During lunch, several people talked about some interesting stories about Danping, such as the 5,000-meter race at a school sports meet. When the atmosphere was dull, this guy ran out from nowhere and ran all the way.
When the people watching on the sidelines confirmed that it was Danping, they immediately became excited and shouted for him to cheer.
Someone cheered Danping on and he ran even faster, and even the four people who came up to catch him couldn't catch him...
Everyone was talking and laughing, and they were still laughing when the meal was over.
After dinner, Yu Qingtao went back to his factory. It was not far from here to his water plant company, so he walked back.
Wan Feng entered Nanwan Motors.
Wan Feng came here mainly to inquire about the production status of those military vehicles.
The military doesn't need many six-axle vehicles, but it wants a lot of five-axle vehicles. It also hopes that Nanwan can produce three-axle and four-axle vehicles.
Wan Feng refused. What else could he do if he already produced the Wanshan special vehicle?
Three-axle and four-axle vehicles are the domain of Wanshan Special Vehicles. If Nanwan also rushes in, wouldn’t that create enmity?
It’s not like there’s no food to eat in Nanwan.
Originally, most of China's heavy military trucks were produced by Wanshan Special Vehicle and Taian Special Vehicle.
Wanshan produces vehicles with less than five axles, while Taian mainly produces larger vehicles with more axles.
Taian Special Vehicle was established in 2003, but now that Nanwan Automobile makes these special vehicles, Taian Special Vehicle probably will not appear anymore.
As a military vehicle manufacturer, Wanshan probably knew that Nanwan had not yet gotten involved in the field of vehicles with less than five axles. It also sent people to express its gratitude and exchanged views with Nanwan on special vehicle technology.
What Wanshan Special Vehicle lacks is automatic transmission technology. Although Minsk sold the technology to them, they just didn't produce it.
Since the two parties were not competing in the same niche market, Nanwan freely passed on the automatic transmission technology for small-tonnage vehicles to them.
Now the technicians of Wanshan Special Vehicle are learning this technology in Nanwan Automobile.
"Mr. Wan! If we teach them, won't they be our competitors in the future?" Wen Guanghua asked worriedly.
"Haha! Wen Gong! Don't be so stingy. Sometimes I think it's a blessing for a person or a career to have a great rival. Only with a great rival can you accomplish greater things. Maybe I think differently from others, but I hope that no matter which project the group is working on, there will be a rival. That way, we won't slack off and can produce better products. Without rivals, what's the point of this world?"
Wen Guanghua thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out.
It turns out that I cannot understand the level of vision of others who can be considered as a boss.
After viewing the five-axle truck customized by the military, Wan Feng came to the civilian heavy truck workshop.
Because of the country's regulations on vehicle length and the mountainous nature of the south, flat-head trucks will be the future development direction of China's automobiles.
In fact, long-nose trucks are much safer than flat-nose trucks, but because the length of trucks in China is measured from the front of the vehicle, the overall length of the long-nose truck is greatly affected.
Sooner or later, long-nose trucks will have to be abandoned.
However, later on, some truck manufacturers began to research long-nose trucks, but that was more than 20 years ago.
Nanwan Motors has basically abandoned long-head trucks and now has only flat-head trucks, and is now starting to turn towards heavy trucks.
The South Bay Storm, which is now on the market, is a model that has attracted attention in the market.
Although Wan Feng drew many truck shapes and applied for patents, the models he used were not all domestic truck models launched a few years later, but also foreign models.
Such as Germany's MAN, Holland's DAF, Japan's Mitsubishi, etc.
However, Japanese heavy trucks have basically been abandoned by Wan Feng. In his opinion, Japanese heavy trucks are extremely ugly.
This Storm adopts the design of the DAF XF tractor, even the yellow color has not been changed.
Although DAF has never appeared in China, it is one of the seven major truck manufacturers in Europe and is also a famous car company.
This Storm has 340 horsepower and is pulled by a six-by-two double axle.
In China, car owners are now beginning to need large trucks with high horsepower, so the sales of this car are very good.
At least the appearance makes people unable to stop looking at it.
Wanfeng launched its 2010s model in 1998, so it couldn't be bad-looking.
Wan Feng walked around a new Storm and nodded with satisfaction.
Although Nanwan trucks are now leading the trend in China, they still lag behind foreign vehicles in the international market.
First of all, foreign cars have the advantages of high horsepower, better operability, low failure rate, good comfort and low noise.
However, the disadvantages of foreign products are equally obvious, such as high fuel consumption, difficulty in repair, and having to go back to the service station to replace the brake pads.
Moreover, if you only buy the front of the car, you will still have enough money left after buying the whole car in China.
In this respect, foreign trucks are not as cost-effective as domestic trucks, which is why they are not well-suited to the Chinese market.
There is also the liquid buffer that is standard on later foreign trucks, but that thing can only be used in foreign countries.
If you don't overload it, it works fine, but what Chinese truck is not overloaded? Usually the overload is several times the rated load. Liquid brake is not as effective as pouring water on the brake pads.
However, although it is not practical, it still needs to be developed.
A hydraulic retarder is a type of automotive retarder that reduces the vehicle's speed through a hydraulic device.
It's easy to say but very troublesome to make.
Wan Feng didn't quite understand it either. After all, this thing only really started to appear in China around 2015.
He has never driven a heavy truck.
But he had seen this thing before. In his previous life, when he was driving a dump truck, his boss's family had a lot of new heavy trucks.
He also saw the mechanic repair the car when it broke down.
He watched from the side and asked a few questions but didn't really understand how it worked.
Without understanding the principle, he could only give a general idea.
Wen Guanghua once again heard his boss's stories from a Chinese studio.
Hydraulic retarder? What is this?
Just as Wan Feng was about to analyze the matter in detail, he received a phone call.
The call was from Zhang Shiqian.
Wan Feng was shocked when he heard what Zhang Shiqian said.
This guy asked Wan Feng if he wanted to cooperate with GAC?
Cooperating with GAC? Isn’t this just idle time?
When GAC and Peugeot cooperated, they owed a lot of debt, which was 3 billion.
He is not prepared to be the scapegoat.
"Lao Zhang! Have you had too much to drink? How could you have such an idea?"
"Hey! The Dongguan leaders said that GAC has acquired Peugeot and is now anxiously looking for a joint venture partner. The Dongguan leaders asked us if we are interested?"
"Not interested! Do you know how much money GAC owes to the outside world? If we cooperate with them, we will have to cover at least half of the debt, which is over ten billion!"
"Ah? There are so many famines in GAC? I really didn't know that. Oh! Did they let the Japanese in?"
The "little devil" that Zhang Shiqian mentioned is naturally Honda. GAC and Honda cooperated to launch the classic Accord.
Not to mention, if Nanwan really cooperates with GAC, will it block Honda's way to enter China?
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