Reborn Industrial Tycoon

In front of Li Weidong was a white car with a boxy front, boxy lights, and a silver crown logo in the middle of the boxy air intake grille.

This is the seventh-generation Toyota Crown.

"You can actually see this old cannon in China! It's quite new." Li Weidong walked over, circled around the car body, and then looked at the cockpit through the glass.

"It's still a right-hand drive car. This should be the version sold in RB, not the model specially used by Toyota for export." Li Weidong thought to himself.

RB's cars are right-hand drive, but since cars in most countries in the world are left-hand drive, most of the cars exported by RB are also left-hand drive. Especially after entering the 1980s, the United States became RB

As the main market, a large number of RB cars are exported to the United States, and RB produces more left-hand drive cars than right-hand drive cars.

In China in the early 1980s, the management of imported cars was not standardized. When importing a car, it was not necessary to choose whether it was a right-hand drive or a left-hand drive car, as long as there was a car, so it was inevitable that some right-hand drive cars would be imported.

It was not until the country established the Automobile Industry Import and Export Corporation that China's automobile imports began to gradually become standardized.

Although this seventh-generation Crown is a right-hand drive vehicle, it still has to abide by China's traffic laws and drive on the right when driving on the road. For drivers of right-hand drive vehicles, driving on the right is still somewhat unaccustomed.

Li Weidong wanted to open the door and enter the cab to take a look, but a voice stopped Li Weidong.

"That comrade, what are you doing!"

Li Weidong followed the sound and saw an auto repairman in his thirties walking over.

"Comrade, I just want to take a look at this car." Li Weidong replied.

The auto repairman saw that Li Weidong was a young and unfamiliar face, so he couldn't help but ask: "Who are you? From which department? What are you doing in our repair shop?"

"I came here from the Qinghe Regional Transportation Company to visit and study." Li Weidong paused and then said, "You, Director Wei, also know about it. He let me take a look in the workshop."

Li Weidong moved out Wei Bin, the director of the repair workshop, and the auto repairman couldn't stop him anymore. He looked at Li Weidong with a cold and arrogant face and said: "Then you should watch carefully and don't do it blindly. You won't be able to compensate for the damage."

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"Don't worry, I'm also an auto mechanic, it can't be broken." Li Weidong replied.

"Auto mechanic? At your age, you haven't repaired many cars." The worker snorted coldly, and then said: "It's good for you not to do anything blindly. The car in front of you is an imported car.

It’s not the old Jiefang that you usually repair. You can’t afford to pay for it if it’s damaged. But you probably don’t have imported cars like this in Qinghe! You must not know what kind of car this is.”

After all, Jicheng City is the provincial capital city, and Huanghe Automobile Manufacturing Factory is a key provincial enterprise. Facing Li Weidong, an auto repairman from Qinghe, the workers of Huanghe Factory can't help but feel a little proud.

Li Weidong smiled, and then replied: "This is the seventh-generation Toyota Crown."

"What generation? What field? Crown is right, did you guess it by looking at the logo on the front of the car?" the worker asked jokingly.

At that time, imported Crowns were relatively rare, and most people had never seen them. The auto repair workers at Huanghe Factory only knew that the car was called Crown, but they did not know that Crown was produced by Toyota, let alone that it was the seventh generation.

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Li Weidong had no choice but to explain: "Crown is a brand under Toyota Motor. Does Toyota know about it? RB is the largest car manufacturer, and it can also be ranked among the top ten in the world. Crown Motors started production in 1955.

Basically, it will be updated every four or five years. In 1983, it was upgraded to the seventh generation, which is the car we have now."

"Really or not? You guys are not just fooling around, are you? But it is imported from RB, and you will be right when the time comes." The worker said it with a questioning look on his face, but after hearing what Li Weidong said was true, the worker also believed it.

Seven or eight points.

Li Weidong handed the worker a cigarette and asked, "What is your name for this comrade?"

The worker took the cigarette and put it into his chest pocket, and then answered: "My name is Chen Jinlong. What's your name, little comrade?"

"My name is Li Weidong, you can just call me Xiao Li." Li Weidong pointed at the seventh-generation Crown and said, "This Crown car is considered a luxury car in RB, and it is rare in China. Your Huanghe Factory

As expected of a big company, it’s so powerful that it can even get Crown cars.”

"Although our Huanghe Factory is a key enterprise in the province, it is not worthy of such a good imported car. This car is specially equipped to receive foreign guests. I heard that there are only two in our province, and one is in the Dongdao City Foreign Trade Bureau.

, the other one is the one in front of us, from the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade." Liu Jinlong answered.

"So this car belongs to the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade. Was it sent for maintenance?" Li Weidong asked again.

Liu Jinlong shook his head: "No, there is no need to send it to us for maintenance. This car broke down and ordinary repair shops couldn't solve it, so it was sent to us. The technology here is still better than that of ordinary repair shops.

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"That's true, you guys build cars!" Li Weidong complimented, and then asked: "Then this car is here, has it been repaired?"

"I checked it and it hasn't been repaired yet," Liu Jinlong replied.

"Find out what went wrong?" Li Weidong asked again.

"It should be a problem with the gearbox. But the gearbox of this car is different from other cars. The gears of this car are not 1, 2, 3, 4, but English letters. Just put it in gear and keep pressing the accelerator. There is no need to change it at all.

Have you ever seen a car that doesn't shift gears?" Liu Jinlong said with some show off.

Li Weidong turned his head and looked inside the car, saw the automatic gear lever and the P/R/N/D/S gears, and knew that this Crown used a continuously variable automatic transmission.

RB cars like to use continuously variable transmissions. The biggest difference between a continuously variable transmission and a common hydraulic automatic transmission is in structure. The automatic transmission uses hydraulically controlled gear shifting, while the continuously variable transmission is composed of a transmission plate and a transmission belt.

Therefore, the structure of the continuously variable transmission is simpler, the volume is smaller, and the shifting is smoother, without the "pause" feeling when shifting in a traditional transmission.

The reason why RB people are keen on continuously variable transmissions is also because of their small size. RB is more popular in small cars in China. The continuously variable transmissions do not take up space and can be used with small cars.

In the 1980s, the domestic automobile industry was relatively backward, and the skills of auto mechanics were not very good. Domestic auto mechanics had never repaired automatic transmission cars, and they did not understand the structure of continuously variable transmissions, so they could not repair this seventh-generation car.

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Just listen to Liu Jinlong continue to say: "We have never repaired a car with this kind of transmission, so we put the car here first and asked the driver to go back and get the vehicle manual of this car. After we read the vehicle manual, we will dismantle it.

Gearbox."

As soon as Liu Jinlong finished speaking, a person appeared outside the repair workshop and walked in quickly.

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here. The driver of this car is here." Liu Jinlong looked at the man outside.

"Master Liu, I brought the vehicle manual." The driver of the Crown Car carried a cloth bag, then took out a thick vehicle manual and handed it to Liu Jinlong.

"Thank you for your hard work." Liu Jinlong took the vehicle manual.

"Why bother? As long as you can repair the car quickly, it's worth my two extra trips." The driver said.

At this time, Liu Jinlong had already opened the vehicle manual, and the next second, Liu Jinlong's expression became embarrassed.

"Why is it in Japanese! Who can understand this!"