Chapter 341
"Sister Li, send another fax to the domestic car companies." Seeing that the auction was still three days away, Guo Tailai couldn't help but sighed as he hadn't seen a domestic car company coming. However, people still sent another fax notification to domestic car companies.
The notice this time includes not only the news of the overall auction of the model, but also the competition for licensed manufacturers of chassis and gearbox technology. Guo Tailai only intends to authorize three manufacturers. Even if people in China do not plan to buy sports cars, they will always need chassis and gearbox technology, right?
A day later, Guo Tailai received a domestic call. Two phone calls, one is the private car company that has more than enough energy but not enough energy. They are coveting all the items in the auction. Unfortunately, they don't have enough funds to support them, so they can only call Guo Tailai sincerely. Opportunity to coorparate.
Another phone call surprised Guo Tailai. It was a top domestic OEM. However, the other party on the phone did not understand any technical information, but only said that he had the intention to participate in the auction.
Guo Tailai welcomed this very much, but the other party wanted Guo Tailai to issue an invitation letter in a very official style. It would be better to have an official invitation from the Nürburgring city government, and then they would hold a meeting to discuss sending a representative team to participate in the auction.
There are still two days before the auction, let Guo Tailai issue an invitation letter from Germany and mail it back? And an official invitation from the Nürburgring City Hall? Guo Tailai entrusted the German Nagao auction house to organize this auction. What does this have to do with the Nürburgring city government? It is completely a private commercial activity and has nothing to do with the government!
Guo Tailai was very speechless, and it was impossible for him to find the Nürburgring city government to issue this invitation letter, so he could only let it go. While speechless, Guo Tailai also felt an unspeakable sadness, but what could Guo Tailai do? Take the initiative to give something to others? It seems that when you actively ask to be linked to a certain car company, no car company is willing!
Nagao Auction House took over the small-scale auction, and for this reason, they specially sent people to hold this small auction in Nürburgring, where they have no outlets at all. Because there is no need for pre-publicity to attract customers, the handling fee of Nagao Auction House is very low, only 5%. But it was very professionally organized. It was held in a conference hall of a five-star hotel, and a total of 17 major international manufacturers participated in the auction.
There is no fuss and red tape, and there is no need for a hot scene. The professional auction host announces the start of the auction, and then begins to introduce the first item.
For new models of sports cars, the engine is modified with a rotor. The buyer needs to communicate with Mazda on the core patents. In addition, the handling of other similar situations involved in the vehicle can also refer to this article. The buyer needs to communicate with the patented manufacturer.
Of course, there is no problem with this one. They are all produced cars. Basically, the structure of the whole car is the same, so there is no need to worry about getting stuck.
In addition, the chassis and gearbox in the vehicle design are non-exclusive licenses, which are only sold with the licenses of the models, and will not be exclusively bought out. These terms and conditions are stated in the front, so as not to misunderstand the customers participating in the auction.
In addition, the chassis and gearbox technologies included in the vehicle model are equivalent to a license, so there are two remaining manufacturers who can bid for the licenses of these two technologies.
The model Guo Tailai did not name it, so the auctioneer directly called it by the T-shaped logo.
"The design of the Model T car, the base price is 10 million US dollars, and the price is increased by 1 million US dollars each time, let's start!" The auctioneer skillfully reported the opening remarks before the auction, started, and handed over the protagonist to the customers present.
"Fifty million!" Porsche has a good reputation. It was the first to ask for a price, and it reached the price of 50 million US dollars that they had negotiated before.
"70 million!" McLaren is behind. They have not made a promise to Guo Tailai, but they want to discuss cooperation with Guo Tailai after the auction, so after the analysis of the company's experts, the 70 million The model design fee should not make those interested manufacturers back down, so I helped Guo Tailai push up the price by another 20 million.
Both of these were the first to test the Model T professionally, and their professional drivers gave high marks, and no one would think anything was wrong when they spoke first. As a matter of fact, the representatives of those major manufacturers who came later basically all brought their own drivers to test drive the Model T, and all of them gave good evaluations.
In the past few days waiting for the start of the auction, each company is actually analyzing how big the sales volume of that sports car will be if it is placed under their respective product lines. If the rotary engine is not used, how can it be modified, what will be the performance, what will be the sales volume, etc., you have to do your homework before the auction.
One more thing to do is calculate how much Mazda is willing to pay for that car, after all, there are too many Mazda genes in the car. Even if you can't buy it, you have to let Mazda bleed. Therefore, one of the actuarial calculations included is how much Mazda will need to develop a similar car, how much it will need after deducting the test run cost, and what Mazda's psychological price may be.
To put it bluntly, everyone is a competitor, and if you can make the competitor spend a little more money, it means that you have taken advantage of it.
"Seventy-three million!" Representatives of the public also raised their hands.
"80 million!" This time, the offer was made by Honda, a local car company in Japan.
Hearing the price quoted by Honda, Hisashi Matsuyama gritted his teeth in hatred. But he had no choice but to think about whether the base price given by the head office would not be blown up, and whether he could get the car.
"Eighty-two million." Someone raised his hand to make an offer again, but this time the increase was not much.
"Eighty-four million." Ford's representative also stepped in and quoted a price.
"90 million." Another integer price was announced.
"Ninety-one million!" Hisashi Matsuyama finally couldn't help but make a move.
"Ninety-three million." Nissan immediately followed with two million more, making Matsuyama Hisashi frown.
"Ninety-four million." Ford shot again. Hisashi Matsuyama looked at it, but didn't show any expression. Several of Ford's sports cars are not the kind of extreme speed, and it is not surprising that they want to strengthen the product line in this regard.
"100 million!" Audi suddenly popped up and directly raised the price to the high level of 100 million US dollars. Seeing that everyone's eyes were attracted, the representative of Audi felt displeased: "Our TT needs an expanded model, can't it?"
Everyone shrugged, of course there is no problem, as long as you have money, everything is not a problem. Then, some representatives who basically came to participate with the intention of playing soy sauce looked at Matsuyama Hisashi and the others with some banter.