"Speaking of Saab, it's a pity, damn the Americans ruined him......"

Heidi began to talk to Li Yifan about Saab's experience, but when it came to Americans, she gritted her teeth with hatred, and it could be seen that she had a lot of opinions about the Americans destroying Saab.

Through her explanation, Li Yifan roughly understood Sabo's past and present life.

The company made airplanes during World War II, and later switched to building cars.

Because of the seriousness and authenticity of the Nordic people, their cars have always been known for being solid and sturdy, but they were not well-known in the early days.

Until the seventies of the last century, when the whole world was experiencing the test of the oil crisis, the price of gasoline skyrocketed, so how to reduce the displacement of the car, while not weakening the power of the car, many car design companies in the world, are full of brains.

One of the first breakthroughs was Saab, who was the first to use the turbocharger used in the aircraft to the engine of the car, and once the new car was launched, it quickly shocked the world with its strong power and ultra-low fuel consumption at that time.

And soon became a world-renowned brand, and once became a best-selling car in Europe, and the Volkswagen was once powerless.

However, they did not have a good time for a few years, and soon the Japanese began to enter the automobile market, and the Japanese did not play turbo at that time, but they found another way to save fuel, that is, to reduce the weight of the body as much as possible.

However, Saab adheres to the European concept of car building, refuses to reduce the weight of the body, but also adds stiffeners to the body to ensure the safety and safety of the body.

It stands to reason that Saab's intentions are correct. But they are missing a crucial point. That's that most people are quite short-sighted animals.

If on the one hand. If you can let them see the benefits quickly, then they will forget the benefits that this brings to them, and it will bring them harm in another way.

Japanese cars are successful, although the driving experience is average, but for most people, the car is used to buy groceries and commute to work, and most people are not race car drivers. So why are you doing it so fast and so sturdy?

At this time, the Germans also followed in the footsteps of the Japanese, so Saab soon entered a period of downturn, although later also relied on the continuous introduction of new technologies, several times back to the light, but it has completely lost the original market brother's scenery, can only be reduced to a second-rate niche brand.

In 1990, Saab was reorganized, and the company's general stake was acquired by General Motors of the United States, which shouted the slogan of global integration. Began its global expansion with the acquisition of a 50% stake in Saab. Make them the largest shareholder of Saab.

At that time, Saab was still able to adhere to its own characteristics, retain its own personality, and launched several cars in a row, all of which maintained their true colors and maintained their position in the market.

Although it is not a big hit, it is not starving to death.

But during this time, GM's life was not very easy, because the step was too big, and he accidentally pulled the egg, so GM fell into losses for many years.

In order to maximize the cost of R&D, GM has shouted the slogan of platformization, modeling, and plate R&D.

This was the beginning of global consolidation, and at this time, they acquired 45 percent of Saab's shares, and became the absolute power within Saab.

So they began to reform Saab in a big way, and the global unified platform meant that Saab had to abandon the chassis of its own character, the unified procurement products sent by GM, and the appearance design.

In order to save costs, they no longer developed and manufactured their own turbochargers, but adopted low-cost Mitsubishi blowers.

In order to save the design of the new car, GM gave them a Subaru platform at the right time, and the new car 92-X developed by relying on this platform received unanimous bad reviews as soon as it was launched, and it was nicknamed Subaru's 92-X by many car enthusiasts.

Later, a new SUV was launched, but because it used GM's SUV platform, it was also ridiculed as GM's reshell product.

In this way, Saab's market positioning is gradually becoming more and more blurred, and it is becoming more and more niche in the market, and it is less and less accepted by consumers.

By the first half of this year, they had fallen into a state of loss for several consecutive years, and it was a serious loss.

GM is also very scratching its head about the current situation of Saab, and the shareholders have proposed to stop the production of Saab at the shareholders' meeting and sell the brand.

After listening to Heidi's words, Li Yifan understood Saab's past and current situation, and it seems that the life of this car company is not easy, but it seems to provide himself with an opportunity to pick up cheap.

"In fact, Saab's turbocharging technology, they can definitely be said to be the No. 1 in the turbocharged engine industry, and even in some aspects, they are far stronger than Bosch."

When Heidi said this, she said it categorically, and Li Yifan was also interested.

For Saab, one of his few memories is that after GM went bankrupt, he had to get rid of the company, and when he bought it, he almost stripped off the company's main technical assets, leaving only some scraps to be thrown into the market.

Even in this industry, there are still many domestic companies that are eager to buy these scraps and are willing to spend a lot of money to buy them.

At that time, many knowledgeable people scoffed at such behavior, and Li Yifan, who was half an industry insider, of course knew why those state-owned enterprises wanted to break their heads to grab those broken things.

It is nothing more than operating in the dark box, spending a lot of money, buying back some bad goods, anyway, the reputation is to win glory for the country, state-owned enterprises go out, fed up with foreign-funded enterprises, and buy a lot of technical information.

In fact, everyone knows very well what is going on, it is nothing more than a feast for some corrupt officials and corrupt officials to fill their pockets.

Although a few years later, Saab borrowed the corpse in China in the name of Kunbao, but consumers did not pay for this niche brand, and the design was ugly.

And what kind of chassis, engine and the like are very, but after all, it was a rag thing from more than ten years ago, and now you can only fool the layman.

However, at the beginning of the 21st century, Saab did not stop production, so their engine technology, although they dare not say that it is the world's leading, still retains the uniqueness of being anxious.

"Especially their Trionic engine management system, which has always been their specialty. You must know that many car companies in the world are reluctant to engage in such technology development, because this kind of data accumulation is too time-consuming and labor-intensive, so everyone generally buys Bosch or Delphi ECU systems to match their own engines. But Saab has always insisted on taking the route of its own research and development. Because they have a creed, that is, they know themselves best, and they should still be themselves, so in terms of engine control system, they have been insisting on their own research and development, and this insistence is 30 years......"

Heidi seems to have a lot of affection for Saab, and tells Sabo's story like a treasure.

Li Yifan doesn't have so many feelings for Saab, and he won't be sentimental because of the brand's business dilemma.

All he's focusing on now is the Trionic engine management system that Heidi said, and Saab has been insisting on it for thirty years, doesn't that sound like a bull's deal!

Now this company is so bad, then use your brains from them, hehe!

"The Trionic engine management system is unique in that it is specifically designed for turbocharged engines, which accurately understands the driver's intentions and controls the temperature response of the entire engine start-up process and components, while improving torque and throttle responsiveness. That's why I'm telling you that this system is the most critical asset of the turbocharged engine. ”

Holy, such a?

When Li Yifan heard this, he was surprised at the same time, and his psychology also blossomed, and he was in a groove, what he thought was difficult to get was desperate, but he thought of Heidi's unintentional words, but it made him feel like a village.

Even if you can't get turbochargers and technology from the Yankees, it's a good idea to fight Saab.

"And the most unique thing about this system is that it can minimize the turbo hysteresis effect, you must know that Saab is the first to play turbocharging technology, and the advantages and disadvantages of turbochargers are the most clear. Therefore, the Trionic engine management system developed independently by them has a very unique response to the hysteresis effect of the turbocharger, which can judge the intervention of the turbo through the temperature monitoring of various parts of the engine, the speed and so on, so as to achieve the turbine can maintain the best working condition at any time when the engine is working. ”

Damn, this is not an ordinary cow break, this is just a special cow break!

When Li Yifan heard this, he could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart.

As a person who has come over, no one knows better than him that the shortcomings of turbocharged engines are the turbo hysteresis effect that has been criticized by countless people.

At the beginning of the engine start, because the speed cannot be increased, the output power is not enough, and the exhaust gas discharged is not enough to drive the turbine blades, so that the turbine rotation is sluggish, and it cannot intervene in the work of the engine at the first time, and the purpose of outputting large torque at low speed cannot be achieved.

This is the turbo hysteresis effect, in the era of the large-scale arrival of turbocharging in the future, I don't know how many manufacturers will be stumped by a problem, I didn't expect that Saab has solved a problem so early.

This seems to be yesterday's yellow flower, Saab's attraction to him has increased a lot. (To be continued......)