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Chapter 204: Zotye + Supercar = ???

Once upon a time, Zotye car owners, who were at the bottom of the automotive industry's food chain, suddenly became the envy of most car owners.

Such a huge change was beyond the imagination of the silly netizens.

Some netizens even didn't believe it, thinking that the Zotye old car owners' call-up order was a rumor.

They specially went to automotive APPs such as Autohome and BitAuto to check.

As a result, as soon as they entered, the originally deserted Zotye forum was full of new posts swiping the screen.

The 180,000 Zotye car owners were like celebrating the New Year, all sharing the 'lifetime maintenance' service they enjoyed at the local 4S store.

No tricks, no money spent, just maintenance upon entering the store.

Including Wu Xiaodong, a loyal Zotye fan, when he went to the Zotye 4S store to queue up for registration and maintenance, he also asked the staff at the 4S store: "Are you not afraid of the new boss going bankrupt by doing this so openly?"

Looking at the fully occupied repair bays in the repair shop, Wu Xiaodong seemed to see countless money flowing in front of him.

In the past, he went to small repair shops or roadside stalls for maintenance, spending 200 or 300 yuan to change the oil and filter.

After all, with his economic conditions, he was already driving a Zotye, so why would he need to go to a 4S store for maintenance? Naturally, he would save as much as possible.

As a result, now he had confusedly received a wave of manufacturer's feedback benefits. Wu Xiaodong was both excited and worried that such an activity would be gone in two days.

Who knew that the 4S store staff, who were busy registering car owners, said confidently: "Brother Wu, our Zotye is now backed by two major companies, Magic Cube Group and Hongxing Trading. To put it bluntly, we have become tough. The big boss, President Jue, said at the previous shareholders' meeting that he would inject 10 billion yuan into Zotye every year until it becomes profitable."

Upon hearing the value of 10 billion, Wu Xiaodong, including a group of old Yiwu car owners nearby, all exclaimed in unison.

Don't look at the large base of 180,000 old car owners, but in fact, the average expenditure for 'lifetime maintenance' is only about 1 billion yuan per year.

After all, since the Magic Cube Group took over Zotye, Chen Jue has taken care of all the mechanical parts and materials of Zotye, and the only cost paid by the offline 4S stores is the labor cost.

Spending more than 1 billion yuan to earn word-of-mouth and engage in marketing, and even being on several hot search lists because of this Zotye call-up order event, no matter how you calculate it, this deal is profitable.

Of course, this 'lifetime maintenance' is not completely without restrictions.

In addition to only providing services to the owners of 180,000 old Zotye models, the types of maintenance are also limited to the normal driving functions of the vehicle.

In the event of an accident or collision, Zotye will not bear the insurance claim, as there would be suspicion of insurance fraud and obtaining 'lifetime maintenance' funds.

Such rules are also set to strictly prevent the underlying 4S stores and dealers from playing tricks.

"Zotye's new boss has a really big vision!"

"Look at the hot searches, there are seven or eight of them. Even if you pay for it yourself, it may not have this effect even if you spend several hundred million."

"By the way, when will the cash coupon for trade-in be issued?"

"Except for the SR9, which has many problems, the quality of other models of our Zotye is really good. But after driving an old car for a long time, you have to change to a new car!" There was a lot of discussion in the store lobby.

After all, Zotye has not launched any new models since 2019 due to bankruptcy and reorganization, which has made many old Zotye fans feel regret.

Wu Xiaodong, who had just finished registering and was waiting in line for maintenance, listened to the discussion of the old brother next to him, and also tactically took a sip of free hot coffee and pricked up his ears to listen.

The staff member continued to explain: "The 50,000 yuan new car voucher will be issued based on the green book registration certificate of the old car owners. The new models are tentatively scheduled to be released before the Spring Festival. There will be many models this time, involving SUV, sedan, MPV and other series of products. It is said that one of the supercars was designed by the big boss himself."

As soon as this was said, the entire 4S hall was stunned!

Then everyone exploded!

"Wow... damn it!"

"What did I just hear?"

"Supercar???"

"Is my Zotye going to build a supercar?"

"The reverse engineering department is really going to take off this time!"

Everyone knows that the parent company that acquired Zotye is very powerful, but they didn't expect it to be so powerful.

Look at how Xiaomi builds cars, it took them several years to launch a Porsche-like SU7.

As a result, as soon as Zotye was revived, it immediately started to do things in the whole series.

Damn it, they are even going to build a supercar, how can this not shock and excite these old car owners.

Thinking back to the car industry joke: "In this life, being able to drive a cheap supercar all depends on Zotye!"

As a result, netizens took it as a joke, but Zotye's new boss actually plans to make it real.

Even Wu Xiaodong, who had just tactically sipped two mouthfuls of coffee, choked several times after hearing this explosive insider news, and almost sprayed out the coffee he had just drunk!

......

For Zotye to build a supercar, it's not even big news.

In the past, during the most prosperous and glorious period of the reverse engineering department, in addition to copying the Porsche Macan to create the SR9, it was also rumored that internal personnel made a cottage supercar model that looked like a Lamborghini LP700.

Chen Jue, as Zotye's current sole major shareholder, thought that these old news were rumors and jokes on the car industry and the Internet.

Who would have thought that when he led the team to visit Zotye's internal car factory, he actually found the legendary Zotye ZT700 with the Z logo in a sealed and dusty garage.

"Brother Ying, is this car sure to be on the road?" Chen Jue looked around Zotye's supercar. The appearance was not exactly the same as the Lamborghini, but it was 80% similar.

"Yes, President Jue!"

"This ZT700 was a concept car made by the design department themselves. It has already done a crash test and the results are good. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has also issued a road qualification."

"It's just that the supercar project was terminated later due to insufficient funds." Ying Ren said with a blush on his old face.

Before he founded Zotye, he was actually the largest state-owned auto parts manufacturer in Kangyong City. At the beginning of car manufacturing, he also learned from Li Shufu of Geely to start with Japanese copycat cars.

In the past, most of the old domestic car companies started their development by learning from Japanese, Korean, European and American car companies.

Even the old car giants such as Toyota, Ford, and General Motors also copied German cars in the early stage of their establishment.

Anyway, everyone started from copying, so don't laugh at each other.

When it came to Ying Ren's Zotye, he simply let go and copied it. He almost 1:1 copied the Lamborghini LP700.

Chen Jue directly called out: "Awesome!"

However, in addition to having the appearance of a supercar, the engine, chassis, and gearbox configurations inside this Zotye ZT700 can be said to be a mess.

The self-developed V8 engine has only 310 horsepower. Paired with the equally self-developed 8AT gearbox, 0~100 can only run into 5.6 seconds at the fastest.

This is still the result of the whole car using lightweight carbon fiber coverage and aluminum chassis parts. Nowadays, even domestic entry-level new energy vehicles such as BYD Qin L on the road cannot beat it.

No wonder Ying Ren didn't dare to put this Zotye ZT700 on the car market for sale.

With such garbage parameters and acceleration results, if it is sent to the market, it will not be collectively ridiculed by the car industry to the sky!

Even Zotye, such a copycat giant, couldn't hold back its face for this.

However, when he heard that this Zotye supercar could legally be on the road, a playful smile appeared on Chen Jue's face.

So, after attending the shareholders' meeting and holding a few small meetings inside Zotye to complete the initial rectification.

Chen Jue asked Ying Ren to find a trailer and send this Zotye ZT700 to the Magic Cube factory in Ruixian overnight.

Ying Ren, who had just been re-promoted to chairman of Zotye, naturally agreed to the big boss's suggestion to play with cars.

After all, there are a lot of copycat models like this in the Zotye garage, just as a gift to the big boss.

However, when he heard Chen Jue ask him to contact the exporters he knew, planning to send this ZT700 to Germany as a 'disguised car' for road test lap times.

Ying Ren's face immediately couldn't hold back!

"Camouflage disguised car? Send it to Germany?"

"Hisss~ President Jue, you... are you planning to send it to the Nürburgring track for testing?"