Rebirth in 1989: Creating the Chinese Technology Empire

Chapter 253 Land Cruiser Finalized: The Automobile Industry Officially Starts

"Mr. Xu, we have completed all test items so far. Our cars have withstood all test items, especially the engine, gearbox and chassis, and the failure rate is very low..."

In the conference room of the Automobile Research Institute, the person in charge of the test project began to report the work progress to Xu Huasheng.

After their rigorous testing, multiple versions of the car have withstood the most rigorous testing and are now ready for mass production.

After listening to the report, Xu Huasheng laughed.

"Everyone has worked hard during this period. We give our testers two weeks of vacation. At the same time, the test team still needs to be recruited, because next, we still have many cars to test, and we need to quickly improve our product line... "

Xu Huasheng started arranging work directly.

Now the automobile research institute is developing not just one model, but many models.

Xu Huasheng has produced many car design drawings over the past long time, covering various models.

Not only are there different models, but there are also different transmissions and engines.Shanhai Automobile began to fully deploy in the automotive field.

In the past six months, Shanhai Automotive Research Institute has registered a large number of technology patents.Various technical patents will be Shanhai Automobile's technological moat in the future.

In addition to the patented technologies for traditional fuel vehicles, these patents also include patented technologies for various hybrid technologies in the future.This is the biggest killer of Shanhai Automobile Group. Compared with traditional fuel vehicles, hybrid technology is a dimensionality reduction blow.

Before the electric era fully comes, hybrid technology is a very high-end technology.Powerful hybrid technology allows cars to have lower energy consumption and better performance experience.

Whether it is light hybrid, strong hybrid, or plug-in hybrid and Zengcheng, the future will lead an era of direct dimensionality reduction to attack pure fuel vehicles.

At present, major car companies in the world have not even understood the development of fuel vehicles, let alone hybrids. Therefore, it is impossible to develop hybrids.The earliest large-scale hybrid model was Toyota's Prius, but this car was only launched in 1997, and its sales volume was very small relative to the market.

After the simple meeting, Xu Huasheng announced that the meeting was adjourned.The testers who worked hard for such a long time were also given a two-week vacation, and everyone also received a substantial bonus.

Several cars that have been officially finalized and tested internally by Shanhai Automobile have begun the application and mass production of these cars.

Shanhai Automobile's first automobile factory is already under construction.

Shanhai Automobile's first automobile factory was not located in Henan Province, but at the seaside of the headquarters industrial zone.The reason why this factory was chosen here is mainly to facilitate export.

Although the domestic market has great potential, in this era, potential is really just potential.

In this era, Shanhai Automobile's main focus will be on exports. It will first use excellent products to carve out a niche overseas. At the same time, it will slowly support the domestic market, build its brand, cultivate loyal users, and establish and improve sales channels.

At present, most of the factory has been built, and many of the production lines commissioned by Xu Huasheng to be built domestically have been successfully accepted by Shanhai Group. The entire automobile factory is expected to be put into use in the first half of the year.

The production capacity planning of this factory is not low.The production capacity of the first phase of the project is planned to be 20 vehicles per year, followed by the second and third phases of the project. After the completion of the third phase of the project, the annual production capacity of this factory will reach millions of units.

After the meeting, Xu Huasheng came to the R&D base of the Automobile Research Institute.

After entering the experimental workshop, several prototype cars came into view. Seeing these cars, Xu Huasheng laughed.If a traveler comes here and sees these cars, he will definitely think that he has arrived at Audi's base.

Three city SUVs, three cars, and one MPV.

Among the seven cars, six of them directly adopted Audi's design.

Q7、Q5、Q3、A8、A6、A4……

The three SUVs and three sedans all adopt Audi's design.Urban SUVs do not yet have this concept in this era.Nowadays, among the cars produced by major car companies in the world, off-road vehicles are off-road vehicles, and sedans are sedans. The real trend of urban SUVs was the first-generation RV4 launched by Toyota a few years later. From that time, the car city was launched around the world. SUV trend.

Now, Xu Huasheng directly took out the urban SUV and directly took out three models, large, medium and small, directly filling the product line.

Of course, the routine will still follow the matryoshka routine, but this time the routine is different from Lu Xun's routine.This time the high end is placed on the white tiger and the low end is placed on the Suzaku.

To put it bluntly, the high-end is Audi, and the low-end is Volkswagen.Not only the three SUVs are like this, but the three sedans are also like this.

The lines of the six models are not angular designs, but future curved designs, which look more beautiful.

Design-wise, these three cars were decades ahead of their time.

As for the MPV, Xu Huasheng directly took out the design of the first-generation GL8.This car is a sacred car in China. Since its release, it has been the top seller in the MPV market for more than 20 years.

"Mr. Xu, the testing of these seven cars is almost over. Next, we need road testing. According to the road testing process, if it goes well, these seven cars will be almost finalized by the end of the year."

The technician said with a smile, his eyes full of excitement.

Shanhai Automobile's models are finalized very quickly. The designs Xu Huasheng came up with are basically very complete designs. They only need to make the parts according to the design drawings, assemble the existing cars and make simple modifications. They can just skip it. A lot of design time.

Moreover, Shanhai Automobile's current models are all blank, and there is no need to research the market like large car companies to explore whether this model needs research and development.

In this day and age, the development of a car takes a long, long time.For many car companies, it usually takes five years or more to develop a car.

Shanhai Automobile does not have this process. The most important thing for Shanhai Automobile now is to improve its product line. After improving the product line, it will then consider the issue of next-generation models.

As for R&D expenses, market and other issues, Shanhai Automobile has not yet considered them.Xu Huasheng didn't let them consider it. Now that Shanhai Automobile has just started, it will definitely continue to spend money.If you want to make a profit, you have to do it slowly. In the early stage, you mainly spend money to build the brand and let your product sales increase. When the product is perfected and the sales increase, you will naturally make a profit. At that time, Shanhai Automobile Group will I have finally gained a foothold.