Chapter 72: Borrowing a knife to kill
To deal with an automobile company, especially a world-class automobile company, the strength of Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd. is definitely not enough.
Cao Yang is very clear about this.
Still, anything is possible if you find the right entry point.
Archimedes famously said, "Give me a fulcrum, and I'll pry up the whole earth!" ”
Cao Yang wants to say: Give me a chance, and I can make Toyota a big loss!
To be an auto parts giant, sooner or later it will have to conflict with Toyota's Denso, Aisin and other companies.
The Dongying people of Chuncheng Toyota are now starting to deal with Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd.
What Cao Yang couldn't bear the most was that they actually wanted to influence other companies in the Chuncheng Automobile Group.
How can you endure this?
Chuncheng Volkswagen is an object that cannot be given up as a parts supplier in the next ten years.
In order to avoid Toyota's behavior in the future from really affecting his orders from other OEMs, Cao Yang is ready to strike first.
At that time, everyone knows that Nanshan and Toyota have grievances, so Toyota's people will say bad things about Nanshan again, and everyone will listen to it.
It will not affect Nanshan Nathan.
"Ayang, do you have a better plan than cooperating with GM and Ford?"
Zhang Fugui was obviously a little unconvinced.
To deal with a giant like Toyota, can you still make a lot of tricks at every turn?
It's not a divine drama, just talk nonsense.
"Uncle, don't worry, I won't joke with the company's future."
"Originally, I still wanted to run the domestic OEM factory, and then go to participate in Ford's F150 listing event, but now it seems that it can be passed in advance."
Cao Yang quickly formed an idea in his mind to deal with Toyota.
However, this idea is meaningless without the cooperation of Ford or General Motors.
So now it's time to hurry over and find a way to convince the other party.
"Ayang, although Toyota is only the third largest in the world, it has just entered into a joint venture with Chuncheng Automobile Group, and we still have to be cautious if we want to deal with them."
Although it was Zhang Fugui who had just come up with the idea to take revenge on Toyota.
But now that Cao Yang wants to use other tricks, he is still more worried.
After all, the trick just proposed belongs to Yangmou, even if Toyota is very unhappy, it can't say anything.
No matter how good your relationship with Chuncheng Automobile Group is, can it still influence me to design the appearance of GM and Ford models?
But if Cao Yang's tricks are not on the table, Zhang Fugui is more worried.
After all, Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd. is just a private enterprise without any background, and it is still doing auto parts.
If Toyota says that it will move the Chuncheng Automobile Group, or even some other automobile groups to join forces to deal with Nanshan, it will definitely be enough for Nanshan Automobile to drink a pot.
"Uncle, I naturally understand this truth."
"I wasn't stupid enough to rush up against them myself."
"You know, it's not just us who have opinions about Toyota, GM and Ford have a lot more opinions about them than we do."
"It's just that they haven't been able to find a good way to fight back."
"Now I take the initiative to hand them a knife and play a knife to kill people, and Toyota will not pay attention to us at all.
The more Cao Yang said this, the more curious Zhang Fugui became.
What kind of tricks can work so well?
However, before the matter was done, Cao Yang didn't want to say more.
There are some things that the fewer people know, the better.
It doesn't have much to do with trusting or distrusting.
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"President, Ford's new F150 will be officially launched next week."
"Now it's already being advertised in the media."
"Judging by the information so far, this car is likely to be the most successful pickup truck in Ford's history."
Cao Yang is not the only one who cares about the launch of Ford's new F150.
Just as he was on the plane to the United States, a video conference was being held inside Toyota.
Tetsuaki Kobayashi, General Manager of Toyota Motor North America, is giving a monthly report to President Fujio Zhang.
As Toyota's main sales market, the information of the North American headquarters is very concerned.
"Ford is caught up in the 'Firestone Tire Gate' this year and is eager to divert everyone's attention with a new car, which is why it will make a huge publicity."
"We now need to take advantage of the collapse in their explorer sales to expand the market share of SUVs."
"With just one pickup truck, Ford's sales next year could be surpassed by us."
Toyota is now the third in the world, and Ford is the second.
Therefore, Zhang Fujifu paid the most attention to Ford Motor.
He is just a professional manager, not a child of the Toyota family, and doing a good job is his biggest motivation.
And making Toyota surpass Ford to become the world's second existence is definitely the most eye-catching achievement during his tenure.
"We're already doing that, but the North American consumer still loves pickup trucks."
"This month is Ford's new F150 launch, next month is GM's new Chevrolet silverado launch, I think the company still needs to launch a pickup truck that can compete with the F150 and silverado as soon as possible, in order to have a chance to completely hit the world's No. 1 throne."
As the head of the North American headquarters, Tetsuaki Kobayashi naturally hopes that the more fist products there are, the better.
The potential of the Camry and Corolla has been almost squeezed, and more new models are needed to work on it.
"As for the pickup truck, our designers have not fully grasped the design style that North American consumers like, and I heard that the exterior drawings of the new pickup trucks of Ford and GM were obtained from a Chinese."
"I will arrange for someone to go to Huaxia again, and let the other party also design a pickup truck appearance for us."
At the beginning, Zhang Fujifu also knew that the company's design director, Atsuo Fukuichi, personally went to Huaxia to discuss the purchase of the exterior drawings of the pickup.
It turned out to be a mess.
Although he was angry at the time, he didn't particularly care.
I think an appearance picture is not necessarily so magical.
But now Ford and GM have begun to advertise the new pickup, and the appearance of the new model can be regarded as completely exposed.
The design that surpassed the level of its competitors in the same period made Toyota blush.
So Zhang Fujifu thought of their designers again.
"President, we have now established a joint venture with Chuncheng Automobile Group, if the other party is willing to cooperate with us, then it is easy to say anything."
"If the other side is not willing to cooperate, then we can't let them go all the way to support our opponents."
Although Tetsuaki Kobayashi has never dealt with Cao Yang.
But the pressure brought to him by the new F150 and silverado made him hate Cao Yang very much.
In particular, he knew that his company had also arranged for people to contact each other at the beginning, but in the end the cooperation was not successful.
This made Tetsuaki Kobayashi even more dissatisfied.
I don't know how to lift!