Chapter 857: A Feast

After the first two days of the media open day, it was the busiest open day for the general public, and due to the financial crisis, the number of visitors to the Frankfurt Motor Show was much lower than before.

However, after Huayang Power announced a series of new cars again in the past two days, especially the appearance of the new Xingchi hybrid car they launched, many fans suddenly rekindled their enthusiasm for this auto show.

You must know that the people in Europe and Germany have an almost crazy obsession with cars and machinery, so despite the current economic downturn, there are still many car fans from all over Germany and even other countries in Europe to come to participate in this auto show.

You must know that many of these people originally did not plan to participate in the Frankfurt Motor Show, but the reason why they came this time is largely because of the hybrid car launched by Huayang Power.

These fans are planning to learn in detail about this hybrid car, what is excellent, and whether it is as good as Huayang Power and the major news media.

Obviously, the publicity of Huayang Power is not exaggerated, and in order to stimulate more people to visit their booth, this time Huayang Power has spent a lot of money, at the beginning, they only brought ten prototypes, one of which was placed in the exhibition hall for everyone to visit, and the other nine were placed outside the exhibition hall.

And where they also set up a test site, specifically for the majority of fans to test drive these sample cars, and later because the number of fans who came to visit was too much, so that many fans simply set up a tent outside the exhibition hall and began to line up, just to be able to get the earliest test drive number the next day.

This scene is like those electronics fans when Sony was going to announce a new game console, or Apple was going to launch a new product. The scene of queuing up in tents outside an e-commerce store all night is very similar.

In such an economic winter, such a scene undoubtedly brought a touch of color to the gloomy economic environment at that time.

While the rest of the market is a stagnant one, the Frankfurt Motor Show is in full swing. Especially in the test track outside the exhibition hall, it was as if the F1 race had arrived, and people were screaming everywhere.

Test drivers from all over Europe have no idea of caring for the new car, so they cancel the ECO driving mode and hit the accelerator directly, in order to experience the combination of the motor and the engine. The maximum power and torque that can be provided, the crazy acceleration, not only can make people's adrenaline rush, but also can give people the most intuitive understanding of the performance of this hybrid car.

The mayor of Frankfurt is happy, and the German economy is also happy, although companies like Sinosun Power will steal the jobs of their own car companies, but after all, their own economic growth is weak at this time, because the global economy is shrinking. As a result, international orders have decreased, and even their exports of domestic machined products have also been affected.

And now the new products launched by Huayang Power can arouse people's interest. It's a good thing in every sense of the word that it gives consumers back confidence, even though it's not a product they make in their own country, but as long as they buy it in Germany, they have to pay taxes.

As long as someone pays taxes, then the life of their German government will not be so sad.

The other one who is the happiest is, of course, Huayang Power, especially Jin Xiaoqiang. In the past few days, he looked at the sales report sent by the statistician below, and he couldn't close his mouth with joy.

In such an environment, especially in Europe, which has always been regionally conservative, the Xingchi products they launched can achieve such sales performance, and it seems that their thinking is completely correct this time.

Under tremendous economic pressure. In the face of high oil prices, no matter how patriotic the European people are, they can't get along with their wallets.

Although as a two-line Prius hybrid car, the price of Xingchi is not cheap, but this does not prevent the majority of European people from paying for him.

Strong power, very low fuel consumption, all this is very in line with the taste of European consumers with a tricky appetite, and this time Xingchi has not only made a name for itself in Europe, because of the vigorous publicity of the media, Xingchi has become famous in the United States.

Although Xingchi has not officially landed in the United States in the past few days, at the headquarters, the self-selected calls received by dealers to North America every day are about to make the company's customer service ladies dry their mouths.

Now the biggest problem plaguing Huayang Power is the problem of production capacity, the second branch arranged in the east exit for export, is now in the case of non-stop rotation day and night, which can basically meet the orders from North America.

The financial crisis not only made their Star Dash sell well, but also with Captain America, who was famous before, and now its sales are also on a higher level.

Originally, Americans have always been interested in such a small car, and after this car landed in the United States that year, at the beginning, it was only sought after for a period of time because of its performance.

But later, with the fall of oil prices, the sales of which car will be maintained at a medium level of stability, after all, according to the American car culture, such a car belongs to the go-kart level, he is too small, it is a small steel cannon performance car, only consumers who like small steel cannon culture will pay for him.

But now it is different, the financial crisis is not only uncomfortable for people in other countries of the world, but also for Americans, and the V8 and V6 engine cars that they used to like are obviously no longer satisfactory to the American people.

The small displacement, high horsepower, and strong performance of the small steel cannon Captain America once again appeared in people's sight, Xingchi has not yet announced the time of landing in the United States, but many consumers can't wait.

Since you can't buy the latest hybrid car, then use this small steel cannon first, after all, his fuel consumption is also surprisingly low, only about 5L fuel consumption per 100 kilometers, which is basically the same as the fuel consumption of the current Prius II.

Anyway, it's all about choosing a scooter, so why wait a few months? The consumption concept of American consumers has always been the world's leading, so before Xingchi landed in the United States, Captain America became their best choice.

In this way, the major factories of Huayang Power were crowded with orders, and the order schedule of the main factory in the provincial capital and the export factory in Dongkou was once scheduled for three months......

Fortunately, there was a crisis last year and the production capacity was expanded, otherwise in the face of this wave of order frenzy, Huayang Power may not be able to hold on......

In October 2008, Huayang Power finally completed a series of negotiations with Ford, and Ford finally gritted its teeth and made a decision, as long as 3.2 billion US dollars, if Jin Xiaoqiang can come up with this money at one time, then Jin Xiaoqiang got his long-desired Land Rover, and Mazda.

Unlike in the previous life, this time Ford did not bundle Land Rover and Jaguar, but bundled Land Rover and Mazda, and the price was 900 million US dollars more than the bundled Land Rover and Jaguar in the previous life.

Money is not a big problem, but Jin Xiaoqiang has always been a little hesitant to accept Mazda, after all, the Japanese market is too special, and it can even be said to be extremely xenophobic, not to mention that Mazda is not a small enterprise like Suzuki, and it is very difficult to complete the acquisition of the owner in silence.

Moreover, the relationship between China and Japan has always been confusing, and the economic exchanges between the two countries are often affected by political factors to a large extent.

Japan's economy has never come out of the trough in recent years, and as a person who has come from the past, Jin Xiaoqiang knows that the future Japanese leaders have always had a very strong right-wing tendency in order to open up a new situation for the country's economy, which has made Sino-Japanese relations deteriorate sharply in the future.

At that time, not only did Japan's investment in China suffer a great impact, but also the investment of many domestic companies in Japan was also seriously affected.

So this is also the main reason why Jin Xiaoqiang told Mark not to involve Mazda in the negotiations with Ford, but he never expected that Mark actually talked about Mazda.

In fact, it's no wonder that Mark, it can only be said that Ford is too anxious, since last year they have fallen into a situation of continuous losses, from the last quarter of last year, to the third quarter of this year, they have been losing money, and the second quarter of this year is their worst loss quarter, just these three months, they have lost more than three billion dollars.

If this situation is only one year, Ford, a century-old store, may be able to survive, but for two or even three consecutive years, even if their family is rich, they can't hold on.

And now GM and Chrysler have come to the brink of bankruptcy, which makes Ford unable to sit still no matter what, their debts have become garbage in the bond market, and if they can't raise funds, they have only a dead end.

So in terms of price, they are no longer strong, and such a price does make Jin Xiaoqiang feel a little unsoothed, 3.2 billion US dollars, throwing Jaguar's flashy brand to India's Tata, leaving Land Rover and Mazda, such a deal is still very tempting.

Indians in this life, for some reason, did not have the same big money as in their previous life, maybe the price of 3.2 billion US dollars, which made them feel a little unacceptable, so they did not participate in much competition.

So this rich meal is placed in front of Jin Xiaoqiang, so should I eat it or not? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )