big country car

When it comes to this, Karl stares at Qin Shaoyou's face and his expression.

"Okay." Qin Shaoyou nodded: "This engine is durable and low-torque enough, suitable for our Santana 2000."

"Qin, do you have any comments?" Carl asked.

"What do I have to say?"

"This engine is less than a hundred horsepower, and the power is too weak." Carl said.

"For civilian vehicles, the main thing is reliability." Qin Shaoyou said: "This engine is very suitable."

Carl looked at Qin Shaoyou seriously: "If compared with the engine you have, is it a bit weak?"

"This can't be compared. Our engine is planned to be used in high-end cars."

Carl is a little depressed, what do you mean?Our Santana 2000 is just a low-end car in your plan?The Phoenix car that you plan to rebuild is to be a high-end car?

However, thinking about it, the 160-horsepower engine must be used in high-end cars!

etc!What did Carl think of again? The 1.6-liter engine was equipped with a turbo, and the power was nearly doubled. What now?If he takes a fancy to his own 1.8-liter engine and installs a turbo, will the power rise to [-] horsepower?

"Do you have any follow-up plans for the self-developed engine?" Karl asked.

It’s okay to suffer from being dumb last time. If the car factory here has mastered the 1.8-liter engine and upgrades it again, Karl will be very embarrassed, and Germany may be dissatisfied with him because of this.

"In the future? We will make two displacements in the future." Qin Shaoyou said: "The 1.5-liter and 2-liter engines will be the focus of our research and development."

This time Qin Shaoyou didn't fool around.

Using Santana's 1.6-liter engine to transform is only the first step. Next, they must still develop forward. The choice of displacement is very important.

The 1.6-liter engine will be very embarrassing in the future. In order to develop the automobile industry, the country will introduce a series of preferential projects. For example, the purchase tax will be canceled for engines below 1.5 liters. Those 1.6-liter engines on the market will be dumbfounded. , high or low.The difference is only 0.1 liters. As a result, consumers will spend thousands or even tens of thousands of purchase taxes on cars!

The 2.0-liter engine is the standard for many high-end cars. For example, even the Mercedes-Benz Big G has launched a 2.0t version.

In later generations, the displacement of engines was almost unified into two series of 1.5 liters and 2 liters.Therefore, after the successful test of the 1.6-liter engine project, he will engage in these two projects.

Thought I wanted to use your engine directly?It's not impossible to force, just give me a budget of 5 yuan, what can I do?

As for the 1.8t engine, it is tasteless. Volkswagen's 1.8t engine was replaced by a 2.0t engine in a short time.

Hearing what Qin Shaoyou said, Carl was relieved, as long as he didn't think about their 1.8-liter engine.

"What do you think about the engine layout of our Santana 2000?" Carl continued to ask.

"There is no way to change it for the time being, let's put it vertically, and wait until the next generation of models, we will change the engine to horizontal." Qin Shaoyou said.

Poussin uses a longitudinal front-drive layout, and of course the Santana 2000 must be used in the same way. After all, they only simply modified the shell. If it is to change the engine, the workload will be too much.

The advantage of the transverse engine is that it can greatly shorten the length of the front of the car, leaving valuable space for the rear passenger compartment. However, the drive shafts extending to both sides of the transverse engine are not the same length, which will bring some control problems. defect.

"Do you like the layout of the transverse engine?" Karl was very curious.

"Yes." Qin Shaoyou nodded: "For our people, what we need is a large space, Karl, whoever has the space wins the world."

What handling, what power, what oversteer, etc., are all secondary, ordinary people can't feel it, what do they need?Large space, comfortable ride!

"If the space is large, how about our station wagon?" Karl asked Qin Shaoyou.

The so-called station wagon is based on the original sedan, with the rear rear raised to the same level as the roof, thus obtaining a super large trunk.Take Santana as an example, the volume of the trunk has rapidly expanded to 1800 liters, and the refrigerator, color TV, and washing machine at home can all fit in it.

In Europe, this station wagon was very popular and earned the name crock pot.

However, the national conditions are different. According to the traditional Chinese concept, a car without a rear butt is not good-looking, and it is not considered a car. Therefore, after the Santana station wagon entered the Chinese market, its sales were ridiculously poor.Except for public security, power supply and other departments as official vehicles, ordinary people will never get involved.

So, hearing what Carl said, Qin Shaoyou wanted to shake his head subconsciously. What I said was that there is a lot of space in the car, not that the trunk is big.

However, Qin Shaoyou changed his mind instantly.

"Station wagon, of course, we can introduce it to test the water, and the changes in the production line are also very small."

Qin Shaoyou is going to launch an SUV. This kind of car without a butt will definitely cause a lot of criticism. Simply let Santana's travel version come out to test the water first, and first come up with this kind of car with a big butt, so that people can get used to it. .

When Santana's travel version hits the street, people have already adapted to it, and it should be safer to launch suv.

Europeans are puzzled by one question: the sales of their station wagons in the East are very bleak, but suvs are booming. Obviously, suvs are more fuel-efficient and poor in handling, so why not choose European high-end crock trucks?

There are many reasons. The high price is the first big problem. Why are there so many big butts, the price is 20.00% more expensive, and some are even 50.00% more expensive?An ordinary car costs 20 yuan, but with a big butt, it sells for 30 yuan. Do you really think that consumers are stupid and have a lot of money?

On the other hand, the earthen pot looks uncoordinated, and it is not as atmospheric as an SUV at all. It is because the SUV is tall that it looks more pleasing to the eye.

Now, with full of malice, Qin Shaoyou fooled Karl.

Poor Karl, he obeyed Qin Shaoyou's words, and didn't realize that Qin Shaoyou was fooling him.

"Okay, then I'll send a message to Germany as soon as possible," Carl said.

Station wagons have a huge market in Europe, so Carl is full of confidence now and hopes that station wagons can continue to shine here.

Thinking of something else, Carl continued: "Qin, Brazil is very happy to hear about our Santana 2000 project. They hope to join in and jointly develop it."

"No." Qin Shaoyou directly refused: "This is the first project jointly developed by our automobile factory in S City and Volkswagen. What are they doing in it? Do you want to enjoy our research and development results? If they want, that's fine. When we finish research and development, buy our design patent."

I have worked so hard to make clay models, make interiors, improve seats, design engine compartments, all kinds of ideas come from me, why let Brazilian companies take advantage of it for nothing?

ps: There is no specific data. The price of the travel version of later generations is much higher than that of the sedan version, so it is very small. As for how much the travel version of Poussin sold?I only saw an imprecise post, saying that it sold a million vehicles, and I personally feel that this is too watery.