reborn industrial empire

"Jin, your car is very well made. Although I don't know much about it, I have read the newspaper and many automotive journalists have spoken highly of your car. I want to know, in this case, why do you

Why don’t you sell the car to the United States?”

While eating, Howard asked Jin Xiaoqiang.

"Haha, we are planning to enter the US market. We are still in the preparation stage. I believe you will see the cars manufactured by Huayang Dynamics in the US soon, Mr. Senator."

Jin Xiaoqiang answered Howard with a smile.

After satisfying Mr. Howard's curiosity and having a pleasant and friendly exchange, the two parties ended the lunch.

After lunch, Howard took his family and left Frankfurt in a hurry. After all, he was the mayor of Boston and couldn't hang around easily.

This time it was also because of my daughter's affairs that I hurriedly came back from the United States. Now that I was done with my business, of course I had to rush back. After bidding farewell to the Howard family, Jin Xiaoqiang finally relaxed at this time, and then

He found some newspapers and asked Vera to read them to him. He wanted to know what happened yesterday and how the Frankfurt police explained it.

However, today's front page headlines are still about the Frankfurt Motor Show. Regarding what happened in the West End yesterday, German newspapers did not report much at all.

In the end, I just found an article about the size of a piece of tofu in a very unimportant section. It said that an accidental explosion of fireworks occurred in a dilapidated warehouse in Frankfurt's West End yesterday.

The entire box of firecrackers was blown up onto the street, and the sound lasted for more than half an hour. This explosion caused a total of five people to die and fifteen others to be seriously injured.

Of course, the locals all know what Frankfurt's West End is, so the media doesn't pay much attention to it, and the locals understand it quite well.

After all, accidents caused by accidents caused by fireworks and firecrackers, resulting in tragedies involving casualties, happen from time to time. Everyone has become accustomed to it and is not surprised by it.

When he heard this explanation in the newspaper, Jin Xiaoqiang could only laugh out loud. As expected, the world is as black as crows. All media mouthpieces are just toys in the hands of politicians in the end.

After listening to the newspaper read by Vera, Jin Xiaoqiang returned to his room and planned to call Liu Mei to continue to be naughty. After all, after what happened two days ago, the street scenes and natural scenery in Germany were really unbearable for the two of them.

People are interested.

Although the chance of such an accident happening again can be said to be very small, or even zero, the two of them did not dare to wander outside casually.

But when Jin Xiaoqiang just called Liu Mei into his room and planned to have a "heart-to-heart talk" with her, an employee outside suddenly called him and said that someone wanted to see him.

Hearing such news, Jin Xiaoqiang couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, but he still came out of the room and came to the conference room again. Now this floor of the hotel has been booked by Huayang Dynamics. This piece

The small conference room has become a restaurant and conference room for their employees who came to the exhibition this time. If there are any reception tasks, they will be held here.

Jin Xiaoqiang originally didn't want to come out to meet the guest, but after hearing about the other person's background, he decided to come out and see the other person.

Because the person coming this time is from General Motors, it seems that General Motors cannot sit still.

When Jin Xiaoqiang walked into the conference room, he happened to see several big-nosed foreigners already sitting in the conference room, and his employees were preparing coffee, tea and other drinks for them.

"Hello, Mr. Jin, I am Nick Reilly, Vice President of General Motors and President of Europe. I have known you for a long time. I am very happy to meet you!"

As soon as Jin Xiaoqiang entered the room, a tall foreigner came over, extended his hand enthusiastically, shook hands with Jin Xiaoqiang and said.

This foreigner is thin but tall. Jin Xiaoqiang is not short anymore, but this guy is still about half a head taller than Jin Xiaoqiang. It looks like he is over 1.9 meters, almost 2 meters tall.

There isn't much hair on the top of his head. He looks a bit semi-bald. He has a big aquiline nose and wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He seems to be in his fifties.

"Hello, Mr. Reilly, nice to meet you too."

When he heard the name given by this guy, Jin Xiaoqiang couldn't help but be surprised. It seems that the specifications of GM this time are not low?

"Hello, Mr. Jin, I am Carl Stark, Chairman and CEO of Opel. Nice to meet you."

At this time, another middle-aged man of medium height appeared from behind Nick Reilly, smiling and extending his hand to Jin Xiaoqiang.

Hey, all the people here today are god-level figures? Why are they looking for me? It seems like they are cooperating?

While Jin Xiaoqiang smiled and shook hands with this Carl Stark, he thought to himself.

After the two parties finished their greetings, they took their seats. At this time, the employees of Huayang Power had prepared tea, coffee and other drinks, and then someone went out to call Wang Jiao. Wang Jiao went there today.

At the auto show, but now the bosses of GM and Opel are here. As the general manager of Huayang Power, how can he be absent? It seems that a big event is about to happen.

"Mr. Reilly, Mr. Stark, I wonder why you came to me this time?"

After the two sides sat down and chatted for a while, Jin Xiaoqiang went straight to the point and asked about the arrival of Reilly and Stark.

Despite General Motors' current deteriorating sales performance in the United States, it is truly the leader in the U.S. automobile industry, and its brands are several times larger than those of Ford and Chrysler.

Moreover, GM is backed by the Morgan consortium, so their ability to merge and cross-operate is also the strongest among the major automobile companies.

Opel has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors in Europe since 1931. Although it carries the Opel brand, it is an American car company at heart.

However, in recent years, especially in the past ten years, because of GM's insistence on modular production methods and unified material supply management methods, many of its brands have lost their original unique charm and become

A purely American car that has been replaced with a new one.

Although this saves costs, it also causes many cars to lose their original essence, which also leads to the sales performance of many GM subsidiaries getting worse as they get older.

Saab and Opel, two GM subsidiaries in Europe, have been suffering from consecutive losses in the past ten years.

Especially the Opel Group, which is based in Germany and was originally used by General Motors to compete with BMW and Mercedes-Benz, has recently been completely reduced to a second-rate automobile manufacturing company.

The reputation of the cars they produce is now even worse than that of Volkswagen, and their sales performance in Germany is even more unsatisfactory.

Opel entered the Chinese market in 1993. However, due to the relationship between its parent company General Motors and the fact that their models are not very popular with Chinese consumers, their sales performance in China has not been very satisfactory.

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Now that the two big guys from GM and Opel are all gathered here, it seems that the topic is nothing more than discussing cooperation with themselves, and is their intention to cooperate?

It must be about the new car I brought to this Frankfurt Motor Show!

It seems that Americans are also very interested in Qoros?

Nonsense, in fact, this Qoros prototype LaCrosse is exactly the Insignia model that was newly developed by Opel in 2007 to compete with BMW's 7 Series and Mercedes-Benz's S Series.

It's just that it is equipped with the ecotec engine developed by General Motors in 2000 by integrating the research and development capabilities of all its subsidiaries.

After this engine was developed, it could be said that it had no rivals in the four-cylinder engine category, and it could even be said that it was the king.

But in terms of technology, there aren’t actually many bright spots. There are only pretty good highlights in vvt technology and eyc electronic throttle technology.

Before the birth of Jin Xiaoqiang's ecoboost engine and Volkswagen's TSI, this engine could be said to be pretty good, but after Jin Xiaoqiang came up with the ecoboost engine, this engine could be swept into the garbage heap.

Seven or eight years later, GM also upgraded this engine and added high-tech elements such as in-cylinder direct injection technology. This gave this engine the capital to compete with Volkswagen's TSI.

But now? This engine is still used in more than 20 models of General Motors, and General Motors has also been struggling in recent years. In the local market, it has been beaten by Japanese cars. In the European market, it is even more difficult.

It has been stolen from the limelight by the public for many years.

So now that they have found Jin Xiaoqiang's head, it can be said that Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone!

"Okay! Let's get straight to the point. We came to Mr. Jin this time to tell you that GM and Opel are very interested in Huayang Power. In the past year, Huayang Power has been a leader in the automobile manufacturing industry.

Sheng Shuiqi, we admire your ability very much, Mr. Jin, and several models of Huayang Power are also very interesting to us, so we took the liberty to come to you this time because we want to discuss with you and see Huayang.

Is there any possibility of cooperation between Dynamics, General Motors, and Opel in the future?”

Nick Reilly is also a resolute person. Now that Jin Xiaoqiang has spoken, he no longer hides and tucks in, and simply gets straight to the point.