Lee Iacocca rubbed his temples a little tiredly.

It has been almost two months since he became the CEO of Chrysler Motors, which is enough time for him to have a full understanding of Chrysler's situation, and he originally thought that he had been mentally prepared enough for Chrysler's difficult situation, but after these two months, Lee Iacocca realized that he had far underestimated the difficulties he faced.

To survive this, Chryslerians would have to shed just as much blood. If someone just waits for others to pay for him, and he does nothing, he will have nothing", the slogan has been shouted, his annual salary has been clearly reduced from $360,000 to a symbolic $1, morale has gradually begun to recover, and the rectification and reform of production, marketing, credit, finance, planning and personnel departments have also begun, but Lee Iacocca understands that as a company, Chrysler Motors still lacks a pillar: several, or at least one product that can sell.

Chrysler is an automobile company after all, although it has brought some changes and morale to the company, but if there is no explosive product, continue to maintain the current half-dead production situation, for Chrysler, the current change is only a flash in the pan, but how can a product that can be explosive so easy!

Unconsciously, the shadow of the full-size SUV called "The Beast" appeared in his mind.

Thinking of the "beast", Lee Iacocca couldn't help but sigh in his heart: It's a pity that Chrysler really can't come up with such a sum of money now......

"Boss," the voice of the secretary, Miss Anne, rang out over the intercom, "There's a lady named Rosemary, who claims to be the general manager of Fernandez Corporation, and she wants to talk to you......"

Before Miss Anne could finish speaking, Lee Iacocca suddenly became excited: "Are you sure it's Miss Rosemary of Fernandes?"

"Uh......"

I didn't expect the boss to be so excited, and I couldn't understand why the boss was so excited, Miss Anne was stunned for a moment, and then stumbled and said, "That's what the other party said......"

"Get me in. Lee Iacocca said irrefutably.

Although I don't know if this Fernandez company is the Fernandez company I thought, if it was just a coincidence, it would be too much.

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Rosemary politely said, "Hello Mr. Iacoca, I'm Rosemary ...... Fernandez."

As soon as the phone was connected, listening to the voice on the phone that impressed him, Lee Iacocca breathed a sigh of relief: it was sure that it was the Fernandez company in his impression, and it was the Rosemary in his impression, yes.

"Hello Miss Rosemary, I know you and I am impressed with you and your company's products. Lee Iacocca said with a smile.

"Thank you," politely thanked him, and instead of going around in circles, Rosemary asked Lee Iacocca directly, "Mr. Iacoca, my boss has a proposal for cooperation, I wonder if you are interested?"

"Are you going to sell the 'Beast' to Chrysler cheaply? ”

"Mr. Fernández has decided to sell the 'Beast' to Ford. ”

"Oh, that's a shame. ”

Many people may only know that Lee Iacocca has worked for Ford Motor for 32 years, and knows that Lee Iacocca single-handedly pulled Chrysler Motors out of the quagmire, and made Chrysler Motors truly "one of the three major automobile giants in the United States", but Lee Iacocca has another identity, I am afraid not many people know: the father of the Mustang.

That's right, it's the Mustang you think in your heart, and the "bumblebee" Chevrolet Marlow, the Dodge Challenger and the Ford Mustang that is a typical representative of the American muscle car, since it is the "father of the Mustang," Lee Iacocca naturally understands technology and design, and as the sales manager who pioneered the "car installment", Lee Iacocca also knows whether a product is popular with the market, and there is no doubt that Fernandez's "Beast" is a "hot" model that is very likely to detonate the market.

It's a pity that the current Chrysler cars have no money, and he is also very sure that if the bastard Henry Ford knows that he is interested in the "beast", even if it costs $20 million or $30 million, that bastard will definitely take the "beast" away from him.

But then, Lee Iacocca became more and more curious: why did Rosemary call him.

"It's a pity," Rosemary nodded, and then changed the subject, explaining the reason for her pleated phone call: "But if Fernandez can come up with a product that is not inferior to the 'beast', I wonder if Chrysler is interested?"

Lee Iacocca stood up at once, almost crushing the telephone receiver: "Miss Rosemary, are you sure you're not joking?"

Rosemary chuckled: "Mr. Iacoca, even if the current Chrysler cars are very down, but I am not qualified to offend, don't you say?"

"You're right," Lee Iacocca asked, breathing through the excitement in his heart, "so ...... This is Mr. Fernández's design?"

"Of course. ”

Confirming this, Lee Iacocca endured the excitement and impatience in his heart, and asked pretending to be reserved: "If the renderings can satisfy me...... Of course, why not cooperate?"

It's just a matter of fooling others, but it's obviously not enough to fool a former executive of a bank, Rosemary is not a rookie who doesn't know anything, she chuckled: "Mr. Fernandez doesn't just want to sell this design to Chrysler, he has a whole cooperation plan, if Chrysler is sincere enough about the cooperation, this design can be given to Chrysler...... Why don't we make an appointment and talk about it?"

"Interview?" Lee Iacocca seemed hesitant, "But I've been busy lately......"

Lee Iacocca underestimated this woman, and Rosemary was not used to his faults, so she secretly cursed in her heart, "hypocrisy!" and said regretfully: "That's a pity, since you don't have time, then I'll talk to AMC." ”

AMC, American Motors Corporation.

When talking about the American auto industry, we usually say that General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are the three major automobile giants in the United States, but in fact, before the 90s, there were actually "four giants" in the American automobile manufacturing industry: in addition to General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, there is also an automobile giant that is this AMC company, an automobile manufacturing company named after the United States.

Maybe you haven't heard of AMC, but you must have heard of JEEP, which is the JEEP you think, the JEEP Wrangler that is often driven off-road and climbs big rocks, and JEEP is now the brand of AMC; you must have heard of the US military's HMMV military vehicle, which is what we often call the "US military Humvee Jeep", and the AM General company, which produces HMMV military vehicles for the US military, is a subsidiary of AMC.

This is a very, very good X company in off-road, but AMC is also having a hard time now, in the past 1978, due to a defect in the emission control system, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered AMC to recall all of its 1976 models, including 270,000 cars, directly lost a quarter's revenue, plus other brands except the JEEP brand are losing money, just in this past 1978, AMC lost 65 million US dollars,

In other words, the current AMC days are similar to Chrysler, although they are better, but the good ones are also extremely limited, don't talk about the second brother.

Knowing that Rosemary was using AMC to scare herself, Lee Iacoca's face changed: Fernandez must not be pushed to AMC!

After a moment of silence, Lee Iacocca finally said, "Tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon, I have an hour. ”

"Okay, that's it, we'll see you tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon. ”

After hanging up the phone, Rosemary let out a sigh of relief and waved her fist excitedly: "Hooked! As long as the fish is hooked, her chances of success are more than forty percent."

After cheering herself up and rewarding herself with a piece of chocolate, Rosemary picked up the phone again, and after a moment, she said apologetically, "Mr. Yamada, there's something I need to communicate with you...... No, no, no, it's not a problem with the contract, there is nothing wrong with the contract, we are very satisfied, yes, my boss Mr. Fernández is now in Huaxia and can't leave for the time being......"

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Not to mention how Rosemary communicated with Honda Technology, but in China, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Harbin Institute of Technology received a phone call from Professor Song Jingying, and at first they couldn't believe that such a pie-in-the-sky good thing would fall on their heads, but when Professor Song Jingying explained the situation, the leaders of the two colleges and universities could no longer be calm: Now there is no place in the whole country where there is no shortage of money, and there is such an opportunity to make money, and if they do not seize it, they will be punished by heaven! The two colleges and universities immediately said that they would immediately arrange for someone to go to the capital to meet with Mr. Chen Geng.

On the other hand, when Ding Haijun reported Chen Geng's intention to let the vice president of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. come to Huaxia to sign a contract with him, the high-level leaders couldn't sit still, and Ding Haijun quickly came to the Friendship Hotel where Chen Geng stayed with the instructions of the high-level: Please Mr. Chen Geng must ask Jiumi Shizhi to come to Huaxia to sign a contract with you as much as possible......

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