Stephen Winkelmann, who was preparing for the new car launch conference, had no idea that two old Chinese customers were eyeing him. However, this year's new cars were a bit expensive and the quota was smaller. If you want to grab one, you need both strength and luck.
There is no need to doubt Xia Yu's strength. As for luck, after obtaining the system, he no longer believes in luck. Sufficient strength can crush luck.
If you really can't buy it, then just acquire Bugatti. It's just a few billion.
It is well known that making supercars is not profitable, especially for a brand like Bugatti that has pushed the boundaries. Its R&D costs are overspent every year, and it is either on the verge of bankruptcy or on the road to bankruptcy.
When Volkswagen bought Bugatti, it was ostensibly because of Bugatti's brand value, but in reality, Ferdinand Piech just bought a beloved toy for himself. The same is true for brands like Bentley and Lamborghini.
Now twenty years have passed, and old Pich is very old and no longer holds any position in the company. Once he dies, given the nature of those people on the board of directors, they will definitely sell off several unprofitable brands to help the parent company recover its losses.
If possible, Xia Yu wanted to get involved and take over this top brand.
The era of automobile electrification, digitalization and autonomous driving has arrived. Witnessing the rise of Tesla, any old-fashioned automobile company with a little bit of ideas will not remain indifferent. They are also working hard to pursue transformation and even developed hybrid supercars.
Wouldn’t the next step be a pure electric supercar?
When the roar of the engine came from the speakers, the brand was dead, at least that's what Xia Yu thought.
He wanted to buy Bugatti for this very reason. He didn't want to see this brand, which has pushed the internal combustion engine to its limits, become less pure.
Born in 1909, it has experienced glory, decline, and revival along with the history of the development of the internal combustion engine. Today, it should not be swept away by the trend of electrification. It should go against the current, burn its last glory, and achieve the swan song of the internal combustion engine.
Is Xia Yu's thinking selfish? He's demanding someone else's death simply for his own desires? What if he were the owner of Bugatti?
Without sentiment, the rich are just cold money-making machines. Xia Yu doesn't want to be such a person. If he can buy Bugatti, he only wants to achieve its final glory instead of those dispensable profits.
Some people think that this is just a stupid person with a lot of money, but they don’t know that this is actually just a result of having too much money and being willful. But Xia Yu is worth hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars. Would he still care about this small loss of tens of billions?
It depends on the situation. No one knows whether Volkswagen will sell Bugatti.
After two races on the track, Xia Yu changed into his Type 35. The weight of more than 700 kilograms and the combination of more than 100 horsepower are actually not bad. Both Divo and Chiron are fat cars close to two tons, and they really can't fly without 1,500 or 1,600 horsepower.
The two of them spent the whole morning at the racetrack and had lunch at Xia Ji. Xia Yu talked about the strategy of acquiring new brands for expansion. Ji Yang said that this was a good idea. If they wanted to challenge Hudi Lao's position, they had to go the route of directly-operated stores.
Brand franchising will never be able to beat direct operation because you never know what trouble the franchisee will cause you.
The ones that are successful in franchising are really those internet celebrity chains, they open and close one store after another, and cheat everyone who comes.
Xia Yu also took this into consideration and continued to adopt the direct-operated chain model, and all the original franchise stores were acquired by breaking down the walls.
What Xia's Catering lacks the least now is money. If those who don't want to sell want to keep the current laying hens, that's easy to do. They can upgrade the brand in all aspects and cut off all ties with those franchise stores.
The business world is so cruel that a kind-hearted person like Xia Yu simply can't bear it, so he leaves it to his subordinates.
"By the way, when are you moving to a new house?"
Ji Yang suddenly thought of this and asked.
"As for New Year's Day, I looked at the old almanac and it said it would be a good time to move into the new house. The project should be completed by the end of December."
Xia Yu replied that it had been almost half a year since he bought the two old houses, and the later renovation work had been underway until today and was finally almost completed.
"That's fine. I'll go to Wenju then."
With Xia Yu's current social connections, he would have to invite at least one person to the table for the housewarming, and Ji Yang would definitely have to be included in the table.
"Okay, I'll wait for you."
The two agreed that there would be a lot of fun on New Year's Day.
It’s good to be lively, because it feels like a home.
"Also, I brought your game console with me, it's in the trunk!"
When he went to ChinaJoy before, Xia Yu blackmailed Ji Yang into buying an Xbox One X and a copy of the game "Forza Horizon 4".
This game was released on October 2nd, and Ji Yang bought it at that time. However, Xia Yu had just traveled from his hometown to Hengdian, and when he came back, the news of him being on the list broke. Then he went to Hong Kong, Guangdong Province with his parents. The two had no chance to meet until today when Ji Yang brought the thing to him.
"How embarrassing!"
"So will you come and rent the whole place next time?"
It takes more than just a game console to book a venue for half a day, but our boss Xia is so generous that he can come if he wants.
"Okay, then let's play online this afternoon?"
Racing games can also be played online, which reminds Xia Yu of playing Subor online with his classmates when he was a child. That kind of online play just required plugging in an extra controller, but now it’s different, as many people can play online together.
However, Xia Yu is a professional in real life but a novice online. As soon as he logged into the game, he collided with someone and became a bumper car.
This game is very difficult. I have to ask Ji Shen for help at critical moments. With the guidance of the old driver, Xia Yu soon stopped crashing and soon overtook others. Soon it was dawn.
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