In fact, Yingguo no longer has its own car brand.
Jaguar, Lufo, Mini, MG and Roewe, the five brands belonging to the British Rover Group, are now all owned by others.
Jaguar and Land Rover are in the hands of Ford, and MG will be acquired by China Nanjing Automobile Group Co., Ltd. in July 2005. The company after the acquisition and merger will be called Nanjing MG Automobile Co., Ltd.
Jaguar and Tiger, both owned by Ford, were acquired by India's Tata during the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2008.
Tata spent 2.3 billion euros to acquire Jaguar and Lamborghini.
But there are still countless idiots in China who buy Land Rover. They don’t even know that ten years later, Land Rover has become the property of India’s family.
Wan Feng's admiration for his third brother, who loves to brag but not to take action, is as strong as the waves of the river.
But I promise I will never buy a penny of their stuff in my life.
As the country's most important fighter jets, they can maintain the record of several crashes every year. How can you expect them to produce any reliable products?
The Land Rover brand is still very influential in China, and Wan Feng is considering whether to acquire the Land Rover brand.
If you buy this brand, its electronic system must be completely eliminated. The biggest problem with Luhu is its electronic system, which has problems all the time.
The name "Luhu, who can't be repaired" is not given in vain.
But why spend over a billion just to buy a brand? Why not just build a car that looks similar to it yourself?
The Luhu dared to sell it for several hundred thousand, and Wan Feng felt that he must make a replica of it.
The appearance of the Luhu car has been similar since the first generation, and there is no such model in Wanfeng's vehicle appearance patent library.
There are quite a lot of changes in the front and rear of the first three and fourth generations of Range Rover, so let’s imitate the fourth generation of Range Rover.
I guarantee that the finished product will be better than the Tiger car.
But Wan Feng didn't think at all about whether he could sell the Luhu for a high price. He didn't expect the car in Nanwan to be sold for more than one million now.
Now that you have the idea, just do it. It seems that making a new car in Nanwan is as easy as playing house for children.
I wonder if I would be beaten to death if I said this in front of Chinese car companies?
The engines are readily available, and more than 300 horsepower is enough for this car to travel to the ends of the earth.
It just uses Sailong's three mature components and changes the outer shell.
You see, it’s that simple.
Wan Feng drew the exterior drawings before the New Year, and the design department also started to carry out early model simulations of the new car.
Of course, it is unlikely that this car will be launched this year. Sailong’s 320,000 yuan car didn’t sell well, so this car may even cost more than 500,000 yuan.
Let’s make it first, and if it doesn’t work, we’ll put it on the market next year or the year after.
The biggest event for Nanwan Group in 2005 was the launch of the H5555 smartphone. This was the most important thing for Nanwan Group.
Nanwan Group's current annual production of mobile phones is around 30 to 40 million units, and mobile phones alone can bring the group more than 20 billion in profits.
Therefore, the launch of smartphones is of course the group’s top priority this year.
The Spring Festival of 2005 came in the blink of an eye. After the New Year, Nanwan Group and Wan Feng personally grew another year older.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the official establishment of Nanwan Group. Zhou Liming asked Wan Feng whether to hold a celebration.
Wan Feng thought about it and nodded in agreement. Since it was the 20th anniversary, it was time to celebrate.
The day of celebration was set on May 1st Labor Day.
This day was not the day when Nanwan Group was officially established, but Wan Feng still chose this day.
Although electric motorcycles have little influence in the country, they are rapidly becoming popular in China.
Especially on March 23, 2005, the gasoline price was raised by 300 yuan per ton, and the price of No. 90 gasoline commonly used for motorcycles reached 3.5 yuan per liter. Then some people in Jiangwei Industrial Zone began to buy electric vehicles for transportation.
From the cancellation of No. 70 gasoline to the price increase of No. 90 gasoline, these workers suddenly felt that the motorcycles they rode every day had become a small burden.
When 70-grade gasoline was used, a five-dollar tank of gas could last a week. But when 90-grade gasoline was used, a five-dollar tank of gas could only last four or five days.
There is no such thing as filling up your car for five dollars now, it’s basically ten dollars.
With this price increase, ten dollars of gas can barely last a week.
By this calculation, the fuel cost of a motorcycle is more than 500 yuan a year, and the fuel price is expected to rise.
In 2005 alone, gasoline and diesel prices were adjusted four times.
In just five months, gasoline prices were adjusted four times: on March 23, May 23, June 25 and July 23.
These four price adjustments were three increases and one decrease.
On March 23, the price rose by 300 yuan per ton, and on May 23, it fell by 150 yuan.
It increased by 200 yuan on June 25th and by 300 yuan on July 23rd.
That is to say, in 2005, the price of gasoline increased by 650 yuan in just four months.
The price of gasoline has increased by more than 50 cents per liter, and by July, the price of No. 90 gasoline had exceeded four yuan per liter.
Under such circumstances, electric motorcycles finally attracted the attention of workers from various enterprises in the Jiangwei Industrial Zone.
The first choice of people who buy new means of transportation has shifted from fuel motorcycles to electric motorcycles.
The cheapest electric motorcycle with a range of 80 kilometers costs 2,800 yuan, and the vehicle itself is 1,500 to 2,000 yuan cheaper than a fuel motorcycle.
Even an electric motorcycle produced by Nanwan with a range of 180 kilometers costs only 3,800 yuan, which is almost the same as the cheapest unknown brand motorcycle on the market.
Nanwan Motorcycle promises that if the battery is used properly, the battery will be guaranteed for 30,000 kilometers.
If a fuel motorcycle consumes 1.8 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers, the fuel cost for 30,000 kilometers will be more than 2,000 yuan.
This is just the cost of fuel, not including mechanical wear and tear.
Even if you replace the battery of an electric car every 30,000 kilometers, it only costs 300 yuan, and there is almost no mechanical wear and tear.
Besides the battery and the motor, what else can wear out?
Just like that, electric motorcycles seemed to spread their influence overnight.
There is a strange phenomenon here that needs to be described.
Although Jiangwei is small in size and has a small population, it seems to have become a barometer of Nanwan Group's product sales.
As long as Nanwan Group’s products can be recognized by Jiangwei people, they will basically sell well.
The Sailong sedan and electric motorcycle were not recognized by Jiangwei, resulting in very mediocre sales across the country.
The former is too expensive, and the latter is denial.
Now that electric motorcycles have gained recognition, does that mean the days of their popularity have arrived?
Facts have proven that this is an irrefutable truth.
Electric motorcycles began to become popular in Jiangwei. This momentum first swept Hongya City and then quickly spread to Bohai Dongdan.
In just a few months, countless electric motorcycles appeared in southern Liaoning.
Then the momentum continued from Northern Liao to the three northeastern provinces and then into the interior.
With the help of rising gasoline prices, the spring of electric motorcycles has arrived.
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