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Chapter 1357: While scheming against others, you are also being schemed against by others

After the call ended, Sun Cong was so angry that he smashed his beloved water cup to the ground.

How many years!

How many years!

  How many years has it been since anyone dared to talk to me like this?

But today, just now, that bastard Zhang Qihang actually dared to speak to me in that tone!

Sun Cong swore that if that bastard Zhang Qihang was standing in front of him right now, he would smash the cup on his hateful face!

It’s just a pity that Zhang Qihang is not by my side after all.

However, being able to become the general manager of Southern Wolfsburg, Sun Cong's self-control and emotional self-regulation abilities are still very strong. Knowing that getting angry would not help solve the problem, he took a few deep breaths to adjust his state, picked up the phone and dialed: "Mr. Karenbauer, this is Sun, there are some things I think we need to talk about."

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Half an hour later, in the office of Marcus Karenbauer, the German general manager of Southern Wolfsburg Auto, Marcus Karenbauer smiled and handed a cup of coffee to Sun Cong, who was still angry. "Sun, I said before that Zhang is a stubborn guy. He has been dazzled by his past success and has lost his mind. He will not listen to your advice."

Sun Cong took the coffee and drank it all in one gulp without any image. Then he said bitterly: "You are right. I shouldn't have had any hope for him."

"Ha ha……"

Marcus Karenbauer chuckled twice and said nothing.

Marcus Karenbauer was actually very satisfied with Sun Cong's reaction. Did this guy hit a snag with Zhang Qihang? It's good that he hit a snag. If he didn't, how could you follow us wholeheartedly?

Sun Cong knew exactly what Marcus Karenbauer was thinking. He placed the coffee cup on the expensive coffee table, looked at Marcus Karenbauer and said, "Mr. Karenbauer, I understand what you mean, but I also want to make it clear to you that the higher-ups will not agree to your previous strategy. We can compete with Huateng Group, and the higher-ups welcome competition, but at the same time, this competition must have a bottom line."

“No, no, no,” Marcus Karenbauer chuckled and gently shook his index finger: “Sun, you are wrong. You are absolutely wrong about this matter!”

"Huh? What do you say?"

Sun Cong was a little surprised when he heard this: What did he do wrong?

"The bottom line can be broken. The purpose of drawing a bottom line is to break it at the right time. The real bottom line is actually below the bottom line," Marcus Karenbauer said to Sun Cong with a proud look on his face. "You Chinese have an old saying called 'The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit', and there is also a saying called 'History is written by the victors'. These two sentences vividly illustrate that the bottom line is actually a little girl who can be dressed up by anyone.

Sun, what you need to do is actually win.

As long as you win in the end, nothing will be a problem. Even if you break a little bit of the bottom line, it's actually not a big deal. In the words of you Chinese, that's 'flexibility'. The key is whether you can win."

Sun Cong lowered his head and said nothing, but he was indeed moved by Marcus Karenbauer's words.

In other words, Sun Cong had actually already made up his mind, but he couldn't make up his mind for the moment. What he had to do now was to let Marcus Karenbauer help him make up his mind.

After a while, Sun Cong finally raised his head. He looked at Marcus Karenbauer and said, "Marcus, you are right. The key is whether we can win."

"That's right," Marcus Karenbauer said with a brighter smile on his face. "My friend, you finally figured it out."

"I have always understood this," Sun Cong continued to look at Marcus Karenbauer, "but Mr. Karenbauer, you should understand that with the cards in the hands of Southern Wolfsburg, there is no way to defeat the Huateng Group."

Markus Karenbauer also knew that he couldn't have the horse run without enough grass to eat, so he nodded and said, "Okay, what do you want?"

Sun Cong pursed his lips and said, "I want a Jetta A6."

The so-called Jetta A6 is the sixth generation of Jetta, which is the new generation of Sagitar that will be launched in Wolfsburg in the north in a few years. Marcus Karenbauer immediately frowned and shook his head, saying, "Impossible, Sun, you know, in your China, we have always handed over the production of the Jetta series to Big Brother, from the first second generation Jetta to the fourth generation, fifth generation, and the sixth generation a few years later."

"I know everything you said," Sun Cong nodded, looked at Marcus Karenbauer and said seriously, "If it were normal, I would certainly not say anything, but the situation has changed dramatically now, and the previously planned things have to be readjusted... Mr. Karenbauer, you have personally experienced the hybrid Excelle of Huateng Automobile, and you were full of praise for the product strength of that car at that time. Then let me ask you, if the Jetta A6 is not introduced to China, how can our Lavida compete with the hybrid Excelle?

How is Lavida's product strength better than the hybrid Excelle?

Not to mention that Huateng Group has newly launched the hybrid Tiggo and hybrid Sylphy. Their hybrid product line has already covered the three hot-selling product lines in the automotive field: SUVs, compact cars and mid-size cars! "

"This……"

Markus Karenbauer was speechless for a moment. It was because he had experienced several hybrid products of Huateng Group that he could not lie with his eyes closed. He had to admit that the product power of these three products of Huateng Group was really strong, and not just ordinary strong, but the kind of strong that was outrageous.

Seeing that Marcus Karenbauer began to hesitate, Sun Cong immediately continued to put pressure on him: "Mr. Karenbauer, you have to understand that if we can't turn the situation around in a short period of time, my life will be difficult, but I still have a job and will not lose it. But you, Mr. Karenbauer, your life will be even more difficult. It is even possible that Wolfsburg headquarters will directly fire you because of your poor performance."

Hearing Sun Cong's words, Marcus Karenbauer couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

  This is what he envied the most and at the same time was the thing that made him most unhappy about his Chinese counterparts after arriving in China: Why is it that these guys with jobs can just mess up and it doesn't matter, at most they can just pat their butts and change jobs, but if he messes up, he will be unemployed?

This world is so unfair!

But it must be said that Sun Cong's threat was indeed effective. He took a deep breath and revealed his trump card: "Sun, I can't give you the Jetta A6 no matter what, but I can help you get the TSI engine and dual-clutch transmission that you have always wanted to introduce.

According to the headquarters' plan, the TSI engine and dual-clutch transmission used in the Jetta A6 are common to both of your two vehicles. In order to help you cope with the competition from Huateng Automobile, I can help you apply to adapt the TSI engine and dual-clutch transmission to the Lavida in advance.

In this way, your Lavida and the new generation of Sagitar and Golf produced by Wolfsburg in the north will use the latest and world-leading powertrain of the Wolfsburg Group. "

The current Sagitar produced by Northern Wolfsburg is the fifth-generation Jetta, also known as Jetta A5, and the so-called new Sagitar is the Jetta A6 just mentioned by Sun Cong. Although the current Sagitar sells well and is the representative of A+ class cars on the market, Northern Wolfsburg has actually already negotiated cooperation with Wolfsburg headquarters on the next generation of Sagitar.

  This is what Sun Wei was waiting for from Marcus Karenbauer!

From the beginning, he knew that it would be impossible for Wolfsburg in the south to get the Jetta A6, so he initially targeted the new TSI engine and dual-clutch transmission that Wolfsburg headquarters had high hopes for.

After all, while Marcus Karenbauer was plotting against Sun Cong and Wolfsburg South, wasn't Sun Cong also plotting against Marcus Karenbauer and Wolfsburg Motors Headquarters?

During his previous visit to the Wolfsburg headquarters, Sun Cong saw the 1.4-liter TSI engine that had been developed and was undergoing final testing, and experienced the two-door hatchback sports car temporarily called Scirocco.

The small sports car called Scirocco and its 1.4-liter engine with turbocharging and mechanical dual-supercharging brought a strong shock to Sun Cong. He could not imagine that an engine with a capacity of only 1.4 liters, combined with turbocharging and mechanical supercharging technology, could have a maximum power of 160 horsepower and a torque of an astonishing 240 Nm.

What's even more amazing is that when the engine speed reaches 1500 rpm, the engine has already reached a maximum torque of 240 Nm, and it continues to maintain this maximum torque until 4500 rpm, achieving such a wide high-torque platform from 1500 to 4500 rpm. The strength of Wolfsburg Motors in the engine is so shocking that it leaves you speechless!

During the test drive of the Scirocco, he fell deeply in love with the crisp and direct gear shifting experience of the dual-clutch transmission. When such a small-displacement turbocharged engine and the dual-clutch transmission were combined together, at that moment, Sun Cong thought that this combination was simply a golden combination in the automotive field!

From that day on, he was thinking about how to introduce Wolfsburg's TSI small-displacement engine and dual-clutch gearbox to Southern Volkswagen. Now, the opportunity has finally come. It's time to give you, Chinese consumers, a little shock and let you know what real car technology is like, instead of just using electric motors...

In Sun Cong's view, putting electric motors in cars is simply an evil heresy!

"Okay," facing Marcus Karenbauer's concession, Sun Cong suppressed his excitement and nodded, "Mr. Karenbauer, I hope you can move faster. You know, the market situation we are facing now is not optimistic."

“I understand that I don’t want to be unemployed.”

Marcus Karenbauer made a joke that was not funny.

(End of this chapter)