All round car designer

Chapter 335

After going around in a circle, Zhou Fei finally brought the topic to the production base, which is the most important property of Mercedes-Benz in Munich.

Although the rotary engine is also very important, compared with this, it is still not ready.

"It has entered the final stage of laying the production line. According to the previous plan, it should not be a problem to start production around August." Muller replied.

According to the previous plan, if the first phase of the project is put into construction with an annual output of 20, it is estimated that it will not be completed until around October. However, Zhou Fei felt that the time was a bit tight, so he reduced the first phase of the project to 15. Production capacity, which brought the production time forward to around August.

"Nothing happened recently, is Dafeng Motor still investigating this factory?" Zhou Fei continued to ask.

When Jonathan secretly investigated Mueller and the company under his name, Mueller had mentioned this matter to Zhou Fei.

"No more." Mueller shook his head, "Now they are busy preparing Lu Bo's car, and they have no time to care about me, so the information they know is limited to the previous ones, but they don't take care of it. This production base is linked to Feichi Company."

"By the way, this time at the Geneva Motor Show, the company you are the legal representative of should also show your face. You can contact the venue or something. It doesn't need to be too conspicuous, just put it in the corner." Zhou Fei suddenly lowered his head Head, said mysteriously.

"Your consciousness is...you have designed the car?" Mu Le was startled and asked quickly.

"Well, this is the information I brought, you can read it first, and then we will start production according to this model."

With that said, Zhou Fei took out his computer and opened the document that he had prepared a long time ago.

And Mueller also put his head in the past for the first time, and after only one glance, his eyes could no longer leave the screen...

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In order not to make his whereabouts suspicious this time, Zhou Fei paid a very high-profile visit to the Technical University of Munich on the second day after meeting Muller, and also jointly announced with Muller's laboratory that the brand-new engine jointly developed by them, It will be on display at this year's Geneva Motor Show!

At the same time, the announcement also revealed that this engine will completely subvert everyone's perception of engines, because this is an engine that is completely different from the working principle of reciprocating pistons!

This news also attracted the attention of many people. In today's international automobile industry, no one would doubt the authority of Mercedes-Benz in the field of engines. Less than a year after the release of direct injection technology, Mercedes-Benz has Announced, there is a new engine coming!

It can be said that Mercedes-Benz has made more innovations in the engine field in the past few years than it has accumulated in the past 20 years!

Therefore, many people are full of interest in the rotary engine this time.

Considering that there was nothing else going on at the headquarters, Zhou Fei decided to stay in Munich for a while, and return to China after the calibration of the rotary engine was completed.

At this time, the third round of public testing of Autohome has officially ended, and in ten days, that is, on February [-]st, the official version of Autohome will be launched, with more models and more functions. Perfection will bring a brand new experience to users.

At the same time, the spin-off of Autohome is also being prepared in an orderly manner. All in all, the development of Autohome is even better than when Zhou Fei founded it.

On the fifth day after arriving in Munich, the calibration work of the rotary engine officially started under the auspices of Muller.

As for the final calibration results, naturally there is no need to think too much. Although the rotary engine has many shortcomings, since it has been insisted by Mazda for so many years, it means that it is still very valuable, at least from the results of calibration. Look, the rotary engine is better than the reciprocating piston engine with the same displacement!
Regardless of the power per liter, or the maximum torque, the maximum torque, and the same displacement of 1.5 liters, the rotary engine is much higher than the ordinary piston engine!
This is the powerful advantage of the rotary engine!
As a participant of this project, Muller was naturally very pleasantly surprised by the result, but he also understood that if Zhou Fei had not provided the complete working principle, he would not have completed the engine in such a short period of time. development.

Mueller sometimes doubts whether Zhou Fei can't continue to develop, or does he not want to continue to develop at all?
"Professor, since the calibration of the rotary engine is over, I won't stay here any longer. I will trouble the professor with the preparations for the Geneva Motor Show."

After finishing the calibration, Zhou Fei said to Mueller.

"Okay, leave these to me, but I still have a question to ask." Muller paused, hesitant to speak.

"Professor please tell me."

"The series of models you gave me was really designed by you?" Mueller looked around for a while, then suddenly lowered his voice and asked.

"Otherwise, who does the professor think designed it?" Zhou Fei blinked and replied with a smile.

On the morning of the second day after the rotary engine calibration work, Zhou Fei left Munich. However, he was not in a hurry to return to China. Instead, he went to the joint venture company in Detroit to learn about the current situation of Feichi in the European and American markets. .

After more than two years of market development, Mercedes-Benz's market share in Europe and the United States has been greatly improved. Golf and Audi A3 are already present in most cities in the United States.

As for the European market, the initial deployment of the German market, the current sales network of Mercedes-Benz has covered several major industrial countries in Western Europe, and the next step is to continue to expand towards Eastern Europe and Northern Europe.

It has to be said that Jiang Yang's work has achieved remarkable results during this period. At present, Mercedes-Benz's brand awareness in Europe and the United States is second only to the three giants, ranking fourth, surpassing many old small and medium-sized car manufacturers.

In this year's list of the world's top ten automakers selected by "Consumer Report", Mercedes-Benz entered the list again after being listed for the first time last year, and successfully ranked No.8!
Such achievements are due to the two-way efforts of Feichi in the domestic and European and American markets. Otherwise, based on the sales volume in the domestic market alone, let alone the top ten in the world, Feichi is at most in the top [-].

Moreover, with the gradual development of the European and American markets, the sales in the European and American markets will account for an increasing proportion of Mercedes-Benz's total sales in the future.

Thanks to the sharp increase in sales, the production scale of the joint venture between Feichi and Fotong Motors has expanded again this year, and a new factory with an annual output of 20 vehicles has been built in Detroit, which is expected to be completed in January next year. put into use.

Once the factory in Munich is put into use, Feichi's influence in the European and American markets will be further enhanced.

(End of this chapter)