What do we do now? Steve looked at his boss expectantly, hoping that his omnipotent boss would come up with a solution to the problem at this time, just as he was in the development process of Qualcomm, every time Qualcomm encountered a serious problem, he could think of a solution to the problem.

After thinking about it for a long time, Owen. Jacob slowly asked Steve, "Help me contact Mr. Lin." ”

"Mr. Lin has gone to the United States."

The news from Lianchuang Technology made Owen. Jacob was directly stunned on the spot, and the next moment, an irrepressible anger rose: Went to the United States? How did I not know? You're negotiating with me, don't you know, at such an important time, you actually left what you were doing and went to the United States?

If it is according to Owen. Jacob's temperament in the past, he hung up the phone unceremoniously: Who do you think you are? But at this critical moment when it comes to Qualcomm's future, Owen. Jacob's teeth were about to be crushed, but he didn't make this move after all, took a deep breath, and asked the staff in a deep voice: "Did Mr. Lin say what he was doing in the United States?" ”

"Our boss went to the United States to attend the completion ceremony of a prototype of a car." On the phone, the staff's tone was very polite, but there was a thick and unconcealed pride in the tone.

"Prototype?" Irving. Jacob's head couldn't turn for a while: Isn't Lianchuang Technology an electronics company, when did it get involved with things like cars again?

"Our company and Ford Motor Co., Ltd. have partnered to develop a car." The pride in the tone of the staff member who answered the phone, this pride. Irving. Jacob could clearly feel it even from thousands of kilometers of telephone lines, and he didn't know what to say for a while in the face of this news.

For Qualcomm. The significance of the SMS machine is huge, and it is the key to quickly opening up the situation, but for Lianchuang Technology, this is nothing at all. Jacob already knew that the production capacity of Lianchuang Technology's factories had been expanded to the limit to meet the growing market demand. The plan to build a new factory has been completed, and I am afraid that the officials responsible for attracting investment in various provinces have stepped on the threshold of Lianchuang Technology, for Lianchuang Technology. Maybe they don't care about a partner like themselves, right?

Think about your previous reserve and tsundere, even Owen. Jacob himself thought it was particularly ridiculous: what is there to be reserved, so arrogant?

Owen suddenly woke up. Jacob took a deep breath and asked the other party, "Did you Mr. Lin say when you will come back?" ”

"I can't say for sure, how can I know about the boss?" The words of the staff are not leaky.

Hang up the phone. Irving. Jacob was stunned for a moment. Only then did he smile bitterly and shook his head: It seems that he needs to call Lin Zheng in person.

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"This car is good, it looks much better than the renderings." Looking at the two cars in front of him, Lin Zheng nodded again and again, very satisfied with the results.

Placed in Lin Zheng and Bill. The two cars in front of Ford are smartforfour and smartfortwo, corresponding to the four-door four-seater version and the two-door two-seater version respectively, both cars have a roof that can be removed by hand, and the operation is very easy, and it takes less than 2 minutes to easily make this exquisite car freely switch between the hardtop and the convertible.

"It's beautiful indeed. I can't wait to buy one. "Bill. Gates nodded repeatedly: "It's much more refined than the concept car shown by Mercedes." ”

These words made Lin Zheng laugh secretly in his heart: Can it not be more exquisite than Mercedes's smart? This car is the latest generation of smart, known as the king of mini cars in the A00 class. Especially since the imminent launch of the four-door and four-seater version of the SmartForfor, this car is considered to have the opportunity to impact the market position of the mini, a "luxury car with car functions".

"How long will the next drive test take?" Lin Zheng asked.

Road test is an indispensable part of any car in the formal mass production, the stability of the body and chassis, the maneuverability of the vehicle, the various components of the vehicle in a variety of different terrain, different road conditions and different climatic conditions can be used normally, these are not tested in the real room, you must run it yourself, rich car manufacturing companies will even make a number of cars at one time and transport them to all over the world, respectively, test vehicles in different terrains, Performance in different climatic and regional conditions.

If you really plan to do this, the number of engineers that need to be equipped for each team is a huge number, not to mention the relationship between all aspects that need to be coordinated. Lin Zheng can't afford this kind of local tyrant's practice, and since he can't afford to play it, he has to use the poor man's approach: the personnel work harder.

"At least a year," said Bill, a child of a family of cars. Ford simply opened his mouth to the question: "City, country, desert, snow...... All the terrain and climate have to be run again, there is no such a long time to run down at all, if a qiē ideal then it can be listed, if there are some problems in it and then adjust, the time is not easy to say, if there is any heavy dà safety design hidden danger......"

Lin Zheng listened to the tooth and tooth flower: That's right, if there is really a hidden danger in terms of safety, maybe it won't be able to be solved in two years.

However, although he knew that this year was simply burning money, Lin Zheng also knew that this was an indispensable part of any car before it was officially launched, so he nodded and said, "It will take another year...... Now there is only one way to wish us a qiē shun lì? ”

"That's all there is to it." Bill. Ford shrugged. What else can you do but do that?

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However, although it can not be listed, it feels good to try it in the field, as the initiator of this project, Lin Zheng naturally takes the lead, a lap down, Lin Zheng is very satisfied with the performance of the car, although the rear engine makes the noise in the cabin a little noisy, but the chassis structure of the front and rear MacPherson independent suspension with stable dìng rod makes the comfort of the car quite good, whether it is a paved road or a cobblestone road, the car is far superior to the A00 class miniatan in terms of chassis texture and comfort. The feeling of A0-class small cars and even A-class compact cars, the chassis gives people a fairly neat feeling, the only thing that makes Lin Zheng a little regretful is the sound insulation and noise reduction of the car and the feeling of direction, especially the direction, the road sense is too blurred.

As the chief designer, Waldegard also has his own difficulties, he said to his boss with a wry smile: "Boss, this really can't be helped, considering the future market price of this car, this is already the limit of what we can do, if we want to provide better noise control level and direction feel, the cost will increase by at least 500 US dollars......"

$500 is not much, but it is a number that cannot be ignored for such a low-priced miniature car.

"It's me who is asking too much," Lin Zheng nodded to show that he could understand, but he also put forward his own opinion: "But can we launch a high-end model and make this qiē as good as possible?" For example, this high-end version is called the sports version? ”

"That's right......" Waldegard and Balcas looked at each other and nodded together: "It should be possible!" ”

As long as the cost problem can be solved, it is not any problem, after so many years in the car industry, Waldegard and Balcas naturally understand very well, the only problem is to think more about the price of this high-end model, but this is not a thing, the serious is to show the attitude in this way: we are not unable to build a good car, but limited to cost considerations, we can only do this way.

"That's good," Lin Zheng nodded, and turned his head to look at Bill again. Ford: "Bill, look? ”

Ford Motor is one of the shareholders of Tesla, although this decision is not beyond the scope of Lin Zheng's authority, but out of respect for the shareholders, I asked for Bill. Ford's opinion is also as it should be.

Bill. Ford naturally didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and nodded with a smile: "I think it's good, too." ”

And so it was settled.

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Bill. After Ford left, Waldegard and Balcas took Lin Zheng to a warehouse, and opened a specially separated room in the warehouse, in which three steel benches were placed on top of three engines, in addition to the three engines placed on the test bench, in the open space next to them, there were also 24 engines neatly placed, all of which were equipped with matching gearboxes, and it seemed that they could be loaded and used at any time.

Pointing to the three engines on the bench, Waldegard and Balcas's faces flushed with excitement: "Boss, this is the engine we developed, and the three engines you asked for are here." ”

"Success?" Lin Zheng's voice trembled a little.

The most important thing for Lin Zheng to come to the United States this time is to look at the three engines jointly "developed" by Barkas and Waldegard.

"It's a success, all the engines have been tested and tested according to the program, and the durability, reliability and stability have met your requirements," said Waldegard, rubbing his hands, as if he couldn't calm himself down without this: "The only problem now is how to solve the problem of mass industrial production." (To be continued......)