As the largest automobile city in the United States and even in the world, Detroit in the seventies was definitely a microcosm of the development of the American automobile industry. General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, three traditional American automakers, are all headquartered in Detroit.

Although since the 80s, Detroit's automobile industry has been greatly affected by the impact of the economic downturn in the United States, coupled with the impact of European and Japanese car competition, but it still cannot change its core position in the American automobile industry.

However, this is how it got an auto city, because it was affected by the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, and officially declared bankruptcy in 2013, which can be regarded as embarrassing.

Audi's new franchise store this time is located in a car business circle in downtown Detroit, and near this Audi franchise store, there are several GM and Ford 4S stores, and the competition is not fierce.

At this time, at the entrance of this Audi franchise store, in addition to neatly placing many Audi brand models, on both sides of the store, there are also 20 Phoenix brand cars, fiery red body, coupled with a unique styling design, even if you don't want to attract the attention of others, it is difficult.

Because it was the first day of opening, there would be a lot of discounts when buying a car, so at this time, there were also many American consumers who came to buy a car.

"When did Audi launch this car, it feels so strange!" One of the Americans couldn't help but ask curiously when he saw the Phoenix sedan parked on both sides at a glance.

"Haven't you read the publicity a few days ago? This is obviously a car made in China, and I heard that it has a commercial cooperation with Audi, so it is placed here. ”

"I've heard that Chinese cars are very bad, and the same is Asian, and Japanese cars are definitely better than this car!"

"You are lonely and unheard of, don't look at the strange shape of this car, but his performance, absolutely top-notch, just started this year's WRC Rally Championship, this car has won two consecutive championships, currently in the team's standings, the team where this car is located, but firmly ranked third!"

"So good? The WRC has only held four tournaments so far, and he won two of them at once!"

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Listening to these people's discussions, Zhou Jingming, who was about to walk to the store with Brant, couldn't help but smile, it seemed that participating in this year's WRC rally was a correct decision.

Since participating in the first Spanish race in October last year, after more than half a year of development, the current scale of the Tianming team has gradually grown, except for the driver is still only Jonathan, the rest of the team's hardware facilities, including professional team members, have been established, and the degree of specialization is getting higher and higher.

At the beginning of this year, when the WRC Rally Championship started, Tianming Racing Team had already begun to sign up for the competition, and the results achieved were naturally very proud.

"It can be seen that the Phoenix car still has a certain reputation here. Brant on the side couldn't help but smile and said.

"Thanks to Mr. Brandt's vigorous publicity!" Zhou Jingming smiled, and then continued, "Is this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans Rally going to start next month?"

"The 24 Hours of Le Mans Rally?" Brant was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Zhou Jingming with some surprise, "What, Mr. Zhou, do you already want the Tianming team to participate in this race?"

Full of calculations, Tianming team has not been established for a year now, plus there is only one driver Jonathan, is it possible that Zhou Jingming wants Jonathan to participate in two races at the same time, although it is also a top event under the FIA, but in terms of competition intensity, WRC can not compare with the 24 hours of Le Mans rally at all,

Zhou Jingming wants to rely on Jonathan alone to shine in two top events at the same time, and the difficulty is not ordinary.

"Why, can't you give it a try?" Zhou Jingming smiled, "Besides, our company's new car will be officially released in June, isn't the 24 Hours of Le Mans the best stage to show?"

When Zhou Jingming said this, Brant was even more shocked, because he always felt that every time Zhou Jingming did something, it was as if he had planned it a long time ago, the 24 Hours of Le Mans Rally was held in June, and Zhou Jingming also happened to choose to release a new car in June, which should not be a coincidence.

Thinking about it this way, Brant felt more and more that it was a wise decision to choose to strengthen the cooperative relationship with Tianming Automobile Company.

With the official opening of the franchise store, the people who came to buy the car also rushed to their favorite models, among them, someone walked to the Phoenix brand car, but only looked at the front and back a few times, and then walked to the side of the Audi 100, and muttered a sentence in his mouth.

From the shape of his mouth, Zhou Jingming could probably guess that the person thought that the body design of the Phoenix brand sedan was a bit weird, which did not conform to his aesthetics of the car.

Sure enough, as Brandt said at the beginning, Americans' love of muscle cars didn't decline with the onset of the oil crisis.

If the Phoenix sedan wants to gain a foothold in the U.S. market, it still needs an opportunity.

"I'm sorry to ask, which of your cars has the best safety performance here?" said an American consumer to a franchise store staff.

"If you want to buy an Audi model, then I recommend you this Audi 80, ABS system plus main airbag, the passive safety of the vehicle has been sat to the extreme, it is definitely one of the best safety cars of the same level on the market. The staff member pointed to an Audi 80 next to him.

"Is there any other choice?" the man looked at the Audi 80, and then said to himself, "The Buick that bought General Motors last time, they also said that their car was very safe, but as a result, the car was lightly hit by someone, and the body was seriously deformed, if the airbag was not popped normally, I guess it would be gone now." ”

It was precisely because of the last experience that the man was a little afraid of American cars, so he decided to buy a German car, but he always felt that what the staff of the franchise store said was half-true.

After all, it is a major matter related to driving safety, and the man has to be cautious.

"Sir, please rest assured, our Audi cars have always paid attention to the improvement of vehicle safety, and we guarantee that there will be no such situation as you said. The staff smiled awkwardly, and then suddenly pointed to a Phoenix car in front of him and said,

"If Mr. thinks that the safety of our Audi car is not high enough, you can also try this Phoenix brand sedan, according to the test report sent by the company, the safety of this car should be the highest here, and the price is only less than half of the Audi 80. ”

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