After talking about the welfare policy, Zhou Jingming began to arrange the group tasks for the second half of the year.

"In the second half of this year, the most important task of the group is still in the development of the market, the production and sales of Yanhuang car is still the top priority, we must not be careless, our goal is to make Yanhuang car become the largest sales luxury car in the world within five years, so the task is still very heavy. ”

In addition to the Yanhuang car, Zhou Jingming then successively arranged the work tasks related to the South American market and the island market, both of which were just started to be involved in by Tianming Group this year, and needed to invest the most energy, Zhou Jingming focused on it.

"The above-mentioned work, mainly to consolidate the achievements that have been made, since the development task of the Yanhuang car has basically ended, the next stage of the development task will be put on the agenda, last year I proposed the supercar plan, will be put on the agenda, a while the relevant person in charge of this project to stay, we will talk about this matter in detail. ”

Since you want to engage in supercar, then prepare early, the current supercar plan project team has been formed, from the subsidiaries to extract the best group of designers of the current Tianming Group, formed a supercar design project team, by Zhou Jingming personally in charge, the current major assembly of the preliminary plan has been released.

After Zhou Jingming finished speaking, Zhao Ke and others also spoke one after another, and then the meeting officially ended, and after the rest of the people finished one by one, only Zhou Jingming and Wang Yuanchao and others were left in the room.

"Third brother, how is the research on the engine?" Zhou Jingming looked at Wang Yuanchao and asked.

"We have basically understood BMW's V12 engine technology, and we are currently trying to develop our own high-performance engine, 12-cylinder and 16-cylinder development at the same time, and the form of the engine is mainly W, not a V-shaped engine like BMW. Wang Yuanchao replied.

"What form did you decide to use for the engine on the supercar?" Zhou Jingming continued.

"After discussion, the expert group of the Engine Research Institute unanimously decided to use the rotary engine as the standard power configuration of this supercar, which is also an opportunity to promote our latest rotary engine technology. Wang Yuanchao paused, and then continued, "Of course, if Jingming thinks that the rotary engine is not suitable, we still have a backup plan. ”

Zhou Jingming is the general arrangement of this supercar plan, and naturally has the final vote.

"It's up to you to decide what to do with the engine, as long as you can make sure the performance of the supercar is stable. Zhou Jingming smiled, and did not veto the engine plan proposed by Wang Yuanchao, he is not Dou Jingtong, if he commands blindly, it will be counterproductive.

"Since the engine has decided to use a rotary engine, then the corresponding gearbox, your powertrain company also needs to give a plan. ”

"We're already working on the gearbox plan, and the results will come out soon, and I'll report back to you when the time comes. Wang Yuanchao responded.

After the engine plan was decided, Zhou Jingming discussed the technical solutions of the rest of the assembly with Xun Youliang and others, but these plans are still in repeated comparisons and have not formed the final technical plan.

"Brother-in-law, we must have a clear goal for which supercar to design this supercar. Xun Youliang asked.

In the past, when developing ordinary models such as Kirin sedans, although Zhou Jingming did not limit the reference models, when the designers designed, they must have corresponding reference goals in mind.

The supercar that is about to be developed, the designers of Tianming Group have not participated, and they do not give a reference model, and the design is imaginative, and it is estimated that it will take a lot of detours.

"There is no need for any reference models, just let the designer design according to his own design concept, there are so many supercars in the world, which two brands of supercars have you seen look similar?" Zhou Jingming shook his head, saying that it doesn't have to be like this.

Supercars such as Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bugatti, each with its own unique design style, is precisely because of the unique style of these supercars, which makes each car a jewel in the automotive world.

"But if the design plan can't be approved, won't it delay the progress of the whole project?" Zhao Ke asked worriedly.

"I know this in my heart, but I can't do it when the time comes, so I'll make another arrangement. Zhou Jingming replied with a smile.

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The time soon came to July 2nd, which was an ordinary day, but with the spread of a piece of news that attracted the attention of the whole world: the Thai government announced that the Thai baht would abandon the exchange rate policy of pegging to the US dollar and implement free floating, and on the day of the announcement of this policy, the Thai baht depreciated by 15%, and the financial crisis that swept Asia officially broke out!

At this time, Toyota's president's office is as silent as death, from the first half of Toyota's sales data released to the outside world, thanks to the rapid expansion of the Southeast Asian market, Toyota's sales in the first half of the year increased by more than 10% year-on-year, among all car manufacturers, Toyota's data is the best one, and the total sales of automobiles also surpassed General Motors in one fell swoop, temporarily ranking first in the world.

Originally, it was a good day to celebrate, but at this time, Toyoda Hideyoshi couldn't be happy, and he was holding a copy of the "Asahi Shimbun" that had just come out today, and the headline was the news of the depreciation of the Thai baht.

The depreciation of the Thai baht, Toyota bore the brunt, especially in the first half of the brutal expansion, so that Toyota in Southeast Asia, especially Thailand, invested a lot of money, the depreciation of the baht, the whole Southeast Asian people panicked, Toyota suffered countless losses.

In fact, Kenei Kubo, who went to Southeast Asia to investigate, brought the information back as early as three days ago, but it was too late by then, and Toyota wanted to evacuate again, but it was too late.

Hideyoshi Toyoda, who has personally experienced the economic bubble era of the island country, can understand the damage to a country's industry caused by such a crisis, and it is fortunate that the company can not fail in the crisis, and the depreciation of the Thai baht is just the beginning, and then the whole of Southeast Asia and even the whole of Asia will be affected.

"How's the arrangement going in Southeast Asia?" said Hideyoshi Toyoda in a low voice to Kubo Kenei after a long time.

"It is already in the process of evacuation, but most of the funds cannot be remitted to the country, Thailand and several other countries have begun to implement foreign exchange controls, and next, the Thai baht is estimated to have to further depreciate ......"

In the end, Kubo couldn't even bear to continue.

"We can recover as much as we can, anyway, it's not our Toyota company that suffers. At this time, Hideyoshi Toyoda could only comfort himself in this way.

It is true that Toyota Motor is not the only company, but their biggest competitor, Tianming Group, withdrew from Southeast Asia just before the crisis broke out, is this too coincidental?

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