Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

"The second car is a cheaper car. If possible, I hope the price of this car can be controlled at around 10,000 RMB."

In the conference room, when Xu Huasheng said this, everyone's eyes widened.

Cost 10,000 RMB, is this possible? This is a car, not a motorcycle.

Xu Huasheng did not let everyone think for a long time, and directly hung up the design drawings of the second car. A small square box model.

"This car is temporarily named Beidouxing. It has a small square box shape, a four-seat design, and a small body size. The requirements for this car are also very simple. It is durable and cheap. It is called a sedan, but the design is indeed a truck design..."

The second car model that Xu Huasheng took out was also a magical car in the past, that is, the Suzuki Beidouxing introduced and produced by Changhe.

Suzuki is an expert in playing mini cars, and Beidouxing is also a magical car of an era. Although it is small, it has a lot of space. And there are magic seats to make space utilization more efficient. In Japan, this car even has four-wheel drive capability.

But now, Xu Huasheng does not require these things. His requirements were simple, that is, cheap. There were no comfort features, and there was only one airbag.

In a word, it was cheap enough, durable enough, and simple enough. The purpose of this car was simple, to make it something that ordinary people dared to think about and buy.

"The positioning of this car is the first car for ordinary people. I will talk to the government to see if the government can exempt the purchase tax. If the purchase tax can be exempted, or even if the government gives some subsidies, then this car may be able to be driven home for more than 10,000 yuan."

Xu Huasheng's words made everyone swallow. Is it possible to control the cost price at 10,000 yuan?

However, since Xu Huasheng said it, they had to work hard to do it. Try to reduce the cost as much as possible. Fortunately, Shanhai Automobile Group is a full industrial chain development, and everything can be produced by itself.

As long as the sales volume of this car is large enough, it is not impossible to control such a low cost.

"The third car is tentatively named Fit..."

"The fourth car is tentatively named Corolla..."

"The fifth car is a mid-size pickup truck..."

"The sixth car is a full-size pickup truck..."

In the conference room, Xu Huasheng kept taking out renderings.

Xu Huasheng took out renderings of six cars. The prototypes are Wuling Hongguang, Suzuki Beidouxing, Honda Fit, Toyota Corolla, Toyota Hilux, and Ford F150.

From microcars to full-size pickup trucks, these six cars are all prepared for the Xuanwu brand.

The positioning and prices of these models are also different. The future price of Beidouxing is planned to be more than 10,000 yuan, which is an entry-level car. The price of Hongguang is more than 30,000 yuan, and the price is further increased. The price of Fit is expected to be around 50,000 yuan, which is considered an entry-level car. The price of Corolla is expected to be around 70,000 yuan, a civilian car.

Hilux is expected to start at 90,000 yuan, a civilian pickup truck. The pre-sale price of F150 will exceed 200,000 yuan, which is a high-end pickup truck of the Xuanwu brand.

At the same time, based on the F150, the Xuanwu brand will also launch a full-size SUV with the same chassis.

When Xu Huasheng finished his explanation, everyone took a deep breath.

With so many models under the Xuanwu brand, the Xuanwu brand's lineup has suddenly become stronger. Now the Xuanwu brand only has one Land Cruiser, and the Land Cruiser has already made the Xuanwu brand famous.

Now, with so many cars coming out at once, the Xuanwu brand will explode after these cars are launched on the market.

"Ladies and gentlemen, these models will use a common platform. The parts of these models will be as common as possible. At the same time, my requirement for these models is that they will not be replaced within ten years, so when designing, these situations need to be considered..."

In order to reduce the cost of the car, Xu Huasheng was very ruthless this time.

Directly set the principle of not replacing for ten years, that is, if the design of this car is successful, only simple fine-tuning will be carried out within ten years, and no major upgrades will be carried out. This is enough to ensure that the sales volume of a car is large enough and the R&D cost is low enough.

"At the same time, all models are global models. So although our cars are cheap, they must be able to fully meet the regulations of countries around the world. This requires our engines and gearboxes to be sufficiently advanced and excellent. It is best if the engine and gearbox can be universal. Except for the two pickup models, the four models of Hongguang, Beidouxing, Fit, and Corolla can use the same engine and gearbox. For this reason, I designed a 1.2-liter four-cylinder engine..."

Xu Huasheng directly took out the design drawing of an engine.

This is a 1.2-literThe four-cylinder engine is a cast iron engine, but it uses a lot of advanced technologies.

These technologies make the horsepower of this engine reach 110 horsepower, and this engine also has a turbocharged version.

The horsepower of the turbocharged version is directly increased to 135 horsepower, which is definitely sufficient horsepower even in 20 years.

Putting aside the two pickup models, other models will definitely have enough power to install this engine.

"As for the gearbox, there are two gearboxes in total, a 3AT automatic gearbox and a 3MT manual gearbox..."

In terms of the gearbox, Xu Huasheng did not let these cars have too powerful gearboxes. Two gearboxes, one manual and one automatic, are equipped with different configurations to differentiate the prices.

However, the design of these two gearboxes is very exquisite, and the main feature is a good quality and good smoothness.

Multiple cars use the same powertrain, so that the cost can be greatly shared. In fact, Xu Huasheng still has ways to reduce costs. For example, the three-cylinder engine, but after thinking about it carefully, Xu Huasheng still did not take out the three-cylinder engine.

After all, the future Huaxia car use environment is bad, such as Beidouxing and Hongguang, people who buy these two cars usually pull heavy objects. The power of the three-cylinder engine is still a little weak, even with the turbocharging technology, the power cannot be compared with the four-cylinder.

In the conference room, Xu Huasheng and all the designers had a heated discussion. It is called a discussion, but in fact, most of the time it is Xu Huasheng who is talking and everyone is listening. If there are some things that they don’t understand, everyone will ask, and Xu Huasheng will answer.

Xu Huasheng kept taking out the design drawings of various systems, and the designs of these cars are like a cheat.

Everyone is not surprised by this, and Xu Huasheng does not explain. After all, these designs are very mature designs, and Xu Huasheng’s optimization of these designs in his mind makes these designs more perfect and better. Not only that, in the future, these models will change the Dacheng and slightly adjust the appearance, and the appearance will be improved again. After a few years, directly changing a lamp is basically equivalent to a major generation change.