If you just get their turbocharged engine and transmission information, it will be enough for Li Yifan to be happy.

But after collecting detailed information about Sabo, Li Yifan's ambition can no longer be suppressed, Heidi is really his lucky star, she casually made a proposal to herself, and now it seems that she has actually dug up a gold mine.

Because after a detailed understanding, he found that although the current Saab is in decline, the treasure in their pockets is far more than that, that is, the turbocharged engine management system and the R&D and manufacturing technology of automatic transmission.

They have a lot of other treasures, and since GM hasn't completely lost their minds to them yet, they've also sent Sabo a lot of good things.

Saab has also assembled a lot of new cars through common things, although it is not very recognized by fans of Saab's tradition, but you can't deny that those are good things.

For example, the EPSILON platform sent to them by GM last year, this platform may not be very famous now, but if you inquire a few years later, you will find that there are countless classic models, in fact, they were born on this platform.

For example, Chevrolet Maruibu, Opel Insubal, Buick Regal, LaCrosse, etc., are all industry leaders born on this platform!

This shows the degree of bull breaking of this platform.

Of course, this is only the first generation of the EPSILON platform, but as long as you can get this platform, it is equivalent to mastering the key to later improvements.

The so-called platform mainly refers to the basic design of the skeleton of a car, and its essence is actually the use of a large number of common parts. Adopt similar chassis, body structure, driving structure, similar production process, wheelbase, engine arrangement, steering mechanism, suspension, etc. Once their relative position and structure have been determined, they cannot be changed.

From a professional point of view. The platform is a series of automobile development and production technologies, and the same set of vehicle development technologies can be applied to different models, derived or derived from multiple models.

The definition of "platform" is that "the general assembly point of the automobile is the basis of the car", if the assembly point falls on the basis of the same position, it means that different models can theoretically be produced on the same production line, so as to save the cost of design and development.

The concept of a platform is general and not a physical concept.

The platform concept is mainly embodied in the design and development stage. Due to the adoption of existing "templates" in R&D, not only the cycle of vehicle R&D has been shortened, but also the production cost has been greatly reduced by sharing parts, and the technical advantages of existing excellent models have been extended to other more models.

The platform is not equal to the chassis and suspension, let alone the production line, but the platform includes the chassis and suspension, and the same production line may produce products of different platforms, a production line may not be able to produce products of the same platform, and the models of the same platform do not necessarily represent the homogenization of products.

Therefore, today's world-class car companies attach great importance to the platform, because it is the most basic engineering system to build a car.

Many models of Volkswagen. They are all based on their PQ platform, and many of GM's models are also based on the epsilon platform.

And in the Hereafter. This platform can definitely be regarded as a well-known platform.

The chassis it contains, as well as the suspension, and the tuning of the system, are very critical, if you master this platform, then it means that the future Chenhua Automobile, on the basis of this platform, has developed countless models.

And a car company, in every update, will develop a new platform, and a platform will be used on the production line for at least ten years, or even longer, before it will be updated.

If he can get GM's epsilon platform from Saab's hands this time, it means that he has laid the foundation for his Chenhua Automobile Company in the next ten years.

You must know that an automobile platform is as important to a car company as it is to come back from the dead.

Li Yifan asked people to engage in Mazda's chassis technology before, but in fact, the main purpose was to go to the CD-3 platform jointly developed by them and Ford.

In the next ten years, the CD-3 platform, GM's epsilon platform, and Volkswagen's PQ platform, are known as the three major platforms of the world's car companies.

Almost most of the world's cars, except for Japanese and Korean cars, are almost born from these platforms, and even if they are not, they are quite related to these platforms.

Now Chenhua Automobile Company, the platform used in the Junjie and Zunchi models that will be put into production is a miscellaneous brand of products, and the source of the platform is the eighth-generation Grand from Mitsubishi, Japan.

At that time, Yang Rong relied on his special relationship with Japanese car manufacturers to introduce van manufacturing technology from Toyota, and when he wanted to enter the field of family cars, the first thing he thought of was Japan's Mitsubishi.

Mitsubishi's Grant is a well-known EVO under their company, which is actually a variant of the Grant platform, which shows the excellence of this platform.

At that time, Yang Rong spent more than 62 million US dollars on the platform from Mitsubishi, but the Japanese would definitely not be so kind, and they gave Yang Rong's platform a lot of fine-tuning, so that the performance of this platform was greatly reduced.

Yang Rong didn't know it at the beginning, but after the platform was in hand in 98, he excitedly asked the car factory to build a new car based on the basis of this platform for a test drive, and he couldn't help but be disappointed.

The performance of the new car is very poor, especially in terms of road feel.

The chassis tuning of the car is nothing more than two aspects, the tuning is harder, that is, it is biased towards control, and the tuning is softer, that is, it is biased towards comfort, these two are very contradictory to emphasize one side, and the other must be abandoned.

A truly powerful car is able to find a very suitable balance between these two characteristics, and the balance point is different for each model from different platforms.

The first generation of Zunchi, after it was manufactured, the road sense was very blurry, and the two ends were not in tune.

In the end, Yang Rong had no choice but to spend tens of millions of dollars to invite Zugano, an Italian designer who had designed models for BMW, Lexus, and Hyundai, to help redesign the shape and platform of the car.

Later, it cost tens of millions of dollars to invite Giugiaro's ItalDesign to participate in the design, and the redesign of the vehicle platform was completed in just two years.

Then it took 100 million dollars to introduce a complete set of pure German equipment for the production of parts, which gave birth to the later Junjie and Zunchi platforms.

However, Yang Rong, who strives for perfection, is still not satisfied with the new generation of Chinese cars produced in 2000, so he spent a lot of money and specially invited a team of chassis tuning engineers from his partner Porsche to tune the chassis of the Chinese car, which created the chassis of the later China Junjie.

Although this is a miscellaneous product, her performance should not be underestimated.

In the previous life, after Chenhua Automobile was taken over by the Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, it used the legacy left by Yang Rong to complete the production of Junjie and Zunchi, and took Zunchi cars to Germany for testing.

Germany's "Auto Illustrated" has conducted an elk test on Brilliance Zunchi, and in the test, Zunchi without ESP easily completed the elk test at normal speed (70-80km/h).

The testers increased the entry speed to 100km/h, Zunchi can still be successfully completed, which once caused a sensation in Germany at that time, you must know that without the assistance of ESP, Zunchi can complete the elk test of 100km/h into the speed of the vehicle is simply unbelievable, you must know that in the world famous cars at that time, there are few that can complete such conditions of testing.

And an obscure Chinese enterprise actually did it, do you think this can cause a sensation.

The success of this test also greatly increased the confidence of Chenhua's leaders at that time, and even shouted the slogan of exporting 100,000 cars to Germany every year in the future.

The facts that followed proved that the leader was a complete joke.

In the later stage, the company's internal management was chaotic, and most people only cared about fighting for power and profit, and had no intention of grasping production and quality control.

Such a mentality quickly led to the decline in the quality of Chenhua automobiles, and it was soon driven out of the European market.

And after Chenhua Automobile, it has been relying on eating the old money left by Yang Rong to live, even in 06 years, they launched a new generation of Junjie, once refreshed the Chinese people's perception of domestic intermediate cars.

However, the attitude of not seeking progress, mixed with the work mood of one day at a time, soon made the former domestic industry proud, and quickly sank.

And the set of platforms left by Yang Rong, although it is a miscellaneous brand, has been used by Chenhua Automobile.

But how can a mature automobile company rely on just one platform?

Since he came to Baoshan, how could he return empty-handed, Sabo has so many good things in his pocket, but these lazy guys will only storm the heavens.

In line with the idea of not taking it for nothing, Li Yifan decided that he must not let go of this platform.

Anyway, those who are engaged in automobiles are not afraid of too much technology, not to mention the accumulation of technology in China for so many years, all of which are blank.

Get these technologies back by yourself, and then get quite a lot of technologies back from other places, and then let those engineers explore and knead them all to understand and learn all these technologies, so that they can form their own characteristics.

That's not what the Japanese did back then, and the same was true for the Koreans, when they humbly invited Mercedes-Benz, not just for the Mercedes-Benz platform, and chassis technology, and when they learned their hands, they didn't kick it away, but unfortunately they still underestimated the Germans, but they learned it themselves.

In the end, they had to rely on the platform technology imported from Japan to survive, and the Koreans couldn't go through the road again, so they had to let the technicians understand it after they went back. (To be continued......)