This new Great Wall car has almost comprehensively improved its quality. The inline six-cylinder electronic fuel injection with variable valve timing technology can provide 235 horsepower. If turbocharging is added, the horsepower can be increased to about 300 horsepower, which has reached the power level of a super sports car.
Although the engine is slightly longer than a four-cylinder engine, the model was initially designed with the future L6 engine in mind, and the six-cylinder body was pre-designed to allow for the necessary space. Therefore, once the L6 engine is successfully implemented, there is no need for a complete redesign; the car can simply be put on the road with a simple engine swap.
From a purely technical point of view, the six-cylinder inline engine is the best engine. It does not produce uneven inertial forces during combustion and has a quiet inherent quality at all speeds in the highest speed range, which is not available in the V6 engine.
In V6 engines, a balance shaft must be installed to suppress vibrations.
The only advantage of the V6 engine is that it is more compact and can be combined with the V8 engine during manufacturing.
Nanwan Group's V6 engine was also developed with the possibility of being connected to a V8 engine in the future. If only six cylinders are used, there is no need to develop a V-type engine.
The foreign car company that has always been obsessed with six-cylinder engines is BMW. When other car companies use V6, it is the only one that has always insisted on using the L6 series.
After the new Great Wall prototype rolls off the production line, it only needs to undergo a 100,000-kilometer endurance test, without the need for separate tests in various environments.
Guan Dahai led the test team to once again brave the wind and rain. They expected to complete the 100,000-kilometer endurance test in two months.
Listening to the New Great Wall roaring away, Wan Feng was very satisfied.
This time, this Great Wall model has sufficient power. With the power, it is time for Great Wall to try its hand in the large car market.
If a car wants to gain widespread recognition among people, the fastest way is naturally to advertise.
In addition to television, radio, newspapers and magazines, another way to increase your visibility is to participate in auto shows.
Around 2001, there were two well-known auto shows in China: the Beijing Auto Show and the Shanghai Auto Show.
The Shanghai Auto Show began in 1985, while the Beijing Auto Show was five years later, with its first auto show starting in 1990.
In order to avoid duplication, the Beijing Auto Show and the Shanghai Auto Show are held in different years. The Beijing Auto Show is held in even-numbered years, while the Shanghai Auto Show is held in odd-numbered years.
From June 18th to 24th, 2001, the 9th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition, also known as the 2001 Shanghai Auto Show, which is known as the largest exhibition of its kind in Asia after the Tokyo Motor Show in Japan, will be held at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center, Shanghai World Trade Mall and Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition Center.
Different from previous years when Nanwan Group participated in the exhibition in a low-key manner, this year Nanwan Group will participate in the exhibition in a very high-profile manner.
China will join the WTO this winter. Once it joins the WTO, all the world's well-known car companies will rush to the Chinese market to stir up trouble.
Wan Feng feels that these foreigners should be made aware that the Chinese auto market is not a place where they can do whatever they want. If they don't produce genuine products, they might end up dying a miserable death.
The days of using Santana and Jetta to cheat people out of food and drink in China for more than ten years like Volkswagen are gone forever.
As a flagship car company in the local automotive industry, Nanwan needs to set some rules for them.
Another reason is that Nanwan Group should also establish its own glorious image in the international arena. Now that it has entered the WTO and others are coming, it is time for it to go out and see what the world is like.
Although Nanwan cars have been exported in the past, they were all small-scale operations, and the export locations were almost all remote areas for car sales.
In the future, Nanwan Automobile is also planning to expand into Europe and the United States, and is also preparing to have some fun on the snowy fields of Europe and the United States.
In previous years, the domestic competition pressure was not too great, so Nanwan Group did not participate in the auto show seriously, but only participated symbolically.
But things are different now, this year South Bay is going to participate seriously.
Nanwan Auto is ready to make a splash if it doesn’t make a splash.
A few months ago, Wan Feng's instructions to Tan Sheng were to secure the most central location in the main exhibition area, an area of 3,000 square meters, no matter how much it cost.
Tan Sheng was so frightened that he almost peed his pants. "Boss, three thousand square meters? Are you planning to build a factory at the auto show?"
Compared with the 3,000 to 4,000 square meters of booth space that car dealers used to display at the Shanghai Auto Show more than a decade later, 3,000 square meters can only be considered average.
But in 2001, 3,000 square meters was definitely an astonishing number.
Generally, manufacturers would feel that an area of about 1,000 square meters was not small, and domestic car dealers at that time only had an area of more than 2,000 square meters.
The area just above Nanwan is 3,000 square meters. How big is 3,000 square meters?
This is the floor space required for a small business.
"I'm going to build a toilet at the car show!"
puff!
Even if you really build a toilet, a 3,000 square meter toilet?
Even if you stand, squat, or lie down and use the big tripod to go to the toilet, it won't be that big, right?
"Don't bother trying to deal with me. Just do what I'm told to do. If this problem can't be solved, you'll have to go stand on the street on Nanjin Road."
Tan Sheng frowned, "Boss! I won't be able to find a market standing on Nanjin Road with my appearance, right?"
"Aren't you quite good at living off your wife?"
Tan Sheng was depressed. Who was the gigolo?
The boss wants to set up a 3,000-square-meter exhibition area in the center of the main exhibition area of the Shanghai Auto Show. This task is no small task.
An auto show is not as simple as just renting a venue.
The booths at the auto show are divided into two types: indoor standard booths and indoor open space booths, and there is also a distinction between international and domestic booths.
An indoor standard booth refers to a booth that is built with the help of the organizer, such as some media booths.
Indoor raw space is also called self-built booth or special booth, that is, the organizer only provides the booth area, and the exhibitors design and build the booth by themselves.
In 2001, the rental fee for an international standard booth was 600 yuan per square meter, and the rental fee for an international raw space booth was 550 yuan per square meter.
Domestic car dealers have some small discounts, which are 550 yuan per square meter and 500 yuan per square meter respectively.
For major automobile companies, they basically use indoor raw space booths so that they can arrange them according to their own ideas.
The rental fee for Nanwan Group's 3,000 square meters of raw land is 2.5 million.
It is estimated that it will cost this much money to design and build the booth by ourselves, which means that the venue rental and design alone will cost 5 million yuan.
This is just the cost of the booth.
After the booth is built, you still need a car, and the cost of vehicle transportation.
Of course, it is more convenient for domestic car dealers to participate in transportation. They can just use a truck to pull it over, and the cost is not much.
But those foreign car dealers are in trouble, as air transportation is a very expensive expense.
In addition to vehicles, there are also personnel, staff and security personnel, and celebrities are invited to endorse the event.
After adding up all the expenses, car dealers really can't afford to participate in an auto show without spending 18 million yuan.
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