Chapter 1808 Start Designing Aurora

As the immigration to Mars program continues to ferment, more and more rich people in the world are beginning to be interested in this project.

Li Mu asked people to create a special website, which is only open to users with personal assets of more than 100 million US dollars.

Once you are interested in participating in the project, you can sign up for a website account and get more details on the immigration to Mars program.

At the same time, Li Mu also fulfilled his promise and first invested 500 million US dollars in pae for further research on recoverable launch vehicles.

Knowing that this was an extremely long project, Li Mu did not continue to pay attention to this company after he finished the promotion and invested funds.

Right now, he has more important things, and that is the overall relocation of Volvo.

Huaxia is world-famous for its speed of infrastructure construction. The construction of the first phase of the plant, office building and dormitory on the land granted by Yanjing City to Muye Automobile Group has already started.

The factory was the first to be completed. The factories were built one after another. Volvo's team in Sweden also began to dismantle some production lines and transport them to China.

When the first batch of production lines arrived at the port of Tianjin, hundreds of container trucks were used to transport them back and forth.

At the same time, installation technicians and engineers from Volvo, production equipment manufacturers and domestic and foreign outsourcing teams also gathered in Yanjing to start assembling Volvo's first production line in China.

Volvo has several production lines, each of which basically corresponds to a different platform. The first thing Li Mu wanted was the p24 platform of the main production series v.

However, Li Mu is not going to leave this production line to Volvo.

His idea is to take this production line and use it directly for Makino's own brand, and then use it to produce Makino's first autonomous V, the Makino Aurora.

Naturally, he was reluctant to let go of such a popular model of the year as the Aurora.

He is going to describe it himself, match the designer's design and draw it out, first get the shape of the Aurora, and then put the shell of the Aurora on the chassis of the Volvo 60.

To put it bluntly, it is a 60 wearing an aurora shell and a Makino car lg.

Of course, there is another problem. 60 is considered a mid-to-high-end intermediate V, with a market price ranging from 400,000 to 600,000. If it is sold domestically, it will only serve niche groups.

Before Harvard did not get up in China,

The best-selling V is actually Honda's RV and Hyundai's Tucson, a joint venture V in the range of 200,000-300,000.

Therefore, it is necessary to carry out certain reductions on the basis of 60 to reduce costs and terminal selling prices.

For example, the engine should not be full of high power. The 20-liter naturally aspirated engine is the main power configuration, which is specially designed for volume; the 20t and 25 naturally aspirated engines are used as high-end power configuration for luxury models;

Moreover, the gearbox should not be too high-end, the ordinary automatic gearbox is mainly 4-speed, and the high-end model is 5-speed;

As for the four-wheel drive system, the mid- and low-end models are not available, but only the high-end models.

This means that the overall distribution will be reduced on the basis of 60, and finally a set of models that can span the range of 200,000 to 400,000 will be created;

The shape of the Aurora car can be said to be prosperous. Therefore, once the Aurora is finalized, make an enlarged version based on it, and then upgrade all the configurations. That is the sports version of the Land Rover Range Rover.

When the production line was assembled, Chen Ze, who has always liked racing cars, and Elon Musk, who was working on Tesla, went to the scene to observe.

Elon Musk is also preparing to build Tesla's own new production line in Yanjing. For him, it is natural to hold on to Li Mu's thigh in the future, and Tesla and Muye Automobile Group will advance and retreat together.

The assembly of the production line is a complicated and tedious process, but because of men's natural love for industrial products, Li Mu will go to the scene to stare at it almost every day and enjoy watching it.

At the same time, Volvo's car design team has also arrived in Yanjing and started to work in Yanjing officially.

In the first week of their arrival, Li Mu pulled them and prepared them to make the Aurora's model design and renderings.

Li Mu doesn't understand car design, but he knows what the Aurora looks like, what the overall shape is, and what it looks like from the front, rear, and sides.

Describe all of these to the designer, let the designer make a sketch first, and then polish it little by little according to his requirements.

At first, the car designers from Sweden and other European countries scoffed at Li Mu's request.

They think that, as the boss of the company, you should focus on doing what the boss has to do well, why do you need to fight for our jobs or even direct our specific work?

But what they don't know is that although Li Mu doesn't understand car design, he has a lot of good things in his mind.

Aurora is just one of them, and there are many other classic models, ranging from Fox to Rolls-Royce, and he has a clear idea of ​​what each hot model looks like.

Volvo's car design team leader, Swede Alexander Vikander was very dissatisfied with Li Mu's request. He even suggested on the spot that if Li Mu insisted on interfering with the design team's creative work, he would be the first to resign from Li Mu's position.

Li Mu said directly: "I will not approve your resignation. Don't forget that I signed a labor contract with double salary for you, and you also signed a double liquidated damages with me. If you release my pigeons at this time, then Take out the liquidated damages, and because you have not worked for me for three years, you will also be subject to a three-year non-compete restriction in this industry, and you will not be allowed to engage in the auto-related industry for the next three years.”

The other party himself just wanted to scare Li Mu, to make him a little self-aware and not to interfere in the work of the design team, but I didn't expect that this guy would directly move out the terms of breach of contract with him.

It is true that these Europeans who originally worked in Sweden were very resistant to coming to work so far from home. The reason why they came was because of the excellent salary.

If they do not come to Huaxia, they will face being dissolved in Sweden on the spot, and after the dissolution, they will have to find new jobs.

First of all, Sweden itself has no ordinary passenger car companies. If they want to find a job, they must leave Sweden and develop in four countries: Britain, France, Germany and Italy. However, the car design level of these four countries is actually in Sweden. superior.

Models designed in Sweden are very general in appearance, and there is nothing special about them. Most of Volvo's models will make you feel oh, they are quite sturdy, but there are very few models that can make people's eyes shine. I think I'm going, it's so damn good looking.

On the contrary, classic designs from Germany and Italy appear frequently.

BMW's main models are basically good-looking, and the later 6 even led the design trend of fastbacks. Not only domestic manufacturers imitated it, but even the later Mercedes-Benz V pe models also have the shadow of BMW 6;

Mercedes-Benz's new series, e, and g, gl, gle, and gl series are almost all good designs that are both internal and external, which are infinitely better than Volvo, and the interior design is even better.

Audi is actually very good in styling design. Most of the a series and q series are enduring classic models, but this guy drives low and walks low, and the middle years are indeed full bloom, a4, a6, q5, q7, each one is beautiful, but after 10 years, it becomes more and more ugly and crappy. Before, the q7 was a very domineering large-scale V, but it became more and more ugly, and in the end it was basically reduced to no The point where people buy.

Not to mention Italy, a lot of classic supercar brands, just take out the shape of a car, are the classics of automotive industry design.

Even in France, although a series of wonderful models have been produced, it has to be said that their cars are still pretty good-looking as a whole.

Only Volvo has nothing to do with looking really good.

Especially this year's Volvo, the shape is simply indescribable.

Therefore, with the level of Alexander Vikander and his team, if it wasn't for the fact that he would not know where to recruit the design team for a while, he would have taken them all together.

As far as Li Mu's understanding of the aesthetics of later vehicles is concerned, the overall level of this team is no better than the team that designed the Jelly Beauty Leopard.

Alexander Vikander was taken aback by his ruthless and business-like attitude. He finally came to Huaxia. He didn't want to make a penny. He lost a bunch of liquidated damages and went back with a three-year non-compete agreement. .

So he could only put away his previous arrogance, immediately changed his face, and said to Li Mu, "Mr. Li, if you have any personal ideas you want to realize, please tell us, and we will help you to present them perfectly."

Li Mu didn't have a good face for his concession and kneeling and licking for a long time, and said coldly: "If you can show 80 of what I think of in my mind, I will consider you successful."

Alexander Vikander is in a hurry, you are really insulting, what's the matter? I've been designing cars for so many years, can't I compare to you? Don't you just drive a Mercedes-Benz G series? That car looks like a large cardboard box, so I chose this car for you, knowing that your aesthetics about cars are the same.

However, the God of Wealth did not dare to offend anyone, so he could only say: "Mr. Li, you are right, we are indeed far from you."

After he finished speaking, he also waited to see Li Mu's joke and said, "Mr. Li, what kind of model do you want to design, maybe tell us about it."

Li Mu nodded and said, "First of all, I want to make it clear to you that this is a V. As for its shape, it should be..."

Li Mu roughly described an outline, and after listening to Alexander Vikander, he felt really messed up.

The current car design language is mostly a combination of three-dimensional lines and rounded arcs, but what Li Mu wants to do is actually a big head, short body, and a short back with sharp edges and corners...

Who has ever seen a car from the side with a high front and a low back slope? This thread makes me want to vomit, okay?

He tried to suggest to Li Mu, saying: "Mr. Li, I think your sketch of this car should raise the butt a little, raise the whole car a little bit, lower the hood height a little bit, and then add some rounded shapes. The arcs are connected and neutralized, which makes the car look better.”

Li Mu really wanted to scold him after hearing this, didn't you design another old 90 for me? Where are you fooling the two fools?