After listening to all of Jack Welch's thoughts, Chen Geng nodded: "So, you are going to let Jeep produce Hummer and fight with Dodge in the ring on pickups?"

"Yes," Jack Welch nodded, and said confidently, "I believe that with Hummer's excellent styling design, he will be able to suppress the Dodge D series pickups." ”

Speaking of which, the Dodge family's famous RAM (Ram) series pickup truck has not yet come out, do you ask whether the Dodge family has a pickup truck model? The answer is of course, but the Dodge family's current pickup truck is not named after "Ram (Ram)", but learned from Ford, with the letter "D" as the exclusive naming series of Dodge's pickup truck models, and the famous "Ram" will not appear until next year.

"That's not enough. Chen Geng shook his head.

Of course, Jack Welch knew that a pickup truck and SUV was not enough, but what could he do?

“......”

Looking at Jack Welch, who was looking at him, Chen Geng couldn't help but smile bitterly, stretched out his hand and nodded Jack Welch twice: "Good guy, Jack, it turns out that you are waiting for me here." ”

Seeing that Chen Geng saw through his thoughts, Jack Welch also laughed.

Yes, this is Jack Welch's purpose: to take the opportunity of mass production of civilian Hummers to urge the boss to quickly design two more models for AMC and Jeep.

Habitually tapping lightly on the table, after a while, Chen Geng raised his head: "How many cars do you design?" This is no problem, but, Jack, if you only plan to use the car I designed to beat Chrysler, it will disappoint me too much, I want more than just defeat Chrysler through a long market competition......"

Jack Welch understands what his boss means very well: since Chrysler and Lee Iacocca have cheated Lao Tzu hard before this, then you must also pit me back as soon as possible, if you expect me to design you a few excellent products, and defeat Chrysler and Lee Iacocca in this way......

I would be very dissatisfied!

Of course, Jack Welch knew why his boss was not satisfied, and he himself was holding back the fire in his belly, facing Chen Geng, who was full of fire, Jack Welch pursed his lips: "Boss, how to do it, I can't tell you now, but I promise you, one month! One month at the latest! You will definitely be able to hear the good news!"

"Good!"

Since Jack Welch said so, Chen Geng no longer hesitated, it was only a month, and he couldn't afford to wait, and it was impossible for Jack Welch to talk to himself about this kind of thing. He nodded happily and said, "Then we'll see you next week at the design institute." ”

........................

Frankly speaking, although Jack Welch admires his boss's design skills, in just four days, the boss can actually come up with a few new models?

Jack Welch was very skeptical.

As the former vice chairman of General Electric, Jack Welch is not ignorant of research and development, and in his opinion, if Chen Geng can really do this, this is no longer a question of genius or not, this is simply a demon! Maybe it really only makes sense like the legendary nickname of the boss If he does it, he is really an Oriental wizard who understands the mysterious Oriental witchcraft.

But when Jack Welch saw the two 1:8 clay models on the table in front of him at the AMC Design Institute, he suddenly had an urge to kneel: Is the follow-up boss really a mysterious wizard from the East?

No wonder Jack Welch was so excited, it was really Chen Geng who took out the design of the two cars far beyond his imagination:

The first car was a four-door sedan. Compared with the traditional four-door sedan, this car is elegant and modern, solemn and avant-garde, with the style of American cars in the fifties, but also gives people a sense of science fiction, and at the same time, it also clearly conveys the atmosphere and luxury feeling of American cars. Jack Welch himself wondered how a car could convey so many feelings;

As for the second car, at first glance it is a muscle sports car, Pony Car, and the bulging lines on the body are almost like the bodybuilding superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger, full of power and muscle.

Compared with this muscle sports car, the second-generation Challenger just launched by Chrysler's Dodge brand is almost like a chicken, and as for the representatives of American muscle cars: Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro, at least in terms of exterior styling and lines, there is no comparison with the clay model in front of you......

No wonder Jack Welch feels this way!

Chen Geng's first four-door sedan is Chrysler's 10th generation 300C, we don't say how many design awards this car has won in the world, just say two points to understand: in 04 years when the country just made this car, all the people who don't know about this car when they see this car The first feeling is: "! This car has to be at least **100,000, right?"; The second point is that in 2010, after BAIC DaimlerChrysler discontinued the production of this 300C, some brainy wedding companies modified the parking space and front of this car and converted it into Rolls-Royce, and there was no sense of disobedience......

As for this two-door American muscle sports car, well, it is even more simple and crude, Chen Geng directly brought the third-generation Challenger launched by Chrysler in 2008 to take revenge on Chrysler.

Compared to this car, the current (second-generation) Challenger launched in 1978 is simply an insult to the American muscle sports car, because the second-generation Challenger is actually the waistcoat of Toei Mitsubishi Motors' Galant Lambda, the Galant The lambda was a Mitsubishi coupe, which was sold under different labels around the world at the time, and Chrysler thought it was good, so he took it directly, and even the engine was Mitsubishi's: a 1.6L and 2.6L Mitsubishi engines with two inline four-cylinders, respectively, and the engines were assembled at Mitsubishi's Aichi factory.

One can imagine the reaction of the current Challenger after it was introduced to the market: the Americans did not recognize this Dongying car with the Chrysler logo at all, nor did they recognize him as a "Challenger".

"How's the styling?" asked Chen Geng to Jack Welch.

"Beautiful! It's so beautiful," Jack Welch couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth: "As long as this car is mass-produced, I must buy one...... No, I'm going to have to find a way to get this car mass-produced! No, our engines are ...... fuel."

Without waiting for Jack Welch to finish speaking, Chen Geng smiled mysteriously, turned his head to Stephen next to him and asked: "Stephen, after installing the VVT system, with the EFI fuel supply system I debugged, what is the fuel consumption of the Javelin that you tested using a 401 cubic inch engine?"

As one of the four major automakers in the United States, AMC is of course indispensable to the watchful treasure of American cars: the V8 engine, AMC's V8 engine ranges from 5.0 liters (304 cubic inches) to 6.6 liters (401 cubic inches) in the "entry level".

Stephen, who was standing next to Chen Geng, immediately said: "The combined working condition is about 5.5 gallons of gasoline per 60 miles. ”

60 miles is 96 kilometers, which is converted to consume more than 25 liters of gasoline per 96 kilometers, which is roughly equivalent to 26 liters of fuel consumption per 100 kilometers, which is certainly not low, but when he heard this fuel consumption, Jack Welch's eyes widened all of a sudden, and he said in surprise: "How much?!"

In this era when all V8 engines with a displacement of more than 6 liters have a fuel consumption of no less than 35 liters per 100 kilometers, the fuel consumption of their own 6.6-liter engines per 100 kilometers is actually only 26 liters?

Jack Welch was frightened.

"60 miles and 5.5 gallons," Stephen excitedly said, "Mr. Welch, I know this is a little hard for you, but it's true." ”

“......”

Jack Welch's mouth was unconsciously open, not knowing what to say, and as the chairman and CEO of AMC Motors, he certainly knew what it would mean if AMC's cars could provide more than a quarter of fuel consumption lower than their peers, but ...... Is this true?

At this time, Chen Geng picked up the words: "In fact, Stephen, they haven't tuned the match between this VVT system and the engine, and the match between the engine and the EFI fuel supply system, if both are properly tuned, Javelin's fuel consumption can be reduced to 4.8 to 5 gallons per 60 miles." ”

That is, the fuel consumption per 100 kilometers can fluctuate around 20 liters.

Don't think this fuel consumption is high, the same era 212 Jeep is equipped with a 2.5-liter in-line four-cylinder gasoline engine, 100 kilometers of fuel consumption is not less than 25 liters, burning oil is the same as drinking water, for a 6.6-liter displacement of the eight-cylinder engine, for the American V8 that has not begun to desperately study how to save fuel, this fuel consumption can definitely be called against the sky, and compared with Ford and GM Some models equipped with the same displacement engine have a relatively large weight, this fuel consumption is even only half of them!

Jack Welch didn't know the fuel consumption of the 212 Jeep, but he knew the approximate fuel consumption of the American large-displacement V8 engine, so he waved his hand unconsciously, and for a long time, a word finally came out of his mouth: "Really...... Unbelievable!"

"This is really unbelievable! In fact, when this fuel consumption was just tested, our test team was also unbelievable," Stephen nodded excitedly: "But after many repeated tests, we are finally convinced that this fuel consumption situation is real, after being equipped with the VVT technology authorized by the boss and the electric injection fuel supply system debugged by the boss himself, this engine is so fuel-efficient!"

Jack Welch was excited: Doesn't that mean that no American car brand in the market can compete with AMC in terms of fuel consumption?