New York.

Manhattan.

Known as the center of the world, it has been the center of the United States since the last century. Since then, it has gradually gained its current status with the strength of the United States.

Someone once counted.

Since the emergence of the first world financial crisis, among all investment commodities.

The only thing that can stabilize the annualized rate of return at more than 5% per year for more than 50 years is the Manhattan house.

Especially near Central Park.

That inch of land is even more valuable. If you really have money, you just want to be a rich man, you don't need to toss so much, you just need to buy a house in Manhattan.

The premise is that you can afford to pay property taxes.

Then, after many years, you can slowly sell the house and return to its original capital. Don't worry about the financial crisis, and don't worry about the stock price. Because the history of these decades has proven that no matter how the stock market crash and financial crisis happen, Manhattan houses will not depreciate.

Even if it's a depreciation.

In a year or two, it can also rise back at a rate several times for you.

That's how Abel arrived in Manhattan, and after getting off the plane from JFK, he asked a nearby taxi to take him to the nearest car rental company.

Car rental companies in the United States have been very prosperous since the 50s, and this is a country that grew up on wheels. Without the car, the quality of life of Americans will drop by dozens of notches.

The maturity of the trading market, from all kinds of new cars to all kinds of used cars, is unmatched by other countries in the world, even developed countries.

One of the car rental markets.

It was also very prosperous, and after Abel paid the money, he quickly rented a newly listed Lincoln City.

The Lincoln brand has a similar status in the minds of Americans as Cadillac. They are all typical American luxury cars, which do not sell well internationally, but they have always sold well in the federal territory. There are a lot of homegrown tycoons, especially those from more conservative states like Texas.

They love these cars the most.

For example, Abel's cheap dad, in addition to Mercedes, his favorite is Lincoln. In the garage of the family, there are no less than 5 Lincolns.

Abel doesn't like the future luxury car BBA, he doesn't like Rolls-Royce very much, he likes the look of all kinds of sports cars.

But almost all sports cars are like goods, they look cool and cool, and they are also cool to drive, and it is even more refreshing to use it to pick up girls. But if you really use it for traffic, the so-called sports bucket seat will soon make you have back pain.

It just so happened that the rental car company he went to had just arrived in this Lincoln City 1990, which was the latest Lincoln luxury model to be launched in North America this year, and he rented this luxury car with the attitude of trying it out.

As a pseudo-car fan, Abel felt that the appearance of the Lincoln City was much more restrained and stylish than the Lincoln Ferretwood in his cheap dad Edward's garage. The Lincoln logo is also deliberately inlaid on the city's taillights to highlight the identity of the flagship model.

The car's body dimensions of 5560/1984/1440mm in length, width and height respectively give it a fairly spacious interior, and although the wheelbase is only 2982mm, the longitudinal legroom inside the car is also generous.

As for the horsepower and displacement of the engine, the American cars of this era are really not worth mentioning in this regard.

Compared with the 1.4 t, 1.5 t, and 1.6 t turbocharged engines that can easily burst more than 150 horsepower, this car uses a 4.9-liter V8 engine, but only 150 horsepower......

What is the concept of 150 horsepower?

The small wrecking ball told Abel that the future Honda Fit in the future, the horsepower of the 1.5L four-cylinder engine is 131 horsepower, which is so much less displacement and half the cylinder than the 4.9L 8-cylinder engine.

However, the horsepower is only 19 horses less......

Although most of the various cars of this era are not very powerful, the displacement is still very high.

With the demand for green environmental protection in various countries around the world, all kinds of high-horsepower cars have begun to come to an end. Under strong environmental pressure, all cars are studying low-displacement high-horsepower cars.

It is at this time that several car dealers who will envelop the world in the future take the lead, with low-displacement, high-horsepower and low-fuel consumption automobile engines, as well as reliable quality, and gradually dominate the whole world.

Driving this full of the atmosphere of the times, large displacement and low horsepower, 100 kilometers per hour only a pitiful 14 seconds, automatic wave 4AT Lincoln City speed in New York City.

Abel who rarely drives.

I was shocked by the car.

Stepping on the accelerator is almost immobile, only when you press it all deeply, the car will accelerate after a few seconds. Not to mention those turbocharged cars of later generations, this sense of acceleration makes Abel feel that the acceleration of the tmd is worse than the 1.6L engine of the domestic broken SUV he bought before.

This is still one of the fastest cars in the United States in this era.

This made Abel can't help but have an idea. Do you want to cast a car empire? There is a small wrecking ball, and all kinds of perverted low-displacement high-horsepower naturally aspirated engines and more perverted turbocharged engines can be copied out in the future......

And he didn't have to tell him with a small wrecking ball, he vaguely remembered it, it seemed like it was from now until about 2005. In the past ten years, almost all major supercar companies have either been acquired on the verge of bankruptcy or forced acquisition by capital.

It was time for him to be reborn in 2019.

With the exception of the niche luxury cars, the famous luxury cars, from Ferrari to Porsche, were almost all sold to the big car groups.

The idea of collecting luxury car brands such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Land Rover, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Maserati and so on was formed in Abel's mind.

It's just different from other people who collect all these luxury cars in their own garage at most. Abel's idea was to use his advanced technical knowledge and investment to "foresee" the company that would collect all these cars.

For example, it seems that the year before last, that is, in 1988. In the future, it will be the most famous social car in China - Land Rover. It was acquired by British Aerospace Group at a very low price, about 400 million US dollars. After many twists and turns, it changed hands several times and then sold it for $2.3 billion in 2008 to India's Tata Group.

So in fact, the Land Rover of the future is an Indian car!

Examples like Land Rover's have happened a lot over the next few decades. In addition to the example of Land Rover, there is also the future king of sports cars, Bugatti.

It's still out of business.

It wasn't until 1998 that the brand was acquired by Volkswagen and it was resurrected.

The price is also cheap, it is said that it is only twenty or thirty million dollars. Of course, it's just a brand. Bugatti, which has been out of business for decades, even if there is any technology, it is the technology of the past. Later, the W16, the engine with more than 1000 horsepower, was also pure Volkswagen technology.

If you want to play a luxury car brand.

Reborn in this day and age, there are so many options.

A serendipitous act of renting a car.

Let Abel come up with the idea of creating his own car empire.

But before that.

He decided to earn his second pot of gold first.

"Crunch".

His car came to a sudden stop in front of a street in Manhattan, New York.