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Chapter 379: Japanese Magic Cars on the American Market

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The extra long wheelbase and body length of this new Passat also make this car look high-end, and just by virtue of its appearance, it can easily differentiate itself from their existing Octavia.

Octavia's original eldest brother Haorui and Jin Xiaoqiang are not planning to copy it. In fact, this Haorui is also a very good model, and among mid-to-high-end models, the price-performance ratio of this car can really be said to be unrivaled.

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But the ugly C-pillar of this car, in the view of Jin Xiaoqiang, a perfectionist, is an out-and-out failure. In Jin Xiaoqiang's view, such an ugly C-pillar can definitely compete with Ricky's.

That model is comparable to the ugly C-pillar of the Son of the East.

As the leader of China's automobile companies, Huayang Power, which has always been known for its beautiful models, how could it allow such an ugly model to appear in its product line?

So Jin Xiaoqiang naturally chose to ignore the original Haorui and chose the 2011 Passat.

After all, in terms of appearance alone, the new Passat is indeed much better-looking than the Haorui and appears to be more upscale. If it were placed in a model priced below 150,000 yuan, it would definitely stand out from the crowd immediately.

Moreover, the main purpose of designing such a car is to have a new and beautiful appearance. According to Jin Xiaoqiang’s understanding, this is completely a luxury car.

As for the powertrain, there is no need to go through too much consideration or new design.

After all, as a low-end model with a price of less than 150,000 yuan, such a car does not need an overly advanced engine. It only needs a durable powertrain. More energy should be put into the energy saving of the car.

Emission reduction, safety, controllability, and interior design.

In these aspects, Huayang Power is currently the most indispensable part.

Currently, Octavia models use naturally aspirated engines ranging from 1.6L to 1.6 CVVT, 1.6 DVVT, and 1.8 naturally aspirated engines.

After all, it is still 2005, and variable valve timing technologies such as DVVT and CVVT are not as bad as they will be five years later.

In the eyes of many ordinary people, this kind of car is still quite technical.

Moreover, Octavia's 1.6dvvt model is currently the most popular model on the market. The most critical points are its durability and fuel efficiency.

Because of the excellent data of this 1.6dvvt engine, it has been tested in the market for a year, and it is still very popular. It is said that it is inevitable that this car will be selected as Ward's top ten engines this year. This is of course

It also has a lot to do with the fact that General Motors has provided a lot of help in the United States.

The new Passat model recently drawn by Jin Xiaoqiang does not need to be equipped with other engines with too many advanced technologies. It only needs to combine 1.8 cvvt, dvvt technology, 2.0 suction, and dvvt technology.

Just release it.

After all, although he wants to bring benefits to consumers in China, he is not a philanthropist. He spent a lot of money to develop so many technologies in the first place.

None of the many experimental projects in the future will cost a lot of money. Of course, the funds required for these technologies can only be obtained through the release of previous technologies.

Jin Xiaoqiang quickly completed the sketch designs of these four models, and then held a video conference with Wu Yun from Huayang Power and other car designers.

I sent back the sketches of these four cars, and then divided them into categories, and told them which pictures belonged to which company, and then set up separate teams to carry out subsequent design and development.

Of course, the priority for development is their new model Haorui (formerly the 11-model new Passat), while the remaining three models will be handed over to Zhu Junxi and shown to the heads of the three manufacturers before they are approved.

It’s up to them to decide whether they choose to cooperate and develop together.

However, Jin Xiaoqiang is quite confident in the three models he designed. He is sure that Ricky, Liji and BYD will choose to cooperate.

After all, these three models were developed according to their original ideas. As long as they see these three models, they will definitely have no reason to give up.

After arranging this aspect of work, Jin Xiaoqiang began to prepare the schedule for going north.

Thunderbird Company's work is already on track. Under the leadership of Brian, Huang Guotao and others, the company's operations are already on track.

And because he pointed out a clear path for them, the price of natural gas has quietly begun to rise in the past few days. Although the increase is not violent, such quiet price increases are what Jin Xiaoqiang and the others like best.

Because in this way, it will not attract the attention of other predators and will not come here to cause trouble.

There is nothing to worry about here, but Jin Xiaoqiang has to go to Detroit in a few days. Since he came to the United States, he quietly contacted Nick Reilly and asked him to help him use the Qoros car series. Two years later,

Internal sales profits in the United States, after borrowing one billion U.S. dollars from General Motors.

Nick and the others have been inviting Jin Xiaoqiang to go to Detroit to visit GM's headquarters. Of course, Jin Xiaoqiang knew that when the other party invited him there, it couldn't be as simple as just visiting their headquarters.

But they are still partners, and GM is still the undisputed leader in the world's automobile industry. It is not the GM that chose bankruptcy protection a few years later because of the financial crisis.

Although Huayang Power has achieved great success in the market in the past year or two, and the sales volume of its models in the market has surged, but in terms of the scale of the company, compared with General Motors, it is really not as big as a toe.

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Jin Xiaoqiang's understanding of this is very clear. His company's annual production and sales volume is nearly 100 billion US dollars, while his own Huayang Power's production and sales volume is only a few billion US dollars.

Not to mention compared with GM, even compared with the two Korean Hyundai and Kia, it can't compare, so of course it is better to be humble and low-key at this time.

Nick Reilly did not clearly state what he was invited to do this time, but Jin Xiaoqiang also knew that it must be related to in-depth cooperation.

During this time, while speculating in stocks, Jin Xiaoqiang also paid special attention to the domestic automobile market in the United States. As the world's largest automobile producer and consumer, this country's market is something that he must pay attention to.

Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, these rising stars in the automobile industry, why they are doing better and better is because they have achieved great success in the US market.

These days, Jin Xiaoqiang has also paid special attention to the cars running on the roads in the United States. In Manhattan, most of the cars running on the streets are American cars produced by Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors.

The higher-end ones are German Mercedes-Benz and BMW, but as for Volkswagen, they are completely invisible.

I don’t see many Japanese cars here. Even if there are a few that occasionally pass by, they are Japanese high-end cars like Lexus, Infiniti, and Acura.

Of course, this is in Manhattan, New York, where rich people gather. As long as you drive out of this city and go to other places, you can know what the American car culture is like.

The most popular vehicles on the road are large SUVs or pickup trucks, while the majority of small cars, especially sedans, are Japanese cars.

In particular, most of them are Toyota and Honda models. Jin Xiaoqiang had heard about the four major Japanese cars in the U.S. market as early as his previous life.

And after having the opportunity to experience it in person in the United States in this life, it really confirmed his previous hearsay. It seems that what those people said was not all fabricated!

First of all, the most popular pickup models on the road are American pickup trucks, Ford's F-series, GM's Dodge series, or Japan's Toyota Tundra.

This is a large pickup truck. Most of the small pickup trucks are Toyota's Sirax and Nissan's.

In terms of cars, six of the ten cars are Japanese cars, the remaining two are American cars, and the rest are high-end cars from Hyundai or Mercedes-Benz, BMW DC.

What makes Jin Xiaoqiang happy is that he can even see some Huayang Dynamics models in the traffic, such as Qoros, Octavia, or Eado. However, in terms of the number of vehicles in stock and the frequency of appearance,

It was still relatively low. On average, there was only one Huayang Dynamics model among the thirty cars passing by him.

But Jin Xiaoqiang finally felt a bit of comfort. After all, they had only been in the U.S. market for a few months. The Japanese had been developing the U.S. market for decades. Even modern companies have developed the U.S. market.

It has a history of more than ten years.

Among the Japanese cars running on the streets, of course the models known as the Four Great Cars appear more frequently.

The four popular Japanese cars in the United States are Toyota's Camry and Corolla, and Honda's Accord and Civic.

In recent years, due to Nissan's efforts to catch up, the number of Nissan Teanas in the United States has also greatly increased, and it even has a tendency to become the fifth most popular Japanese car in the United States.

Brian, an employee of Thunderbird, drives a Nissan Teana. Jin Xiaoqiang once chatted with him, and he told Jin Xiaoqiang a little allusion.

That is, before he bought this car, he had communicated with people online and asked the people who had bought this car before how the quality of the car was.

His netizen answered him this way: He once drove a Teana back and forth across the entire United States. After driving thousands of kilometers, the car actually had no problems at all. It had never been to a repair station. This shows that

The foundation of Japanese car-making.

So he immediately bought this Teana. Before that, Brian drove a Jaguar. Regarding Jaguar, his evaluation was that you have to buy two of this car, one to drive out and the other to park.

A car repair shop, and when you come back from a trip, you don’t have to go home, you can just go directly to the car repair shop and replace another one...

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