Countercurrent 1982

When Duan Yun stood in front of the latest Shen Xing sedan, his eyes lit up.

After several facelifts and upgrades in the past two years, the new Shen Xing sedan has a very avant-garde and fashionable appearance, and even has the feeling of a luxury car.In fact, Duan Yun saw only two prototypes of the new Shen Xing sedan. The interior adopts the latest and best technology of Tianyin Group. It has a standard wheelbase, an all-aluminum body, and an astonishing length. 50
00mm, a width of 1885mm, and a wheelbase of 2880mm. Such specifications are not common even among imported cars.Although Duan Yun's strategy in the auto industry is to vigorously develop cheap and reliable small cars for civilian use, so that all people in the country can afford to drive and use cars, but he has always had a dream of a luxury car, making the first car that belongs to the Chinese.
limousine.Because it is the first sample luxury car of Tianyin Group, Shenyang Automobile R & D Center spared no expense on this car. The luxury model car named "Red Star No. 1" uses a newly developed A 1-liter displacement 3.0-cylinder engine with 4 horsepower. In order to develop this engine, Tianyin Group invested tens of millions of yuan, and it took three and a half years to develop it successfully. It is cost-effective, powerful and fuel-efficient. deserve to be
The most advanced domestic engine at present.

"Red Star No. 1" is actually the name of a project developed by Tianyin Group to develop a luxury car brand, but if this car can really be launched, it will definitely not take this name.As for the gearbox, "Red Star 1" uses a 6-speed manual dual-clutch gearbox. This gearbox has also undergone various rigorous tests before and can withstand a torque of nearly 300 Nm. car

The zero-hundred acceleration reached the level of nearly 8 seconds.Although the speed of 5 seconds does not sound fast, in fact, in this era, a car that can accelerate from zero to 8 seconds within 5 seconds is already a very good level, especially in the field of family cars. You must know that the earliest

The domestically produced Santana has only about 90-100 horsepower, and the fastest acceleration from 13 to 5 is more than 1 seconds. Therefore, "Red Star 8" can achieve 5 to 1 acceleration in 2000 seconds, which is already very good.In fact, the successful development of "Red Star [-]" is also due to their introduction and absorption of Volvo and Santana technologies over the years. A few years ago, Tianyin Group had already completed the localization of Santana gearboxes. And last year, it completed the localization of the gearbox of the Santana [-] sedan, and became the largest gearbox supplier of SAIC Volkswagen.
In the process of globalization, Tianyin Group has obtained a lot of advanced technologies, which have also been greatly helped by the successful development of Red Star 1.In addition to the three advanced and reliable parts, this sample car spares no expense in other materials. Compared with the currently popular Santana 2000 in China, the height of the suspension springs has been increased by 20%, and the compression damping of the shock absorbers

It has increased by 25%, which is also very rare, which makes the driver more comfortable and stable when riding. The Red Star 1 is the first domestic car to have such a level of shock absorption.Another highlight of this car is the electronic system inside the car. There is an eight-inch LCD screen inside the car, which is unique among domestic cars. Although this screen does not have the touch function of later generations...

Yes, the manual knob is used, but the clarity is still good. It is the first time to use the reversing image and the GPS navigation system. The entire car-machine system is at the international leading level.However, this prototype car has not yet undergone long-term rigorous testing, so the stability of the car machine has not been recognized, but judging from the current situation, it only needs a period of testing and improvement.
The qualitative can be greatly improved, and it is only a matter of time before the final mass production is realized.

"In order to build this prototype car, we have spent a lot of money. A total of 1100 million yuan has been invested..." When Chen Qiao said this, Chen Qiao sighed with emotion.In Chen Qiao's view, the Red Star No. 1 project is simply a bottomless pit of burning money. In addition to technological breakthroughs, in order to make an ideal sample car, a lot of equipment needs to be greatly upgraded.
It takes precious foreign exchange to introduce, and it is precisely because of this that the cost of these two prototypes is so high.

But no matter what, the cost of spending tens of millions to make two samples far exceeded Chen Qiao's estimate. If Duan Yun hadn't insisted, Chen Qiao might have given up on this project long ago.After all, the annual research and development funds of the Shenyang R&D Center are only more than 2000 million yuan, and compared with the development of these luxury cars, the cost of developing ordinary civilian cars is low and the rate of return is high. However, domestic luxury cars are expensive and domestic users can afford them. There are very few of them, and even domestic users who need luxury cars are more willing to buy imported luxury cars, so in Chen Qiao's view, research and development of domestic luxury cars is simply a waste of money.

If you want to recover the cost of a thankless project, the chances are even slimmer.

But Duan Yun has his own ideas. "The cost of R&D and production of luxury cars is already very high, but we have to do it." Duan Yun paused, and then said: "Actually, I also know that the sales of domestic luxury cars will not be good, especially our group company's No. There are always many deficiencies in making a luxury car brand for the first time, but according to the experience of foreign auto companies, it is still very necessary to develop a luxury car.

It is also conducive to the improvement of the overall car brand, so this money must be spent, and we will continue to develop more high-end cars in the future. "In Duan Yun's concept of car research and development, there must be a combination of high and low. It is best to apply the latest technology to luxury cars, and to use relatively old and mature technologies on high-volume models.

A common method used by car companies.For example, in later generations, Audi and Volkswagen belonged to the Volkswagen Group. Usually, Volkswagen would apply the best engine to Audi cars first, and the engines used by Volkswagen would usually be of a lower technical level than Audi. For example, Audi uses the third generation Engine, then Volkswagen can only use second-generation or second-and-a-half-generation engines, and the technical solutions used will also have generational differences for different customers.