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Chapter 119 Successfully Selected

At the end of each year, major international organizations and magazines will evaluate the existing engines, and then release the corresponding list, and among them, the most authoritative and well-known one is published by the magazine "Ward's Auto World" in the United States. "Ward's Top [-] Engines" list.

This list began in 1994 and is published once a year. Ward's list is recognized as the one with the highest gold content and the highest attention.

The selection of this year's "Ward Top Ten Engines" will start on the 20th of this month, last for about two months, and be officially released at the end of the year.

As the editor-in-chief of the magazine, when Brady screened the preliminary list, there was no EA888 engine in the initial list, because the preliminary list was secretly conducted since June this year. At that time, Brady Lardy has never paid attention to China's engine market.

Because in the previous nearly 20 years of selection, no engine designed by Huaxia has ever entered the final "Top Ten Engines", and Brady is also very clear about the level of Huaxia's automobile industry.

So this time, Brady also did not select Huaxia, but who knows, after the Yanjing International Auto Show in September, an engine named EA888 quickly spread throughout the entire international auto industry!
When Brady first paid attention to this engine, the Chinese media used words such as "the strongest on the surface" and "domestic magic machine", so at that time he thought it was just a self-indulgence in China.

But later, Brady found himself thinking too much, because he saw various performance parameters of the EA888 engine, as well as information such as "the world's first electronic fuel injection system"!

Brady's inherent impression of Huaxia's automobile industry made him almost miss such an invincible engine as EA888!
If there is no EA888 engine in this year's top ten engine list, then this list is absolutely unfair and has no reference value!
So after learning the real information, Brady added EA888 to the primary list without hesitation. This is also the only Chinese engine that has entered the primary list for decades!
"I didn't expect Huaxia to have such a talent. It's nothing more than independently developing the EFI system. They even designed the engine by the way, and the performance of the designed engine is so good!"

Staring at the list in his hand, Brady couldn't help but say to himself, now he absolutely agrees with the Chinese media's evaluation of this engine, and the EA888 is worthy of the title of "the most powerful four-cylinder engine on the surface"!

"The editor-in-chief and the judges have arrived and are waiting for you in the meeting room." At this time, a staff member of the magazine walked into Brady's office and said.

"Got it, I'll be right there." Brady nodded, then picked up the prepared materials and walked towards the conference room.

There are 20 engines on the preliminary list, but only ten engines need to be selected in the end, so the job of the review committee is to select ten engines from this list in the next two months, as this year's top ten engines to make an announcement.

However, Brady can already confirm that EA888 will definitely be on this year's top ten list, because no matter what selection criteria are used, EA888 is above the standard!

In the conference room, all the judges who participated in the selection were already sitting there. After turning on the computer and projector, Brady began to say,
"Everyone, this year's selection of Ward's top ten engines has officially started. The [-] engines selected for the preliminary selection have been sent to your mailboxes. Next, we will continue to make the final selection of the top ten engines according to the previously established standards. Selection."

The specific selection criteria for the top ten are mainly based on a comprehensive evaluation of each engine's horsepower, torque, technical content, and working characteristics in actual use, and finally select ten engines with the best overall performance.

The important basis for the selection is the fuel economy, noise, vibration and impact of the engine and other indicators. In addition, the innovation and power of technology, especially the output power per unit mass (specific mass) are also one of the important indicators for selection.

Among all the selection indicators, the published data of the EA888 engine is definitely the best one. This is also an important reason why Brady is so confident that the EA888 will definitely be selected.

In the primary list, besides Mercedes-Benz's EA888, Dafeng Motor's CTM and Futong's RX are also on the list.

"There is an engine from China in the primary selection list... Well, it turned out to be EA888, so that's quite normal."

"I originally thought that the editor-in-chief would leave out the EA888 engine, and I planned to remind the editor-in-chief."

"Although this engine is designed and produced by Huaxia, it cannot conceal its super performance. In this year's top ten list, EA888 must be one of them!"

When these judges saw that the first one on the preliminary list was EA888, they all talked about it.

In the past period of time, anyone who pays attention to the international automobile industry must not avoid the EA888 engine, because it directly brings the car from the era of carburetors to the era of EFI!

"Everyone, although we all know that EA888 will definitely be included in this year's top ten engine list, we still have to strictly follow the rules for all the review processes, and we have to re-measure all review indicators, not just based on the official release. No one can question the rigor of our list.”

Brady smiled, looked at the crowd and continued.

After the meeting, the evaluation of the top ten engines officially began. Based on calculations from previous years, this list will be released around Christmas every year.

At this time in China, Zhou Fei didn't know that the EA888 engine had entered the review list of Ward's top ten engines. After returning from Xiangyang, he began to think about the follow-up development plan of Mercedes-Benz.

In addition, the eight students who submitted their resumes at Jilin University have all passed the interview, and Zhou Fei has invited them to visit the company this winter vacation.

Regarding the formal production of the QQ car, Zhou Fei already had a preliminary plan, but the company's capital turnover is not enough for the time being, so he can only put this plan on hold, and wait until the factory's capacity expansion is completed before putting it into practice.

In this way, time passed by and soon entered December.

The small county town of my hometown has also entered winter. Although the lowest temperature is only hovering around zero degrees, without heating, this cold and humid climate makes Zhou Fei miserable. If he does not turn on the air conditioner, he will wake up overnight. , The quilt may be cold.

After breakfast, Zhou Fei came to the development zone. The building of the new factory will be completed in two days. Zhou Fei needs to communicate with the construction unit in advance about the laying of the production line.

"When laying the production line this time, the three lines were carried out at the same time. Among them, the engine assembly workshop had the largest workload, and the personnel allocation should be tilted towards this workshop..."

After inspecting around, Zhou Fei called the person in charge of the construction party and began to explain the next laying plan.

More than half an hour later, Zhou Fei returned to his office. Not long after, Secretary Xiao Ni knocked on the door with a newspaper.

"Mr. Zhou, this year's list of Ward's top ten engines has been announced, and our company's EA888 engine has been successfully selected!"

After entering the door, Xiao Ni said to Zhou Fei with a happy face.

(End of this chapter)