The automobile inspection standards in the United States are not quite the same as those in China, in addition to the high quality requirements for the car itself, it is also very strict for safety and environmental protection. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, Zhengxin Manufacturing has never been afraid of any form of inspection.

Mason has recently been busy with patent applications for various technologies of the F150, and handed over the completed part of the testing to the familiar little Courbo.

Although the EQ of this product is very low, the detection is such a thing, and there is no need to do anything greasy at a glance. If you can't do it, if you can't do it, you can't do it. This kind of relatively straightforward work is really suitable for little Courbo.

With the cooperation of some supporting manufacturers, the test was carried out quickly. In addition to a few outsourced parts, there were some problems encountered in the environmental protection testing project. Almost all of the tests are done over and over again.

Seeing this magical progress, Li Fan foolishly estimated that the F150 was not far from the day when it would roll off the assembly line.

The testing part is coming to an end, and the F150 data and costs have been calculated.

If nothing major changes occur in the next tests, the V6 base version can reach a maximum power of 255 kW and a torque of 330 Nm. Even as a pickup truck with a weight of 2.7 tons, the acceleration to 100 kilometers is close to 10 seconds, and after preliminary calculations, it is 9.5 seconds. Thanks to the use of high-strength steel on the rear axle and the variable ratio rear axle, the theoretical load on the rear axle reached a staggering 1,800 pounds. If the user chooses to add a drive differential, this number can be increased to 2,000 pounds!

You know, this is only the low-profile basic version of the V6.

In the V8 and V10 versions, with increased engine power and suspension, the theoretical value of the rear axle load reached 3,000 pounds and 4,500 pounds respectively!

What is the concept of 4500 pounds?

Two tons!

What is the concept of two tons of load?

Have you ever seen a box of vegetables pulled at a farmer's market? That's a two-ton truck.

However, this is only theoretical at the moment.

After completing the trial production of the first three engine versions of the F150, Li Fanyu, who was in a state of excitement, led a group of technical engineers to do a load experiment.

The way to experiment is to load the high-strength steel plates hoarded on the production line to see how much the F150 can weigh at most without affecting normal driving.

The high-strength steel used by Zhengxin is the kind of coil, and the standard here in the United States is 28X3700X1000 per coil. That is, the thickness is 28 mm, the degree is 3700 mm, and the length is 1000 mm. According to the density conversion, a roll is about 0.7 tons.

The results of the test were ......

The V6 version of the F150 can still be operated freely after three volumes. When I got to the fourth volume, I had a slight difficulty at the start. In this case, the ultimate load is about two to three tons. Take a conservative value, 4700 pounds!

The V8 version easily loaded five volumes, and by the time the sixth volume got off to a hard start, with an extreme load of about 6,000 pounds!

V10…… Didn't measure it.

Why didn't it be measured? After loading six rolls of steel, it was easy to start and put it on top...... The rear axle shock absorption is not yet complete, but the carriage can't be put down......

You know, six rolls of steel are more than four tons!

If you don't count the overload, you can use it in a medium-sized truck - the load capacity is proper!

Seeing that the general trend of R&D work has been decided, Li Fanyu and Mason, who had just completed the patent application, studied the marketing plan for the F150 offline market.

At the same time, Stewart's side has also completed the Topgear channel.

After repeated screening, he gave up invitations from several TV stations and finally chose Youtube, Google's largest video site.

Youtube is actually no stranger to Li Fanyu.

Founded in 2005, this website has developed from a single social video website to the present, and has become a behemoth with 100 million video visits per day, including art animation, delivery vehicles, comedy short films, entertainment pastimes, music appreciation, blog communities, human words and deeds, pet animals, science and technology, sports, tourist attractions and online games.

After seeing the sample of the first episode of the first season of "Topgear", the editorial department of Youtube was deeply interested in this car variety show with a unique host's style, extremely well-made, and so high that it has no friends.

After a week of talking, it was decided to buy out the network rights for a million dollars per episode.

Faced with this price, Stewart very decisively refused.

You know, the production cost of a single episode of "Topgear" has reached five million dollars. One million wants to buy out the exclusive broadcast rights of the network, which is a bit cheap.

So after communicating with Li Fanyu, he proposed the priority broadcast right of 500,000 US dollars per episode, but according to the requirements of advertising traffic.

You must know that Youtube has developed so far and has become a giant in the North American online video advertising market. Its main business income is to rely on high-quality and high-dissemination videos to place advertisements to obtain revenue.

This proposal is actually within the scope of Youtube's acceptance.

After all, car variety shows have always been an unpopular category, although the show in front of you is very distinctive, but it is still unknown whether the audience will buy it.

If you buy an episode for a million dollars, there must be a certain risk. Now, this kind of cooperation-like approach avoids risks to a certain extent.

So after arguing for a talk, without getting Stewart's concessions, he signed like this.

I learned that the show had been signed and the channel was settled. Clarkson, who was still in Mexico, immediately led the film crew back to the United States, where he completed the newly renovated studio in Colorado Springs, with the exception of the exterior. For this reason, Li Fanyu also deliberately got out of the F150 research and development finish, made a cameo appearance in the show, and became a "corpse brother" test driver covered under the helmet and racing suit.

Soon, everyone put together the entire content of the first episode and sent it to Youtube.

In the first episode, in order to save trouble, the three were proposed by Clarkson. In the process of evaluating vehicles, Li Fanyu directly pulled the out-of-print classic cars that Li Fanyu had not yet auctioned into the show, and gave the most authentic evaluation.

In the location link, each of these three goods took a thousand dollars to buy a handcar, and completed the pioneering feat of crossing North America with three old-fashioned guys!

Along the way, they have broken down in the Great Gobi, chased thieves who stole cameras in a Maryland motel, and encountered drug traffickers at the Mexican border. Even while passing through the State of Mexico, James was almost bitten by a snake.

All kinds of hardships are put into this episode.

As a result, after the editors watched the first episode, they were deeply impressed by this ingenious automotive variety show. After a series of optimization and editing, it was directly hung on the homepage of the "Vehicle" section.

But it didn't work out very well at first.

In the 12 hours after the program was launched, the audience traffic was only more than 10,000 people. Faced with this result, Carlson, the editor-in-chief who signed "Topgear", felt a chill in his heart.

Even when I spoke to Stuart on the phone, I was full of gratitude - thank you Stuart for proposing a way to share and avoid losses for the site......

But!

After watching this simply cool show, the first audience went crazy.

Although it was only watched by more than 10,000 people, almost a third of the talk about cars on Facebook that day was reposting the content of "Topgear" and screenshots of the show!

As a result of this word-of-mouth publicity, searches and views on Youtube for "Topgear" skyrocketed, with the first episode reaching 650,000 views in just 24 hours!