Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 385 Pig teammates help, things get worse and worse
No matter what kind of company it is, making small reports across departments is more hated.

Not to mention cross-company small reports in various branches of the group.

Even if it is not intentional, others cannot accept it.

People will only think that the problem is caused by you, and it is your fault.

Miyazaki Hisho had already paid attention to the news about Highlander early this morning.

"Brother just can't climb uphill" has become the most popular entry on Weibo.

However, the Highlander is sold by Yangcheng Toyota, not their Spring City Toyota.

What does Miyazaki Hisho say about this?
The president has already asked, but he didn't say anything, and it seems that he can't do it.

The very smart Katsaki Watanabe immediately saw the tangle on Miyazaki Himasa's face, and immediately knew there might be a story behind it.

"What's the matter? Is there any bad news about us?"

Watanabe Jiezhao asked very calmly.

Over the years, Toyota has experienced a lot of ups and downs.

Whether it is in Japan or in the most important American market, we have encountered some twists and turns.

Naturally, Watanabe did not expect Toyota's development in China to be smooth sailing.

"President, I just saw a piece of news this morning when I was browsing China's social media, and it has something to do with the Highlander that Spring City Toyota is selling."

After struggling for a while, Miyazaki Hiromasa decided to explain honestly.

A dead Taoist friend is not a poor Taoist.

If he didn't say anything, Watanabe would definitely have a problem with him.

If he said that, at most the Japanese people at Yangcheng Toyota would have objections to him.

But even if you are an internal competitor, if you have an opinion, you should have an opinion.

"Highlander?"

"Isn't Highlander selling well in China?"

"Is there any negative news coming out?"

As a very important model of Toyota Motor in the world, Katsuaki Watanabe has also heard about Highlander's performance in China.

Combined with Miyazaki's expression, there must be some negative news.

"Indeed!"

"Highlander uses a 2.7L engine and a 3.5L engine in China."

"Among them, 2.7L is the best seller in China, and 8% of the sales are contributed by this driving force."

"But our Highlander has more than two tons, and the 2.7L naturally aspirated engine is actually a bit difficult to drive."

"Especially when climbing hills, the power output is even more insufficient."

"Now there are some videos and articles on the Internet about the Highlander not being able to climb uphill, which has attracted the attention of many people."

"It is estimated that there are also reasons why some competitors are fueling the flames."

Miyazaki Hiromasa quickly introduced the situation.

He hopes to end this topic as soon as possible.

"Find a conference room and project all these news, I'll take a good look."

The more subordinates don't want to report anything, the more leaders sometimes want to know.

Watanabe is no exception.

Soon, various news reports and videos such as "I just can't climb up the slope" appeared in Watanabe's field of vision.

After watching this video, Watanabe Katsuaki didn't know how to deal with it for a while.

Whether it is an article or a video, it is actually very simple.

There is a country road with only a 30° slope, and the Highlander just can't climb it.

According to Mr. Xia in the video, the cars in front including POLO all climbed up.

Only the front wheels of my 2.7L Highlander kept skidding and couldn't climb up.

In this situation, it is difficult to say that it is not Highlander's problem.

Watanabe Jiezhao naturally knew what was going on in his heart.

In the end, he just left an instruction to "keep paying attention at all times and report the progress to me every day" and put the matter aside for now.

However, what he probably didn't expect was that the development of this matter was much faster than he expected.

That morning, Mr. Xia, the "car owner" in the video, went to the local 4S store to defend his rights.

Because the 4S store searched for objective reasons and did not admit that it was a problem with the vehicle, or it failed to fulfill its duty of disclosure during the sales process.

This rights protection not only did not make any progress, but was met with bad words from the 4S shop staff. They asked Mr. Xia to "sue him wherever he fell in love", "do whatever you want to solve it" and so on.

Mr. Xia, who "came prepared", naturally took pictures of the performance of these personnel in the 4S store.

And he also specifically contacted the media for exposure.

And some "good people" also quickly called this slope that the Highlander could not climb "Highlander Slope".

In addition, Mr. Xia also contacted the local car club, planning to drive more 2.7L highlanders for on-site testing tomorrow.

As a result, several hot searches on Weibo that night were related to this news.

【Highlander Slope】

[Don't laugh at me, I just can't climb uphill]

【Sales Manager of the Most Niu Toyota 4S Store】

All kinds of news made this matter out of the circle at once.

Especially the bad attitude of the 4S store, with pictures and the truth, caused a lot of people's resentment.

Who hasn't encountered a similar problem?
Buying things that are bad, and then the other party has a bad attitude is simply not too much in life.

Now there is no need for competitors to do anything extra, the heat of this matter is high enough.

"Mr. Cao, the news about Highlander is even hotter today."

As soon as Cao Yang went to work in Nanshan Group, Mi Ying reported to him the latest situation on the Internet.

She had already mentioned this news to Cao Yang yesterday morning.

Originally, she didn't pay much attention to it, because it didn't seem to have much to do with Nanshan Group.

I didn't expect it to be completely on fire today.

Several news items on Weibo's trending searches are related to Highlander.

"This is the 4S store of Yangcheng Toyota who has added fire to itself."

"If it weren't for the bad attitude of those people in the 4S store, the heat of this matter probably wouldn't be as high as it is now."

"But it's better to make a big fuss, let Toyota suffer, and don't be so arrogant in China."

Cao Yang is the mastermind behind the scenes, but the development of things now is a little different from what he thought.

But judging from the effect, it was better than expected.

Originally, I just reminded Yi Jia to arrange for someone to shoot a video of the Highlander not being able to climb the hill, and then market it to hit the sales of the Highlander.

Unexpectedly, the people from Changan Automobile were so smart that they knew how to find a real Highlander customer and put on a scene that looked completely real.

There are pictures and the truth, but nothing has been done.

It's hard for Toyota to get rid of it even if it wants to.

The point is that this morning, those people will continue to take the cars of the local car club to "Highlander Slope" for testing.

This is the rhythm of stabbing Toyota again.

"That's true. I heard that Highlander mainly sells 3.5L models in the United States, but in China, it mainly sells 2.7L models."

"The various marketing plans make people feel that the Highlander can trek through mountains and rivers, and its off-road performance is very good."

"In fact, it's such a slope that I can't even climb it."

"For those car owners who want to play off-road after buying the Highlander, it is estimated that the blow is still relatively large."

Mi Ying didn't know the story behind this matter, but only evaluated this matter from a relatively objective perspective.

"This matter, you will tell me every morning and evening in the future to see what progress has been made."

Cao Yang is now looking forward to how Toyota will end up.

Highlander must be in no mood to deal with CS95 anymore after being tormented like this.

At least for a short time, they wanted to reduce Highlander's attention as much as possible.

"Minister, I think this matter is a bit weird."

"We just started to deal with Changan Automobile, and all kinds of bad news about Highlander 2.7L appeared on the Internet, and the fermenting speed is still so fast."

"Behind this, I feel that there may be some driving force."

The issue of Highlander's inability to climb uphill has caused a stir, so it is impossible for Yangcheng Toyota to know nothing about it.

It’s just that the OEMs of this era were far less able to cope with emergencies than those of later generations.

So far, neither Toyota Motor nor Yangcheng Toyota have formally expressed their views on this matter.

This is also a routine commonly used by many OEMs.

Let things cool down on their own, and it will be fine slowly.

Many things were handled in this way in the past.

Yangcheng Toyota also followed suit this time.

However, it is clear that the popularity of Highlander this time is beyond everyone's imagination.

"It's really a bit weird, especially when the surname Xia went to the 4S store to defend his rights, he actually brought recording and candid camera equipment, which was obviously prepared."

"Normal consumers should not be so vigilant."

Mu Linsen has also been browsing various news and comments on the Internet these two days, and naturally has some opinions of his own.

Although so far, he has not been able to find any direct evidence.

But there are so many coincidences in this matter that people can't help but doubt it.

"Yeah, so I wonder if the people from Chang'an Automobile are playing tricks."

"Some time ago, we just started attacking their CS95, and we also released some rumors to sue them."

"As a result, something happened to our Highlander."

"Even at the beginning, this matter has nothing to do with Chang'an Automobile."

"Then the heat of things is so high now, it must have something to do with Changan Automobile's promotion behind the scenes."

Based on the viewpoint that whoever benefits is the biggest suspect, Ma Hongjian believes that the matter has something to do with Changan Automobile.

However, he found that what he could do was very limited.

So what if you know that Changan Automobile is doing things behind the scenes?
Is there any evidence?

Even if there is evidence, so what?
Did someone frame you?
This morning, a group of Che Youhui went to the "Highlander Slope" to test the climbing video, and now it has appeared on the Internet.

Although some individual vehicles tried many times, they finally rushed up.

But the huge roar in the video seems to have broken the accelerator pedal.

In this case, even if you can rush forward, it will not solve everyone's worries.

After all, this also proves from another angle that the power of the 2.7L version of the Highlander is really not good.

"Toyota is also paying attention to this matter now. You can collect the news on the Internet in time to see how Toyota plans to deal with it later."

Things have come to this point, it is definitely not something that Mu Linsen can make a decision on his own.

Yangcheng Toyota wants to discuss the plan, and Toyota Motor needs to discuss it even more.

After all, Highlander is now imported.

……

The same thing, different people's focus is completely different.

The people from Toyota are worrying about how to solve the current public opinion problem, while the people from Changan Automobile are happily thinking about how to add fuel to the fire.

Just after the members of the Che Youhui went to the "Highlander Slope" for testing, the local media also began to get involved in the report.

Under the silent promotion of Changan Automobile, the local traffic radio station FM 98.8 reported the test situation.

The host joked in the show: "For example, someone wants to sell a cow and says that his cow is very good and the price is very high. Because this cow is not only big in size, but also has shiny hair. The person who buys the cow lives in On the hillside, when I drove the cow home, the cow couldn’t climb up the hill. The cow seller said, the cow I sold you is for plowing the land, not for climbing. You want to go home, okay. , let’s carry the cow up the hill.”

"Is this cow better than the cow, or the seller of the cow is better?" the host asked.

Mr. Xia also told the reporter who interviewed him that at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, "at the 'Highlander Slope', a larger-scale Highlander climbing test will be conducted."

The "Highlander Slope" that Mr. Xia mentioned is the local Tangtou Slope.

He also joked that it was a name given by netizens, "You say that Tangtou Po may not be known, but everyone must know 'Highland Po'."

Under such circumstances, a practice of the Toyota 4S shop involved in the incident seemed to add fuel and vinegar to make the matter even more heated.

The reason is that the 4S store reported to the police that Mr. Xia had spread rumors and spread false videos.

This led to Mr. Xia being "summoned".

After the relevant news was exposed on the Internet, there were more projects related to Highlander in the popular content on Weibo.

"A sales company that solves user complaints by calling the police and a brand that uses public relations to cover up the truth of the problem are chilling."

Mr. Xia's words have completely gone viral on the Internet, and he also stated that he will continue to persist and protect his rights through legal means.

These situations made the Changan Automobile people laugh like crazy.

"Boss Yi, this Toyota 4S store is simply the ghost lurking inside Toyota."

"Without them, the heat of this matter would not have been so high."

Zhang Lin, the vice president of Changan Automobile in charge of sales, is the direct operator of this matter.

After Yi Jia finished communicating with Cao Yang, he immediately asked Zhang Lin to make arrangements in person.

The results were even better than the best-case scenario.

"The more the other party tosses like this, the more heated this matter will be, which is a good thing for us."

"However, this incident also reminded us that if we encounter similar incidents in the future, we should not have such a bad attitude."

"Especially now that many mobile phones have begun to have a camera function."

"If something is posted online, it may cause unexpected consequences."

Yi Jia was very aware of this matter from beginning to end, so the feeling was even more profound.

It's the same thing, if it is handled well, it may pass without a sound.

And if it is not handled well, it will be on the hot search.

Not to mention affecting the brand image, the loss of sales alone is unacceptable.

"I didn't expect the 4S store to call the police. It's really surprising."

"I heard from Mr. Xia that the 4S store has arranged maintenance personnel to go to the site to test whether the Highlander really can't climb uphill."

"Under the circumstances of such overwhelming evidence, they can still operate like this."

"It's really surprising. He's just a pig teammate."

Zhang Lin suddenly discovered that reality is sometimes even more exciting than the plans he designed.

When he was preparing to do something, he never thought of such a scene.

Unexpectedly, when things became more and more serious, it was the other party who helped add firewood.

"Since they are going to make a big fuss, let's let them make a big fuss."

"People who buy a 2.7L Highlander now are probably the target of ridicule by friends around them."

"You ask that Xia to work harder and try to find a way to return the car collectively."

"Then find a way to make this news a big deal, causing the sales figures of the Highlander to drop directly."

As a model of the same size as Changan CS95, Highlander can be regarded as a competitor of Changan Automobile to a certain extent.

Especially now that Toyota is taking the initiative to do something, Yi Jia doesn't want to let it go easily.

Otherwise, he would come here every once in a while, and he couldn't bear it.

"It shouldn't be a problem. He's already in touch with the Highlander's car club."

"Even if you don't really want to return the car, after doing this, the 4S shop will definitely offer some sweets to compensate them."

"As long as they are made aware of this, then the matter of organizing a group to return the car can be done."

Zhang Lin still has a good understanding of human nature.

The moment a new car is sold, it depreciates by more than [-]%.

If the car is really returned, the 4S store will definitely suffer heavy losses.

The key is that once this situation occurs, it is easy to cause car owners in other places to follow suit and return their cars.

Then the matter was completely out of control.

Of course, it's not that difficult to solve.

The world is full of hustle and bustle, all for the benefit!

As long as enough benefits are given, many people can choose to compromise.

After all, most people drive a Highlander, and they will never walk on wild roads like "Highlander Slope" in their entire lives.

If you drive in the city, the 2.7L engine can also drive it.

It's nothing more than a little meat on the throttle.

Soon, with the help of Changan Automobile, the 4S shop of Yangcheng Toyota began to show the trend of returning 2.7L Highlander.

This news made the "Brother just can't climb uphill" event that had just dropped a little bit of heat become hotter again.

Even companies such as Volkswagen, General Motors, and Ford are behind the scenes, trying to make Toyota fall.

After all, Toyota's global performance this year is really impressive.

This made several other giants very unhappy.

(End of this chapter)