Chapter 379: Japanese Divine Cars on the American Market
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The extra-long wheelbase of the new Passat, as well as the length of the body, also make this car look classy, and just by virtue of its shape, it is easy to step up from their existing Octavia.
Octavia's original big brother Haorui, Jin Xiaoqiang is not going to copycat, in fact, this Haorui is also a very good model, and in the high-end models, the cost performance of this car, zhende can be said to be invincible.
The ugly C-pillar of Danshi's car, in the eyes of Jin Xiaoqiang, a perfectionist, is an out-and-out failure, such an ugly C-pillar can be compared to Ricky's ugly C-pillar in the eyes of Ricky's son of the East.
As the leader of the current Tianchao automobile company, Huayang Power, which has always been known for its beautiful appearance, how could it be possible for such an ugly model to appear in its own product line?
So Jin Xiaoqiang naturally chose to ignore the original Haorui and chose the 2011 Heart Passat.
After all, the new Passat is indeed much better looking than Haorui in terms of appearance, and it looks more classy, and if it is placed in a model below the level of 150,000, it will definitely immediately feel like it stands out from the crowd.
And the design of such a car, the main thing is to have a new beautiful shape, according to Jin Xiaoqiang's understanding, this is completely a leather car.
As for the powertrain, there is no need to think too much about it, and the new design is completely underway.
After all, as a low-end model of less than 150,000 yuan, such a car does not need a too advanced engine, as long as it gives a durable power total achievement, more energy should be put on the car's energy saving and emission reduction, safety, handling, and interior design.
And in these aspects, Huayang Power is currently the most indispensable part.
At present, the Octavia model uses a 1.6L naturally aspirated engine, a 1.6 CVVT, a 1.6 DVVT, and a 1.8 naturally aspirated engine.
After all, it's only 2005, and variable valve timing technologies like DVVT and CVVT haven't been as bad as they were five years later.
Such a model, in the eyes of many ordinary people, is still quite technical.
Moreover, Octavia's 1.6DVVT model is currently the most popular model in the market, and the most critical point is that it is durable and fuel-efficient.
Because of the excellent data of this 1.6DVVT engine, as well as the test in the market for a year, and it is also very popular, it is said that this car was selected as this year's Ward Top Ten Engine Selection, Yijing is inevitable, which of course has a lot to do with GM's help in the United States.
Jin Xiaoqiang's latest new Passat model, of course, does not need to be equipped with other engines with too much cash technology, as long as the 1.8 CVVT, as well as DVVT technology, and 2.0 aspiration, to DVVT technology to be released.
After all, although he wants to benefit the consumers of the Celestial Empire, he is not a philanthropist, and he spent a lot of money to develop so many technologies.
In the future, many experimental projects, none of which do not need to spend a lot of money, and the funds required for these technologies are, of course, dependent on the release of previous technologies.
Soon Jin Xiaoqiang completed the sketch design of these four models, and then held a video conference with Wuyun and other car designers in Huayang Power.
I sent back the sketches of these four cars, and then divided them into categories, said that the drawings belonged to that company, and then set up teams to carry out the design and development later.
Of course, the priority development is their new model Haorui (the original 11 new Passat), and the remaining three models are to be handed over to Zhu Junxi, and after showing them to the heads of the three manufacturers, they will decide whether to choose to cooperate and develop together. …,
However, Jin Xiaoqiang is quite confident in the three models he designed, and he is sure that Ricky, Liji and BYD will choose to cooperate.
After all, these three models were developed according to their original ideas, and as long as they saw these three models, they definitely did not choose to give up.
After arranging this work, Jin Xiaoqiang began to prepare for the schedule of going north.
The work of Thunderbird Company, Yijing is on the track, and under the leadership of Brian and Huang Guotao, the company's operation Yijing is on the track.
And because he pointed out a clear way for them, in the past few days, the price of natural gas has begun to rise quietly, although the increase is not violent, Danshi's quiet price increase is Jin Xiaoqiang's favorite, because in this way, it will not attract the attention of other predators, and it will not come here to make trouble.
There's nothing to worry about here, but Danshi Jin Xiaoqiang has to go to Detroit in a few days, since he came to the United States, and later quietly contacted Nick Reilly, asking him to help with Qoros cars, and the sales profits in the United States within two years, after lending one billion dollars from GM.
Nick and they have been inviting Jin Xiaoqiang to go to Detroit to visit GM's headquarters, of course Jin Xiaoqiang knows that the other party invited him over, and it can't be as simple as just visiting their headquarters.
Danshi is also a partner, and now GM is still a well-deserved industry leader in the Shijie automotive industry, but it is not the GM that chose bankruptcy protection a few years later because of the drag of the financial crisis.
Although Huayang Power has been very successful in the market in the past one or two years, and the sales volume of models in the market has surged, if you talk about the scale of the enterprise, compared with GM, it is really not as good as a toe of others.
Jin Xiaoqiang's cognition of this point is very clear, people's annual production and sales are nearly 100 billion US dollars, and the production and sales of his own Huayang Power are only a few billion US dollars.
Not to mention compared with GM, even compared with the two Korean Hyundai and Kia, it can't be compared, so at this time, of course, it is better to be humble and low-key.
Nick. Reilly did not make it clear what he was doing in the past when he invited him, and Danshi Jin Xiaoqiang also knew that it must be related to in-depth cooperation.
During this time, in addition to speculating in stocks, Jin Xiaoqiang also paid special attention to the domestic automobile market in the United States, as the number one automobile producer and consumer on Shijie, the market in this country is something he must pay attention to.
Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, these rising stars in the automotive industry, why they can do better and better, is because they have been very successful in the American market.
These days, Jin Xiaoqiang has also paid special attention to the cars running on the road in the United States, in Manhattan, most of the cars running on the street are Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors.
The high-end ones are the German Mercedes-Benz and BMW, and the Volkswagen is simply invisible.
There are not many Japanese cars here, and even if there are a few occasional flashes, they are Lexus, or Infiniti, Akula and other Japanese high-end cars.
Of course, this is in Manhattan, New York, where the rich are gathered, and if you drive out of the city and look elsewhere, you can see what the car culture in the United States is really like.
Large SUVs and pickup trucks are the most popular cars on the road, while Japanese cars are the majority, especially sedans.
Especially with Toyota and Honda models in the majority, Jin Xiaoqiang heard that there are four major Japanese god cars in the American market as early as in his previous life.
And after having the opportunity to go to the United States in person to experience it in person in this life, it really confirmed his previous hearsay, and it seems that what those people said is not all fabricated! …,
First of all, the most on the road are the pickup truck models in the United States, Ford's F series, and GM's Dodge series, or Japan's Toyota Tantu.
This is a large pickup truck, and the small pickup trucks are mostly Toyota's Siracs and Nissan's.
In terms of sedans, six of the ten cars are Japanese cars, the remaining two are American sedans, and the rest are high-end cars from Hyundai or Mercedes-Benz and BMW DC.
What makes Jin Xiaoqiang happy is that he can even see some Huayang Power models in the traffic now, such as Qoros, such as Octavia, or Yidong, but in terms of ownership, and the frequency of occurrence is still relatively low, on average, among the thirty models that drive in front of him, there is only one Huayang Power model.
However, Jin Xiaoqiang finally felt a little comforted, after all, they came to the American market for only a few months, and the Japanese have been engaged in market development in the United States for decades, and even modern development of the American market has a history of more than ten years.
Among the Japanese cars running on the streets, of course, the models known as the four god cars have more appearances.
The four major Japanese cars that are popular in the United States are Toyota's Camry and Corolla, and Honda's Accord and Civic.
In recent years, because of Nissan's catch-up, Nissan's Teana in the United States has also greatly increased, and there is even a trend of becoming the fifth largest Japanese car in the United States.
Brian, an employee of his Thunderbird, drove a Nissan Teana, Jin Xiaoqiang once chatted with him, and he told Jin Xiaoqiang a small allusion.
That is, before he bought this car, he used to communicate with people on the Internet and asked the people who bought this car before what the quality of this car was.
His netizen replied to him like this, he once drove a natural sound across the entire United States back and forth, this thousands of kilometers of travel down, this car is actually no problem at all, not a single pit stop, which shows the Japanese man-made car skills.
So he immediately bought this Teana, before this Brian drove a Jaguar, for the evaluation of Jaguar, his evaluation is that you have to buy two cars, one to drive out, the other to stop in the garage, and after you go out and come back, you don't have to go home, just go to the garage and change the other one......
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