Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 217 It’s hard to tell friend from foe, Great Wall Motor’s test

Fang Sisi is slightly shorter than Mi Ying.

However, with a height of 168cm, she is definitely outstanding among the girls in Yangcheng.

His unique temperament and affinity are even more impressive.

"Mr. Cao, we meet again!"

Seeing Cao Yang approaching, Fang Sisi took the initiative and reached out her hand.

After Cao Yang shook his hand briefly, he couldn't help but ask: "Isn't Reporter Fang based in Kyoto, Japan? Has he returned to China now?"

"I am now transferred back to China and become China Channel's resident reporter in Lingnan."

"I will be responsible for following up all news related to Nanshan from now on."

"Please take care of me, Mr. Cao, in the future."

Fang Sisi obviously knew that Cao Yang would ask this question, so she was not surprised at all.

"In Japan, the situation ten years ago and ten years from now is almost the same. It's difficult to find a few outstanding news items every day."

"It's not like our Lingnan Province, where there are big news every now and then."

"Especially Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd., I heard that you released satellites for everyone again on today's Nanshan Technology Day?"

People who can be reporters are naturally more talkative.

After Fang Sisi met Cao Yang, she didn't feel strange at all.

"Fortunately, we just invested more manpower and material resources in research and development than others, and the natural return is a few hundred million points more."

"In the future, we have to ask reporter Fang to help us promote our products more."

Whether it's respect for beautiful women or respect for the special status of Huaxia TV, Cao Yang's attitude towards Fang Sisi is quite good.

"One time is familiar, two times is familiar. Mr. Cao can just call me Sisi."

Fang Sisi smiled, revealing her two dimples, and was full of affinity.

"All the people invited before Nanshan Technology Day are our customers. After all, it is a technology recommendation meeting, so we are not embarrassed to invite the media. I wonder why Sisi you are interested in such a boring technology exhibition?"

As Cao Yang said this, he led Fang Sisi towards each exhibition hall.

Behind Fang Sisi, there were people carrying cameras filming various scenes.

"Nanshan is the enterprise that has won the largest number of National Science and Technology Progress Awards among domestic enterprises."

"I was stationed in Yangcheng, so naturally I had to focus on powerful companies like Nanshan."

"Especially I heard that you also officially launched the 1.5T turbocharged engine today. This is the first turbocharged engine for passenger cars in China, and its technical parameters are better than those of its international counterparts."

"Such a good news material, I naturally can't bear to miss it."

Naturally, it was impossible for Fang Sisi to interview Cao Yang there from beginning to end.

Most of the time, the two people were visiting as if chatting.

But when she arrived at the engine showroom, she began to record and broadcast a few minutes of video alone, and then formally interviewed Cao Yang with several questions.

For this kind of official interview, Cao Yang's answer was naturally quite satisfactory, and there was no need to make wild remarks.

However, even so, this scene attracted the attention of many people.

"Xiao Lu, is the output power of Nanshan's 1.5T turbocharged engine higher than that used in our Accord?"

"Have you heard that Honda is researching turbocharged engines?"

As the deputy director of the purchasing department of Yangcheng Honda, Li Huarong was naturally invited to participate in Nanshan Science and Technology Day.

Among the international automobile giants, Honda has always been famous for its engine technology.

What a Honda for a day, a Honda for a lifetime.

Buy the engine and get the car.

These are the "beliefs" of some Honda fans.

Now that he sees that Nanshan has actually developed an engine that is even better than Honda, Li Huarong naturally feels a bit of a crisis.

Having this engine in Nanshan means that domestic independent brands may be able to use this engine.

Coupled with the 6AT automatic transmission previously provided by Nanshan, Nanshan has made up for the two weakest links of the independent brand.

If this is combined with various configurations with high cost performance, will the sales of Yangcheng Honda be affected in the future?

Li Huarong expressed concern about this.

"Judging from the data currently displayed in Nanshan, this is indeed the case."

"But turbocharging is not a new technology. Honda already equipped the ER-type 80L inline four-cylinder turbocharged engine on the CITYTURBO in the 1.2s."

"Even for Honda, turbocharged engines have long been their specialty. In the field of F80 racing in the 1s, Honda's turbocharged engines were invincible and dominated the entire F1 field. In the end, they had to force The FIA ​​has revised its competition rules to completely ban the use of turbocharged engines in F1 cars."

"Even besides Honda, Nissan also had its own turbocharged engine earlier."

"It's just that early turbocharged engines had various problems and had no overall advantages over naturally aspirated engines, so they didn't gain widespread popularity."

"With the advancement of technology, some problems of turbocharged engines have been slowly solved, so now Europe is starting to pick up turbocharged engines again."

"Of course, the policy drivers behind it are also very important."

Lu Xiangyang didn't deliberately disparage Nanshan's turbocharged engine, but he really didn't think it was that great.

At least he didn't think it was that great until it was actually installed and sold.

"The last time I discussed future new models with people at Honda Research Institute, none of the new models launched before 2008 used a turbocharged engine."

"But I heard that Volkswagen's next-generation engine platform is a turbocharged engine, and Ford and GM also have this intention."

"If the market trend in the future is towards turbocharged engines, wouldn't it be very disadvantageous for us?"

Li Huarong thinks more.

It's just that this answer is definitely not one that Lu Xiangyang can give.

……

"Holm, I just got the news that Nanshan has launched a 1.5T turbocharged engine and is now promoting it to various independent brands in China."

"Didn't the engine manufacturers of Dongan Power and Aerospace Mitsubishi want to switch our camshaft bearings and other bearings to Nanshan bearings?"

"I think we can proactively report the situation of Nanshan Engine to them to make them aware of the harm Nanshan has brought to the industry."

Xue Wenqiang is very concerned about Nanshan Science and Technology Day.

Although he was unable to go to the site himself, he had already learned about the relevant exhibition technologies of the Science and Technology Day through familiar people.

In addition to various bearings, engines are undoubtedly a key product that attracts SKF.

After all, there are many places on the engine where bearings are needed.

In the past, Nanshan's achievements in this area were relatively few.

Now Nanshan has actively entered the engine industry and has become a competitor with those engine manufacturers.

As long as SKF pushes a little behind the scenes, these engine manufacturers will definitely no longer use Nanshan products.

Even some bearing items that are now determined to be replaced may turn yellow.

Undoubtedly, this is in the interests of SKF and the interests of engine manufacturers.

Xue Wenqiang realized this, so he took the initiative to communicate with Golm.

"It's not enough for Nanshan to build a gearbox, but it actually builds an engine?"

"Can they do it?"

Holm maintained a certain degree of skepticism about the news reported by Xue Wenqiang.

There is no way, China's engine manufacturers are really incompetent.

Except for some heavy-duty diesel engines that are independently produced in China, other gasoline engines are generally not available.

"Although I feel very puzzled, their engine has indeed been developed. I heard that it will be mass-produced on a large scale by the end of this year."

"In this case, other engine manufacturers will definitely feel the crisis."

"Especially companies such as Aerospace Mitsubishi and Dongan Power that specialize in engine production."

"We can definitely take advantage of this."

After Xue Wenqiang said this, Holm did not hesitate anymore and said: "Tomorrow we will go to Aerospace Mitsubishi in person, and then we will also visit Dongan Power to exaggerate the threat of Nanshan Engine and let them continue to cooperate with us and NTN. , don’t consider Nanshan Bearing.”

Suppressing Nanshan is in line with SKF’s general policy.

This has even become one of the topics discussed by the SKF board of directors.

Due to the emergence of Nanshan, SKF's revenue in 2002 experienced negative growth for the first time in many years.

Among them, the negative growth in China District is the most dazzling.

If the headquarters hadn't felt that a different person wouldn't be able to do a better job, Holm's position would have been long gone.

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Great Wall Motors moves quickly.

In the afternoon of that day, after Wang Ying reported to the big boss, he took the initiative to ask Cao Yang to discuss cooperation on the 1.5T turbocharged engine.

"Mr. Cao, are the engine durability test reports and various parameters provided by your company replicable?"

Before formal negotiations, Wang Ying reconfirmed the situation of Nanshan engine.

After all, they haven't gotten a formal prototype for testing yet, they just read Nanshan's test report information.

Although judging from the report, the performance of this engine is definitely excellent.

The quality seems to be pretty good too, and after the durability test, there were no problems at all.

However, these are based on the fact that the report information provided by Nanshan is true and reliable and are not made under special circumstances.

"Mr. Wang, when you leave Yangcheng tomorrow, the five engine prototypes we provided to Great Wall Motors will be officially loaded and transported to your company."

"If there is any fraud in our parameters, if you have any questions, you can raise them."

"We guarantee we can provide an answer that satisfies your company."

Cao Yang is obviously very confident in the quality of his own engine.

He also saw that Great Wall Motors is the manufacturer most interested in 1.5T engines after BYD.

No matter from which perspective, Cao Yang definitely hopes to promote Great Wall Motors to use Nanshan engines.

Even if it’s just for a few years.

After all, he had no intention of making money in the engine business for the rest of his life.

Making a good fortune within ten years is enough.

"We completely believe in your character, Mr. Cao."

“We have all seen Nanshan’s technical level.”

"Currently, half of Great Wall Motor's models are equipped with Nanshan's gearboxes. We are very willing to cooperate with your company on engines, but I don't know if Mr. Cao has any rigid requirements for cooperation methods?"

Wang Ying did not directly propose to buy other people's engine technology.

It's easy to talk things over like this.

"We at Nanshan are open to all kinds of cooperation, and everything can be discussed."

Cao Yang will definitely not express his position before Great Wall Motors takes action.

So I just gave a relatively ambiguous answer.

"I heard that BYD's models to be launched this year will use this engine?"

The circle of the automobile industry is very small.

It’s not a secret at all when someone is going to get a new car.

After all, there must be overlap in supply chains between any two car companies.

As for cars, it takes a year or two at the fastest from research and development to launch.

Even for Japanese car companies such as Toyota and Honda, they need to start research and development four or five years in advance.

In such a long research and development cycle, it is impossible for relevant news to not spread at all.

Therefore, it is normal for Wang Ying to know about BYD's situation.

They don't even need to arrange any commercial spies to get this information.

"That's right, if you really want to talk about it, our engine was released in advance because of the needs of BYD's models."

Everyone knew the news, so there was no need for Cao Yang to hide it.

Anyway, BYD is about to start promoting its next model.

At that time, some information will officially appear in the media.

"If Great Wall Motors also purchases this engine, will the business conditions be better than BYD's?"

Great Wall Motors is definitely larger than BYD Motors now.

Everyone's status in the automobile industry is also different.

It's no wonder Wang Ying has such problems.

"It depends on how many Tainanshan engines your company is prepared to purchase. If the quantity is much larger than that of BYD, then the business conditions can naturally be negotiated."

In Shangyanshang, even if Great Wall's demands are a bit excessive, Cao Yang will not be angry.

This is nothing to be angry about.

Who doesn’t want their conditions to be better?

“I heard that when China was discussing the purchase of aircraft with Airbus, they once mentioned a plan, which is to import the first few aircraft directly from Airbus, but the remaining batch of aircraft orders need to be built in a factory in China for final assembly. "

"I think this approach is very useful."

"If Great Wall uses Nanshan's engines, can the first batch be purchased directly from Nanshan, and the latter batch can be assembled and produced within Great Wall Motors by transferring technology from Nanshan?"

Wang Ying casually found a cover and formally proposed his proposal.

She really wanted to know how Cao Yang would catch the ball.