Chapter 50: The Man and the Car

As soon as Wang Qiping got in the car, he couldn't help but look around and praised the car.

The instrument panel is designed with three rings. In order to highlight the prestige of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the center console and gear seats are heavily decorated with wood grain trim. The lower part of the centre console, door sidewinders and carpet are luxuriously made of pure wool, while the seat upholstery is made of premium leather. Luxury equipment such as eight-way power-adjustable seats with memory function and front seat heating system are also quite high-end equipment.

In terms of exterior design, the Mercedes-Benz W126SEL follows the style of the previous generation, which looks slender and elegant. The shield-shaped grille and the erected three-pronged star emblem have become characteristic of the S-Class. Large plastic skirt guards are installed on the side panels of the body, which are not colored from the body paint. This two-tone design also became a design trend and was emulated by other car brands.

Wang Qiping couldn't help but pat the leather seat and said with a smile:

"Old Tang, the cow is making a big deal! It seems that you are really in the mix, and the big run is on! Are you still short of a driver? In addition, I have a cousin who is eighteen years old and beautiful like a flower, you see......"

Tang Tianchen was accustomed to Wang Qiping's comic performance, and said with a smile: "Just like you, where can your cousin see well?" It's better to keep it for yourself! ”

"Hmph, rat eyes! Blind as a bat! Who's the car? Where's your Santana? ”

"Boss Li dislikes my Santana for being too low-grade, not worthy of my current status as the general manager of the company, and drove me the Mercedes-Benz W126 that just arrived the day before yesterday.

"It seems that Boss Li is very serious about you! This car is not cheap, my uncle-in-law got one the year before last and spent a lot of effort, and it cost more than 1.5 million yuan in total! ”

"This car shouldn't be that expensive, this is Li Nianfeng ordered in the United States, and it's much cheaper over there."

"Oh...... So how did he get through customs? ”

"Li Yunjian is his uncle."

"Oh...... The head of the Li family in Yanjing, then he is ...... Overseas chinese? No wonder you dare to open a company in Yanjing, this thigh is thick enough! Then what else to say, let's turn Yanjing upside down, let everyone know our brother's ability! Wang Qiping was obviously excited.

"That's not what you're looking for. Hmph, Li Fengxian is purely a mouse's eyes, a leaf of obscureness, I can assure you, when we go back to Khanyang next time, there is an ancient poem that can be described: Wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist, ride a crane to Yangzhou, a small coal kiln with no more than 10 million assets, how can it be seen by my brother? ”

"Of course, I've always had faith in you. By the way, I also have a surprise for you this time, remember to thank me! Wang Qiping looked playful.

"Oh...... What surprises? It's not frightening," Tang Tianchen looked suspicious.

Wang Qiping smiled evilly and said, "Hmm...... Let me sell it, and you'll know in two days! ”

Tang Tianchen bowed slightly, everything was silent.

In fact, Tang Tianchen's heart is far less indifferent than on the surface, since he saw this car for the first time yesterday, Tang Tianchen couldn't help himself.

Men and cars are natural lovers. Their passion for cars is so high and their love for them is so long-lasting that every woman should be jealous.

A man's car love complex is a true love that surpasses all playthings.

Men's affection for cars is almost innate; The first toy of a little boy was a car, the first car in the world, which must have been made by a man, and it must have been the first to be driven by a man.

Men are the masters of the kingdom of cars, and cars also dominate men.

No way, who makes men naturally love vanity? Cars are their biggest asset to show off. There are many things for men to show off: beautiful wives, decent jobs, the flattery of your MMs, the power in your hands, and a house without mortgage payments...... And so on and so forth.

However, it is impossible to carry these things with you, if you are an unknown person, a person who does not know the details, who will know these things? Men can't help but regret in their hearts.

Moreover, there are some things that even a poor boy can get. The so-called blessing can't be stopped.

But the car is different.

We often see such a classic picture on the street: a black high-end car slowly drove up, stopped, the door opened, first a shiny leather shoe stretched out, of course, it was the hero's feet, and then, he got out of the car, elegant suit, brand-name luggage, shiny hair, and the car is integrated, complementing each other.

The women probably had to look at him with the rest of their eyes, and then secretly speculate about his identity. He was so upset. Even if the car was borrowed by him, he drove it to a friend's or a public owner's, it didn't affect his mood at all. The car has become the externalization of his identity, a label of power and money attached to him.

In addition to vanity, men are adventurous and like to be the masters of all things. In the galloping wind, in the sound of the wind whistling in his ears, the man completely fell into the realm of illusion, as if the roads of the whole world were under his feet, and the doors of the whole world were open for it. He's in control, he's dominating. It probably has something to do with why F1 is so fascinating.

In the "Book of Songs", the affectionate woodcutter sang his infatuation with his sweetheart on the shore of the Han River, and he swore that the son would return, and his words would be good! Oh, I will feed my horses to your heart's content, and I will be your faithful coachman, and I will take you to the ends of the earth, as long as you marry me!

Perhaps, in every man's heart, there is such a picture, when the music fills the surroundings, accompanied by red faces, the fallen leaves of the French plane tree gently rotate, under the rolling wheels, dancing a confused tango.

As a mature and normal man, even as a reborn, Tang Tianchen's feelings for cars are no exception, even more than ordinary people, he is a person who truly loves cars.

He even had the ridiculous idea that he felt as if gasoline was flowing in his veins, that the engine was his heart, that the parts of the machine were his bones, and that the ornate spray paint was flesh and skin...... In Tang Tianchen's eyes, the car is not a thing, not a means of transportation for people to drive, but a life of flesh and blood, an animal with the same spirituality as a human.

He likes to discuss the performance and power of the car with his friends, talk about the speeding car rally off-road events, and hope that car manufacturers will continue to create new models...... In the pursuit of cars, he also pinned on his pursuit of career and life, dreams and the realization of dreams.

Tang Tianchen's life in his previous life was not a success, and it could even be said to be a failure, love, career, and family...... In his eyes, the car has gone beyond the original definition of the car, beyond the function of the car itself.

The car became his companion on the journey of life; He became a wife with a career in love, he matured because he owned a car, was confident because he had a car, and felt a kind of instinctive satisfaction because he had a car.

Before reading the file, Tang Tianchen drove a dump truck on the Mengjiagou Coal Mine for eight months, and later drove a taxi in Shanghi for more than a year, but in June 2014, Tang Tianchen had his first car of his own, which was a red 2013 Chevrolet Sail hatchback 1.2L manual version. landed more than 60,000 yuan, and my parents helped me make up a little bit and took out a one-year mortgage.

Tang Tianchen still remembers those excited days and wonderful mood when he bought a car. On the eve of picking up the car, I remembered that when I was learning to drive, my predecessor said that "driving school is a killer training camp" and other cool training. The smell of plastic on the interior of the new car made him feel so good, turning the key, the rhythmic sound of ignition, also drove his heart to beat, and a vivid picture appeared in his mind:

It's like being in F1, Schumacher, Senna, Enzo, Ke Shouliang...... And all the racers imaginable, driving the racing cars on the field, sweeping the wind and clouds, the low roar of the motor and the clear tire tracks, seeing the victorious black and white square chess waving......

Sail in the previous life naturally can't be compared with the Mercedes-Benz in front of him, this is Daben! It was in his previous life that he had browsed countless times on posters, magazines, and web pages, and Tang Tianchen had long passed the age of dreaming before reading the file, and he had never had the luxury of driving it, but he didn't expect it...... Now suddenly it happened.

Tang Tianchen has admired this car for a long time, and he is even more familiar with its history.

At the end of the eighties of the last century, China imported a batch of Mercedes-Benz cars from formal channels on a large scale for the first time, and the S-class accounted for a large part. In a very short period of time, the streets and alleys of Chinese cities can be seen everywhere S-class luxury cars commonly known as "Daben", and the common name of "Daben" for Mercedes-Benz S-class is also from this time of word of mouth.

The sixth-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class, codenamed W126, made its first appearance at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1979. Compared to the previous generation of the S-Class, this generation of the S-Class has a longer body.

The sixth-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class uses more high-tech means in both structural design and styling design, and Mercedes-Benz has implemented the concept of perfection into every detail of the W126. First and foremost is its design, which has been designed so that the W126 not only looks completely ahead of its time at the time, but also decades later.

The innovative design is reflected in the fact that for the first time, the W126 abandons the chrome bumper that protrudes from the exterior and replaces it with a plastic-sprayed design that integrates into the front of the car.

In 1991, the last sixth-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class was discontinued, and its successor was the seventh-generation S-Class Mercedes-Benz, codenamed W140. During the thirteen years from 1979 to 1991, a total of 818036 units were produced in the sixth-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class, which was quite staggering for a luxury car at the time.

The sixth-generation S-class slender and elegant classic shape is still loved by many people, so before Tang Tianchen crossed, there were also many W126s in good condition.

Mercedes-Benz's meticulous polishing of the W126 made it one of the closest luxury sedans to perfection, and it still seems to be true today. At the same time, the W126 is also the most successful, popular and longest-lived model in Mercedes-Benz history.