Chapter 556: Mutant Ruilin
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In fact, Ricky's Ruilin has already started the design, but it has not been finalized, at this time in Ricky's hands, there are several sets of design plans, but they have not been decided.
I came to Jin Xiaoqiang this time, in fact, I also wanted to see if Jin Xiaoqiang could help check them, after all, after the previous cooperation, Ricky also trusted Jin Xiaoqiang's character.
Besides, people are world-class design masters, and the models they draw and push out are more beautiful than the models they designed, so are they afraid that people will plagiarize their models?
Ricky's people weren't worried about this, so after Jin Xiaoqiang agreed to help them check the model, they quickly showed Jin Xiaoqiang the drawings of their Ricky series.
In fact, from the original historical point of view, this Ruilin series of models is the first domestic independent design model to get rid of the design of completely plagiarized Japanese and German models.
It's just that this car is still influenced by Japanese and German in many places, so the model design is a bit nondescript.
First of all, the preferred sales object of this Ruilin G6 is the official, the original history of this series of models, but also Ricky intends to launch like a government official car, and now in the view of Huayang Power's Qoros car series, in the field of government procurement cars across the country are in full bloom, they also moved their minds, want to take a share of this market.
However, they don't have the design ability of Jin Xiaoqiang of Huayang Power, so they can only take the imitation route.
The G6 they designed first imitated the German Audi in terms of car style, and strived to make the front body round and generous, making the whole vehicle look more rich and modest.
However, in terms of the length of the body, I want to be as streamlined and atmospheric as a Japanese car, but when these two are combined, it is difficult, and finally after the overall design of this car, no matter how you look at it, it is not prominent, and it is even a little awkward.
In his previous life, Jin Xiaoqiang had this feeling when he was paying attention to this car, but he didn't expect that in this life, he still had no improvement at all.
The first generation of this car, the most dissatisfied thing about Jin Xiaoqiang is his headlights and taillights, because the design of the whole car itself is not very good.
The body has no linear feeling, it looks neither aggressive, nor the vigorous domineering of other Audis, such a model can only be said to have no personality.
So under this premise, if you don't want to make generous changes, you want to make the personality of this car stand out, and you can only change the headlights and taillights.
Because Ricky had invited engineers from Europe to help tune the chassis of this car, it was more difficult to change the whole vehicle.
Because if you want to redesign, then I am afraid that you will have to re-engineer the platform, which means that the previous chassis adjustment is useless, and the money paid to the Europeans is not in vain, but the cost of redesigning the platform and chassis is too great.
Ricky is not Huayang Power, or SAIC, FAW such a wealthy enterprise, such an expense, for them is a lot of expenses, so what they mean is to save if they can, see if Jin Xiaoqiang can help make changes without adjusting the chassis and platform.
Of course, Jin Xiaoqiang couldn't refuse, and after a few days of hard thinking, he finally made certain changes to the headlights, taillights, and the end of the tail. …,
First of all, he replaced the uninspiring, lifeless long lamp that Ruilin had in the previous design drawings, and replaced it with a sharper oblique triangular arrow lamp.
Then the intake grille was changed, and the original Ruilin's lifeless front grille was changed to a large range of changes, and it was later in 2012, Nissan Sylphy, or the new Teana vigorously promoted the kind of rounded inverted trapezoidal layout.
It's just such a simple adjustment, and the front of the whole car immediately looks upgrade, and at the rear of the car, he has also made corresponding adjustments.
However, this time he did not transfer the rear of the new Teana, but took out the rear of the original 2012 Xinruilin G6 in advance.
Because in his impression, this car, especially the rear of the 2012 car, definitely looks much better than the slightly lifeless rear end now.
After Jin Xiaoqiang adjusted the shape of the whole vehicle, Chery's design engineers immediately praised it after reading it.
Because through Jin Xiaoqiang's change, Ruilin's vehicle immediately looks a lot more upgrade, compared to the original lifeless, no personality in terms of appearance, the current car looks, more vigorous, not domineering, but it looks a lot more graceful, compared with the previous consistent turtle image, the vehicle looks graceful and luxurious, which is very in line with the high-end identity of this car.
After the vehicle changes are very in line with Ricky's standards, the person in charge of negotiation on Ricky's side naturally put forward the requirement that Huayang Power can provide more advanced powertrains.
The current Tianchao automobile market, because of the emergence of Huayang Power, the rationality of Tianchao automobile consumers is also much better than in the previous life.
Like in the previous life, either just figure out what the logo of the car, to buy a German car, or in order to save fuel, to buy a Japanese car The situation has been much better, although there is still some sense of difference in brand identity, but at least like the previous life, the blind most brand-seeking, blindly for the sake of face and buy a car as a big boss is a lot less.
After all, there is such a conscientious Celestial Empire enterprise as Huayang Power, and the models launched are all cost-effective models, so the car culture literacy of Celestial Empire automobile consumers is much stronger than in the previous life.
Perhaps because of the ingenious car shape designed by Jin Xiaoqiang, as well as the influence of Huayang Power's strong engine research and development capabilities, Tianchao automobile consumers currently pay the most attention to two factors when buying a car.
The first is the shape of the car, which must be in line with the world, even if there is not much money in the pocket and can only afford the domestic independent brand consumers, the requirements for the shape of the car are also very demanding.
This point accounts for 60% of the intention of Tianchao Automobile consumers to buy cars, after all, everyone has a love for beauty!
The second point is the requirements for the powertrain of the car, in the last life, the domestic car has been in the backward powertrain, either the engine is not successful, the power is weak, the noise is large, the fuel consumption, there is a small problem every three or five times, or the transmission is not good, manual transmission, the gear is difficult to hang, there is no automatic transmission.
But in this life, because of Huayang Power's strong support for domestic independent brands, this situation has been much better than in the previous life.
However, in terms of high-performance engines, Huayang Power has not let go, so other domestic independent brands have always had a certain gap with Huayang Power in terms of engine technology and transmission technology. …,
This time, Ricky's Ruilin brand is positioned as a high-end product, and the main market is also for the official car market, but now the shape of the car looks very eye-catching, but if the powertrain can't pass, then you say a thousand ways and ten thousand, and consumers in the market will not pay for you.
So after thinking about it, in the end, Ricky, who had no choice, could only find Huayang Power in the end, and the requirements were very simple, and he didn't dare to ask too much, he just wanted you to teach us the engine technology you carried on the Yidong model.
At present, the engine technology on the eMotion is actually nothing more than an all-aluminum engine, double overhead camshafts, dual continuously variable valve timing, or the addition of a turbocharger and so on.
These technologies, at present, can be called mainstream in the world, even after a few years, in fact, they are not outdated, but they are still a bit backward with the other engine technologies that Huayang Power currently has, such as the SKYACTIV used in the K series, and the ECOBOOST used in their Qoros models.
But even so, these technologies are good things compared to other domestic automakers, especially independent private car brands.
For these car manufacturers, let alone turbocharging, even with dual continuously variable valve timing technology, they can't figure it out.
So it's no wonder that now Ricky has put the idea on the powertrain of Yidong.
In fact, at this time, in Jin Xiaoqiang's heart, he is also planning to replace the powertrain for their Yidong next year, especially in terms of engines, he has planned to eliminate the current top turbocharged engine of Yidong, and next year he plans to add the TVS supercharged engine to the Yidong model.
Of course, this TVS product is a smaller product suitable for four-cylinder inline engines, so in this way, the engine technology used by Yidong may be eliminated.
But this set of technology, in fact, is not outdated, since the people of Ricky, very sincerely, want this set of technology, it is impossible to transfer it completely, but you might as well sell such an engine to them.
Anyway, if they don't buy it from themselves, I'm afraid they will have to buy it from the Japanese, or from the Germans, anyway, the fertilizer and water don't flow into the fields of outsiders, so why don't they do it themselves? . )