Rebirth 99 to become a car giant

"Mr. Zhu, the issue of broken axles and patching of the Sagitar is getting bigger and bigger."

"The General Administration is also very dissatisfied with this matter and thinks that Chuncheng Volkswagen is fooling them."

Tao Wen sorted out the reactions of various parties after the announcement of the Sagitar recall plan in recent days and reported it specifically to Zhu Zhengfeng.

She knew that Volkswagen's Feng Deer also made some requests to Zhu Zhengfeng, hoping that Chuncheng Automobile Group would use its influence in China to suppress this matter as much as possible.

Zhu Zhengfeng did try to do this.

But the result was obviously not very satisfactory.

"This patching solution is indeed a bit disgusting, but Volkswagen is too stubborn."

"When the incident just happened in 2011, we actually proposed to change the non-independent suspension to an independent suspension. As a result, the other party was not satisfied with our proposal to have Chuncheng Auto Parts produce independent suspension, and it has not been changed."

"From 2011 to 2014, seeing that there were more and more cases of broken axles in the market, the matter was a bit difficult to cover up, so Volkswagen decided to change the non-independent suspension to an independent suspension."

"But there are already hundreds of thousands of Sagitars in the market, and it would be very troublesome even if they want to recall them."

Zhu Zhengfeng naturally understands why Chuncheng Volkswagen wants to come up with a "patch" solution.

To put it bluntly, it's all about money.

Is there really no way to cure this problem?

Definitely not.

As long as you are willing to spend money and replace the entire suspension, it will definitely be solved.

But in that case, if hundreds of thousands of Sagitars have to be replaced, the cost will be at least more than 1 billion yuan, or even higher.

The key is that you can't produce so many suspensions in one or two months.

So this plan was not chosen in the end.

Even if the patching plan is chosen, it will take some time to produce those "patches".

People who understand stamping know that to produce a stamping part like a "patch", a mold needs to be opened for production.

Then the stamping speed of a press is relatively fixed, and the number of parts that can be produced in a day is also relatively fixed.

It is impossible for Chuncheng Volkswagen to open N sets of molds at once for a patch and find several suppliers to produce at the same time.

So although the recall plan has been announced now, the actual recall time is January 1, 2015.

"Yes, Volkswagen was so arrogant before, but now it hopes that our group will help to solve this matter. What did it do before?"

Any joint venture company must have various contradictions.

This is inevitable.

After all, everyone's position is sometimes different.

Foreign parties like Volkswagen think that I have a joint venture with you only because of the policy of Huaxia Automobile. Otherwise, I can just produce it by myself. Why should I give you half of the money?

So when making many decisions, I consider it from my own perspective.

But from the perspective of the shareholders of Chuncheng Automobile Group, they think that I have handled all aspects such as land, policy, and sales, and my shares are the same as yours, or even more. Why should I listen to you?

When sales are good, all problems will be covered up.

But when something goes wrong, the situation is different.

"Although I am not happy, I still have to help. I have tried my best, but the effect is very average."

Zhu Zhengfeng's words are not perfunctory.

He really thinks whether it is possible to get this matter over as soon as possible.

But he is not stupid.

Knowing that this time, Chuncheng Volkswagen has been caught by all other car companies.

They must be desperate to get you.

If you can't catch this opportunity, you underestimate the people of other car companies.

"The main thing is that even if I want to help speak for this plan, it's a bit difficult. It's really a bit unbearable to read."

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Tao Wen knew that it would be difficult for Zhu Zhengfeng to suppress this matter according to Volkswagen's idea.

So at this time, he must step on the recall plan of Spring City Volkswagen, even if this recall plan has actually been communicated with Spring City Automobile Group before it was officially released.

"Do your best and leave it to fate."

"We will try our best to help with Spring City Volkswagen's affairs. If there is really no effect, then let Nanshan Hongqi seize the opportunity and eat up as much of the share lost by Spring City Volkswagen as possible."

In the final analysis, Nanshan Hongqi is Zhu Zhengfeng's biological son.

What he hopes most is that the sales of Nanshan Hongqi can continue to rise.

To exaggerate a little, if the declining sales of Spring City Volkswagen can be all added to Nanshan Hongqi, then it is acceptable for Spring City Volkswagen's sales to become zero.

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The recall of the broken axle door of the Spring City Volkswagen Sagitar has caused a lot of noise, which will naturally have the most direct impact on sales.

For example, Yangcheng Huaqiang Group, which owns 4S stores of mainstream domestic automakers such as Spring City Volkswagen and Magic City Volkswagen, is the most familiar with this change.

"Brother, Spring City Volkswagen's sales in the past week have dropped by half compared to last month's weekly sales. Not only has the sales of Sagitar plummeted, but the sales of other models such as Jetta, Magotan, and Golf are also all falling."

"If this trend continues, it will be difficult for Spring City Volkswagen to exceed last year's sales this year."

Just last month, when Guo Shuyin reported the group's dealer business to his elder brother, he also focused on the situation of South and North Volkswagen, thinking that there might be a dark horse this year.

Unexpectedly, the situation changed so quickly.

Normally, the changes in the automotive industry should not be so fast.

After all, this is an industry with a relatively long industrial chain.

Even if there are changes, many things will not change so quickly.

"I have also read their recall plan, and I have also read a lot of various news reports on the Internet in the past few days."

"This time, the plan of Chuncheng Volkswagen is indeed a bit disgusting. If I were a car owner, I would not accept it."

Anyway, there are no outsiders, just the two brothers, so Guo Shuyin naturally says whatever he thinks.

Yangcheng Huaqiang Group's base is Nanshan Automobile Group, so it is not afraid even if it offends Volkswagen.

"It's really annoying. There have been many people making trouble in our store these days. The sales department of Chuncheng Volkswagen has communicated with our store by phone, hoping that we can find a way to appease consumers."

"Some preferential plans or more flexible plans can be used, and they will eventually give compensation in other places as appropriate."

"I guess they also know that this matter has become a big deal and it's a bit difficult to end."

Guo Shuyin is a little unhappy about this matter.

I just want to sell cars well, but because of the problems of the OEM, so many things have happened.

Consumers can't go to the headquarters of Chuncheng Volkswagen to make trouble, so they can only go to various 4S stores.

Especially the stores where I bought the car, basically I will go there whenever there is trouble.

As the largest dealer in Lingnan, Yangcheng Huaqiang Group has really sold a lot of Sagitars in recent years.

Now it has become a source of trouble.

"I looked at the news reports on Autohome, and the follow-up reports on this matter are also very positive."

"There should be some story behind this matter. I think Nanshan Automobile Group may be happy to see Spring City Volkswagen in trouble."

When it comes to Guo Shuyin's position, he will definitely consider the problem more thoroughly and will not simply follow the crowd like netizens.

Yangcheng Huaqiang Group is considered an affiliated enterprise of Nanshan Automobile Group. At the critical moment, it must stand on the side of Nanshan Automobile Group.

Otherwise, if you stand in the wrong position, the future losses will be huge.

Guo Shuyin can naturally understand this point.

"I feel it, too."

"Among the joint venture automakers, only Spring City Volkswagen, Shanghai Volkswagen and Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile are growing this year, while the others are being suppressed and having a hard time."

"Nanshan Automobile Group has always been actively competing with joint venture automakers with its own brand automakers."

"Now that Volkswagen has reemerged, it must find a way to continue suppressing it."

"Now that Spring City Volkswagen has brought the knife over, Nanshan Automobile Group will definitely not be polite, and even other automakers, including some joint venture automakers, will not be soft-handed."

It has to be said that Guo Shufu's statement is still very true.

No matter which automaker it is, it will not miss this opportunity to step on Spring City Volkswagen.

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"Mr. Miyazaki, Spring City Volkswagen was "cyberbullied" this time, and we have encountered similar experiences before."

"This time we arranged people to add fuel to the fire. Will other manufacturers use the same plan to deal with us?"

As the executive vice president of Spring City Toyota, Chen Wenzhan is a member of Spring City Automobile Group.

Now he is obviously a little hesitant to deal with Spring City Volkswagen.

Because he heard some rumors that Chuncheng Automobile Group was considering job changes for senior executives.

There is a certain possibility that he will go to Chuncheng Volkswagen to work.

If this is really the case, then he will be embarrassed at that time.

After all, it is very difficult for Chuncheng Toyota to arrange people to deal with Chuncheng Volkswagen without leaving any traces.

How will the people of Chuncheng Volkswagen look at him at that time?

In order to avoid his own embarrassing situation, he still hopes that Chuncheng Toyota will not get too involved in this matter.

However, Miyazaki Rizheng's idea must be different.

Volkswagen's competition with Toyota in the world is relatively fierce, and the difference in sales is not very large.

If Volkswagen's sales in China can be reduced by a large margin, then Volkswagen's threat to Toyota will be much smaller.

Besides, Toyota is now suppressed by several American car companies, and its market share in America has dropped by a large margin.

In China, it has been suppressed by domestic brands, and coupled with special circumstances, the sales of Japanese brands are all falling.

So Miyazaki Rizheng urgently hopes that there will be some big things in the automotive industry to attract everyone's attention.

Let Chinese consumers stop staring at the tails of Japanese car companies.

Now that Spring City Volkswagen has offered the knife, how can Miyazaki Nichizheng be willing to give up?

"Mr. Chen, in business, the Sagitar is our Corolla's biggest competitor."

"As long as the sales of the Sagitar are reduced, our Corolla's sales can at least increase by several percent."

"Besides, everyone in the automotive industry attacks each other, this is not something that has only happened today, and it's not us who started it."

"It would be a pity if we didn't seize the opportunity that we should have seized."

In Miyazaki Rizheng's opinion, Chen Wenzhan didn't want to deal with Chuncheng Volkswagen because Chuncheng Volkswagen and Chuncheng Toyota were both joint ventures under the Chuncheng Automobile Group.

He understood this feeling.

But he really felt that Chen Wenzhan didn't need to worry so much.

After all, in his opinion, Chen Wenzhan was the executive vice president of Chuncheng Toyota, not the vice president of Chuncheng Automobile Group. Why worry so much?

Only when Chuncheng Toyota's performance improved, Chen Wenzhan's performance was outstanding.

No matter how good the performance of Chuncheng Volkswagen was, it had nothing to do with Chen Wenzhan.

So he insisted on his point of view without any burden.

"That's what I said, but this approach will make the industry's atmosphere very bad."

"We may suffer the consequences in the future."

Chen Wenzhan couldn't come up with a very convincing reason to explain the matter.

So he could only talk about this matter from the moral high ground.

But such a reason would definitely not convince Miyazaki Rizheng.

In the end, Chuncheng Toyota Automobile actively participated in suppressing Chuncheng Volkswagen.

The same conversation also happened to various car companies such as Xifeng Nissan and Yangcheng Honda.

This made the issue of broken axle door and patching of Sagitar more and more lively.

The impact on the sales of Chuncheng Volkswagen is naturally getting bigger and bigger.

"Mr. Cao, the issue of patching Sagitar is now very popular, and Volkswagen is definitely going to be unlucky this time."

"The information reported by Yangcheng Huaqiang Group to us is that the sales of Chuncheng Volkswagen have dropped by more than half in recent times."

"Even the sales of Shanghai Volkswagen have dropped by more than 30%."

Zeng Tingting smiled and reported the good news to Cao Yang.

Nanshan Automobile Group has also made a lot of efforts to suppress Volkswagen.

Autohome has also specially arranged people to promote this matter, and even actively communicated with some peers, hoping that everyone will report this news well.

Now that the results have come out, it is natural to report it well.

Otherwise, why do you work so hard in normal times?

Isn't it to let the boss know that you work hard!

"Volkswagen was just thinking about taking off in China, but it got hit hard."

"I'm looking forward to their next reaction."

Cao Yang originally thought that Volkswagen would most likely choose to play dead as it did in the past.

At most, a sensor would be added later to monitor whether the axle was broken.

But that didn't solve the fundamental problem, it was just an enhanced patch.

But now the whole situation is changing very fast, and consumers' impression of Volkswagen is not as high as in the same period of history.

After all, the development of China's own brands in recent years is still very powerful.

In the past, when the middle class bought a car, some people felt uncomfortable buying Japanese cars, and felt that the quality of buying domestic brands was not good, so they bought Volkswagen.

It's different now, the reputation of domestic brands has improved a lot.

Even if the reputation of Chery and BYD has declined in the past two years, it is still many times better than the same period of history.

In this case, everyone's blind worship of Volkswagen must have faded a lot.

But Volkswagen chose to continue to die.

It is very likely that it will really die.

"I heard that they have been contacting various media and 4S stores these days, and are also secretly communicating with some consumers whose axles have broken."

"I guess they want to deal with the troublemakers and let this matter pass as soon as possible."

Zeng Tingting knew that Cao Yang was very interested in this matter, so she investigated and understood all aspects of the situation.

This matter is also a matter of great concern to all people in the sales field of all companies in the automotive industry.

Everyone can either get involved and step on Volkswagen.

Or learn from experience and discuss internally how to deal with similar situations if they encounter them.

Automobile companies are all large companies, and everyone actually has certain plans for some emergencies.

It's just that sometimes plans can't keep up with changes, and plans can't play the greatest effect.

"Even if they can suppress it, this wave is enough to hurt them."

"They don't have to think about continuing to grow at a high speed. It's good enough to be able to stabilize the situation."

With the situation developing to this point, Cao Yang is not too worried.

Anyway, he didn't expect to kill Volkswagen in China with just one thing.

It would be a good result if it could affect their development speed and stop them from expanding the market.

Now this result can basically be achieved, and Volkswagen and other car companies can handle the rest.

On the Nanshan Automobile Group side, Feng Del personally called Cao Yang yesterday to discuss the recall.

In his words, he hoped to strengthen cooperation with Nanshan Automobile Group in the future, but also hoped that Nanshan Automobile Group would let them go in this recall.

Considering that the situation is basically like this and it is difficult to continue to deteriorate, Cao Yang agreed to Feng Del's plan.

In the future, if Volkswagen wants to develop well in China, especially in the field of electric vehicles, it must purchase a large number of Nanshan Auto Parts and Nanshan Batteries.

After listening to Zeng Tingting's report, Cao Yang went to Venusstar Technology again and visited the prototype of a new drone with Zhao Siyu.

As one of the key development directions of Venusstar Technology, Cao Yang has always attached great importance to the business of the drone division.

Compared with traditional aircraft, the development cost and production cost of drones are much lower, and the difficulty is relatively much lower.

Therefore, Cao Yang arranged different drones to deal with different situations.

To quietly go to the opponent's side to scout intelligence, then leave it to the Sky Eagle drone with very good stealth performance.

This kind of drone with all-round stealth performance such as aerodynamic layout and stealth materials is definitely one of the best in the world in terms of stealth performance.

Ordinary countries have no way to detect its existence.

There is also a supersonic drone under development. If you want to make the speed so exaggerated, you can't shoot me down even if you find me.

After all, missiles have speed. If the speed of the missile is lower than that of the drone, it will definitely not be able to hit the drone.

This is also a very good entry point.

Another thing is the Wuzhen-7 high-altitude unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to be visited today.

This drone is designed to fly to an altitude of 30,000 meters. Your missiles cannot reach that high, so what can you do even if you detect it?

More stealthy, faster, and higher, there is always one suitable for you.

Of course, Venustech also has products that take into account some performance.

For example, the Twin-Tailed Scorpion UAV combines many aspects of performance.

In the case of air superiority, the Twin-Tailed Scorpion UAV, which is cheap and has excellent comprehensive performance, can definitely exert a very large combat effectiveness.

At that time, hundreds of Twin-Tailed Scorpion UAVs carrying thousands of missiles will set off together, which will definitely give the opponent a hard time.

"Mr. Cao, our Wuzhen-Wuzhen 7 is a very unique high-altitude reconnaissance drone."

"It is not like ordinary drones that use simple straight wings, but uses rare diamond wings, which have better lift characteristics and can make the drone have a faster flight speed."

"Its size is very large, with a length of 14.33 meters, a wingspan of 24.86 meters, and a height of 5.41 meters."

"Because the use of diamond wings ensures a sufficiently high lift, the wingspan of Wuzhen-7 is obviously smaller than that of Global Hawk UAV."

As a representative of high-altitude unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, the American Global Hawk is definitely one of the best.

When Venus Technology developed Wuzhen-7, it must have made various comparisons with Global Hawk.

You must know that the 39.9-meter wingspan of the Global Hawk UAV is very close to that of a large 4-engine passenger aircraft such as the Boeing 707.

It is definitely not convenient for takeoff and landing as well as airport operation and maintenance.

Now Wuzhen-7 can do better in this regard, which is definitely beneficial for practical use.

"For the engine, we use the turbojet engine independently developed by Nanshan Engine, with a maximum thrust of 60 kilonewtons."

"For flight data, the maximum flight speed is 800 kilometers per hour, the maximum flight altitude is 30,000 meters, and the conventional flight altitude can also be maintained at 22,000 meters."

"At this altitude, unless a ballistic missile is used to attack the Wuzhen-7, no ordinary missile in any country in the world can pose a threat to it."

When Zhao Siyu said this, his face was full of confidence.

Flying high enough so that you can see but not hit!

It is definitely something worth looking forward to.

"When can this drone complete various tests and then be officially delivered to the relevant departments?"

The early development indicators of the Wuzhen-7 drone were set by Cao Yang himself, and even part of the design was personally involved by Cao Yang.

So Cao Yang is also very familiar with the relevant indicators and performance.

What he cares most about is when it can be mass-produced.

After all, the situation is changing rapidly.