Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Masayuki Kato shouted, instantly attracting the attention of everyone in the restaurant, and everyone's eyes turned to Masayuki Kato.

The key point is that Kato Masayuki still called "Ya Zhidie", which made Li Weidong, who was sitting opposite, feel ashamed.

Masayuki Kato was also aware of the eyes around him. In RB's culture, shouting suddenly in public is a very rude behavior. Masayuki Kato immediately sat upright with a guilty look on his face, and his mind quickly began to think of countermeasures.

Tianfeng's accelerator pedal has not been in good condition for decades. From Carraro, Camry, to RAC4, Highlander, Land Cruiser, and even Lexus models, accelerator pedal problems have appeared. Sometimes it is just some minor problems, not

It will affect normal driving, and sometimes it is a major problem that affects driving safety and requires a recall.

There was no electronic accelerator pedal in the 1980s, and all the accelerator pedals used at that time were purely mechanical accelerator pedals. In order to reduce costs, Tianfeng put some thought into the design and used a new type of pin component. However, this pin

However, the components may cause adhesion, causing the accelerator pedal to not rebound. Therefore, the engine will continue to output power with a slight step on the accelerator.

Since the probability of this happening was not high, Tianfeng Motors did not pay attention to it.

When a customer reported this problem to Tianfeng Motors, Tianfeng Motors chose not to admit it. Their reply was that the customer's own operations caused the problem.

This fault has been debated back and forth for many years. Tianfeng has never admitted that it is a design problem. Once it is admitted that it is a design problem, a large-scale recall will be inevitable.

Customers who use cars do not understand the structure of the accelerator pedal, and if the accelerator pedal fails occasionally, no one will investigate it as long as it does not cause a car accident.

As a result, the problem of accelerator pedal failure was only exposed in the 1990s, and Tian Feng had already begun to use a new type of accelerator pedal at that time.

It happened that at that time, Li Weidong was working as a trainee in RB's car repair shop. There were many old Carraros coming to replace the accelerator pedals. Therefore, Li Weidong still remembered the fault of the Carraro accelerator pedal and what caused the fault.

, Li Weidong is very clear about the consequences.

The fifth-generation Carraro is also a very popular car in RB. The two-door performance version of the fifth-generation Carraro has a code name that everyone is familiar with: AE86.

It’s the AE86 owned by Akina’s mountain bike god Fujiwara Takumi.

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As Tianfeng's automotive engineer, Masayuki Kato also knew that Tianfeng's accelerator pedal was not so perfect. When he saw this article written by Li Weidong, he could basically determine that what Li Weidong wrote in the article was correct.

Once this article is submitted to those major car magazines, it will inevitably attract the attention of the magazine. With the strength of the top car magazines, they are fully capable of testing Tianfeng's accelerator pedal to see if there are any design flaws. But Tianfeng chose Tianfeng.

Feng's accelerator pedal cannot stand the test.

For car magazines, exposing design flaws in a hot-selling car can attract readers' attention more than doing several new car reviews.

If the defect of Tianfeng's accelerator pedal is revealed, it will at least affect Carraro's sales, at worst it will lead to a large-scale recall, and in the worst case it will affect the reputation of Tianfeng Motors.

Millions of fifth-generation Carraros have been sold around the world. If a large-scale recall is carried out, it will be a huge loss for Tian Fenglai.

What's more, at this time, Tianfeng not only has to face European and American automobile giants, but also faces competition from RB's domestic automobile manufacturers. Especially in the US market, since Japanese cars have similar positioning, competition between them is particularly fierce.

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Among the other two Japanese giants, Honda's main model, the Civic, has only been released in its third generation, and the design concept of the third generation Civic is obviously inferior to the fifth generation Carraro. Honda has also given up on the third generation Civic and devoted itself entirely to the research and development of the next generation model.

Nissan's flagship model, the Bluebird, is Carraro's biggest competitor.

The appearance of the seventh-generation Bluebird is very fashionable, which is very suitable for the aesthetics of young people. Moreover, the seventh-generation Bluebird uses front-wheel drive, which is technologically ahead of the fifth-generation Carraro, so it is very popular in the American market. It is favored by the seventh-generation Bluebird.

Due to the influence of Blue Bird, Tianfeng also invested a large amount of money in the research and development of front-wheel drive chassis.

In the 1980s, Japanese cars were busy occupying the market around the world. This process was like sailing against the current, not advancing but retreating. At this juncture, if the Carraro was exposed to have quality defects, it would be directly killed by the seventh-generation Bluebird.

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Kato Masayuki held the article in his hand. He really wanted to tear the article into pieces, swallow the gold in his belly, and finish it all.

But Masayuki Kato also knew that since Li Weidong could write one such article, he could write a second one.

Kato Masayuki quickly calmed down, and reason gradually returned to his brain.

"This Li Sang showed me this article just to ask for money. Otherwise, I would have spent one or two thousand US dollars as hush money for him. I still have the authority to mobilize one or two thousand US dollars.

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Thinking of this, Kato Masayuki said: "Li Sang, can you sell me this article, and then pretend that nothing has happened. For this, our Tianfeng Automobile can pay you 1,000 US dollars as the manuscript fee. This is absolutely

It’s much more than what you pay for European and American car magazines!”

According to the official exchange rate in 1985, 1 U.S. dollar could be exchanged for 2.937 yuan, and 1,000 U.S. dollars was equivalent to 2,937 yuan.

And if exchanged on the black market, 1 U.S. dollar can be exchanged for 10 yuan, and if you have 1,000 U.S. dollars in hand, you can become a household with 10,000 yuan in an instant!

In Kato Masayuki's view, 1,000 US dollars is enough, and ordinary Chinese people have never seen so much money in their lives.

However, Li Weidong smiled and shook his head: "Mr. Kato, I spent a lot of time and energy studying the accelerator pedal problem. The fee of 1,000 US dollars is indeed more than what a car magazine gives, but if I submit the article to a car magazine

, you can gain some reputation."

"Okay, Tianfeng Motors is willing to pay 2,000 US dollars to buy this article." Kato Masayuki directly doubled the price.

Li Weidong still shook his head: "2,000 US dollars is indeed a huge sum of money for Chinese people. Many ordinary people will not earn so much money in their lifetime. However, in China, people who are proficient in Japanese are also very rare, and those who are proficient in automobile majors are also very rare.

It’s even rarer to use terminology. If it were in your country, would a person who was proficient in foreign languages ​​​​and proficient in automobile expertise receive an ordinary person’s salary?”

Kato Masayuki did not refute that although RB Enterprise adopts a lifetime employment system and the salary is directly linked to the length of service, the salary of employees with special skills is indeed higher.

"This greedy guy!" Masayuki Kato cursed in his mind, and then asked: "Li Sang, how much money do you want?"

Li Weidong stretched out ten fingers: "I want one hundred thousand US dollars!"