Chapter 101: Our Race Car

"This Lucas is good. ”

Talking about Nate Lucas on the way back, Rosemary said that it was not easy to get Rosemary to give a "good" review.

"Well," Chen Geng responded: "I also think his leadership skills are good, at least it's no problem to lead their team of more than a dozen people to work hard." ”

Although Nate Lucas is nominally the manager of the United Aircraft Dismantling Company, but in terms of rights, the rights in Nate Lucas's hands are actually similar to those of a department manager and department head, he has limited financial rights in the department, and the management rights of these more than ten employees, and the right to propose to the company which auction to participate in and which aircraft to buy, but he does not have the right to sell, nor does he have the right to recruit personnel - of course, when he meets the right person, he can recommend it to the company- In other words, he doesn't have the most important financial rights, personnel rights, and sales rights for a company, but even so, Nate Lucas is very satisfied, because this "castrated version" of the manager's salary is high.

Not only Nate Lucas was satisfied, but so were the more than a dozen engineers from the United Aircraft Dismantling Company.

"Speaking of this question, boss ......" Rosemary turned her head to look at Chen Geng: "I think the company should add a business jet." ”

"it!" Chen Gengwei screamed, glared and said: "I am reluctant to buy a helicopter, you let me buy a business jet?!"

"I'm not talking about the kind of large jet business jets that only big conglomerates and large enterprises buy, I'm talking about the kind of small propeller business jets with five or six seats, this kind of small aircraft with a range of between 1,500 and 2,500 kilometers, which is like the one that we see in that pile of aircraft shells today than the Beechcraft Baron G58 and the Beechcraft King Air 90,"

Rosemary said: "Not only to regulate this, but as our company's business scope gradually expands in Michigan, our company's business scope will begin to expand to neighboring states, and in the next few years, it may grow to ten or twenty states, so that having a small aircraft that can fly in two neighboring states and even across states in the United States is very important for the head office to manage and inspect the business."

The price of such a small aircraft is not expensive, and the price of a second-hand aircraft that is more than 10 years old is cheaper, which I think is very suitable for our company's positioning. ”

Buying a small propeller business jet like this?

Listening to Rosemary say this, Chen Geng was really a little moved, he had personally experienced the convenience of business jets, and knew how much convenience Kindler's small plane brought to his work and business, the general aviation in the United States is also developed, and many small towns also have their own general aviation airports (that is, there is only one runway, not even a tower, and can only be guided by radio calls, In addition, the kind of miniature airport that can help you refuel your plane), as the scale of the company's business expands, having such a small aircraft with a range of between 1,500 and 2,500 kilometers is really helpful for the company's development.

The most important thing is that there is an airplane, even if the company's B compartment goes up, even if it is just a small plane that can only seat six or seven people including pilots, and the price of such a small second-hand propeller business jet is not expensive, it seems to be only two or three hundred thousand dollars......

After thinking about it, Chen Geng said, "That's it, wait, wait...... Half a year, if in the next six months, you can take the company to expand the current business scale by 50%, I will buy a plane as the company's business jet, and don't want a small plane like Beechcraft Baron G58 and Beechcraft King Air B90 that can only take four or five passengers, let's directly ask for King Air B200, you can go out directly with the entire negotiation team. ”

Compared with the G58 and B90, even if there is only one pilot, only five or six people can fly. The space is actually quite small plane, the interior space of the Beechcraft King Air B200 is much larger, when used as a regional aircraft, it can take up to 14 passengers at the same time, if it is modified for business jet use, it can be extremely spacious to arrange 8 seats, if you are a little more extravagant, cancel the independent seat on one side, change it into a three-person sofa, you can also turn the sofa into a bed, and sleep on it when you are tired, which is not necessarily the treatment that you may be able to enjoy in the first class of a fixed flight。

Rosemary immediately understood that this was the boss's assignment to herself: the reward for the completion of the mission told you, it was a small and medium-sized business jet, but whether you could get it or not depends on your ability - as for the monetary reward, the contract is clearly written.

"Boss, you wait," Rosemary was full of energy when she met a boss who was so generous and willing to give benefits to her subordinates: "I'm going to set this plane!"

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Nothing to say all the way.

Back at the company, before Chen Geng could catch his breath and drink saliva, Aniston hurriedly rushed in: "Boss, Mr. Lamborghini wants to see our car." ”

Chen Geng frowned, a little dissatisfied: "Didn't he see it?"

"It's not the Corvette C3, it's the V12 car," Aniston said, "says Mr. Lamborghini, before he saw the car......"

"Before seeing the car, before knowing the chassis design and specific parameters of this car, all the calibration and tuning of the engine and gearbox are meaningless," Before Chen Geng finished speaking, Ferruccio Lamborghini rushed in from outside like a gust of wind, waving his arms excitedly and shouting: "Fernandez, I ask to see your car immediately, otherwise our work will not be able to begin." ”

Chen Geng seriously suspected that Ferruccio Lamborghini opened a dog's nose, otherwise why did he just come back and gasp without even taking a breath, and this guy rushed here?

But this is not the point at the moment, the point is that this guy was simply a white-eyed wolf before, he wanted to bite anyone twice, and he didn't have a little respect for himself, an investor and shareholder, and he had only been away for a few days, why was this guy so polite to himself?

Aniston: How do I know?

Regardless of why Ferruccio Lamborghini suddenly changed his attitude as if he had changed his face, Chen Geng frowned: "Mr. Lamborghini, you should know that the chassis is the soul of a car......

"Are your chassis parameters real?" Ferruccio Lamborghini didn't care about what Chen Geng's words meant, and refused to let go of Chen Geng: "I looked at some of the parameters of your chassis, but I really can't understand how these parameters were obtained......

Listening to Ferruccio Lamborghini constantly telling his puzzles in the past few days, Chen Geng listened and listened, and suddenly became happy: What a white-eyed wolf, this guy is simply a technology nerd immersed in the world of technology!

Knowing the reason for Ferruccio Lamborghini's "white-eyed wolf", Chen Geng suddenly felt better: no wonder he can make a good car, but there is no good marketing method, and he expects a tech nerd to do a good job in marketing?

As for why Ferruccio Lamborghini knows some parameters of the chassis without seeing the chassis, this is inevitable, because for modern cars, especially cars with load-bearing body structure, the engine and gearbox themselves are part of the chassis stress structure, and the chassis design cannot be done without giving the corresponding parameters. The degree of excellence makes a rough judgment.

It is precisely because the parameters given by Fernandez are so good and scary that Ferruccio Lamborghini can't sleep well at all, he can't figure it out anyway, even if Lamborghini has a lot of experience in building cars, it is difficult to make a car with this level of chassis parameters, Fernandez has no experience involving and manufacturing a car at all, how did they give such chassis parameters?

But helplessly, he couldn't see the chassis of Fernandez's racing car at all, and without Chen Geng's personal instructions, no one could disclose any information about this chassis, otherwise he would not only be expelled, but also investigated for legal responsibility.

If you can't see it, there is naturally no way to verify whether these parameters given by Fernandez are true or false...... For a tech nerd who regards technology as his life, this is really a personal life.

"This is a confidentiality agreement and a letter of responsibility," Chen Geng thought for a moment, turned around and took out a document from the filing cabinet: "If you sign this document, you can ......"

Before Chen Geng finished speaking, the document was snatched by Ferruccio Lamborghini, and he signed his name on it without even looking at it, and asked, "Is it okay now?"

"......" Chen Geng was speechless for a moment, the speed at which you signed was quite fast.

Taking Ferruccio Lamborghini to a door with a combination lock in the maintenance workshop, Chen Geng entered the code to open the door, pointed to a body chassis in the room that looked like a formula car frame structure, and said proudly: "Mr. Lamborghini, this is the race car we have adopted the formula design concept: X-bo." ”

"X-bo?" Ferruccio Lamborghini read the somewhat awkward name, looking at the body in front of him in disbelief without an engine and gearbox, he couldn't believe that a modified car company could make such a high-end chassis?

"Others can't be someone else's business, but we can. Chen Geng's tone was very flat, but it was precisely because of the blandness that he pretended to be X.

Chen's last project before his first rebirth was to assist KTM in the development of their first sports car: the KTM X-bo, a sports car designed almost entirely based on the Formula F-3000 race car, using a finely tuned Wolfsburg EA888 engine and MQ series gearbox, designed for pure driving pleasure.

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PS: Brothers, I'm sorry, it's late to update, today's state is terrible, I just can't lift my spirits, it's useless to drink two cups of coffee, I'm so ashamed, I don't even dare to read the book review area and the comment area, beg forgiveness.