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I've been thinking about how to make my hybrid car happen for the past few days, but I didn't expect it to be suddenly Peter. Rihill pulled into his lab.

It turned out that since the K5 jointly developed by Peter and Jin Xiaoqiang was unveiled at last year's Paris Motor Show, this car has been very popular as soon as it was launched.

So Peter, after coming back, has been making persistent efforts and has been studying other successor models of the K series, you must know that the Yidong developed by Jin Xiaoqiang's belly has formed a series, and this has been successful K5, there should also be a series of derivative models.

At present, the K5 car is not only popular in Europe, but also in North America, and even in China, this car is all the rage.

Beautiful and atmospheric appearance, sci-fi level dynamic appearance, and that unique wheel design, in short, in the eyes of many people, this is a model that consumers are willing to pay for him without looking at the powertrain.

Especially for many young consumers of the new generation in the city, just seeing the shape of this car, it is basically impossible to walk, not to mention that this car also has the "SKYACTIV technology" specially developed by Jin Xiaoqiang for him.

When the K5 was unveiled at last year's Paris Motor Show, Huayang Power had not advertised that our turbo would be maintenance-free for life.

You know, it was only 2005, and it wasn't that no one had launched a model with a turbocharger before, but in the world car market, why has naturally aspirated engines always been the mainstream in the mid-class car market?

Obviously, everyone knows that models with turbochargers will be more fuel-efficient and more powerful. However, more consumers are still willing to choose naturally aspirated engines. The main reason for this. Or because of the later maintenance costs of turbocharged engines.

The turbocharged engine launched by Volkswagen burns engine oil, and later maintenance is expensive, running 50,000 kilometers. Basically, you have to change a turbine, and the cost of replacing a turbine is not low. Even in Europe and the United States, it often costs 1,000 to 2,000 dollars. Not all consumers are willing to pay.

So in the mid-class car market. Although the performance of Huayang Power is eye-catching, and the sales momentum has increased significantly, the naturally aspirated engine still firmly occupies the mainstream position.

At the Paris Motor Show, the K5 launched by Huayang Power was just right. It satisfies the appetite of consumers who want to look good, but don't believe in turbocharged engines.

You must know that European and American countries are places that place a lot of emphasis on individuality and freedom. Therefore, where consumers are very receptive to models with beautiful appearances and even some advanced models.

The beautiful appearance of the car designed by Jin Xiaoqiang of Huayang Power is recognized by all consumers, but the turbocharged engine has always been the heart disease of many consumers.

But this K series, there is no need to worry about such a problem, he is beautiful, sci-fi, very personal, but in terms of powertrain, he is not equipped with any turbocharged engine, but with a modified naturally aspirated engine.

This naturally aspirated engine with in-cylinder direct injection technology can achieve a combustion ratio of 13 or even up to 14:1, although the engine is slightly inferior to the turbocharged engine in terms of power performance, but in terms of fuel saving performance and reliability, it has been greatly improved.

So it's hard for this car not to be popular!

From the launch of the Paris Motor Show in September last year, to the beginning of January of several years, in the three months, this K5, in Europe alone, sold more than 100,000 units.

In China, it also has more than 100,000 sales, and since it landed in North America at the Detroit Auto Show at the beginning of the year and was officially unveiled, this car has quickly blown a whirlwind of best-selling in the United States.

Orders from North America alone are now about to be exhausted three months later, and at present, Huayang Power has even had to adjust the production dates of some models with relatively small sales in order to make way for the K5. …,

At present, the best-selling models of Huayang Power are the Eton, Qoros series, and then Captain America, and the K5 car.

And in such cases, Peter. Richel and his team, of course, should seize the time to continue to research more and better models to fill the gap in the K series in the models!

Peter. Ryhill actually aimed at eMotion and developed their K series models.

Look at the Yidong car series, now the intermediate car has Yidong in the girder, the compact car has Yuedong in the façade, and in terms of urban SUVs, they also have the current extremely popular Yihu in China, as well as Ruihu in the monopoly of the urban SUV market.

As early as last year's Paris Motor Show, there was a conversation between him and Jin Xiaoqiang, and during that conversation, Jin Xiaoqiang once told him that he would strive to make the K series a masterpiece in the same mid-to-high-end car series as the Yidong series!

It is also adhering to Jin Xiaoqiang's wishes that after the development of the K5 model, Peter. Rihill and his team immediately threw themselves into the development of other derivatives of the K series.

In fact, with a model car as a façade, other derivative models are all very easy things to deal with, as long as you revolve around this core model, you can pull the skin.

In fact, the world's book car companies have done this, and the most successful and famous one is the German Volkswagen.

With Golf at their core, they don't know how many cars LaPi has built, such as the Sutar, the Passat, the Polo, the Bora, and even the Tiguan that they are about to launch this year.

From these models, you can see the ability of Volkswagen's engineers to pull the skin.

Japanese car dealers and American car dealers are also doing this, of course, in order to save costs, Huayang Power is also doing this.

Both the EDO series and the Qoros series have achieved great success in the market, and the K series that Peter is now hosting is of course no exception.

After several months of adjustment, as well as the understanding and digestion of the chassis concept specially designed by Jin Xiaoqiang for the K5, Peter and his team finally developed two new chassis based on the K5, one large and one small.

Then based on the small chassis, a compact model K3 was developed, and then the chassis of the K5 was also used as the blueprint to develop an urban SUV, as for the large model of the territory, Peter and Jin Xiaoqiang said mysteriously that he intends to use this chassis as a model, and then develop a large luxury car, this project, temporarily named K9......

And Jin Xiaoqiang could only smile helplessly after listening to Peter's plan, it seems that Peter took out the models he developed in Kia in advance when he was in his previous life......

At Peter's strong request, Jin Xiaoqiang went to visit Peter and his team, and the two models that have been finalized, one is a compact sedan called K3, and the other is an urban SUV model tentatively named K6.

Peter called Jin Xiaoqiang over, saying that he hoped that he could be on the spot, after visiting these models, and then give guidance and point out the shortcomings of the car, after all, this K series is not his Peter alone, Jin Xiaoqiang's initial sketch design, as well as the design of the powertrain and chassis system, are the key to the success of this car.

So Jin Xiaoqiang could only be helplessly pulled by Peter to see the two cars, and when he went to the hall of Peter's research institute, he saw that there were two cars parked.

And these two cars are almost the same as the Kia K3 and their urban SUV model Sportage that I have seen in my previous life.

There is almost no difference in appearance, but the logo at the grille in front of the front of the car is no longer the Kia logo that I was used to in my previous life, but has been replaced by a capital English letter K in an elegant body specially designed for this car series by Huayang Power! …,

"Haha, Mysterkin, how about these two cars?"

Peter's expression revealed a hint of pride and pride, indeed when he was in the Volkswagen, he designed a series of outstanding models such as Audi A6, Passat, TT, etc.

But those models, to be honest, were still a little interesting in the first few years, but now they are completely outdated, and now there is such a classic model, born in their own hands, how can this make Peter not proud?

"Yes, very good, Peter, you did a great job."

In fact, for the appearance of these two cars, it is true that even a picky person like Jin Xiaoqiang has nothing to say.

"Well, the engine of this SUV model uses a standard engine with the K5, but in terms of data, we have made some adjustments and brushed the ECU, so that the engine data performance of this car is much better than that of K5, after all, the size of this car is much larger than K5. But it's a pity that this K3, Misterkin, you also know, the Skyactiv engine you designed has changed the layout and length of the exhaust manifold, so the volume of the engine has also increased accordingly, so it is a bit difficult to put it into the engine head of the K3, so we had to change part of his exhaust manifold, so that the compression ratio data has decreased, but it is still higher than other naturally aspirated engines......"

Peter looked at the compact K3 with some regret and said to Jin Xiaoqiang, as an international design master, he has very strict requirements for each of his works.

This car, because of the space of the nose cover, could not retain the original Jin Xiaoqiang's classic SKYACTIV engine, he felt a little regretful