All round car designer

Chapter 121 Persuasion
From the first person to speak until now, except for Zhou Dehai who has been silent all the time, the rest of the department heads feel that Zhou Fei's decision to enter the vehicle market is too hasty.

No one supports Zhou Fei!

Zhou Fei didn't feel annoyed. Since it was a meeting to discuss, inconsistent voices should be allowed to appear. More importantly, Zhou Fei could also understand that these people's starting point was for the sake of the company's development.

From the perspective of a company's normal development trajectory, as soon as it has established a firm foothold in one field, it wants to get involved in other markets. Unless there is capital support behind it, it will only fail.

Especially the vehicle market!
The domestic car manufacturers that can be ranked well are all state-owned car companies without exception. Private car companies have either closed down or are on the verge of bankruptcy, or have been directly acquired by state-owned car companies.

The auto industry is so special!

As a pillar industry of the country, it does not mean that you can play with money. In this regard, the automobile industry is very different from real estate. The automobile industry is the real technology, and sometimes no matter how much money you spend However, the cars made may not necessarily meet the needs of the market.

There are too many such examples in the history of automobile development. The most classic is the Phaeton, the flagship model developed by Volkswagen, which spent a lot of money in the past. In order to develop this car, Volkswagen invested a total of one billion euros, or nearly ten billion yuan. !

What is the result?
Not to mention the dismal sales, within a few years after it was put into production, Volkswagen announced in desperation that it would stop producing the Phaeton.

Of course, the Phaeton is not useless, at least he has left countless classic jokes for netizens, and he is a veritable "car industry joker".

So Zhou Fei understands these people's concerns very well. The current Mercedes-Benz company needs funds but no funds, and technology but no technology. Of course, they feel that it is not suitable to enter the vehicle market.

"I have heard everyone's thoughts. To sum it up, you all think that the company should not get involved in the complete vehicle market. At the very least, it should not get involved at this stage. That's what it means."

Zhou Fei smiled, and then continued, "I know what you are worried about, and thank you all for being able to consider issues from the company's standpoint, but there is one thing I have to say, from the very beginning, I was determined to enter the whole In the car market, engaging in engines is just a springboard for me.”

"Even so, I still think Mr. Zhou is a little too hasty. We can wait another five years or so. We can not only accumulate funds and technology, but also slowly research the market, so that we can have more time to prepare new cars. design."

The person in charge of the project department said again.

"Five years is too long, I can't wait so long." Zhou Fei smiled and shook his head, "Also, I have already designed the first car released by the company."

As soon as Zhou Fei said these words, the conference room fell into the hustle and bustle again, and everyone looked at him with incredible eyes.

The design of the first car has been decided without any market research, which can no longer be described as hasty.

Cars, especially the first car, must go through special program demonstration and market research to determine the target consumer group, and then decide what kind of car to develop and what configuration to make, and finally design it.

But now Zhou Fei directly skipped the intermediate link and directly entered the final design link. How is this different from building a car behind closed doors? !

Sure enough, young people are easily impulsive when they are bosses. Excessive self-confidence will definitely bring great hidden dangers to the company's future development!
"I have put the [-]D model of the first car on the PPT. You can take a look at it first, and then think about what to say."

Immediately afterwards, a [-]D model of QQ appeared on the projector. When these people saw what the car looked like, they fell silent for a while, and silently swallowed the words that had just come to their lips. Instead, Be amazed!

"Not to mention, this car is really interesting. It's the first time I've seen such a stylish design."

"The target consumer group should be young people, this is a big market!"

"I thought it was just a casual design, but judging by the situation, Mr. Zhou should have already prepared for it!"

Almost all the doubts disappeared after seeing the [-]D model of the QQ car. Even if these people don’t understand cars anymore, they still have the simplest aesthetics. Such a unique car, who has seen it? I will never forget it!
The recognition is too high!

Zhou Fei is very satisfied with the reactions of these people now. If they can't even impress them, how can Zhou Fei rely on this car to win the favor of the market?

"Do you still think it's too hasty to enter the whole vehicle market?" Zhou Fei looked at the crowd and asked with a smile.

A group of people looked at me and I looked at you, and they all couldn't help laughing bitterly. This kind of reversal seems a bit too fast. They were still criticizing loudly one second, and they were convinced by the other party the next second!

"Even if we already have the car, the market response is good, but will the company be able to turn around the funds needed for the production of the complete car?" Zhou Dehai was the one who spoke this time.

"I propose this plan now, not to say that it will be implemented immediately. Although the design drawings of the car are available, there is still a lot of preparatory work to be done. It will take at least half a year. After half a year, the new factory will definitely be completed. Once it is put into use, the funds will naturally be returned.”

Zhou Fei explained seriously.

In addition, after half a year, at most, it will enter the construction stage of the vehicle factory, and it will take at least another year before the actual production. In this year, the production of the EA888 engine has entered a stable stage, with an annual output of 40 billion With the scale of production value, Zhou Fei can stir up some waves in the field of complete vehicles.

As long as the QQ car can achieve the expected sales volume, capital turnover will not be a problem at all.

"The model of the car is available, but what is Mr. Zhou's plan for the internal configuration, such as the gearbox and the engine?" The person in charge of the project department then asked.

"That's why I asked you to come here today. In addition to announcing this plan to you, another point is to ask you to set up a new car development project team and determine all parts suppliers except the engine." Zhou Fei quickly replied .

"Mr. Zhou means that the engine of this car is also equipped with our EA888?" Someone asked again.

"No, the engine of this car needs to be redeveloped." Zhou Fei shook his head and said.

Although the EA888 engine is very good, the cost of a [-] yuan is seriously inconsistent with the positioning of the QQ car. After all, the price of a QQ is only about [-] yuan. Where to put it?
What's more, QQ mainly focuses on small-displacement cars, and 0.8L and 1.0L are its standard configurations. From the perspective of displacement, EA888 is not suitable for this car.

Since we want to replicate the miracle of this car in this world, we must show the soul of QQ in an authentic way.

(End of this chapter)