Chapter 658 Meeting (Part 1)
Mr. Pagani and Guo Tai said that the public is very interested in the W12 engine of Dahongqi, and has sent people to investigate. In fact, the public's ability to act is much stronger than Guo Tailai knows.
Volkswagen directly conducted technical exchanges with FAW in the name of technical investigation through its domestic partners in China, and also ordered a few Hongqi Shengshi. They hope to drive the cars to Germany. It is estimated that FAW has no control over what to do in Germany, but at least FAW Dahongqi has been exported to Germany, which is a great achievement!
The T-shaped car prepared for the leaders must be top secret, but the ordinary top-equipped bulletproof panels have been sold to the public, so it will definitely not be particularly secret. Naturally, the W12 engine is not the kind of secret that needs to be guarded against others. And when those salesmen introduced the performance of the car to customers, they basically explained the parameters of the engine in great detail. The data in this regard has already been obtained by the public.
The negotiator sent by Lamborghini two days later was not one person, but a team. In addition to Lamborghini, there are also people from Audi and Volkswagen. According to Mr. Pagani's confirmation, there is also a person from Bugatti. Of course, now Bugatti is also a subsidiary under the name of Volkswagen, and he is an aboveboard Volkswagen.
This kind of negotiation is extremely formal, Guo Tailai can only quickly drag Lin Jiayi and her team who are busy in the UK over, and let her be the front line. It would be a disaster for Guo Tai to be a negotiator himself.
However, when Lin Jiayi spoke fluent Italian to communicate with Lamborghini representatives easily, spoke fluent German to communicate with Volkswagen representatives, and even communicated with Bugatti representatives in less proficient French, she was able to cope with the entire negotiation. When the delegation was at ease, Guo Tailai just looked stupid. How many advanced skills does my savior, management assistant, have that I don't know? Isn't it a bit overkill to just let her be an assistant?
Lamborghini is very interested in Guo Tailai's new models, and Volkswagen is more interested in W series engines, especially knowing that Guo Tailai's W series engines have only authorized Huaxia FAW for the technical license of the W12 engine in China, and there is no international authorization. At that time, it was even more tempting, and the related technology transfer became one of the contents of the negotiation.
What was involved was the negotiation of specific models. Guo Tailai came up with his own exterior design on the basis of the registered model design.
The core of the car to be built is the Bugatti Chiron, which is what people call Chiron. At this time, Bugatti had already come up with the concept design of Weihang, so Guo Tailai directly used the latter car. Of course, Bugatti's iconic B-letter head logo must have become a T-head, and even the shape of the head has been slightly changed, so it is definitely not Bugatti's style.
"I want to challenge the top speed of 400 kilometers." Guo Tailai only said these few words to express the record to be challenged clearly.
The Lamborghini representative heard the number four hundred while seeing the model, and was immediately excited. The current record for the fastest mass-produced car is McLaren's F1, which is 386.7 kilometers per hour. Guo Tailai actually wants to challenge 400 kilometers. At this moment, he wants to make a decision almost immediately. Lamborghini wants this car!
Those guys at Ferrari would be so stupid to give up a car like this for a car with the founder's name on it. Couldn't they have invested in this model and named the car Enzo? Isn't the first mass-produced car with a top speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour worthy of the name Enzo? Alas, poor Ferrari, the financial pressure is so great that I dare not even make a gamble. It's too bad to have no money!
Of course, Guo Tailai would definitely not be happy to call the car he designed Enzo, he would simply name it Model T, or something else, so Ferrari's consideration is also reasonable, but it can't be said that it must be wrong.
Hearing that this car will use the W16 engine, people from Volkswagen were very interested, especially Bugatti. They hoped that they could intervene in the research and adjustment of the engine and then share the patent of the engine, but Lin Jiayi directly rejected it.
Originally, Volkswagen wanted to use the lack of technical personnel as an excuse. After all, if Guo Tailai used engineers from China, he would not be very convincing in this regard. But Lin Jiayi easily explained the recruitment of sixteen senior engineers from Cosworth, even if the public was greedy, they had no choice but to give up.
The strange thing is that among so many negotiators, no one doubted whether Guo Tailai could build such a car. Perhaps this is the biggest difference between Guo Tailai a year ago and now!
While negotiating here, Guo Tailai has already placed an order with Michelin, asking them to develop a super tire that can withstand a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour as soon as possible. For this order, Michelin was both surprised and happy, agreed without saying a word, and immediately organized a technical team to tackle the problem.
Guo Tailai began to explain the preliminary preparations one by one. Just like tire research, other technologies also need to be promoted. Part of it is a task for Zhengyifang Technology, and part of it needs to communicate with Lamborghini, such as using some of their technologies after reaching a cooperation. These are not problems, and preparations can be started in the early stage.
However, Guo Tailai is unlikely to start working immediately this time. He has already stayed at Pagani for a week, and he will leave for Milan in two days to meet aliens, get gifts from aliens, and then return to China . I'm afraid all the negotiations have to be handed over to Lin Jiayi, including the matter of buying a house here.
It was all about Guo Tailai, but it was all left to Lin Jiayi. In this respect, Guo Tailai is an out-and-out Huang Shiren.
A new model involving 400 million US dollars, plus the mature technology transfer of the W series engine, including the W16 engine that is about to be developed, may add up to more than 800 million US dollars, which is definitely a big deal. It can be negotiated within a few days. So, poor assistant Lin Jiayi is destined to be busy for a while.
After receiving the call from Guo Tailai who wanted to come over, Rona was very happy: "G, I have already booked a hotel for you, and there is also a Michelin three-star chef. By the way, G, do you really not like supermodels? Do you think they Too thin? There are football babies with very good figures here, don’t you really need me to introduce a few?”
"Ronnie, I really don't like this." Guo Tailai could only smile wryly, is this guy just a child who can't grow up? Every time I call, I say this: "I have a supermodel I like, so just arrange the food!"