of last year, because of the impact of the oil crisis, the revenue of Giugiaro Design Studio is not very good, but as the owner of Giugiaro Design Studio, the company's revenue is not good, of course he is more anxious than anyone else, and now the "stupid people with more money" Dongying people took the initiative to send it to the door, and Giugiaro is of course happy.

Happy to happy, Giugiaro still cautiously asked Koshishi Kume: "Mr. Kume, with all due respect, why didn't Honda go to Mr. Fernández to cooperate? Mr. Fernández's ability and level have been recognized by automobile designers all over the world. ”

Kume Shishi definitely couldn't say, "Actually, we have looked for Chen Geng, but we think that Chen Geng's asking price is too outrageous, and the 5% net profit share is simply a robbery, so we ignore him", but took this opportunity to compliment Giugiaro: "To tell you the truth, we have carefully considered whether to cooperate with Mr. Fernández, just like you said, Mr. Fernández has already used" The Chrysler Family's proved to be a good performer, but we were also a little worried that there were too many Chrysler Family shadows on this car. ”

In other words, compared to Chen Geng's kid, our Honda Motor Co., Ltd. thinks that you are more powerful Mr. Giugiaro.

But Giorgia Rodo, a shrewd person, with Kume Isshi's words, he immediately made a basic inference about the whole thing: Honda Giken went to Fernandez nine times out of ten, but I don't know why the two sides didn't get along, and Honda found himself again.

Sure enough, people are old and sophisticated, and just by virtue of Kume Isshi's words, Giugiaro deduced this matter from eight or nine.

However, the rest of the Giugiaro design studio who participated in this meeting with Giugiaro didn't think so much, and they looked at each other happily: this business is stable!

Recognized as one of the world's top three automotive design studios, working at Giugiaro Design means that they are the best in the world. Of course, the top group of car designers have enough pride and self-confidence: Mr. Fernández is of course a very, very good and powerful car design office, but as long as Mr. Giugiaro personally goes out on the road, I dare not say that he will be able to make a car that can surpass the Chrysler family, but it must be no problem to make a product that can be comparable to the Chrysler family.

In the next year or two, there will be good times.

After confirming that Honda Motor and Fernandez had been in contact, Giugiaro had a bottom in his heart, but for the sake of safety, Giugiaro picked up the sticky note in front of him and quickly wrote something on it and handed it to the assistant on the side, the assistant glanced at the content of the sticky note, nodded, and walked out of the conference room quickly.

What's the situation?

Looking at Giugiaro's assistant who walked out of the conference room quickly, Kume was a little curious, it can be seen that Giugiaro didn't take the initiative to explain, and he didn't want to ask.

Giugiaro frowned and pondered for a moment, then looked at Kume Shishi and said slowly: "Kume Shishi, Mr. ......"

Seeing Giugiaro's expression, Kume Shishi's heart trembled, and he hurriedly said, "Please speak." ”

Giugiaro said: "Needless to say, you know how difficult it is to design and develop such a car, and the development and design costs are probably more than you think, Giugiaro said. ”

This is the official entry into the negotiation link, Kume Shizhi nodded hurriedly, and said solemnly: "Please rest assured, we have the mental preparation." ”

"That's good," Giugiaro nodded, "I can't give you an accurate estimate right now, but based on our previous experience in developing a model, if we want to make a car that meets Honda's requirements, a conservative estimate will not cost less than $40 million in design." ”

"What?" Hearing this offer, Kume is Shigoo swallowed: "This ...... So much?"

$40 million, how can you need so much?

"It's at least $40 million," Giugiaro earnestly corrected Kume's misconceptions, don't think that $40 million can really be won: "I think it's roughly between $40 million and $60 million, and you have to be mentally prepared to spend an additional $10 million to $20 million in research and development." ”

In this case, the entire R&D expenditure could reach 80 million US dollars?!

Giugiaro's offer made Kume Shishi stunned, Giugiaro's offer exceeded the limit of Honda's imagination, and they didn't do their homework, knowing that the price of Giugiaro Automobile Design Studio, Broadcom Automobile Design Studio and Pininfarina Automobile Design Studio has always been very high, and they discussed it again and again, and finally even consulted the teacher Soichiro Honda, and finally gave a cap price of 20 million US dollars...... No matter how high it is, it will exceed the 5% score before Chen Geng.

In the eyes of the executives of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., $20 million is already the limit, but Giugiaro's offer directly poured cold water on Honda Motor Co., Ltd.: the offer is 2 to 4 times their cap price!

Compared with the "milestone" design fee commission method given by Chen Geng before, at this moment, Kume wanted to cry: I knew that Giugiaro's offer was so outrageous, it was better to directly agree to Chen Geng's offer, but Chen Geng used the Chrysler family to prove his ability to grasp this design language. But now......

After a long time, Kume Shishi finally said cautiously: "Mr. Giugiaro, this price ...... Too high, right?"

"Is it high?" Giugiaro shook his head firmly: "I don't think this offer is very high, if you think this offer is outrageous, you can find other companies to work with." ”

In a word, you either cooperate with us or go to someone else, but find someone else, can you rest assured?

It was when he said these words that Giugiaro felt a little empty in his heart: Fernandez......

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"Boss, you've been approached by a gentleman who claims to be Mr. Giugiaro's assistant. On the intercom, Aniston's voice was thick with incredibleness.

"Giugiaro?" Chen Geng immediately asked, "Which Giugiaro?"

"Yes, it is Mr. Garecio Giugiaro. Aniston was immediately impressed.

Although he was curious about why Garecio Giugiaro's assistant called him, and where he found his phone number, Chen Geng immediately nodded: "Take it in." ”

Whether the other party is Garecio Giugiaro's assistant or not, he asked in a few words.

But Chen Geng didn't use Chen Geng to confirm the identity of the other party, and the other party first indicated his identity in a few words......

"Hello Mr. Fernández, I am the assistant of Mr. Garecio Giugialo and you can call me Alessandro. ”

"Hello, Mr. Alessandro," Chen Geng responded, "May I ask what you are looking for me?"

"That's right, Mr. Nagame Yoshishi, vice president of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., came to our company and wanted to ask Mr. Giugiaro to help them design a model that can be comparable to the Chrysler family," After first expressing Giugiaro's greetings to Chen Geng, Alejandro quickly expressed his intention to make this call: "My boss wants to ask you, has Honda Motor Co., Ltd. looked for you before?"

Chen was simply fooled.

In addition to no longer doubting the identity of the other party, he also instinctively thought that the reason why Giugiaro asked his personal assistant to call him must be that the two sides had communicated almost completely, although he was a little annoyed that Honda was not authentic, but he and Honda had not negotiated before, and Honda turned his head to find Giugiaro Design Studio and had nothing to say. He nodded and said, "Yes, almost a week ago, Nagame Shishi, the vice president of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., met with me in Huaxia. ”

Yes!

And sure enough, it was!

Alejandro clenched his fists and waved excitedly, and hurriedly said, "If it's convenient, can you reveal the offer that Honda Motor gave you?"

Thinking that Kume is ambition to let go of himself, a person who has proven his strength, the price is still so low, and there is a history of cooperation in the past, he will not cooperate, but he will go to the three major Italian automobile design studios that have always been known for slaughtering people ruthlessly, Chen Geng's heart suddenly felt a little uncomfortable: You want to be slaughtered, right? Then let you take enough!

&nbily less. ”

Although Chen Geng didn't say the specific number, with the Chrysler family as a reference, Alejandro suddenly had a score in his heart, and said a few polite words, and on behalf of Giugiaro himself and Giugiaro Design Studio, he hung up the phone impatiently after inviting Chen Geng to come to Europe to come to Giugiaro Design Studio.

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When Alejandro pushed the door in, it was just in time for Giugiaro to say to Kume Isshi, "If you think this offer is outrageous, you can find another company to work with......"

Pushing the door in, Alessandro didn't speak, just silently placed the sticky note in front of his boss.

Glancing at the sticky notes in front of him, Giugiaro immediately folded the sticky notes and put them in his pocket carelessly, and then continued to say to Kume Yoshishi casually: "But I promise, no other design company can guarantee that at the same design cost, a design comparable to the Chrysler family can come up with." ”

Kume is a little suspicious in his heart, he doesn't know what is written on that sticky note, but his intuition tells him that there must be something extraordinary written on that inconspicuous note, but what makes him depressed is that he can't figure out the content of that sticky note.

After a moment's hesitation, Kume Shizhi used a procrastination trick: "Mr. Giugiaro, your offer exceeds the authorization given to me by the company, I must report this situation to the company, please understand." ”

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PS: Sorry brothers, I went out to do something in the morning, and now I will send you the first update of today.