Don't underestimate the trucks that take part in the Dakar Rally, they are not the usual trucks on the market, or even ordinary modified civilian trucks. Most of the trucks are equipped with 100% lock-in differential locks, all-wheel ventilated disc brakes, truck-specific desert-specific racing tires, high-power electric or hydraulic winch, precision-modified engines with increased horsepower, and race-specific gearboxes with less shift delays.

If fans take a closer look, they will see that the cars that have won the Dakar Rally on a regular basis have largely not used their own cars. Even in the early 21st century, the Mitsubishi team did not use its own Mitsubishi brand FUSO 44 and 66 trucks, but used a large number of Mercedes-Benz 44 and 66 military trucks as logistics support vehicles for its own fleet; Similarly, the Nissan team is no exception, they do not use their own UD brand trucks, but also Mercedes-Benz large trucks and days, but close to three weeks of long-distance races, only European heavy military trucks are more reliable, as for Japan's own heavy trucks, to be honest, even the Japanese themselves do not have confidence in these trucks, even as logistics support vehicles, not direct participation trucks. Although the Japanese Toyota team that participated in the Dakar Rally in the early days used several of its own company's HINO.44 trucks as logistics support vehicles, they were all modified by Toyota and its own company, and they were barely able to compare with European military vehicles, which is also the reason why you get what you pay for.

Zhang Lan believes that if the civilian heavy trucks produced by his company want to compare with the Mercedes-Benz military heavy trucks and Volvo military heavy trucks that represent the most advanced military heavy trucks in Europe, the technology is still a little behind, although the company now has the ability to produce Russian heavy military all-wheel drive trucks, but is it for such ten eight logistics vehicles to open a production line? At present, the work of heavy military all-wheel drive trucks in China is still not paid enough attention, and even if they are produced, it is a problem. There is the money to open a production line. More than enough to buy dozens of European military vehicles.

Well? Zhang Lan suddenly realized a problem, maybe he could consider temporarily producing a few heavy-duty all-wheel drive military trucks to participate in the competition? But in the blink of an eye, it was funny: can these things be produced if they want to? Although the company has the complete production technology and production line of heavy military all-wheel drive trucks in the former Soviet Union, it is still going to be produced. I didn't have time to prepare for the 1999 Dakar Rally.

It's a good idea to let those old hairmen start preparing for the production of a batch of high-horsepower all-wheel drive military trucks in small batches next year, well. I remember that the company also had a diesel engine technology with a power of up to 700 horsepower, which was originally used in armored vehicles for military diesel engines, which came in handy at that time.

These heavy-duty all-wheel-drive military trucks produced in small batches can not only be used in the Dakar Rally later, but can also be given to the military for testing, and if possible, these vehicles are a good choice as carriers for campaign and tactical missile launchers, even as multiple launch rocket launchers. Remembering that Commander Wang Dajun once signed a decision with his company on behalf of the Ministry of National Defense that the purchase of vehicles for the New Year should not be less than 30 percent of the total demand of the army, Zhang Lan couldn't help but leave a saliva: Although the entire contract was only effective after he researched the high-speed firepower assault vehicles required by the military, he didn't think that those guys could even handle this thing! Let's put it this way. \\\\\\ lucrative heavy military all-wheel drive trucks can come in and get a piece of the pie themselves?

"What are you thinking?" Alice asked curiously while helping Zhang Lan wipe a handful of saliva from the corner of her mouth, "Could it be that you are thinking about something delicious, why has your saliva flowed for so long?" As for why I didn't suspect that Zhang Lan was thinking about beautiful women. The reason is of course very simple, there are two big beauties standing in front of you, do you still need to think? Are other women as beautiful as us?

"Huh? Really? Zhang Lan, who was awakened from her beautiful fantasies, couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly wiped the corners of her mouth: Sweat! A look of shame. It's good that it's in your own home, otherwise you will be embarrassed and thrown home.

"What's the good thing you're thinking?" Xiao Chenxi was also curious to ask.

"Oh," Zhang Lan wiped the corners of her mouth. "I'm thinking. Is it possible for us to trial produce a batch of high-power all-wheel drive heavy military trucks in small batches? ”

"Huh......" Xiao Chenxi and Alice glanced at each other, of course they knew that the company had this technical strength. As for why Zhang Lan suddenly thought of producing this kind of special model that is not in great demand, he thought of the work he was doing now and the use of this kind of vehicle. It's natural to think about it.

"Yes, it's just that this kind of special vehicle can't be produced in a day or two! The vehicle and engine production line need to be readjusted, after all, it was designed more than ten years ago, and many places have not adapted to the current needs, and need to be re-modified and redesigned, and even key components such as chassis, engine and gearbox may also need to be redesigned, and the car mold also needs to be re-customized," Xiao Chenxi hesitated for a moment, "Even if we produce now, I am afraid that it will be too late to participate in the competition that will start in January next year." ”

"I didn't say that I must use it in next year's competition," Zhang Lan helped Xiao Chenxi unravel the knot in her heart, "Anyway, the Dakar Rally is held every year, and we are not in a hurry at this time, we can use it the year after next year if we don't need it!" And most importantly, is there a need for production? ”

"Then no problem! A small batch of trial production is also possible, even if the military does not want it, we can use it ourselves. Hearing Zhang Lan say this, Xiao Chenxi finally nodded, "I think it is also a good choice to choose the widely selected Mercedes-Benz military vehicle for the logistics support vehicle of our team this time." ”

"Then this matter is still to be handled by you, Sister Alice," Zhang Lan turned her head, "After the logistics support vehicle is bought in Mercedes-Benz, it will be modified directly at Mercedes-Benz's AMG car modification factory, and after the modification is completed, if the time is tight, it will be directly sent to the assembly area designated by the organizing committee, and then we can take these three cars to meet with them; If the time is not tight, it will be stored in our Alice Group branch in Germany for the time being, and then sent to the assembly area of the organizing committee when the time comes. ”,

"No problem," Alice nodded, "I'll take care of that." ”

The problem of the logistics car has been solved, and the following thing is the problem of this car, although the car has been designed, but this is almost the same as completing the paper design, and the whole car has not started to process a single part until now, it is still a zero.

The key now is to wait for Brother Tian to prepare some corresponding special materials, but at the same time, it is not just to wait, some preliminary work has begun to be carried out, such as starting to prepare a large number of carbon fiber materials to be used in the process of car modification; For example, four three-door "Snow Leopard" off-road vehicles ready for competition were selected and disassembled in order to prepare for the upcoming modification; Another example is the use of existing materials to reinforce the chassis and suspension system.

Some parts that can be purchased from well-known foreign car modification parts manufacturers and can meet the requirements of the Dakar Rally in terms of quality have now begun to be customized from those top foreign car modification parts suppliers. As for some high-tech body components, or with the exclusive technology of combining Xiao Chenxi, Alice and Brother Zhuzi, they can now be processed on their own company's super-large and high-precision CNC machine tools.

Originally, Zhang Lan wanted to send the car abroad for modification, but now it seems that such an advanced model jointly designed by Xiao Chenxi, Brother Zhu and Alice, if it is sent abroad for modification, whether they can meet the requirements of their own design is not to mention for the time being, Alice and Xiao Chenxi, who designed this car modification plan, can almost be worshiped by them as grandmaster-level figures in the car modification industry, and they can be annoyed to death by them.

Instead of being so troublesome, it is better to modify these four cars directly in their own company, Zhang Lan believes that with Xiao Chenxi and Alice, the two girls who have done it themselves, can only be better than theirs compared with the things designed by any car modification manufacturer in the world, and will definitely not be worse than theirs!

Tiange's design of some key core materials was quickly completed, and it was directly transmitted to Alice through data exchange, and Zhang Lan saw these materials, mainly to strengthen the high-temperature core parts of the engine, as well as the materials of the intake and exhaust system and heat dissipation system. These material companies really don't have them, and the formula of the entire special material is provided by Tiange himself - to be precise, the company's existing high-temperature alloy technology has been further enhanced, making up for some shortcomings of the high-temperature alloy, making the alloy stronger, better ductility, better fatigue resistance, better heat dissipation, and even has a certain self-healing ability!

According to the performance parameters listed by Brother Tian for these materials, almost every performance index of this new type of special alloy material can represent the top level of today's materials science, there are almost no shortcomings, just almost, if there is no shortcoming, it is not correct, the biggest disadvantage is that compared with the original high-temperature resistant alloy, the cost of this improved high-temperature alloy improved by Brother Zhuzi is ten times higher than that of the previous special alloy!

At this cost, the average team really can't afford it!

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