Chapter 147 - Naming of the Car Line
Ye Kai's initial meeting lasted only half an hour before it was announced. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoYe Kai never felt that the length of the meeting was necessarily related to the success of the meeting.
As long as the meeting achieves its goal, it is a success, and it is obvious that seeing the happy smiles and energetic figures of the participants means that Ye Kai's meeting is a success, and Ye Kai's goal of stabilizing the morale of the army and enhancing his passion for work has been achieved.
Before the meeting ended, Ye Kai announced that he would let the people from the R&D center and the chip design team stay.
The reason why no one from other departments was left behind was because Ye Kai believed that Aodi in his previous life could achieve proud results in the market, which means that other departments don't need Ye Kai to worry about it, and it is good to let him develop according to the trajectory of history, and it is not good to interfere too much, because Ye Kai has no experience in this area, so why bother to make trouble?
The reason why the people in the R&D center stayed, because Ye Kai was confident that he had a vision that was decades ahead, and it was still very reliable to make some suggestions or decisions that would avoid detours. The reason why the chip R&D team stayed was because Ye Kai decided to use the F8 processor as the control system of the car ECU, and these people must not be familiar with the detailed working rules of the car. He needed them to temporarily merge with the people in the R&D center and understand what role the ECU component needed to play in the automotive work.
When the participants left the conference room one after another, Ye Kai briefly fell into contemplation and began to think about the development history of Aodi's future models.
In the previous life, Aodi was a high-end brand under the Volkswagen Group. Sleeper models are A1, A3, A5, A6, A7, A8; Off-road vehicles have Q5, Q7; The sports car has TT, R8. Among them, A1 is a small car, A3 is a compact car, which belongs to the A-type platform and is suitable for one person, and A4 is a medium-sized car, which belongs to the B-type platform. A5 and A7 are considered coupe types, of which A5 has a convertible version; A6 belongs to medium and large cars, mostly commercial or official cars, belongs to the C-type platform, A8 belongs to the luxury car and Mercedes-Benz S BMW 7 series of a level, belongs to the D-type platform; The Q5 is a compact SUV and a smaller version of the Q7.
Among them, the A4L model in the previous life was evolved from the A4 model through several generations, while the A6L was evolved from the C-type platform of the Aodi 100 through several generations.
What about A1? Its predecessor was the Audi 50, a small car born in the 70s and smaller than its predecessor, the Polo, which was only available in Europe at the time, with a three-door hatchback design. Half a year after the launch of the Aodi 50, Volkswagen built the well-known Polo car according to its platform, not only gave more engine lineup, but also cheaper than the 50, after 78 years, the short road of the Audi mini car came to an end, and it was announced that it would be discontinued in the fourth year after its birth, and it was not until the previous life in 2010 that the A1 with the same platform as the Polo car returned.
Aodi A3 was only pushed out in the previous life 96 years, and the body size is about the same as the Golf, which can be ignored for the time being.
Aodit A5 is a convertible coupe derived from the two-door convertible model of the eighth generation A4 in the previous life, and it is still early, so this can also be ignored for the time being, A6, A7, A8, TT, R8 are also the same reason.
So calculated, now there are only B and C models of Aodi, as well as the 50-type platform that has been abandoned, so the problem has become relatively simple.
You just need to move forward according to the development trajectory of your previous life, and the difference is only that the time is advanced.
At the same time, the prototype of the A1 50 will also be put on the development agenda, and the name of the car will be changed to A1, since the previous life A1 was developed on the Baltic platform, then his appearance will also refer to the shape of the Polo.
In Germany in the 70s, small toys from the United Kingdom, France and Italy flooded the small car market. Volkswagen launched the epoch-making Audi 50 in '74 in the hope of regaining market share. The Audi 50 is 3.49 meters long and can seat up to four adults, with a well-made interior equipped with a number of small features such as electronic watches and temperature displays, which were very fashionable at the time. But it is these unnecessary and impractical gadgets that make the price of this car a little too high, blocking it from entering the homes of ordinary people.
As a result, Volkswagen began experimenting with a small sedan that inherited all the advantages of the Audi 50, but was much cheaper. In March 1975, the first generation of the Polo was born in Germany with a 0.9-liter engine with a displacement of only 40 hp, derived from the body of the typical Audi 50.
As the economic version of the Ausdi 50, the first generation Polo has the same wide trunk and ample engine compartment as the Ausdi 50, but small toys such as shiny chrome parts, small electronic watches, thermometers, etc. are rationally omitted.
After the first-generation Polo was launched at an economical price, Volkswagen's top management was so pleased with its excellent sales that Volkswagen immediately launched an upgraded version of the 50 hp 1.1 liter displacement that year.
If memory is not wrong, Ye Kai knows that the total production of the first-generation Polo will exceed 500,000 units by the end of this year, so that the ecstatic Volkswagen will start developing the second-generation Polo next year.
Ye Kai wants to copy the shape of the second-generation Polo car, in fact, the shape of the second generation is basically the same as the first-generation, but some modifications have been made, the rear body lines are designed to be more concise and dynamic, the trunk is more steep, and the rear seats can be adjusted to be folded down, so as to increase the interior space and improve the practicality of the vehicle.
Therefore, if Ye Kai wants to plagiarize, it is also in accordance with the appearance of the third generation, and a lot of modifications have been made on the second generation, erasing the places that are not pleasing to the eye, such as the straight hood, which will be modified to a gradually downward arc, the tail box with clear water chestnuts, and the arc-shaped tail box structure, the front air intake grille will also be reduced, and it will not be so angular anymore, combined with the 50 platform that is smaller than the Polo car, the entire A1 car will be in appearance and price, completely defeating the Volkswagen Polo car.
The use of B-type platform of the Aodi 80 model, will be officially renamed A4, continue to develop along the trajectory of the previous life, but the shape of the car, will be launched in the previous life 82 with four-wheel drive, the use of the new carburetor of the second generation of Aodi 80 improved vehicle appearance, of course, the carburetor must not be used, soon the European exhaust emission standards will come out. Moreover, the two-door version will be eliminated and all four-door versions will be used.
As for the Ausiti 100 and 200 that are now in production, they will also adopt a new name, that is, the A6 series that has evolved from the C-type platform, and the vehicle shape adopts the appearance of the third-generation Ausdi 100/200 that was launched in 82 years and discontinued in 91 years.