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Chapter 825 Satisfied, Very Satisfied
Excitement turned into excitement, out of caution, Qiu Guofeng asked Zhang Qihang: "Comrade Qihang, do you have any information on Mazda 929 here?"

Of course Zhang Qihang understood what Qiu Guofeng meant: Although you have made a lot of hype about the Mazda 929, I have to wait until I have a look at what this car is like.He immediately said: "Leader, the car rental industry in the United States is very developed. If you are interested in this car, we can rent a car to experience it... In addition, I think this car is quite good-looking. The shape is elegant and smooth, and it looks better than the Toyota Lexus LS400 in terms of shape design alone.”

Um?Yup……

Qiu Guofeng also reacted instantly: We can rent a car!
Just like what Zhang Qihang said, the car rental industry in the United States is very developed, and according to Zhang Qihang, the Mazda 929 is produced by Mazda North America after all, so there must be a certain amount in the United States. , Also look at the information for why, just rent a car and experience it for yourself.

And Zhang Qihang said that this car is even better looking than the Toyota Lexus LS400, which gave Qiu Guofeng a lot of confidence, because it was also a coincidence that with the success of the "Lexus" sub-brand of Toyota in the North American market, More and more Japanese government agencies in the United States and high-level executives of large companies have begun to use "Lexus" cars. The special representative of Dongying's representative office in the United Nations even replaced his car with a Toyota Lexus LS400 a few years ago, and It's not rare to show off in front of China's special representative to the United Nations, and now I have such an opportunity...

Although he was looking forward to it, Qiu Guofeng was somewhat embarrassed: "This...will it be too troublesome?"

What does Director Qiu mean? How could Zhang Qihang fail to see it?He immediately said: "What's the matter, we don't rent too much, just rent for a day or two to learn about it, and it won't cost much."

"OK then……"

Comrade Qiu Guofeng was naturally a little embarrassed to do good.

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Although the Mazda 929 is produced by Mazda North America, the sales of this car in the North American auto market are not very good. It is "cheap" and "fuel-efficient". Only the poor and ordinary people will buy Dongying brand cars, and the three major auto giants GM, Ford, and Chrysler still firmly occupy more than 60% of the North American auto consumer market.

The Mazda 929 is embarrassing because it is indeed a good car, but as a Japanese car brand, and it is a medium and large car launched by a second-tier Japanese brand, it is naturally despised in North America: If I want to buy a There are so many brands of C-class cars that I don’t want to choose, why should I choose Mazda?
It feels like when a certain user is planning to buy a medium-to-large car, some people will choose Dongfeng A6 instead of the famous C-class cars such as Audi A5L, Mercedes-Benz E-Class, and BMW 9-series. Or Zotye A700?

Mazda 929 is indeed a good car, but its status in the North American auto market is actually no better than that of Dongfeng A9 and Zotye A700 a few years later. Because of this, when Zhang Qihang went to a car rental company to look for Mazda 929 At that time, after confirming that Zhang Qihang was not joking with himself and that he was really planning to rent a Mazda 929, the staff of the car rental company shook his head vigorously, saying: "unbelievable..."

Obviously, the little brother is very incredible that someone would rent this car.

But when the new generation of 1996, that is, the sixth generation Mazda 929, was placed in front of Qiu Guofeng, Qiu Guofeng was stunned: "This car is very beautiful, it looks like a British car." Elegant style."

Indeed, from the aesthetic point of view in the mid-to-late 90s, the Mazda 929 is the same as the Buick New Century that General Motors is about to introduce to China. The Jaguar XJ04L from the 08 model to the 8 model has extremely elegant body lines. From the aesthetic point of view of cars in this era, this car is really beautiful. Zhang Qihang even extremely doubts that Mazda North America is designing the fifth-generation 929 At that time, it borrowed a lot from the elements of the Jaguar XJ at that time.

Of course, Americans are still proud. When they look at Japanese cars, their mentality is probably "You, a guy who produces cheap cars, is also qualified to talk to me about luxury? Talk about elegance?"

"It's really possible," Zhang Qihang nodded with a smile, "Director Qiu, you may not be aware that Ford Motor acquired the British Jaguar (Jaguar) in 1989, and Ford Motor has always been a shareholder of Mazda. , then Mazda borrowed a lot from the top models of Jaguar when designing the fifth-generation 929: the design elements of the XJ series are also understandable. Perhaps in Mazda’s view, everyone is the same father, and they are also half-sisters Brother, it’s okay to learn from each other, right?”

"Hahaha……"

Qiu Guofeng laughed out loud!
At first, he felt that Zhang Qihang's words seemed a bit detrimental, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that this was indeed the case?Looking back at this Mazda car, it seems to be even more pleasing to the eye.

After going up to experience it personally, Qiu Guofeng made some comments: "This car is quite good, but I feel that the legroom in the rear row is still a bit small... Well, it can't be said to be small, but compared to this nearly With a body size of 5 meters, the rear space is not as large as that of the Audi 4, which is more than 7 meters and 100 meters long, which is a bit inappropriate."

"What you said is," Zhang Qihang nodded immediately. The leader raised his opinion, so of course he had to make a statement: "This problem is actually very easy to solve, as long as the wheelbase is slightly lengthened, and all the space created by the extension will be given to you. In the back row, it doesn’t need to be too much, a dozen centimeters is enough.”

Qiu Guofeng didn't know much about technology, so when he heard the words, he immediately asked, "Length the wheelbase? Will this be troublesome?"

Naturally, Zhang Qihang couldn't say it was troublesome. He pointed to the B-pillar of the car and said to Qiu Guofeng with a relaxed expression, "It's not troublesome at all. Things like suspension and shock absorbers don't need to be changed. The space behind the B-pillar is increased by more than 10 centimeters, except for the need to re-optimize the body line at this position, there are no other technical problems.”

Hearing Zhang Qihang say that there is no problem, Qiu Guofeng, who majored in diplomacy, thought about it carefully, and it seems that this is indeed the case, so he immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems to be true."

Zhang Qihang took the opportunity to say: "Director Qiu, you may already know that I designed the exterior and interior of our Sylphy sedan,"

"Yes, I know that," Qiu Guofeng nodded, but he knew about it: "When I first heard about this, the leader and I were astonished. It's hard to believe that you, a student majoring in internal combustion engines, actually Being able to design such a beautiful shape, Xiao Zhang, I have to say that you are really suitable for the car."

"Hehe... It's also thanks to our leaders willing to give me this opportunity," Zhang Qihang said a few good words to his old leaders in a timely manner, and did not continue to play tricks, and then said: "So I based the overall shape of the Mazda 929 It has been slightly optimized, as the overall shape produced by our Huateng Group, of course, it is just a rendering, and I would like to ask Director Qiu to give you some pointers."

As he said that, Zhang Qihang handed over the renderings he designed to Qiu Guofeng—the previous words were just for the foreshadowing, and now, it was Zhang Qihang's goal.

"What kind of design do I know, if you show it to me, you are giving it to the wrong person..."

Qiu Guofeng said while accepting the design renderings handed over by Zhang Qihang. To be honest, after seeing Zhang Qihang's design skills, he was really curious about what kind of Huateng brand 929 Zhang Qihang could design.

After receiving the renderings handed over by Zhang Qihang, Qiu Guofeng was shocked: Is this the renderings?
If he hadn't heard what Zhang Qihang said before, he would almost have thought that what Zhang Qihang handed over was a promotional photo of a certain car company... It was too clear, too vivid, and too vivid!
Pointing to the rendering at hand, Qiu Guofeng said to Zhang Qihang in disbelief: "This... is this the rendering you designed?"

"Yes," Zhang Qihang said with some embarrassment, "Director Qiu, please correct me."

"What can I correct? Your design, mine... can only be too powerful." Facing the renderings in front of him, and then looking at the Mazda 929 in front of him, Qiu Guofeng was completely convinced: "Xiao Zhang, I have to say, your design is really amazing!"

Can you continue, after discovering that the overall exterior shape of the sixth-generation Mazda 929 is very similar to that of the third-generation Jaguar XJ, Zhang Qihang started to think about it, and found the current model, which is the information of the second-generation Jaguar XJ. , It doesn't matter after seeing it, Zhang Qihang's heart immediately blossomed: It's you!
新的华腾929在整体造型延续了马自达929的线条，但整体造型和线条上却向第三代、也就是第三代XJ8L长轴版靠近，轴距也从现款马自达929的4925毫米加长到了5125毫米，加长了整整200毫米，并且毫不吝啬的将这200毫米的空间都给了后排的尊贵乘客。

After the body was lengthened to 5125 mm, the original body width of 1795 mm was obviously not enough, and the overall proportions seemed uncoordinated. To 1795 mm - in fact, the body width of the Haval H1865 a few years later.

In terms of the crucial front shape, while being closer to the third-generation XJ8L long-axis version, the headlights have been changed from the iconic four round lights of the Jaguar XJ series to the one-piece inner double round headlights similar to the BMW E66. The lights will not make people associate this front with the Jaguar XJ at a glance.

As for the design of the air intake grille, in view of the fact that people like chrome plating crazily around 2000, Zhang Qihang is not polite, and directly adopts the overall chrome plating of the air intake grille.

Facts have proved that Zhang Qihang's design is successful. The first time he saw this rendering, Qiu Guofeng fell in love with this car. The eyes that looked at the rendering in front of him made him want to have a pair of small hands. protruding from the eyes.

Looking at Qiu Guofeng's appearance, Zhang Qihang finally took the opportunity to express his thoughts: "Director Qi, when I came to the United States this time, I saw the embassies and consulates and the representatives of the United Nations from developed countries in Europe, America and Japan. The official high-level officials of the office all use domestically produced cars as their cars, but the leaders of our Chinese embassies and consulates abroad and the United Nations representative office are limited by various reasons and have to purchase cars locally. There are some bad rumours.

As an ordinary employee in the Huaxia automobile industry, I am very heartbroken. It is because our work is not done well that our country's personnel stationed abroad are laughed at by personnel from other countries.

I think so, after this car is built, we want to donate a batch to our embassy and consulate in Mimi and the representative office in the United Nations, as the cars of the consuls in the consulates general, the ambassadors of the embassy and the special representatives of the representative office in the United Nations. What do you think? "

In fact, long before Zhang Qihang opened his mouth, Qiu Guofeng had already guessed what Zhang Qihang was thinking, but Qiu Guofeng didn't dislike Zhang Qihang's little thought.

Is it true that the comrades of these embassies and consulates abroad and the representative offices to the United Nations want to buy cars where they are stationed, and they are unwilling to bring cars from China?

In fact, the opposite is true. Without mentioning such things as national pride, just say that the representatives of the two countries and the staff of the embassy met, and they came in a car made in their own country. After seeing the representatives from China, they He looked you up and down, and said lightly: "Yo, your country is one of the five permanent members, even nuclear weapons have been manufactured, why can't you even manufacture a decent car?"

In a word, it hurts your heart to be able to hate you.

Because of this, in fact, the diplomatic system has communicated and coordinated with several major domestic automobile manufacturers for countless times, but for those uncles who can make money lying down, who is willing to endure hardships to do such a thing may be sold at all There are not many medium and large cars.

Of course, you can also say that this is because these uncles are not confident in the technical level of their factories, and they know that they cannot manufacture cars of this level, but from the perspective of the diplomatic system, that is another matter.

As far as our national conditions are concerned, Hongqi is the most suitable car to be used as the official car of Chinese embassies and consulates abroad and the representative office in the United Nations. Guaranteed Audi 100 and Audi 200, red flag?
Just wait.

At this time, the boss of a provincial automobile manufacturer suddenly proposed to Qiu Guofeng that they were willing to provide high-level cars for the leaders of embassies and consulates abroad and the representative offices to the United Nations. What a huge shock.

(End of this chapter)