Chapter 343: They are all singing about the wind and the coquettishness
Volkswagen of Germany is still launching their continuation models this year, to say that Volkswagen's models are really lackluster, in addition to the Golf as the main product, other models such as POLO, Passat B2 (Santana), Jetta are almost Golf's padded models, they are all operating with the afterglow of Golf and the conservative style of Europeans.
The only highlight of Volkswagen at this year's show was that they introduced a small steel cannon model with a road race concept, an improved version of the first generation of the Golf GTI!
In other words, there are really no highlights in this company, a car is reversed and repeatedly pulled Volkswagen people are tired of it, but the amazing thing is that Volkswagen's sales in Europe are still very good, it's really a dog!
On the basis of the Golf, Volkswagen lowered the chassis ground clearance by using 20 mm shortened springs and corresponding shock absorbers, retuned the suspension system, increased the engine displacement in terms of power (such as 1.6L instead of 1.8L), used a complex Weber double throat carburetor in the fuel supply system, equivalent to two fuel supply devices, and equipped it with the exhaust system of a sports car. This is the second generation of the Golf steel cannon, which has no characteristics. Volkswagen shamelessly named this car the Performance Sports Golf, which was originally a joke, and the designers were drinking coffee and eating cake while considering the design!
Volkswagen's fate is too good, this car originally they only wanted to produce 5,000 units, but what designers and Volkswagen decision-makers did not expect was that the Golf GTI was warmly welcomed after its launch, and sales reached new highs, and the original production plan of 5,000 units has long been replaced by expanding production again and again!
Conservative Europeans saw this little steel cannon and immediately stood tall. It's trendy, and in their opinion, the configuration of this car is so "amazing"!
Surprised? Who is surprised that a small car with a large displacement has made Europeans fanatical, and their G-spot is really low!
Let's talk about the G-spot. Also first proposed by the Germans!
Aside from Volkswagen, BMW has launched the second-generation 3 Series sedan E30, in terms of appearance, the second-generation 3 Series adopts a wedge-shaped body design with a low front and high rear, which has a better aerodynamic effect and a larger interior space. Furthermore. Engineers are paying more and more attention to lightweight design, and the car also uses a lot of lightweight materials, which reduces the weight of the body by 30 kilograms, resulting in better fuel economy!
What makes Lin Qiangsheng feel funny is the signboard-like front face of the BMW sedan, their kidney grille is now vertical, not kidneys but like two small nostrils hanging on the front of the car!
In addition, there was a special guy in the German Legion, Porsche Sports Cars, who brought the new 944 model, which was a small modification of the 942 model. It has a wedge-shaped design and a flat body.
There are also the delightful 911 sports cars, the regular 911 with a naturally aspirated engine, the slightly higher 911S, the 2.7-litre and 3.0-litre Carrera models, and the new 930 Turbo with a 3.0-litre turbocharged engine.
The 930Turbo model is very classic, and Lin Qiangsheng ordered five 930turbo in different colors in one go, burgundy, black, white, green, and dark gray.
Through so many observations, Lin Qiangsheng found that if you want to have high horsepower in the power system of the car, it is nothing more than to increase the number of cylinders and find ways to increase the exhaust gas circulation, and many sports car companies have come to the forefront in this regard. If they want to launch a high-performance sports car, they must focus on the research and development of the powertrain!
Compared to the German Legion, the Japanese Legion was even more massive. In the early seventies and eighties, Japanese automobiles were invincible in the U.S. market, and the U.S. auto industry was overwhelmed.
Nissan, Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Suzuki, Daihatsu, Isuzu, Fujifilm and other companies have brought their new cars or home models. Japan's auto industry is not only well-known to the Chinese people, but from the early 20th century to the 80s, Japan once developed hundreds of car brands, but most of the car factories have not survived to this day, many brands have closed down or been swallowed up.
What caught Lin Qiangsheng's attention was the facelift of the second-generation Accord launched by Honda, which was the first sedan produced by Honda Motor Company in the United States, with an engine displacement of 1751CC.
In order to cope with the high tariffs on American cars, Honda has long planned to open a factory in the United States. After the success of the first-generation Accord, the second-generation Accord was released in Japan and Europe in the fall of 1981. The following year, the second-generation Accord officially landed in the United States, and in the same year, Honda completed the construction of a factory in the United States and put into production the Accord, and the Accord entered the American market and was warmly welcomed by consumers. As a result, the Accord became the best-selling Japanese sedan in the American market in the first year of entering the American market, and this throne has been sitting for 15 years! At the same time, the Japanese Accord model was newly named the HondaVigor, and this is where the difference between Japanese and American specifications originated.
The second generation of the Honda Accord is about to become the biggest competitor to the Camry sedan launched by Johnson & Johnson, and it certainly takes it quite seriously. Fortunately, Honda will not be able to start production until the construction of the U.S. plant is completed in November, while Lin's plant in Georgia will be able to start production of new models in the near future.
It is an American-spec model produced in full accordance with American industrial standards, and then the domestic factories will gradually improve the product standards.
Lin Qiangsheng knows that it is very difficult, and it is a huge project, because he wants to abandon the low domestic standards in the manufacture of the underlying raw materials and adopt the high standards of the United States and Europe!
The American company Ford brought their American sports car, the two-door 82 version of the Mustang 5.0 third-generation Ford Mustang.
But in terms of the appearance design of this generation of Mustang, Ford has made it more and more popular, and this car will become more and more delicate and ordinary in future facelifts, which will definitely disappoint Mustang fans!
Pontiac, a well-known subsidiary of General Motors, unveiled a Pontiac Firebird at the Motor Show, with a wedge-shaped front end design that visually gives a strong sense of conflict, and you will feel like it could crash at any moment!
Maybe the name of this company and the name of the Firebird are not very well-known, but when you mention the American drama "Thunderbolt Ranger" that began to air in 82, you will definitely remember it vividly, and the protagonist Mike's car was modified from the Pontiac Firebird!
Of course, this car is even more famous in the United States, and I don't know how it got mixed with the nickname of a poor man's sports car!
There is also one of the longest-lived models in GM's history, the Buick Regal, and this car can be called an evergreen for GM!
The Buick Regal won two NASCAR constructors' championships in '81 and '82, but the most impressive was the GNX.
GNX is a special model in the Regal, its whole body is painted in black, even the wheels are black, the whole car gives people a feeling like a black. Help special vehicles. Black in a lot of America. You can see this car in gang movies and police movies, once the gangster characters are paired with this super cool special car, the combat effectiveness can directly explode!
The car is equipped with a 3.8LV6 turbocharged engine, which can already reach a maximum power of 240 to 270 horsepower. It is worth mentioning that this car is sold in a similar limited edition format, and each car has its own serial number engraved on the inside, so it is also highly collectible. The GNX001 is owned by Buick and exhibits at auto shows across the United States.
Lin Qiangsheng saw this car at the Frankfurt Motor Show and immediately ordered a black hot model, he imagined that he was wearing a dark suit, wearing big sunglasses, sitting in the car with a cigar in his mouth, and wearing a Rolex diamond watch on his wrist, patting the steering wheel without a match, that style is absolutely cool! (To be continued......)