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Chapter 439 The Dream of a Beautiful Woman and a Luxury Car and I Want to Buy My First Zonda!

Every boy seems to have a sports car dream in his heart. The feeling of speed and passion collide with each other. Driving a top supercar has become the dream of most men!

Li Xiaofan is no exception.

When Li Xiaofan was a child, he had an incomprehensible addiction to toy cars. When he first went to the city with his parents, he saw a colorful toy car at the toy counter in a women's and children's goods store. He couldn't move his legs at all. Finally, his parents had no choice but to buy him an unknown red toy sports car.

After returning to the village, Li Xiaofan's red supercar made the children in the village envy for a long time.

Because the various "cars" played by the children in the past were made by their parents with wood or bamboo. This was the first time they saw such a realistic toy car.

In that era, there were no TVs, no computers, no mobile phones, and no game consoles. The "roaring sound" of a toy car from a boy's mouth, or a simple "flatbed car" with four bearings installed on a wooden board, often brought endless joy to these rural children.

Li Xiaofan spent his childhood in the countryside, with his parents by his side.

Life in the countryside is always so leisurely. The crisp bird song in the early morning wakes him up from his sleep and starts a new day.

His parents went out to weed and do farm work in the fields before dawn. The breakfast that had been prepared was placed on the table. After breakfast, Li Xiaofan picked up his schoolbag and ran to school. He was always the first to arrive at school.

Children in the countryside always like to go fishing in the river with their friends after school, and climb up the tree to dig out bird nests. This is Li Xiaofan's interesting and happy childhood.

Although the death of both parents once caused a major psychological blow to Li Xiaofan, the considerate care of his uncle and aunt later allowed Li Xiaofan to spend a happy and joyful childhood in the countryside.

Sometimes, compared to playing in the wild with his friends, he prefers to play with his red toy car alone at home. Because it was the only toy car his parents left him, every time he touched this red supercar, Li Xiaofan's heart would evoke endless thoughts for his parents...

As the boys grew up day by day, the roar of the car engine naturally became one of the most beautiful sounds in their hearts.

Days passed, the boy gradually grew up and became a man, busy and busy every day for life.

In his youthful dreams, he also thought about owning a sports car of his own, feeling the comfort of the sea breeze blowing in his face along the coastal highway, and sitting next to him was the long-haired lover he wanted to spend his life with...

In his previous life, when Li Xiaofan was working in Shanghai, he did not buy a house first with the money he saved, but bought an imported BMW 3 Series sports car with his roommate and best friend Yu Xiaodong.

The BMW 3 Series has always been the "dream lover" of many passionate young men who love cars.

According to his best friend Yu Xiaodong, buying a BMW is more important than buying a house!

Because owning a BMW can legitimately join the Shanghai BMW Club. It is said that there are countless beautiful goddesses and rich women in the club. After buying a BMW, you can take advantage of various outdoor trips and party activities organized by the club to find a way to meet a single beautiful rich woman, and then get her in one shot, achieving a double harvest of love and assets, and then step into the peak of life!

However, ideals are full, and reality is skinny.

After Li Xiaofan and Yu Xiaodong bought a car and joined the BMW Club, they did meet a lot of single "rich women" and paid a lot of bills...

However, people go up and water flows down. Similar to their ideas, these BMW girls also want to meet better boys.

So the dream of buying a BMW, joining the BMW Club, and then dating a rich woman with a luxury car was unfortunately broken in the end...

However, the driving pleasure of luxury cars still makes Li Xiaofan and Yu Xiaodong feel very addicted, and they are happy to modify and change cars...

In the past life, many of Li Xiaofan's savings were spent on car modification and overseas travel.

In 2015, Li Xiaofan and Yu Xiaodong took a company holiday and traveled to Italy at their own expense to attend the 42nd World Expo held in Milan that year, and then drove from Milan to this luxury car town of Modena for a pilgrimage.

Speaking of visiting the famous Pagani, a world-renowned supercar manufacturer, Li Xiaofan was introduced by an Italian hydraulic company called INTERM.

In 1992, this Italian family business called INTERM invested in a Sino-foreign joint venture project Ningdong INTERM Hydraulic Co., Ltd. in Ningdong County, Mingzhou City together with Italian Hydraulic Research and Development Co., Ltd., specializing in the production of hydraulic products such as hydraulic motors, hydraulic reducers, hydraulic winches, etc. that were in short supply in China at that time.

Li Xiaofan had a junior high school classmate named Zhao Xiong. His father Zhao Yuanchao was the manager of Ningdong County Industrial Assets Management Company, which represented the Chinese investment, and later became the general manager of this Sino-foreign joint venture Ningdong INTERM Hydraulic Co., Ltd.

After graduating from technical school, old classmate Zhao Xiong legitimately entered this Sino-foreign joint venture to work, and within a few years, it attracted a large-scale enterprise restructuring wave. Zhao Xiong and his father Zhao Yuanchao mortgaged their house and took out a bank loan to buy the Chinese shares that originally belonged to Ningdong County Industrial Assets Management Company, becoming individual shareholders of this Sino-foreign joint venture.

In 2015, Zhao Xiong had succeeded his retired father as the major shareholder and general manager of Ningdong Interm Hydraulic Co., Ltd.

The Italian INTERM Interm company, headquartered in Modena, is also one of the close suppliers of Italian Pagani Supercar Company.

Italian INTERM Interm company is owned by the Pecorari family in Modena. The then helmsman Vittorio and the founder of Pagani Supercar, Horacio Pagani, are of the same age and have a special relationship.

So when Li Xiaofan went to Modena for a tour in 2015, he was introduced indirectly by his old classmate Zhao Xiong and Italian INTERM Interm company, which allowed him to visit Pagani Supercar Company.

At that time, Li Xiaofan and Yu Xiaodong entered the legendary Pagani company just to open their eyes. Such an expensive supercar could not be afforded even if they sold themselves.

But in such a short visit, Pagani gave them a Pagani Zonda model and a white Pagani commemorative baseball cap, which also made them show off on WeChat Moments for a while.

In this life, Li Xiaofan came to Modena again, wanting to turn his original dream into reality and turn the Zonda model into his car.

He wants to buy the world's first Zonda in the future!

At the INTERM headquarters located at No. 51 Via Olanda in Modena, the company's helmsman Vittorio received the visit of Li Xiaofan and Tang Xinyi.

"Hello, Li, welcome to INTERM! I heard from my partners in China that you want to introduce Mr. Horacio Pagani of Modena Design Company through me?"

"Yes, Mr. Vittorio, I want to find Mr. Horacio Pagani to order the first supercar of his own brand that he is developing!"

Did you hear it right? This young man from Asia actually wanted to order a supercar that Horacio Pagani was still developing! Could he afford it?

Li Xiaofan’s answer shocked Vittorio.

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