Chapter 255: Road Test
Lin Qiangsheng soon announced at the school that in order to make more people rich, he planned to provide a small amount of 100 yuan ~ 1000 yuan to those who were interested in opening a store to start a business.
The two sides will distribute 70% of the shares of the school and 30% of the individual, and the school will help the individual to handle the business license, store decoration, personnel recruitment and other work, and will also help the individual to purchase equipment and supplies and other business materials.
The specific implementation measures were posted on the advertising board at the entrance of the teaching building, which attracted the attention of many students. At first, people didn't know what the terms "entrepreneurship", "investment", and "shares" meant, but soon after a literal understanding and some discussion, they understood.
"Seventy-three points, it's really dark enough!" Some students shook their heads and sighed.
As Lin Qiangsheng thought, there are really many people who have the idea of opening a small shop after learning the craft, and many people are thinking about where to make some money after completing their studies, and they are starting to plan now.
After paying the tuition fee, the students are also under a lot of pressure, first of all, they are thinking about how to earn the tuition fee in the future, many of them are also unemployed people who have no job, and the greater the expectation, the greater the pressure. There are many people who come here to learn the craft with the expectation of their relatives and the eyes of their neighbors, and Lin Qiangsheng's decision still makes many people feel relieved, anyway, this is a safety rope.
"Principal Lin is a good person, don't say that! Who can lend you $100 this year? Are you worth $100? What's more, it also says that you can invest up to 1,000 yuan, what should you do if you lose it? It's not Principal Lin's! Someone else said for Lin Qiangsheng.
"Phew, you're going to pay for it!"
"Ha" The people around them all smiled when they heard their bickering.
Lin Qiangsheng's move still caused waves in the hearts of many people, not to mention that the help of this business license made everyone pay attention.
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Eriksson contacted more than a dozen former SAAB employees who were either company managers or technical engineers. All of them are retirees, and 7 of them are willing to visit Ben Thanh.
After the seven arrived in Bencheng on December 30, Lin prepared a small welcome ceremony in the Swedish style, and then let them go to work the next day.
The Swedes didn't think it was inappropriate, on the contrary, the seven old men in their 60s were quite satisfied with this set, as for sightseeing or something, there were weekends.
January 3, 1981. It took nearly half a month for Lin Qiangsheng to transport back 12 vehicles from the United States, which traveled thousands of miles from Los Angeles to DL Port and then transported to Bincheng by rail.
In recent years, the joint ventures of foreign-funded companies have preferential policies for duty-free automobile imports, although this has greatly encouraged these companies to import a large number of cars for sale, but Lin Qiangsheng does not want to do this, and these 12 cars are not for sale. He didn't make that much money by running a car company himself, the key was that he didn't want Bincheng to be flooded with a large number of imported cars, that would be too much of a failure!
Five of the 12 cars had familiar looks, similar to those of the sedan that was popular in the era. The boxy body is decent. The difference is that there are four cars with bull head logos inlaid on the front, and these five cars are the famous Camry in Toyota's history!
Although all five cars are Camry, there are noticeably some differences. Four of the larger models belong to the mid-to-high-end sedans, and the paint is available in four colors, black, white, dark gray, and brown. The four cars were copied and improved from the Camry at the LS Automotive Institute in Los Angeles, and he had engineers working on it for a long time, but it was only recently that the technology for the car was finalized.
Exactly. This Camry actually belongs to the second generation of products, and of course it is the starting point of Camry. The fifth red sedan was much smaller. This is the Celica launched by Toyota Japan this year? Camry, this was the first generation of the Camry, and now it's just a side branch of the Celica family of civilian sports cars. This Celica? The Camry sedan still has the Toyota FR tradition, with a front-rear-wheel drive layout. The size of the body and space is much smaller than that of the second generation, and it is a veritable small car.
Improvements were made on one model and many side models were developed. Many manufacturers do this, and the most successful one here is the Toyota Camry. In the 21st century, Camry has sold more than 25 million units worldwide!
Now, Johnson Lin's four modified Camry have abandoned the Celica? Camry's sports car style has re-chosen the platform to transform into a mid-to-high-end official car. It adopts the FF front-wheel drive system. With a wheelbase of 2,600 mm, the interior space has been significantly improved, while comfort and practicality have also been upgraded.
The car is available with a choice of 1.8-liter and 2.0-liter inline-four engines, combined with a five-speed manual or a four-speed automatic transmission. Automotive engineers also added comfort-enhancing features such as center armrests and electronics, as well as changes to the front and rear light clusters. The rearview mirror of the sedan has also been moved from the front hood to the front door, and the chrome bull head logo on the radiator grille is unusually shiny!
Lin Qiangsheng is overjoyed every time he sees this car logo, it is good to come early! This car logo was preemptively registered by him, and I don't know what Toyota will use as a car logo in the future!
Kiichiro Toyoda founded Toyota Motor Corporation in August 1937 and used his surname as the company's name and trademark. In the early days of the Toyota brand car trademark, the first capital letter "T" of "TOYOTA" pinyin was marked on the engine radiator grille, and the pinyin form of the company name "TOYOTA" was marked on the front or rear of the car.
Toyota in the 80s has not yet found its own trademark, sometimes its sedan is marked with "T" on the front and "TOYOTA" pinyin at the tail, and sometimes it is not marked with "T" on the front of the car, but directly in the lower right corner of the grille is marked with a small pinyin that is not clear if you don't look carefully.
Toyota is so pitiful now, it can't even find a logo that suits its own company. Thinking of this, Lin Qiangsheng was very happy, and he couldn't wait to laugh out loud a few times to express his feelings.
Among the 12 sedans, there are also 5 black sedans, all five of which are of the same style, the luxury Lexus LS400!
The car has been tuned in the United States for more than half a year. For the sake of technical secrecy, the five LS400s will be equipped with some external structures, so that people cannot see their own appearance.
Five cars will depart from Bincheng, go north to Heihe, then south to Mudanjiang, and then drive west through several provinces and cities to Langfang, and then drive north to Gansu. Then go south to Shaanxi, go to Sichuan, then walk south, and finally return to Bincheng.
At present, there is no highway in China, not to mention Lin Qiangsheng's regulations that it cannot pass through major cities, so that the total test mileage will reach more than 150,000 kilometers. On the way, two maintenance vehicles, a bus, and a half-loaded fuel truck followed. All five cars had batteries on them, and each car had a microcomputer without a display to collect data.
For this test operation, Lin Qiangsheng will dispatch no less than 20 automotive engineering and technical personnel and maintenance personnel to track and maintain the vehicle. The total cost will also exceed one million yuan, which is absolutely unimaginable in this era in China to spend so much money just for road tests. Of course. It's a lot cheaper than abroad.
When Lin Qiangsheng's actions were reported to Li Gang and asked him to report to Rao Bin to cooperate with his car for testing, the old factory director had a shocked expression on his face.
In any case, knowing that it was a car to be tested in China, this rare thing was quickly reported to Minister Rao Bin of the Ministry of Industry.
After Minister Rao heard the news, in addition to being surprised, he was happy to see that the large-scale road test of the new car was not news abroad, but it was definitely the first time in China. Rao Bin quickly thought about whether China could learn advanced experience from the road test work of foreign vehicles.
For this test. Lin Qiangsheng also hired five test drivers from the United States, and their salaries reached $400 a day. The original $300 salary in the United States for road testers is also considered a high salary. But the five of them came to China and charged an extra $100.
Lin Qiangsheng thought that the driving conditions in China were not optimistic, and the road traffic was relatively backward, and the five of them also promised to hand over their skills to the Chinese drivers, so he thought about it and agreed.
Now it is the coldest time of winter, the further north it goes, the colder it gets, in the low temperature environment of minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius in Heihe. It's also a big test for these five Lexus LS400s!
The five test drivers from the United States actually felt more unique, and they came to unfamiliar China for road test work, which is definitely the talk of their lives!
The last two of the 12 sedans, one is the first-generation Cadillac Seville that Lin bought in the United States, and was equipped with more than 30 patented technologies when it was created in 1976. It became the technical benchmark among the luxury cars of the year. At present, the technology on this Saiwei car is still not lagging behind, and it is also a common practice to transplant technology from luxury cars.
The other is the Mercedes-Benz W126, the sixth-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class. The series originally consisted of 7 models including 280se, 380se and 500sel, and this one ordered by Lin Qiangsheng was the most classic Mercedes-Benz 500seL (extended) long-wheelbase model. The launch of the sixth-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class defined a new standard for luxury cars in the 80s.
The corner of the black door has an ABS logo, a technology that Mercedes-Benz began using on the fifth-generation S-Class. The 5.0-litre V8 engine has a maximum power of 241 hp (177 kW) at 4,750 rpm and a maximum torque of 404 N.m at 3,200 rpm, mated to a 4-speed automatic gearbox, for a top speed of 225 km/h.
The two luxury cars attracted attention as soon as they were unveiled in Ben Thanh, because the other 10 cars were pulled back to the new industrial area by truck, and the body was covered with canvas, making it look mysterious. And these two cars were driven by Lin Qiangsheng and Lin Xiang himself, and Lin Xiang was also the first time to touch this kind of luxury car.
Lin Qiangsheng previously told her that the Cadillac Saiwei actually cost more than 14,000 US dollars, and when she sat in the cab of this car, its luxurious interior suddenly made Lin Xiang almost unable to drive.
"Didi!" Lin Qiangsheng drove a Mercedes-Benz W126, and the long and wide black body slowly slid to the left side of Saiwei.
"Let's go, sister! What to see? Lin Qiangsheng pressed an electric control button on the driver's instrument, and the right window automatically descended, and the car was actually equipped with a door central control system.
"Wait! Brother, this car of yours is too high-end, my sister can't drive it! Lin Xiang had tears in her eyes, and she didn't know where to put her hand, so she said to Lin Qiangsheng through the car glass.
Lin Qiangsheng smiled, this was the first time he saw his sister so overwhelmed, and she was actually made to cry by a car! (To be continued......)