The Gulfstream V landed at a small airport provided by American Motor Company, and Lin Johnson saw greeters and two black luxury cars standing on the runway.

"That's the vice president of AMC, Mr. Claire!" Leon introduced.

After stepping off the plane, Lin Johnson shook hands with Claire, who was by no means the British Prime Minister Claire, who was a standard American who had visited the North several times. Jing, negotiated the establishment of a joint venture jeep company between AMC and BAIC, and made a great contribution to the establishment of BAIC Jeep Company.

Claire smiled and said to Lin Qiangsheng: "Mr. Lin, I have heard of you for a long time, welcome to visit AMC!" I will now take you on a tour of the factory, where the other three directors, Mr. Dedwaldet, the chairman, Mr. Capi, the president, Mr. Cape, and Mr. Foley, the other vice president, will be hosting a banquet for you! ”

"Okay!" Lin Qiangsheng nodded lightly, he glanced at Ang, to be honest, Lin Qiangsheng was not satisfied with the reception work of AMC, the business scale of Dongxing Group in the United States is also very large, I don't know how much stronger than AMC, but the upper echelons of this old automobile company put a stake in front of him, and only sent a vice president, although this Claire is also a director of AMC, but obviously the status is not equal!

After getting into the car, Leon hurriedly said to Lin Qiangsheng: "Lin, don't care, these people are too arrogant, they will recognize the situation sooner or later!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng said fiercely: "Suppress them hard, and press down the price when Renault wants to get rid of this burden!" ”

He is definitely a-for-tat person, AMC neglected him so much, Lin Qiangsheng must make up for it in money.

Leon gestured to chop off his head and said with a smile: "Of course, this is related to my wallet!" Now with a good opportunity, I learned that AMC's new model, the Cherokee, has an Achilles' heel. We might be able to take advantage of it this time and get them into trouble! ”

Lin Qiangsheng asked, "What is the Achilles' heel?" ”

Leon said confidently: "You will soon know, I have arranged for someone to prepare to expose this news, AMC regards the Cherokee model as the last hole card, but this car has a very serious flaw!" ”

The car quickly entered the AMC headquarters, and the building was covered with a few large letters of RAMBLE. This represents one of the automaker's most glorious models, the Rambler, which was used in the parade of floats at Disney Theme Park as the epitome of an American sedan!

Claire led Lin Johnson to visit the factory workshop, Lin Johnson saw that the equipment here is still very new, and it is estimated that this is also the best factory that AMC can get its hands on, and it is producing JEEP models, that is, Cherokee.

"With the acquisition of AMC, the Renault Group has added two new production lines with an annual production capacity of 200,000 vehicles. The total cost is nearly $400 million, and this is one of them. A total of $300 million was invested in the development of the Cherokee Jeep AMC and Renault, and the Cherokee has been very popular with buyers since it was put on the market, winning a lot of praise in the industry, and it has also filled the gap in the family jeep market! Claire introduced to Lin Qiangsheng that he also has the intention of raising the price for AMC, although there are not many things that AMC can get his hands on now!

The workers on the production line were surprised to see a yellow man, accompanied by Vice President Claire. They began to talk to each other, and some even began to make all kinds of noises loudly. In short, the work attitude is very careless.

Lin Qiangsheng asked Claire, "Workers are usually like this?" ”

Claire said embarrassedly: "No, maybe they are, a little hungry!" ”

There is a 12-hour time difference between Hong Kong and New York, and it is almost lunch break at this time, Lin Qiangsheng nodded with a smile and said, "Let's go and take a look at the car production workshop, right?" ”

Claire nodded. said: "Please come here, it's in another factory, but it's not far away!" ”

The three of them drove to another AMC factory, which covers a large area, but that's not all. Because the two companies were originally merged, and then the Jeep Company was acquired, which is equivalent to three factories.

A few people walked into the workshop, Lin Qiangsheng found that it was much more dilapidated, the carelessness and impatience of the workers could be seen from the faces, and the work attitude was not serious, in short, both the environment and the workers here are very bad, it seems that AMC is indeed not good!

Claire told Johnson Lin: "This factory is a small and medium-sized sedan, and it was the production division of PACER until '79, it's a two-door compact car, and after '79 we started producing the AMCEagle model, which is a four-wheel drive sedan!" ”

They were in the assembly workshop at this time, and Lin Qiangsheng saw an Eagle on the shelf, its body looked very high, like a sedan pressed on an off-road vehicle!

"Like a crocodile standing up!" Lin Qiangsheng said exaggeratedly.

"Haha, this crocodile is fierce, stay away, yellow man!" A tall and strong man with a very thick beard on his chin looked at Lin Qiangsheng with disdain and said with a laugh.

Lin Qiangsheng smiled, and stood in front of the assembler, the originally tall strong man immediately widened his eyes, he himself was close to 1.88 meters tall, and he looked like a bear, but he didn't expect that the yellow man in front of him was taller than him, he looked very strong and powerful, and the white man stared straight at him with round eyes.

Lin Qiangsheng took the initiative to stretch out his hand and said with a smile: "Hello, my name is Johnson & Johnson, and I am very likely to become your boss in the future!" ”

In the whistle of the workers, the white man stretched out a wide fat palm, and as soon as he shook it, he pinched it vigorously, but no matter how hard he gritted his teeth, he couldn't pinch the yellow man's hand, as if he was holding an iron tong!

"Billy, give him some color!" Someone shouted, Claire was helpless to stand aside, these workers just need not to strike one by one, and now AMC can't control them.

Billy's face turned pale, but he still couldn't pinch Lin Qiangsheng's hands, and he gradually became a little angry.

Lin Qiangsheng kept laughing, he suddenly squeezed hard, Billy's hand suddenly felt a huge pain, and the sweat on his forehead dripped down.

Lin Qiangsheng shook it vigorously, Billy's hand was thrown out like a lead block, so as not to bring the big man down, the white man stared at the yellow man in horror, he clenched his fist hard to ease up, and at this time the surrounding shouting workers also stopped.

"Very good, Billy, your energy is not small, great!" Lin Qiangsheng laughed and patted the strong man's shoulder.

Claire was embarrassed and didn't know how to explain, Leon had been holding his shoulders and watching coldly, but Lin Qiangsheng was very normal, as if what had happened just now had not happened.

Claire finally thought of a topic and proposed to Lin Qiangsheng: "Mr. Lin, I can take you to visit the AMC Automobile Museum, where there are all the models since the establishment of AMC!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded and said, "Okay, I also want to see AMC's achievements!" ”

Claire eased her mood and was very happy, and took the two of them to the AMC car hall not far from the headquarters, where all the models of the car factory were located. The car hall is not very large, with large glass windows, the floor inside is all wooden floors, and the cars that have been polished and shiny are placed in the museum.

"I'll start with the last few years, and on your right hand is the Cherokee, which was actually born in 1974, but what you're seeing is a new small 4WD model from AMC by American standards!" Claire said.

Lin Qiangsheng nodded, the acquisition of AMC is actually for this company's four-wheel drive off-road technology, and the little Cherokee familiar to Chinese is in front of him.

Claire also introduced him to the Pacer model, which was discontinued in 1979, and the back of its ass looked like it had been slashed diagonally by a knife, and it was very wide and flat, which was very weird. The prototype of ACER, the villain in Cars 2, is AMCPacer, which was also a household name in the United States.

"At the beginning of AMC's existence, the managers decided that the company would avoid major automakers such as GM and Ford and focus on the production of small and medium-sized cars, and adopt a way to avoid competition. During the oil crisis in the 70s, AMC was indeed very brilliant, and the sales of Pacer models were very good, and it can be said that it reached a hot level! Claire said with a wistful look.

Leon said inappropriately: "This car is ugly!" ”

Claire smiled, and said with no shying back in her liking and disliking it: "It does seem to be true now, but Pacer's first two years of launch did sell well!" ”

"Unfortunately, AMC has put all its energy into small and medium-sized cars, and the technology is not as good as other car manufacturers, and I know that the Pacer was only produced for four years before it was discontinued!" Leon continued, with an indifferent expression.

Claire was silent, and Leon was right, it was precisely because of AMC's long-term focus on small and medium-sized sedans, although it avoided the three major American car giants, but in the mid-70s, it met another strong competitor, Japanese cars!

The Japanese man-made models are new, very cheap, and much more powerful than American cars in terms of fuel-saving technology and power, and the American car market has been severely impacted.

AMC, which also produces small and medium-sized cars, soon declined, sales fell sharply, which led to a decrease in investment in technology, and then a decline in sales, this is a dead loop, there is no market without innovation, AMC has been suppressed for so many years, either the three giants or Japanese car manufacturers, in rotation, they always seem to have no future, lack of investment in technology, old products, and now this company can only survive by producing French Renault models and OEM Chrysler cars.

The situation that Lin Qiangsheng encountered in the workshop just now was that it was due to AMC's business difficulties that the problem of wage arrears occurred, and the workers' work mood was not high, and even many workers took deliberate sabotage actions in production to retaliate against the company, which made AMC worse and had major problems with product quality! (To be continued.) )