Rosemary once again looked at the car on the drawing in front of her.

As an American, Rosemary is actually very proud and proud of the "heroic and atmospheric" of the American automobile industry, unlike Japan and Europe, which have just completed the post-war reconstruction for more than ten years, there is a small family spirit in all aspects of the car, as far as Rosemary knows, except for a very small number of manufacturers customized and modified extended cars, Japan and Europe have not yet mass-produced, body length of more than 5.3 meters of large cars.

Even the top-of-the-line luxury executive sedans did not exceed this length, let alone family cars for the family market, which in the late 70s and early 80s in Japan was no less than 4.2 meters, and even in Europe, where the economy is relatively better, the average length of a family car was no more than 4.5 meters.

At 5.3 meters, that's really a body length that they can't even think of.

After staring at the car for a while, Rosemary finally asked the most critical question: "Boss, what's the name of this car?"

"Crown," Chen Geng said, "Victoria's Crown." ”

"Victoria's crown?"

"What do you think?"

Rosemary's eyes lit up when she touched the name carefully: "I like this name......!" Well, to please the Americans. ”

Who is the current Queen of England******?

Who is the Queen's own grandmother? It's Queen Victoria.

Naming a car after Queen Victoria's crown, I don't know how high-end and atmospheric it is compared to other brands of cars from the B grid alone.

Rosemary even made it clear: "This car is officially mass-produced, I want to buy one." ”

She was even a little impatient.

Chen Geng responded, nodded, and said at the same time: "I'll contact Ford Motor about this matter when I go back, by the way, you can help me make an appointment with Chrysler Motors and ask them if they are willing to sell the basic patented technology of their automatic transmission." ”

"What do you mean...... Shall we make a gearbox?" Unexpectedly, her boss actually made such a request, and Rosemary was a little surprised.

"Why?

"Technically, of course, it's fine, I don't think it's possible for them to refuse us with your personal relationship with Mr. Lee Iacoca, but I don't understand why you're doing it," Rosemary frowned, "No matter how good our automatic transmissions are, Ford, Chrysler, AMC, and GM won't be able to purchase our transmissions, they have their own automatic transmission production plants." ”

"That's right. Chen Geng nodded, he took Rosemary's words and continued: "In addition to the American market, the Japanese have already bought the patent and technology of automatic transmissions from the United States, and it is impossible for them to buy our automatic transmissions; ”

Rosemary breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the boss didn't make a random decision as soon as his head was hot, he was very clear about the supply of automatic transmissions around the world, but it was precisely because of this that she was even more puzzled: "Since you all know, even if we make an automatic transmission, or even the best automatic transmission in the world, it is impossible to find an OEM to install and match it, why do you bother to make this thing thanklessly......?"

The next moment, thinking of a possibility, Rosemary suddenly became anxious: "You want to be an independent transmission supplier? This is impossible! Boss, you don't understand the entanglement of interests in this......

In Rosemary's view, if her boss really wanted to become an independent transmission supplier, it was a decision that even a madman would not make, and as the CEO of Fernandez, he had to find a way to dispel this terrible idea...... If the boss insists on doing this, it will simply be pulling money in a truck, dumping truckload after truck into the Detroit River!

"Don't get excited, don't get excited," looking at Rosemary, who was instantly excited, not only was she not angry, but to be honest, she was still a little moved in her heart, and made a gesture to Rosemary: "Don't worry, I never wanted to be an independent transmission supplier." ”

"Really?" Hearing this, Rosemary breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly reconfirmed with Chen Geng: "What you said is true?"

Chen Geng nodded: "Really, it's more credible than the Federal Reserve." ”

To be an independent gearbox supplier or something, Chen Geng has never thought so, he knows very well, he is not the material to do this job at all, in a word, if the two sides do not have a deep interest relationship, who will purchase your automatic transmission, who is not the priority to cultivate their own transmission production capacity?

A few years later, the automatic transmission of the little devil Aisin Seiki has a good reputation in the world, but Aisin Seiki is actually one of Toyota's companies, but Toyota is more shrewd, deliberately downplaying its influence on Aisin Seiki, and in addition to letting Aisin Seiki provide transmission for itself, it also provides external business;

A few years later, ZF Friedrichshafen Friedrichshafen (ZF), which was called the world's largest independent transmission supplier, thought that they were really independent if they claimed to be "the world's largest independent transmission supplier"? In fact, it was just a propaganda ploy, ZF and BMW had the same father: the German Quandt family, and the two companies were actually brothers.

Even the Australian DSI company, which is known as "the world's second largest independent gearbox supplier", before being acquired by Geely, didn't it have a miserable life, and it wasn't until it hugged Li Geely's thick legs that life was really better?

Relieved, Rosemary asked puzzled, "Then ...... you?"

Chen Geng explained to Rosemary: "You know the development strategy of our Fernandez company, take the small and refined product route, automatic transmission is the future development trend, I hope to be able to form a complete production capacity of my own powertrain, including the automatic transmission that may not be the actual loading volume, I don't want to be stuck in the automatic transmission this part of the neck." ”

The lesson of others stuck their necks is too heavy, and the biggest lesson that Chen Geng has seen with his own eyes is the Wolf Castle Company.

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The miserable Wolf Castle is not a fool, let alone disgusted with too much money, of course he is not happy, and he turned his head to find Dongying people to cooperate, and the result is of course no exception, and he was pitted by Aisin Seiki again and again, again and again......

After being pitted again and again by his compatriots and his allies in World War II, Wolf Castle finally learned to learn from the pain: Niang Xipi, no matter how big Lao Tzu's business is, it is not impossible to have the production capacity of his own transmission system, and he will have to be stuck at a critical moment.

Isn't it the drivetrain?

Isn't it just money!

Lao Tzu gritted his teeth and ate one less egg every morning in the future!

The idea is very good, and Wolfsburg is not short of money, but after looking around, Wolfsburg sadly found that the traditional automatic transmission technology (AT) has been killed by his fellow countrymen and his World War II allies, and there is no room for himself to exploit the loopholes.

So don't look at a few years later, everyone scolds Wolf Castle, scolding them for being as stubborn as the old stones in the pit, holding the naturally short-lived "big fool (DSG)" dual-clutch gearbox and not letting go, even in their world's largest single market: the Huaxia market is scolded as a dog and refuses to give up the dual-clutch, a pair of "Lao Tzu is with the double-clutch stumbling, how can you drop me?" The dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, the whole hob meat, but in fact, Wolfsburg is also afraid of its own compatriots and allies, and wants to hold the manufacturing capacity of the transmission system in its own hands, even if it costs a huge price.

As a person who has experienced all this, although Chen Geng does not sympathize with Wolfsburg at all, every time he thinks of the experience of Wolfsburg being pitted by ZF and then pitted by Aisin Seiki, he firmly remembers this lesson in his heart.

"That's right...... That makes sense," Rosemary agrees, though she's a little worried: "It's just that the cost might be a little bit higher than buying." ”

"It doesn't matter, I'm willing to bear the price. ”

"Then it's no problem," the boss is willing to bear this part of the loss, what else can Rosemary say?she nodded, "I'll tie you up and contact Chrysler as soon as possible, but I don't think it's a big problem." ”

Chen Geng responded, he also felt that it was not a big problem: before this, didn't they already sell the automatic transmission technology to the Dongying people, and they didn't give money, with such a good cooperative relationship with them, didn't they even give this face?

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Chen Geng was originally ready to rest for a few days, thank you brain, if you can rest for a week, it will be too comfortable.

But Chen Geng wanted to rest, but Ford refused to do it.

The continued popularity of the Chrysler family has stimulated Henry Ford, and I don't know if Lee Iacocca, who was born as a salesman, naturally loves to show off or deliberately stimulates Henry Ford, so when he has nothing to do, he shows his face in the media, accepts an interview, participates in a TV show, and talks to the camera about how he was not hit after being swept away by a Ford car, but rose up in adversity......

Henry Ford was so angry!

In his opinion, this kind of glory and opportunity to show off should have belonged to Ford Motor, right, what kind of qualification does that guy who was swept out of the house by himself have the right to be smug and boastful in front of the TV all day long?

Treacherous villain!

On the one hand, I can't wait for the straw man of Lee Iacocca, but on the other hand, Henry Ford knows better that in this world, the winner is king, before Ford Motor failed to come up with a model that beat the Chrysler family, the only thing he could do was to endure Lee Iacoca's arrogance, on the other hand, since only by coming up with a popular product can he slap Lee Iacocca's face hard, after knowing the news that Chen Geng has returned, where can Henry Ford bear it?

But the chairman of Ford still wants face, in addition to making a phone call to Chen Geng on the day he knew that Chen Geng came back, Henry Ford has "only" made a phone call to Chen Geng in the past three days, and told Chen Geng very cordially that he welcomes Chen Geng to come to his home at any time as a guest - but the design institute of Ford Motor can make eight calls to Rosemary a day.

Rosemary was really annoyed, but she really couldn't do anything about the other party, it was a Ford car, so she had to ask her boss for help.

"Then let them send someone, let them send someone to cooperate with us to make a full-scale clay model and a full-scale cockpit wooden model," Chen Geng sighed depressedly, and his heart was extremely resentful: "There is no public morality......

Rosemary laughed in her heart: "You didn't ask for this?"

Laughing and laughing, Rosemary hurriedly agreed: "Okay, I'll inform them." ”

In any case, I can breathe a sigh of relief.

Chen Geng remembered something, and immediately asked Rosemary, "By the way, there is no news from Chrysler?"

On the day he returned, Rosemary informed Chrysler Motors that she was going to buy automatic transmission technology and patents, which was actually not a big deal, whether he agreed or disagreedChrysler directly said, OK, let's start organizing people to negotiate, no, we will think of other ways, or cooperate with others.

But it's been a few days, and Chrysler doesn't say yes, or no, what does that mean?

"Not yet," Rosemary's brow furrowed as she said about it, "I'll call again and ask about it?"

"No need," Chen Geng frowned slightly: "It seems that Chrysler is unwilling." ”

"Why?" Although she already had this feeling in her heart, after Chen Geng said this, Rosemary still felt a little unimaginable: "It's not that they haven't sold these technologies and patents to the outside world, how can Chrysler Motors directly disagree without even listening to our offer? And you have such a good relationship with Mr. Lee Iacoca......

"I'm afraid that's where the problem lies. ”

"What?" Rosemary was a little confused.

"Lee Iacocca may be annoyed that I have a ...... for Ford Motors"