City: I, A World Car Overlord

Chapter 86

While the car media and major online platforms were still cheering and discussing the Baolong Electric A8’s performance against the sky, suddenly, some discordant posts appeared in various forums and new car sections.

“Shocked, Acura’s fraudulent sales figures to deceive consumers is a complete scam.”

“According to people familiar with the matter, Acura’s daily sales of 2,200 vehicles are fraudulent, and the actual sales are less than 600 vehicles.”

“Acura’s sales report is based on the quantity shipped to distributors as the daily sales volume announced to the outside world.”

“In order to make the sales data more gorgeous, Acura forced dealers to stock up in large quantities, and dealers could not bear the inventory pressure.”

Although these posts have no specific proof materials, they are all anonymous reports, but they have touched the nerves of countless people.

Because of this time.

It is the crucial moment for the Baolong electric A8 and Acura to be launched almost at the same time, competing for the sales king.

It is also a sensitive period when Baolong wants to build a domestic luxury brand car and has a hard-working foreign luxury brand.

Even more, Baolong electric A8 has received more and more attention, and it will naturally compare its opponents with traffic.

Therefore, as soon as these posts came out, they immediately received a lot of attention and speculation.

Car critic Yu Mou posted a dynamic: “From the perspective of these anonymous reports, and from the analysis of the Acura brand’s sales model with agency authorization, the authenticity of these posts is very high.”

An editor of Aiche.com commented: “Under the bombardment of overwhelming advertising, Acura’s listing has attracted a lot of attention. The editor of this site went to various Acura fourth son stores to conduct investigations and expressed doubts about Acura’s popularity.”

First, there were anonymous postings, and then there were car critics and editors voicing. It was obvious that someone made it deliberately, but the netizens who were not too serious still exploded.

“Haha, I said a long time ago that Acura is bragging, and it really is.”

“The king of shit comes, Acura is fooling consumers and inducing them to buy cars.”

“A8 is still the most authentic. Sales reports have been issued. There are pictures and the truth. Real gold is not afraid of fire.”

“I hope that the relevant departments will intervene in the investigation, severely punish this misleading behavior, and restore a clear car buying environment.”

After these anonymous posts were posted, with the help of netizens, reporters who smelled the hot news materials flocked to Acura headquarters and asked to interview Acura’s senior officials.

At the same time, the market supervision department that received the report came to the door one after another, asking Acura to cooperate with the investigation and explain the suspected false propaganda to the people clearly.

Faced with anonymous revelations, reporters came to interview, and the market supervision department’s investigation requirements, the entire Acura headquarters suddenly became stupid.

They all want to get it with their knees. This is definitely a trick by the dealer below, but they don’t have any evidence.

This is something that Acura’s senior executives did not expect. In their view, manufacturers and distributors are a community of interests, and they will protect the interests of their own agency brands.

The manufacturer was questioned and investigated by relevant departments, which had a huge impact on the brand’s beer, and it was even more harmful to the sales of its products. As long as they were not fools, they would not do such a thing.

However, they have never thought that under the circumstances of high inventory and high requirements, there is no corresponding sales volume.

At this time, the marketing department of Acura’s headquarters was scared, and the lawyers in the legal department panicked. When Tanaka received the news, he was unbelievable at first, and then felt a great crisis.This sudden, stormy and huge public relations crisis directly shocked the headquarters of Acura Sun Country and the helm of the parent company Honda Motor.

The Acura model is an important piece of Honda’s global strategy, but it encountered Waterloo in the Great Tianchao area. This is something Honda Motor and Acura’s subsidiary cannot tolerate.

They made an emergency plan, and only five hours later, a piece of order was placed on Tanaka’s desk, asking him to minimize the adverse impact of this incident on Acura at all costs.

Keno Tanaka looked at the instructions sent from the headquarters, and he still didn’t know the meaning.

This time, Tanaka did not call the company’s senior executives to discuss how to deal with it.

Now that the incident has developed, who has the ability and method to change the tide?

Apart from…

Someone stood up and took the blame.

In order to calm the incident and continue to ferment.

Keno Tanaka locked himself in the office for a whole day.

After quitting smoking for many years, he once again lit an expensive Cuban cigar.

The next day, the executive president of Acura Tianchao District, Keio Tanaka held a press conference.

Explained the fraudulent sales of Acura and the suspected false propaganda, and apologized to the Chinese people.

It also announced the actual sales of Acura to the outside world, and withdrew the high-pressure marketing methods for its fourth son store.

Then he bowed deeply to the media reporters and the people of the celestial dynasty, claiming that he would take all responsibility for the incident and resign.

……

Things have developed here. After two years of research and development and meticulous creation of the new Acura series, it has officially entered the semi-street mode. Honda’s globalization strategy has been cold in the heavenly market.

Throughout Acura’s R&D, promotion and listing, every step of the implementation is linked to perfection. Acura’s headquarters are full of confidence in this.

Acura’s design language is also unique, and the LX88Z engine is also not uncomfortable. The car is carefully crafted, fully demonstrating the craftsmanship of the Dahe nation.

If there is no match scene with the Baolong electric A8, if there is no act of dying for Oshima Finance Minister, Acura may not be able to achieve good results in the D-class luxury market.

Even so, Acura actually achieved a good market performance. Although the 413 vehicles on the first day were bleak, under the advertising effect, they showed a steady upward trend.

If Acura keeps on, the daily sales volume will remain stable at two to three hundred cars. This result is very good for a D-class luxury car that is destined to only be high-quality and low-volume.

You know, even the D-class luxury cars of first-tier brands such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, and BMW sell more than 10,000 units each year, and the monthly average is about 1,000 units.

But Honda’s expectations for Acura are too high. Tanaka is also ambitious. Their goal is to keep pace with Mercedes-Benz and BMW, and dismiss the new brand of Baolong electric A8.

But the wrong opponent was chosen, and A8 became the darkest horse of the year. As a result, one step was wrong, and it ended sadly. It was completely reduced to a second-tier brand, and even worse.

……

Powerlong Company.

Lin Fan looked at the figure of Jinnan Tanaka bowing to the media and couldn’t help but shook his head and laughed: “I heard that Jinnan Tanaka is almost 60 years old, and he has been dedicated to the development of Honda Motors all his life. However, it ended with this ending. sigh.”

Chen Huiyi sighed from the side: “The old man refused to admit defeat. He was originally worthy of respect, but his behavior was too radical and his methods were too tough. After an accident, as the supreme leader of the Celestial District, he would only have his life left behind.”

Lin Fan shut down the computer, sighed, got up and walked outside: “The A8 has continued to be popular these days, and it should enter a plateau in some days. It is time for us to launch new models and keep the market hot.”

Of course, Chen Huiyi knew that the new model Lin Fan was referring to was the Baolong electric A6 under development. He smiled at Lin Fan’s words: “Listening to Lin Fan’s tone is like a director and producer. It’s like a rookie star.”

Lin Fan was taken aback and agreed with Chen Huiyi’s words: “Your metaphor is also very appropriate. Stars need to attract traffic from time to time to maintain their popularity. Baolong also needs to attract enough attention.”

Lin Fan quickly came to the R&D department and saw a meeting room that was originally used for meetings and discussions was full of people. Mr. Xu was explaining the issues of electric assembly technology to a hundred young people.

Some of these people are mechanical masters recruited from various universities, and there are also many original R&D personnel in the company.

This was specially arranged by Lin Fan. After all, Xu Lao is over 60 years old. Lin Fan doesn’t want him to be too tired.

Therefore, the job of training new talents and teaching electric assembly technology was left to the old man Xu.

Don’t tell me, when Mr. Xu walked to the podium, there was really a rush of the old professor.

Lin Fan stopped Chen Huiyi’s move to inform Xu Lao, and only asked her to summon Zhang Kai, Lao Li and others.

After more than ten minutes, Mr. Xu finished today’s course and said to the students: “Okay, that’s it for today. Let’s ask Mr. Lin to continue the following course for everyone.”

Hearing what Xu Lao said, everyone turned their heads together and saw Lin Fan sitting behind them.

“Mr. Lin!”

“Mr. Lin!”

Everyone greeted them one after another, and those who were recruited from colleges and universities were even more excited.

They have heard of Lin Fan’s deeds a long time ago. This is the big man who developed graphene carbon nanotechnology that surpassed the times and super-magnetic electric assembly technology.

After these schoolmasters graduated, they applied for R&D staff of Baolong Company, firstly for the salary far beyond their peers, and secondly, they wanted to work in an idol-worshiping company.

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Lin Fan didn’t expect that Mr. Xu suddenly came to do this, and was slightly at a loss. Where did he teach other people?

If he hadn’t been forced by his father to be the general manager of the company, he would still be a student of Nangong University and lead a shameless second-generation life.

However, since this is the case, he can’t lose face and decides to teach these schoolmasters and R&D engineers a lesson, so that it will also help his new car research and development.

“Well, everyone, please come with me. Today I will tell you about our Baolong platform technology.”

As Lin Fan said, he got up and walked to the lobby of the R&D room, where there is more space and can accommodate more people.

The schoolmasters got up one after another, with anticipation and excitement written on their faces, as if they had returned to school and went to the classes they were interested in.

At this time, the two R&D teams led by Zhang Kai and Lao Li also put down their work and went to the lobby to wait for Lin Fan to speak.Seeing that everyone has arrived, Lin Fan opened his mouth and said: “Today I will tell everyone about the platform technology based on the super-magnetic wheel hub motor. First of all, we will summarize and extract the platform technology of Baolong Electric A4…”

Platform technology is a big project. Although most of the R&D engineers in the company have mastered it, how to integrate platform technology with production technology is a very complex and highly technical subject.

Otherwise, the team led by Lin Fan produced all A8s and sold them, while the team led by Zhang Kai has not even produced a fully designed A6 project yet.

……. ….. …

Not only the Zhang Kai team, but even the legendary electric SUV of the Guangqi Group, and the Shengshi C9 of the Hongqi Group are still in the research and development stage.

The main reason is that it has not completely solved many problems in the combination of platform technology and production.

Lin Fan has long wanted to make a set of electric power platforms with extremely high fault tolerance and wide production adaptability.

This project is not only related to the up and down extension of its own products.

Lin Fan also counts on a complete and perfect platform to make money.

To put it plainly, selling platform and powertrain technology is no less profitable than selling cars.

I haven’t looked at these years. The sales of cars produced by the Mitsubishi Group have not been very good, but have they made money by selling powertrains?

Lin Fan is to do such an upstream business to make a fortune.

Lin Fan talked for hours from zero to complete, from easy to difficult, and finally concluded: “To put it bluntly, it is to separate A4 into two parts.

The research and development department is responsible for the design and layout of the chassis and body, and come up with specific plans, and the production department is responsible for solving the manufacturing process to build the car. So, do you understand? ”

As soon as the question came out, Lin Fan shook his head neatly.

Lin Fan raised his hand to cover his face, feeling like he was teaching calculus geometry to a group of elementary school monks…

Lin Fan found a toolbox, poured out the tools in it, and then took up tools such as wrenches, gongs and pliers.

“I think this toolbox is a car chassis, the wrench is a super-magnetic wheel hub electric system, the gongs are a graphene battery system, and the pliers are a central control electrical system…

We need to implant the super-magnetic wheel hub electric system, graphene battery system, central control electrical system, and other supporting devices into the car chassis to build a car, isn’t it? ”

This metaphor is very straightforward, and everyone shouted: “Yes…”

“So, all the supporting devices of the car body are built based on the chassis, otherwise it will be a pile of scattered sand, not one piece, right?”

“right…”

Lin Fan nodded and continued: “So what I said about the platform includes not only the chassis, but also the size, weight, horsepower and other parameters that the chassis can carry. ..

With this parameter as the basis, we can fill the platform with various assembly systems and piece together an electric car. With this foundation, when we develop new models, we can save a lot of time and cost… ”

Listening to Lin Fan’s commentary and the image metaphor, everyone felt a sense of stunned realization. They kept thinking and nodding, and felt that they benefited a lot.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Kai said, “Mr. Lin, I seem to understand what you mean. You want to use A4 as the basis to develop a C-class car like A6 upwards, and build an A-class car downwards. In this way, With this platform technology, can we make A, B, and C-class cars almost at the same time?”

After Lin Fan listened, he looked at everyone and they seemed to understand everything. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and affirmed: “Yes, it’s that simple…” Chuan.