Chapter 236: The Birth of Another Classic [Four Watches for a Monthly Pass]

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A week later, in and Nick. Reilly and Carl. Stark left Nanyang with a contract to cooperate with Huayang Power.

Although both sides are dissatisfied with some details of the cooperation, in the end this does not prevent the two sides from reaching an agreement and forming a cooperative relationship.

Regarding the Qoros series, although GM was very dissatisfied with the shares of the newly established brand and the profit stratification, it still had to agree to Jin Xiaoqiang's conditions in the end.

Huayang Power also paid to hand over other series of Huayang Power's other series of products to a sales company under General Motors at an annual agency fee of 30 million US dollars to be responsible for sales in North America.

However, the pricing power still needs to be negotiated between the two parties.

According to Jin Xiaoqiang's estimates, this part alone will bring hundreds of millions of profits to GM every year.

At the same time, in return, GM will transfer a second-hand production line with an annual output of 500,000 vehicles to Huayang Power free of charge.

It just so happened that GM wanted to close a factory in Oklahoma, so this production line was given to Huayang Power cheaply, and it happened that this production line was the latest production line used after 2000, so Huayang Power was also a bargain.

At the same time, in terms of Qoros cooperation, GM also emphasized once again that Jin Xiaoqiang must be the chief designer and general manager of this new car series, after all, although they value Qoros this car series, they still value Jin Xiaoqiang, a hot designer in the industry.

In their opinion, tying Jin Xiaoqiang, a genius designer, to their warship is more advantageous than getting Qoros, a new car series.

During the negotiations, Nick and Carl also visited, Jin Xiaoqiang's latest new car series designed for Qoros, and praised Jin Xiaoqiang's Qoros 9 (New Enclave), Qoros 18 (New Buick GL8), and Qoros 3 (Yinglang).

The new model is very beautiful, which also proves the ability of Jin Xiaoqiang's genius designer, and also strengthens the confidence of GM and Huayang Power to cooperate.

This is also the main reason why they have repeatedly emphasized that Jin Xiaoqiang will be the boss and designer of the new joint venture, because they are more superstitious about Jin Xiaoqiang's design ability.

And Nick. After finalizing the contract with Jin Xiaoqiang, Reilly also gave Jin Xiaoqiang his own suggestion, that is, why Jin Xiaoqiang didn't design a pickup truck model.

You must know that in the hearts of the American people, pickup truck models are models that can go to the sky and the earth, and can do anything.

Whether it is a farmer living in the countryside or a white-collar worker living in the city, Americans have a love for pickup trucks, and an obsession, even admiration, permeated in their bones.

In this regard, Ford's pickup truck is undoubtedly a pickup truck model, the leader in the United States, and GM, as Ford's sworn enemy, looks at Ford's pickup truck every year, sitting in the position of the overall pickup truck sales champion in North America has been hated for a long time.

Nick. Since Leily saw the whole car series designed by Jin Xiaoqiang for Qoros, he has been very convinced, and can even be said to be superstitious about Jin Xiaoqiang's design ability.

In his opinion, as long as the genius designer can design a pickup truck with excellent shape for Qoros, equipped with the powertrain of EcoBoost + Powereshift, which their Huayang Power showmanship made a big show at the Frankfurt Motor Show, then this pickup truck will definitely be a big hit in the United States.

It is not impossible to even oust the Ford pickup F-series class, which has dominated the sales list of pickup trucks in the United States for decades, from the throne.

And Jin Xiaoqiang, as a person who has come over, of course, will not fail to understand the status of pickup in the hearts of the American people.

So in Nick. After Reilly and his entourage left Nanyang, he began to design a pickup truck model, and this pickup truck was launched by Ford in the future, and it was very popular in North America, and has always occupied the top position in pickup truck sales, F150.

When it comes to Ford's off-road vehicles, I'm afraid the first thing that comes to people's minds is Ford's F series pickup, which has actually been born for some years.

It has a history of 65 years since its birth, and it was originally designed to facilitate the farmers and rich farmers who worked in the countryside.

But I didn't expect that the excellent off-road function, large displacement design, and wide body design of this car series made this car not only win the love of the majority of farmers, but also quickly won the love of urban consumers.

Ford quickly got this idea in mind and quickly serialized this product, from the F series, to the E series, from the F150 to the F650.

There are dozens of models and two car series in front of and back, although there are many types, but it does not affect people's perception of this car.

And even in the era of high oil prices, the American people have never abandoned their pickups, they can not buy the Hummer account, they do not buy the Land Rover account, but they cannot buy the account of Ford's F-series pickups.

Ford's F series pickup trucks, since 35 years ago, have been dominating the position of the North American pickup truck sales champion, with annual sales calculated in hundreds of thousands.

And this time Jin Xiaoqiang wants to copycat this Ford's F series pickup truck, of course, in 2010, Ford launched the latest 12th-generation Ford Raptor F-150 model.

As soon as this car was launched, it immediately caused a sensation in the North American market, and then it was a big hit, continuing the glory of Ford pickup trucks in North America.

The powertrain configuration of this car is a 3.7L V6 engine, and a 5.0L V8 engine configuration.

But now that Jin Xiaoqiang has brought out Ford's ecoboost engine in advance, all the problems will be solved.

And Jin Xiaoqiang also plans to lightweight this model as soon as possible, after all, the weight of this guy is too big, so it will cost a lot of fuel, even if Americans like pickups, but they have to face the high bill every month, so in order to win the hearts of ordinary people, Jin Xiaoqiang still decided to use the lightweight that Ford implemented later, which is more conducive to improving the technical content of the vehicle.

In fact, the reason why he chose to do this is also because of the problems that this car had to face later, after 08, the economic performance of the United States has been very sluggish.

Although the American people still like pickup trucks very much, the soaring oil prices have also made many people have to clench their wallets and make careful calculations.

Although the latest 12th-generation Ford F-150 was welcomed and praised by the market once it was launched, it still declined in sales compared to before.

So later in 2014, Ford had to withdraw from the lightweight new F-150, in fact, in some uncritical parts of the body, a large number of aluminum alloys were used to act as agents of steel, such as fenders, door panels, etc., and in this way, the weight of this car dropped by more than 300 kilograms, thus greatly saving fuel.

Of course, Jin Xiaoqiang is not stupid, the whole body of the entire Ford F-150, copycat over, he is just a copycat of the general shape of the whole vehicle, and then in terms of the front face, of course, he will do a more similar family design to Qoros.

Fortunately, the front face of this Ford F-150 was originally very atmospheric and domineering, and what Jin Xiaoqiang had to do was just to make some adjustments in the subtleties.

For example, the grille was changed to be more family-oriented, waterfall grille, and the lights were also changed accordingly, making the whole model look more domineering and atmospheric.

In Nick. Just two weeks after they left Nanyang, the sketch of the latest pickup truck belonging to the Qoros family had been born on the drawing board in front of Jin Xiaoqiang.

But this is just a sketch, if you want to change the whole vehicle from a sketch to reality, there may be a period of time, and this car is completely different from other models because of its overbearing, so Jin Xiaoqiang had to redesign the chassis for this car.

This is also the first time Jin Xiaoqiang has tried to design such a domineering model, to be honest, he also feels extraordinarily exciting in his own heart.

Fortunately, in the last life, when this car was just launched on the market, several models and second generations in the capital couldn't wait to order a few from the United States.

And these second-generation people also happen to be Jin Xiaoqiang's old customers, and their relationship is still very suspicious, so Jin Xiaoqiang was also fortunate to be invited by them to taste this huge road monster.

And as a pure technical controller, when he saw such a model, Jin Xiaoqiang was fascinated by his domineering appearance at that time, and then, of course, he was cheeky and pestered those second generations, so that he had a good time for a few days, and by the way, he studied this car thoroughly.

It is this close contact that gives Jin Xiaoqiang an extraordinary understanding of this car, especially the chassis of this car.

The non-load-bearing body, leaf springs, and integral axle suspension ensure that the vehicle is rigid and well-passed, and the expensive racingshox shock absorbers from the Fox are the finishing touches to the entire chassis, making this car with a huge body and dead weight simply walk on the ground when passing through non-paved roads.

And this time, when Jin Xiaoqiang is in the territory of this giant beast, of course, he will not let go of these selling points!

After Wuyun Gaowa saw Jin Xiaoqiang's latest design, she could only feel a little speechless, needless to say that another classic is about to be born.

(To be continued)