Chapter 1256 - The Car That Was Smashed with Money

The company's new cars have already been tested on the road at the Nürburgring Nordschleife on the border between Germany and Belgium, where the track spans more than 20 kilometres, with 88 turns on the left and 84 turns on the right, running through the hills.

The roads are even tougher than the legendary mecca of motorsport, Mt. Akina, where major automakers like to test the performance of their new cars, going back and forth countless times until they can't find faults.

The main reason why this track test is held today is that Mr. Bob, the head of the development team, heard that the little boss was coming, and in his opinion, a quiet new car is not attractive when running on the track, and he is showing off to the little boss.

Developing a car is never easy, with sketching, tape pasting, 1:5 clay models, 3D scanning, Alias modeling, detailing, rendering, CNC manufacturing parts, and the headache of sanding and painting.

After that, it is necessary to prepare the production line, process selection, etc., and the investment is extremely huge.

Han Xuan spent money to hire a team from Boeing this time, and used the technology when designing the Boeing 777 aircraft to design cars, saving time and saving many processes through the "Fat Ding" supercomputer, which is why it was developed so quickly.

A total of six vehicles were developed at the same time, with the participation of almost all well-known universities and automotive industry research institutes around the world, codenamed "Optimus Prime", and a total cost of nearly 1.6 billion dollars was spent to build these cars and the supporting processes.

In order not to let the photos of the real car leak out, the new car bodies in front of them are pasted with very common zebra patterns, and the complex black and white patterns can interfere with people's sight, even if there are reporters standing next to them to take pictures.

When I was testing at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, in order to hide the real car, I even changed all the car logos to Porsche's, so that Porsche was confused and out of the limelight for a while, until someone remembered the cars that they had seen at the Snow Mountain Group press conference, and they knew that Porsche was lying down.

In fact, before the completion of the new car, the appearance of the secret is the best choice, copycat manufacturers do not need to be exactly the same, as long as the appearance meets 70%, the price is only one-fifth of the real car, you can seize a part of the market.

A few years ago, when Han Xuan announced the new car, he went through some consideration, so he told people about the new car model in advance.

In addition to raising the profile of its own Hans Automotive Group, it is also to curry favor with the existing major car companies and prevent them from joining forces to make trouble.

The automotive industry has an unspoken rule that has been passed down for decades, known as "planned design elimination", which is changed little by little, eliminating the old cars and invisibly making people chase after the purchase of new cars.

Han Xuan's design of several cars, at least ten years ahead of the automotive industry design style of this era, once suddenly launched and listed, will sweep the automotive industry today, breaking the existing unspoken rules.

And there are countless examples in history that can tell Han Xuan that those who dare to do this will never end well.

The automobile industry is one of the pillar industries of the country, and the energy of the shareholders behind those automobile companies is unimaginable.

So he unveiled a model of the car with only an empty shell a few years in advance, and told them that he would design a new car in this style, and gave the car manufacturers two or three years to prepare for the impact they caused.

As a consequence, in the past two years, major automobile manufacturers have also developed new cars like a competition, scolding Han Xuan with blood, and all of them have suffered heavy losses.

And speed up the speed of upgrading, usually most of them make a small change a year, a big change in five years, and now they are forced to press the bottom of the box technology, have taken out, every time a large auto show, you can always see a big change......

Han Xuan and his father, Han Qianshan, came to the prismatic grid-like fence.

The huge track is 12 meters wide, with a total of nearly 7 kilometers in total, showing a winding and closed shape, more like an F1 track, in fact, it is built to imitate the F1 track.

Several cars were racing around the track, and it was clear that the drivers were very skilled, and the lead was a new Aston Martin production car, drifting beautifully, the tires kicking off white mist on the ground, making a roar, and accelerating again.

This was followed by Aston Martin X.

"X" is the engineering codename, and it should be called the DB7-S, the upgraded model of the DB7.

The original design teams of Aston Martin and Rolls-Royce were moved to the United States, and when Maserati bought it, there was only an empty shell, and the original designers had been disbanded, and Han Xuan only needed the brand.

Executive Officer Kästen Müller said: "These two Maseratis, both of which are powered by V8 engines developed by our Rolls-Royce Automotive Engine Institute, are fantastic to hear.

Unfortunately, the V12 engine still has to be purchased from Germany, and the cost of developing the V12 engine is too high, only Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, and Bentley can use it, and it is better to purchase it from other manufacturers if it is used on a small scale. ”

At the beginning, Han Xuan wanted Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engine Company to set up an automobile power department to specialize in the development of automobile engines.

With Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engines' technology, it's not impossible, but it will take time, at least six years.

Han Xuan couldn't wait, so he proposed to cooperate with Cummins Inc. of the United States to transform the company's existing engine, and the patent fee paid for this was as high as 90 million US dollars.

Now these cars in front of him, except for Aston Martin's V12 engine, are purchased from the German BMW Group, and the rest are made by the Rolls-Royce Automotive Engine Research Institute established by Cummins.

Han Xuan had a smile on his face, even if there were black and white zebra prints on those bodies, he could see the smooth lines of the body, in his opinion, this should be the car, not the old antiques running around the street now.

He said to the executive of Kesten Müller: "After the acquisition of Lamborghini, we will bring us a V12 engine blueprint, and we will take the time to study it and digest the technology as soon as possible."

The engine is the heart of the car, no matter how much money is spent, you can't lag behind in this regard, don't worry, how much money is needed to tell the executive officer Anthony, now the head office is not short of money.

Where to get in? I want to try those cars for myself. ”

"Here, with the entrance in front, I used to drive the new Aston Martin Vanquish and it was a great feeling......"