Lu Ningjun and Lai Baogui gave Wan Feng a detailed introduction to racing.
For example, the Manufacturer's Cup Off-Road Race that the South Bay Racing Team will participate in next year will not cost much money, because major modifications are not allowed to the racing car. Even if there are modifications, they are only changes to the body strength and tires. The three major parts are not allowed to be moved.
That is, hundreds of thousands of dollars is enough for the logistics team and some consumables.
But the competitions that people like Lu Ningjun participate in are very expensive.
Although the rally cars they participated in may have logos that say Volkswagen, Toyota, or Nissan, the cars themselves actually have nothing to do with the cars they sold.
They are all specially modified, and the cost is between 2 and 3 million yuan.
Who will this car be sold to if it is mass-produced?
It’s not that one car can’t be sold, there will always be rich people who want it.
Are you making cars just to sell them to the rich? If you have a wife, you have to have a concubine too.
The car that Lu Ningjun will participate in the competition costs five or six million yuan alone, and the top-notch car even costs around ten to twenty million yuan.
In addition to the racing car, racing gasoline and racing tires are also a considerable expense during the race.
In order to ensure the best driving performance of the Gaoqi, racing cars usually use racing gasoline imported from Yingguo, which costs 75 yuan per liter.
The fuel consumption of a racing car is 100 liters per 100 kilometers, which means 1 liter of fuel is consumed per kilometer of race. The fuel cost of a single racing car in each race is more than 50,000 yuan.
Most of these racing cars are equipped with racing tires imported from Turkey, which cost about 3,000 yuan each. In order to ensure the best driving performance, all four tires of the car need to be replaced after completing a single stage of about 40 kilometers. If a race has several stages, the tire cost of a single car will exceed 70,000 yuan.
Turkish tires for racing? Husky country actually produces racing tires?
Wan Feng has no good feelings towards this Husky country. When the aircraft carrier passed through their Bosphorus Strait, it encountered many difficulties from the Huskies.
Compared to the expenses of the support staff, the cost of gas and tires is negligible.
A logistics team usually has 20 to 30 people, and a race costs hundreds of thousands of yuan.
This is really not something that ordinary people can afford.
Money is just a number to Wan Feng. Even though Lu Ningjun talked for a long time, Wan Feng calculated that it was only about a few thousand.
He is now participating in the Manufacturers' Cup, which costs almost nothing for the car and the team costs are negligible.
"Mr. Lu! Mr. Lai! How much does it cost to modify a top-of-the-line rally car? I mean, the kind that can compete in the Dakar Rally."
"If you go abroad and modify a top-tier racing car, it would cost at least 15 to 20 million yuan."
Wan Feng thought for a moment and said, "We're planning to build a racing car. I wonder if Mr. Lu is interested in driving one?"
Wan Feng did not ask Lu Ningjun whether he had made up his mind to join the Nanwan team, but instead asked this question.
Lu Ningjun did not answer immediately, but picked up the glass and took a sip of beer.
"Boss Wan! Can you make that kind of racing car?" Lai Baogui interjected from the side.
"My business motto is, if I can't do it right, I can still do it badly. Just do it and see."
With the strength of Nanwan Group, there is not much pressure to make a rally car, but as to whether it is good or not is another matter.
Let’s build it first.
For a car that can run in the Dakar Rally, an inline four-cylinder engine is probably not enough. The lowest it can get is an inline five-cylinder diesel engine, which is not available in Nanwan.
The absence of an inline five-cylinder engine does not mean the absence of an inline six-cylinder engine. Nanwan still has inline six-cylinder diesel engines.
Nanwan Heavy Vehicle has many six-cylinder diesel engines with different cylinder diameters.
Of course, rally cars don't use inline six-cylinder engines installed on trucks, but are specifically installed on cars.
When Nanwan was developing the Tsunami engine a few years ago, it was also developing a direct injection inline six-cylinder diesel engine.
This engine is actually of the same generation as the Tsunami, it just has two more cylinders.
This unnamed engine was tested for more than half a year last year, with a continuous working time of more than 2,400 hours.
This engine is intended to be installed on SUVs with engine displacement of 3.0 or above in the future.
When equipped with a variable-geometry turbocharger, the horsepower can reach 360 horsepower and the maximum torque can reach 530.
The Tsunami engine that came out before it was installed on the market, but its average sales affected the application of this engine.
It was put aside and temporarily useless.
Wan Feng felt that it was time to put it to good use. It should be possible to use it as a racing car. At least it would be as powerful as others.
"We already have the engine, and the chassis isn't a problem either. The only thing that needs to be modified now is the gearbox, and then the whole vehicle integration. We hope to have a prototype ready by August."
The gearbox of a racing car is different from that of an ordinary car and needs to be modified.
Nanwan is now working on building a rally car, and the thing that's probably delaying the process is the gearbox.
Now, Lu Ningjun and Lai Baogui have no doubt that Nanwan can make a rally car, but they dare not say whether it is good or bad.
"Boss Wan! There are some things I need to discuss with Brother Lai tonight. We can talk about it tomorrow."
Lu Ningjun did have some things to discuss with Lai Baogui, as some of his ideas and concepts had changed a lot.
Wan Feng smiled and nodded.
The fact that Lu Ningjun wants to discuss the matter with Lai Baogui shows that things are moving in a good direction.
After dinner, Wan Feng arranged for the two of them to stay at the Hongying Hotel, and then said goodbye and went home.
Lu Ningjun and Lai Baogui did not go to bed immediately. It was not even seven o'clock yet, so how could they sleep?
The two of them went for a stroll on Wankou Street.
Strictly speaking, Wankou Street is no longer Wankou Street.
The original Wankou Street was located at the mouth of Nandawan Bay and was between three and four hundred meters long.
But now this street, which starts from Dongshanding in the east and ends at Xigang where Zhan Honggui gas station is located in the west, has expanded from 300 meters in length to several hundred meters in length.
This section of the highway has become a four-lane asphalt road, with businesses clustered on both sides of the road like a galaxy of stars.
These shops did not attract Lu Ningjun and Lai Baogui much, and they talked in low voices as they walked.
"Laolai! What do you think of this place?"
Lai Baogui was silent for a moment. "How should I put it? I feel like there's an invisible attraction here, but I can't really put my finger on what it is."
"Me too. I didn't really take this place seriously when we got here, but in just half a day, my opinion has been shaken. This might be a good place. I think that the young boss is not only worthy of respect, but he also seems to have some ideas about the sport of racing."
Lai Baogui nodded. "That young boss is quite interesting. He's able to build such a business in such a remote mountain village. He's truly worthy of respect. Compared to him, Changan Automobile, Second Automobile Works, and Beijing Automobile are really nothing."
Lu Ningjun deeply agreed with Lai Baogui's words.
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