Chapter 154: Cayenne and Levante
Melissa and Monica visited the villa and chose a room for Monica and Giselle on the second floor. Genie's room is on the first floor, and when these are done, the girls go to the tennis court to play tennis, and the combination of Melissa and Monica is defeated.
When Cang Yaozu came over, playing tennis with Cang Yaozu's physique was nothing to him, and his tennis level was also quite strong, but he would not kill the Shuangji combination in a bad way, his ball was played very peacefully, although he had been mobilizing the two women's movements, but the speed and landing point of the ball made the two women very comfortable. It is also a technical job to make the two women feel happy while winning the game.
There were a lot of bathrooms in the villa, and when a few people had finished taking a shower and sat in the living room again to chat, Ginny had a better impression of Cang Yaozu, but was still very curious: "Ah Yao, are you done talking to my brother? Will you buy Maserati and Margaux?"
"Of course I will, I am determined to get them, these two assets are actually relatively weak for your Agnelli family, they are not essential inheritances, and they will not bring much profit. You have the Ferrari brand, the Alfa Romeo brand, and the Fiat brand in the Fiat Group, and Maserati is a bit messed up and it's hard to find the right position. ”
"Why is it difficult to position? A lot of women like this car brand. ”
"yes, so it's a bit of a limitation, and if I buy it, I'm going to develop an urban SUV for Maserati that will be a little more masculine and designed for men. ”
"Men only like hardcore off-road, well, in the case of urban SUVs, I feel like they are still designed for women. ”
"Haha, that's not bad, anyway, it's going to be an urban SUV with a sports car pedigree, and it's also the fastest and coolest SUV. ”
The model that Cang Yaozu wants to design is the Cayenne, and there should be no Porsche Cayenne in this life, but a Maserati Cayenne, or a Tesla Cayenne.
Well, the one with the Ferrari engine is the Maserati Cayenne, and the all-electric version is the Tesla Cayenne, which will be Tesla's first model. Well, it is also necessary to apply for a patent for falcon wing doors, which are equipped with eagle wing doors for SUVs and scissor doors for sports cars.
This night, Cang Yaozu and Monica and Giselle had a very good time, well, the first half of the night and the second half of the night. In the next few days, Cang Yaozu took the Elkan siblings, Monica and Giselle to play in Los Angeles, watch Lakers games, watch movies on the set of Universal, and rent a yacht for sea fishing.
Ginny especially laughed at Cang Yaozu, who didn't even have a yacht of his own, and lived in Malibu Beach in vain. This is really a sad story, some time ago, Cang Yaozu really didn't book a yacht.
Cang Yaozu also ordered a private jet mainly for the convenience of use, which can save a lot of time. All in all, he still spends money from a utilitarian point of view, not from a simple enjoyment point of view, he is not a qualified rich man, he can only be regarded as a dick silk version of the negative tycoon.
In the interim, Martin Eberhard had already negotiated an acquisition with ACP, which now spent all their money to develop the T-Zero electric roadster, leaving only six or seven people in the company.
Martin Eberhard came at the right time, neither sooner nor too late, and he only spent $3 million + 2% of Tesla's shares, as well as allowing ACP to exist as an independent subsidiary, and promised to invest enough R&D funds to take the company.
Naturally, these are not problems, and Cang Yaozu will set up more subsidiaries in the future to delve into various technologies of electric vehicles, among which motors, electronic controls and lithium-ion batteries are the top priorities of research and development.
In Tesla's electric vehicles, more RISC-V architecture control chips will be used, which will be developed by a team led by Professor David Patterson of the University of California, Berkeley.
The University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University will be the talent base of the RISC-V Industry Alliance, and graduates from these two schools will continue to enter the RISC-V Development Alliance, including Tesla.
The research and development of electric vehicles still takes time, after the acquisition of ACP, the completion of the prototype will not be too long, after all, ACP company, under the leadership of their founder Alan Kocone, has realized the lead-acid battery powered pure electric convertible sports car Tzero, its lead-acid battery replaced with a lithium battery, the prototype is basically completed, even so, there is still a long way from mass production, after all, the listing of a car, requires a lot of very rigorous tests.
Cang Yaozu will adhere to the same paranoid as Steve Jobs to pursue perfection, performance, appearance, and safety must be extreme, he does not want to build an imperfect pure electric car.
Tesla's start-up capital is 80 million US dollars, and Cang Yaozu will definitely continue to throw money into it, believing that Tesla's performance will be better in this life with abundant funds and Maserati's mature automobile production technology.
Ranieri Sr. has already replied that 5% of Margaux will be owned by Genie Elkan and 70% will be owned by Yaozu's Seagram wines. Ferrari gave 10% of the shares to Maserati, and Ferrari undertook all subsequent engine orders from Maserati, and Ferrari was spun off and listed as soon as possible.
90% of Maserati's shares belong to Yaozu and 10% to Ferrari, and Maserati's $120 million debt is borne in proportion to the shares. Tesla's 5% stake and 2% of ICQ's stake with a $2 billion three-year buyback clause belong to the Agnelli Family Foundation.
Cang Yaozu invested 2 billion Huaxia coins to establish Yandu Fiat Company, holding 80% of the shares, and signed a secret agreement, the right to operate belongs to Fiat, 10% of the shares belong to Yandu, and 10% of the shares belong to Tesla.
Cang Yaozu thought about it for a long time and agreed, and in the future, dealing with the Agnelli family is indispensable, it is impossible for Maserati to move out of Italy, and now Maserati does not have an engine R&D and production department, and the main thing behind is to create a perfect appearance and continue to design practical models to enhance the reputation of the brand, of course, it is necessary to firmly continue to take the luxury car route.
After completing the acquisition of Maserati, Cang Yaozu began to spend money on well-known car designers to design Maserati's first urban SUV, well, directly named Cayenne.
Cang Yaozu knows that Maserati's own SUV is called Levante, and Cayenne is a destined opponent, but who calls us reborn, taking other people's roads makes them have no way out, so this SUV must be called Cayenne, haha, it's such a bad taste.
Cang Yaozu drew the classic shape of the Cayenne, with a dynamic and avant-garde appearance, the streamlined design makes the body not bloated at all like an SUV, and the elongated engine cover makes the Cayenne full of strong sports car flavor. Well, let Maserati produce a few luxury bulletproof versions first, and use them at home, and now Cang Yaozu's fleet is all some common models on the market, not to mention identity.
When Ginny saw the SUV designed by Cang Yaozu, she liked it very much, and volunteered to take a few design drawings and return to Italy with her brother on a private jet, and she wanted to go to Ferrari and Maserati to find someone to design and build the model.
The design of this model is like magic, Ginny closes her eyes to the champagne or red body, this SUV is completely different from those rugged SUVs that focus on off-road performance on the market today, very stylish and dynamic, and indeed has a sports car pedigree. She's going to have one, well, the world's first Cayenne is hers.
Edgar Jr. also flew away with the Elkan siblings, he was going back to New York, where Elkan's private jet would make a short stopover. It will take some time for the contract with Fiat to be officially signed, but Cang Yaozu has to act in advance, he has to find someone to register a car company in Yandu first.
Well, the 10% stake in Yandu doesn't need to pay money, just take the land out, the land of more than 200 million Huaxia coins, or the industrial land provided in a cooperative nature, must not be small.
Cang Yaozu's Tesla will also be registered next to Yandu Fiat's company, Cang Yaozu also plans to give 10% of the shares to Yandu, and the replacement land can not be small, as well as Maserati's Huaxia headquarters and factory, the three together are a large automobile industrial park.
Cang Yaozu thought about this matter, and handed it over to Cao Guowei to help run the procedures, Lu Chuqing assisted from the side, which is also a big political achievement, I believe her mother will take advantage of it.
Last time, Cang Yaozu went to the Great Western Forum Arena with Giselle Bundchen and Erkan brothers and sisters to watch the Lakers' game, and several people chatted with Kobe, and now Kobe is only a team substitute, but he is already a well-known star.
Kobe Bryant has amazing talent and star potential that cannot be concealed, and before the official start of this season's NBA, Adidas offered him a six-year, $48 million endorsement contract, which is undoubtedly a sky-high price for a rookie who has just played his NBA debut season.
Since Kobe Bryant is not short of money, Cang Yaozu began to pick up Kobe, wanting him to go to Malibu Beach to buy a house. In fact, there is no need for Cang Yaozu to say, in a few years, Kobe Bryant will also move his family to Malibu Beach. In Cang Yaozu's words, he can play with Kobe Bryant when he is free, and he must abuse Kobe, a first-year rookie, when the time comes.
At that time, the meeting of several people was also photographed by a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, but it was not in any newspaper, several of them together are not as famous as Kobe, Cang Yaozu has been hiding himself, Gisele Bundchen, the future supermodel, is now just a small model, not famous, there have been few catwalks recently, and she is busy creating her own clothing brand, and Ginny also took a stake in her clothing brand and became a minority shareholder.
As for the Erkan brothers and sisters, their appearance and temperament are good, but they are not well-known in Citigroup, well, it can be described as very low-key, it is estimated that the reporter who took the photo just looked at these people with a high appearance, so they naturally took a picture, but after checking for a long time, they didn't find out why, so they let it go.
After all, the current Internet information is not explosive, the most important thing is that there is no search engine, Google is still under intense research and development, and the website has not yet been launched.
Sure enough, it's still good in this era, even if he is entangled with several Hollywood stars like Cang Yaozu, he is still not known to the public.
Cang Yaozu naturally won't complain about why he didn't make headlines, it's too late for him to be low-key, Gou, you must be Gou, especially during the Asian financial crisis, he made a lot of money or something, and he is the most loving.
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