Chapter 111: Mitsubishi's Attitude
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The venture capital intervention did not materialize, and Mitsubishi expected it. But in their thinking, there is nothing in the market that cannot be solved with capital.
If 100 million is not enough, then 200 million. 500 million is not good, then 500 million. 500 million is not good, then 700 million is good.
So the next day, another Sukula VC manager came to Zhengxin again, and the price went up again. It's just that the poor manager didn't even have a chance to give out his business card, and he was directly blasted out by Li Fanyu.
Just kidding, what are you doing with this motive, isn't it just to kill you? Want to come over and intervene, am I mentally retarded?
Then, Mitsubishi Motors couldn't sit still.
They are not in a hurry, and now there are five automakers in the Chinese market whose motivational procurement projects are under negotiation. Now that China's heart is out, all five of them have slowed down the pace of negotiations and have begun to wait and see.
Speaking of Mitsubishi, this company is also quite profound. Since the beginning of World War II, it has served the RB military, from nuclear energy and aerospace to paper bicycles, covering a variety of industrial fields.
Not to mention anything else, take the automobile division as an example, it also has a glorious history. The most famous of them is Pajero.
At the height of Pajero's prime, it was almost all used in the Qatar Rally. Good off-road performance and fast degree. The off-road vehicles of the same period could hardly hide their edge.
But now in the automotive industry, motivation is almost their main business. The reason for this is nothing more than the death of two big characters.
2ooo year, almost a dividing line for Mitsubishi Motors.
First of all, in the foreign market, as a top car manufacturer of RB, there were scandals one after another, and the senior management of the US branch was suspected of concealing a large number of customer complaints from employees, and was prosecuted by the US Department of Transportation for allegedly deceiving consumers.
Then, the RB headquarters is involved in black, and a large number of car quality problems are frequently exposed.
But these things are not known to the Chinese market.
What really caused the decline of Mitsubishi Motors in China was the Pajero incident.
On February 9, 1999, a car owner named Li Zhongliang in Wenzhou rushed down a hill due to brake failure on the way, and the vehicle was almost scrapped.
On September 5, 2ooo, NX driver Huang Guoqing suddenly braked out of order while driving the Pajero, almost causing a major traffic accident.
On May 25, a Pajero V31 in Changsha failed to brake at a slow speed of 30 kilometers per hour, knocking down a woman named 6 Hui, causing the injured to be disabled in the first degree.
In just two years, Mitsubishi has had more than 20 brake failure accidents.
The NX Immigration Inspection Bureau monitored the Mitsubishi Pajero with serious flaws in its design. The two models involved are on the market on driving and bumpy roads, and over time, it will cause serious wear and tear on the rear axle brake oil pipe, causing brake fluid leakage and brake failure.
After the test report came out, many victims of the Mitsubishi accident realized why they had the accident and filed a lawsuit against Mitsubishi Motors.
Subsequently, the General Administration of Inspection and Quarantine of China issued an announcement to revoke the safety and quality license of Mitsubishi Pajero for imported goods, and all domestic Pajero that has not been overhauled and replaced with newly designed brake oil pipes is prohibited from being used.
However, even after the announcement was announced, Mitsubishi Motors was still openly dead-faced. Claim that this situation is caused by the bad road conditions in China!
However, shameless people will be slapped in the face after all, and only two weeks later, Mitsubishi insiders broke the news that these two cars were specially designed for the Chinese market. In addition, according to an investigation by the Ministry of Transport, Mitsubishi Motors deliberately concealed and failed to report a total of 10,000 defective vehicles, with as many as 21 vehicle types. The production date is from 2ooo years to 10 years!!
As soon as this news came out, it caused turmoil in the global automotive market.
In the same year, Mitsubishi Motors announced that it would take back 150,000 problematic cars worldwide. However, those in China are not included in this range, and only 55 Galan vehicles have been recalled.
For a time, domestic car owners were boiling and disgusted with a wave of boycott. Until now, there are still people talking about this.
And this recall, seems to have become the starting point of the differential treatment of Japanese cars in China, Japanese car companies do not learn, in the past ten years, but this set has been used again and again in the Chinese market.
However, the retribution was not happy, and since then Mitsubishi Motors has been in a slump in China. Its various models have repeatedly encountered Waterloo in China, and they have no choice but to transform themselves into the largest supplier of Chinese motivation.
Now, if China's independent motives are allowed to rise and seize its own market share, then Mitsubishi is really in danger.
In the conference room of Mitsubishi Zhonghua, the discussion has been going on for more than two hours, but there is still no result.
Some believe that it is too early to start worrying, the GX888 has not yet been reviewed, and at least it will depend on the performance of this motive after mass production to decide how Mitsubishi will respond.
Some believe that the threat should be nipped in the bud and not allowed to grow.
Still others feel that they should pay close attention to keep an eye on what is changing. After all, the current Mitsubishi G series motive has a market share of 40% in the Chinese auto market, and some automakers even use Mitsubishi motive as a market selling point.
It was noisy and noisy for a while, and it was lively. But the excitement is lively, and there is no result until the end. So the parties compromised and planned to wait and see.
Two days later, Tiancheng Zhengxin Automobile Laboratory held another briefing GX888 Motive has been submitted for review.
Immediately afterwards, Cheng Gang, mayor of Tiancheng City, proposed at the provincial economic exhibition seminar that the province should increase support for independent research institutions and speed up the review without violating the principle of the proposal.
A week later, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology passed the test of 15 prototypes of the GX888 motive.
That night, Xinhua News Agency reported that China's first independent motivation passed the review, filling the gap in the domestic motivation field.
The loud voice of the press is equivalent to the final word on the motive of the Chinese heart series. Then, news about gx888 came like snowflakes.
Finally, Mitsubishi couldn't sit still.
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