Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 1380 The Purpose of Toyota Corporation

In the absence of abundant information transmission channels in China, news reports about this matter will have a great shocking effect, which is a hundred times better than Niu Xiaoqiang's own money to advertise.

Facing the exclamation of the manufacturer's representatives in the audience, Fang Dongping's expression remained calm.Others don't know the inside story, but Fang Dongping knows it clearly.

In fact, Packard's car company will not invest 30 billion US dollars in Fang's car at all. The 30 billion US dollars of investment is calculated based on the value of the automated car production line.

Packard Motors will build a total of three automated car production lines for Fang's Automobile. According to market conditions, the price of each automated car production line is around one billion US dollars, and the three together are worth just 30 billion US dollars.

In fact, this is an inflated price formed after the market is monopolized by a few companies. The real situation is that the construction cost of an automated car production line is about 5000 million U.S. dollars. After forming a technological monopoly, the relevant companies immediately increased the price by [-] Times, this is nothing new in the field of high-end industrial equipment.

If calculated according to the real construction cost, the total value of these three automated automobile production lines is only 5000 million US dollars. Even if the research and development costs are included, its actual value is far less than 30 billion US dollars.

Of course, the automated automobile production line is a huge and complex system engineering, which cannot be developed by ordinary companies at all, and only those companies with relevant technical reserves can successfully develop it.

From this point of view, it is not unreasonable that the price of an automated car production line will be so high.

After all, what is rare is the most expensive thing. The fewer people who understand a certain technology, the more people who understand this technology will naturally be able to make more money through technological monopoly.

Therefore, even if the price Niu Xiaoqiang quoted far exceeds the cost he actually needs to pay, no one will say that he is cheating.After all, the technology he developed is real, and its performance is superior to that of Ford's similar products. Niu Xiaoqiang did not raise the quotation, which is already very good. Who would dare to accuse him of falsely reporting the price?

After exclaiming, the crowd in the audience was divided into three levels.

Representatives of world-renowned auto parts companies frowned and showed worry.

They did come here to inquire about intelligence for their partners.For example, the representatives of Faurecia, they received the entrustment of Citroen Automobile Company, Citroen wanted them to find out the reality of Fang's Automobile.

Citroen Automobile Company is from France, and this company is currently negotiating cooperation with Nanfeng Automobile Factory.As long as the two parties reach an agreement, this car company is very likely to settle down in Jiangdong Province.At that time, they will inevitably compete with Fang's Automobile, and it will be a close competition.Since it is a competitor, it is of course necessary to know the situation of the other party in advance.

Another example is Aisin Seiki. This company is from today. It is a world-renowned gearbox manufacturer and is one of the best in the global automotive gearbox field.

The main partner of this company is Toyota Motor Corporation. The reason why they can become a giant in the global gearbox field is inseparable from Toyota's strong support.In order to build its own spare parts supply system, Toyota Motor even purchased a large number of shares in Aisin Seiki. The relationship between the two companies can be described as very close.

At present, Toyota Motor is negotiating cooperation with Yuejin Automobile Factory. According to news reports, the two parties have reached a cooperation intention and are waiting to sign a formal contract.

It goes without saying that Toyota is well-known in the world. They are the top three companies in the global auto industry, and their strength far exceeds that of Packard Motors. It can be said that the two parties are not on the same level at all.

Why does such a powerful Toyota let its partners come to inquire about the situation of Fang's Motors?The answer to this question starts from last year.

At that time, Toyota was preparing to test the water in the truck market in order to expand its business.They didn't make too much publicity, and everything was done in an extremely low-key situation, so very few people really knew the news, and Niu Xiaoqiang knew nothing about it.

The reason why Toyota made this matter so secretive is mainly to minimize the influence of this matter when the situation is not clear.

Big companies have a common problem, that is, they care about face.If they succeed, they don't say much, but if they fail, they will lose face.

For this reason, Toyota secretly formed a small team.It's a small team, but compared to small companies, Toyota's strength is so strong, so even if they set up a small team that they think is small, its scale is stronger than the R&D department of an ordinary small company.

Borrowing Toyota's strong resources, the team has produced more than 20 heavy-duty trucks in just a few months.They did not say anything to the outside world, but quietly transported the trucks to a mine in Africa for actual testing.For the sake of secrecy, the trucks didn't even have Toyota badges on them.

After a month of practical testing, the people on the team were overwhelmed.They originally thought that with Toyota's car manufacturing technology, it would not be a problem to build a qualified truck.

The reality is that the trucks they made are a bit delicate, and they cannot withstand the heavy workload of the mines, nor can they withstand the harsh natural environment in Africa. In just one month, the engines of six heavy trucks exploded, and so did the other heavy trucks. There are many problems, either the gearbox is broken, or the drive shaft is broken.

Just when they were feeling overwhelmed by this, the owner of the mine complained to them very rudely: "I heard you speak Japanese. If there is no accident, you should be from a Japanese automobile company, right? Since it is Japanese Automobile companies, why are the cars you make so far behind Chinese heavy trucks?"

The people in the team felt ashamed and curious when they heard this complaint, and couldn't help asking: "Mr. Cairns, it seems that all the heavy trucks used in your mine are European brands. I don't know why you mentioned the Chinese ones to us. What about heavy trucks?"

Keynes pouted at the mine next door: "Look over there, the mine over there is owned by the Smith family, and most of the heavy trucks used by their family are purchased from China. I laughed at Smith for being ignorant. I didn't expect... oh..."

(End of this chapter)