Chapter 722: Aisin Seiko who went into battle shirtless
If you talk about it, in the last life, when there was no Huayang Power, the development of domestic independent enterprises in the field of transmission, it can be said to be a history of blood and tears.
As early as when several private enterprises began to enter the field of automobile manufacturing, the engine was easy to do, and the big deal was to buy from several engine factories in the north that had been authorized by Japanese companies, but in the field of transmissions, we have been stuck by these foreign manufacturers.
Needless to say, there is only one Aisin Seiko that is willing to provide us with hydraulic automatic transmissions, and it only sells you the most backward 4AT automatic transmissions.
And the 4AT automatic transmission sold to you is not sold to you casually, and some very harsh conditions will be attached, such as selling it to you, but you have to use the engine made by our Japanese manufacturer, and the engine is needless to mention, it is an engine that is an era behind the current automobile market.
Even if there are a few independent companies that have developed better engines than those Japanese manufacturers, you can't use them if you don't have a transmission in place.
And this has created a market problem, that is, domestic independent brands want to be aggressive and want to work hard to expand to the middle and lower reaches of the automobile market, but you have the right engine, but there is no automatic transmission to match it, and you are also blind.
Because in the automotive market, automatic transmission has always been a benchmark in the minds of consumers to measure whether your car meets the mid-range brand.
This has also caused these domestic independent brands to be limited to the low-end market dilemma, even after the acquisition of Australia's DSI, claimed to be able to produce 6AT automatic transmissions, it is also not able to solve the problem.
The reason is very simple, the quality of our domestic transmission parts is not good, which involves the problem of our metallurgical process. There is also the issue of finishing. In this way, domestic independent brands have fallen into a dilemma of not being able to go up and down.
A small transmission is not a problem at all in Huayang Power. Because they have enough supporting special metal smelting centers, gear finishing centers that can compete with large foreign automobile manufacturing enterprises, and even a special electronic supporting center. However, such conditions are not available to other state-owned brands.
At this time in my last life, let alone automatic transmissions, even if it is a manual transmission, these domestic companies still can't figure it out!
Their own manual transmissions are paired with their cars, and when they are introduced to the market, consumers will only get where they are, and the shifts will be frustrated and the gears will be difficult to enter. A series of problems such as fuel consumption, short life and so on.
Not to mention the driving pleasure of a manual transmission, even if you want to change gears smoothly, it is difficult. How do you make consumers feel good about your product?
And this life was born after Huayang Power. With their support, the technology and R&D capabilities of domestic independent brands. It has also been raised to a higher level.
The rod bearings and gears of their manual transmissions are all provided by Huayang Seiko, and the synchronizer that most affects the feeling of manual gear shift is also provided by Huayang Seiko, so that the driving experience of these state-owned independent brand models has been upgraded to a higher level.
At present, in the world automobile market, the high-end technology representing the intermediate car transmission, that is, the second-generation 6AT transmission, and dual-clutch transmission, these technologies Huayang Power can have, but these technologies are put into their own intermediate cars.
But in recent years, the 4AT transmission and the 5AT transmission have not become obsolete, and even in many low-end price intermediate cars, such technology is also in use, and in the original world, even after seven or eight years, such technology is also used. …,
Therefore, as the principle of technology decentralization, Jin Xiaoqiang agreed that Huayang Seiko would provide technical support to several domestic independent brands of 4AT technology that they had eliminated before.
The so-called technical support is, of course, a strategy for the supply of unlimited quantities of parts and components with no strings attached.
And to be honest in these years, the design of the 4AT hydraulic transmission, there is nothing to hide, everyone knows how the transmission is designed, but once it is related to production, there are really not many companies that can do it.
For hydraulic automatic transmission, the most critical is the hydraulic torque converter component, the domestic research and development in the field of hydraulics is really not good, but the main fundamental reason is because our material science is not successful, and our finishing ability is not good.
We can't produce some oil pipes inside the hydraulic torque converter and turbofans inside the hydraulic torque converter, but these are not a problem for Huayang Power.
Therefore, although these domestic manufacturers know how to produce this hydraulic automatic transmission, they just can't do it, and the main reason is that they don't have the same technical ability.
Otherwise, with such a world-famous technological copycat country as the Celestial Empire, if they had such technical capabilities, I am afraid that domestic models would have been flying all over the sky with automatic transmissions.
This time, the purpose of these companies to find Jin Xiaoqiang is very simple, that is, they hope that Huayang Power can further open up in the field of transmission technology.
The Koreans have already come up with 5ATs or even 6ATs on some of their models, and such a technological upgrade immediately caused an uproar in the field of low-end cars.
It is important to know that consumers in the low-end car segment are particularly sensitive to price, but many consumers in this field are also very sensitive to technology.
Now, because of the emergence of Huayang Power, the halo shrouded in the body of joint ventures and foreign-funded vehicles has gradually receded, and domestic consumers have begun to gradually mature and rational.
On the one hand, everyone is concerned about the price of the car, and at the same time, they are also paying attention to the technical update of the car.
The 5AT and 6AT automatic transmissions have indescribable technical superiority over the 4AT in terms of fuel efficiency, and low-end car consumers who are already nervous about their wallets will of course make their choice after the Korean brand strikes hard.
And the 5AT and 6AT automatic transmissions sound much better than the old 4AT automatic transmissions.
In this way, although these independent brands have achieved good sales performance in the first half of the year, they have also felt strong pressure in the face of sales in the second half of the year.
The morale that everyone finally brought up, at this time, must not be suppressed by Korean cars, and the easiest way for everyone is to find Jin Xiaoqiang again and ask him to agree to provide 5AT or 6AT technology to everyone.
Jin Xiaoqiang really has nothing to say about this, isn't it just to provide them with technical support?
No problem, you can have as much as you want, in fact, this is also an opportunity for Huayang Seiko to get a lot of benefits, Huayang Seiko wants to gain a foothold in the Celestial Empire, and these automobile manufacturing is upstream enterprises to build a good relationship.
And he also heard the rumors that Aisin Seiko seems to be making sales plans in China as well.
In the past, because the Japanese were in an absolute technological monopoly position, they could be said to have given what they wanted from these Celestial Automobile Manufacturing Enterprises, and you had to buy whatever they wanted to sell you, and they were in a complete seller's market.
But now with Huayang Power coming out to stir up the situation, their development in the Celestial Empire has been seriously frustrated, and it has been two consecutive years that the turnover in the Celestial Empire region has declined. …,
At the Frankfurt Motor Show, the 8AT transmission jointly developed by them and Toyota was originally a product with high hopes, which not only improved Toyota's quality, but also made Aisin Seiko famous all over the world, but now it has become a joke before it has been formed, which makes Aisin Seiko a double blow.
It's like the battleship race of the Great World War, when your carefully built battleship was still on the slipway, waiting to be launched next year, only to be suddenly declared by your opponent that they had built a more advanced battleship than you, and that your latest model of battleship was outdated before it was launched.
Such a blow is not something that any company can bear.
Therefore, according to the information sent back by Naruto from Japan, it is said that Aisin Seiko will adjust their business in China, enlarge their technology transfer rules, and some of the technologies that they have been in the hands of before, and they will open up in all aspects this time.
Especially the automatic transmission technology they are best at, such as the 4AT, 5AT and even the second-generation 6AT, as long as you can afford it, they dare to sell it.
And the most important thing is that I heard that Aisin was ruthless this time, and in order to meet the challenge of Huayang Seiko, the price they intend to sell these transmissions is not high.
In other words, this time, Aisin Seiko's grandsons are completely down their faces, and they plan to fight hand-to-hand with Huayang Seiko and grab the market.
Indeed, if they don't take some countermeasures, their market share in the Celestial Empire will be over, and it may not take two years to go on like this, and they will have to get out of the Celestial Empire market with Panasonic and NEC.
Now that Aisin Seiko has made the decision to put down his body, what else is there to hesitate on Huayang Seiko's side, you are barefoot, are you still afraid that you have just taken off your shoes?
Turn, they give whatever they want? Anyway, this time I want to fight with Aisin Seiko to the end, and I will meet them with bayonets.
Jin Xiaoqiang quickly made a decision in his heart, and when Zhu Junxi had just arrived in Frankfurt with a negotiator of his own brand, he had already received a notice from Jin Xiaoqiang