Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian promised not to abolish Saab's R&D center, and even promised to invest more funds to make Saab's R&D center have stronger R&D capabilities, and even become the leading R&D center of Huaxia Automobile, which is biased towards automobile safety. This is the reason why Saab's designers and engineers fell in love with him and happily accepted Jia Hongjian!Of course, during the discussion, it is not that no one in this group of Swedes thought of such things as technology outflow-for example, Saab's technology was taken away by Huaxia Automobile, and then leaked to the Chinese government, and finally given to the Chinese government. It is used in the weapons and equipment of the Chinese military.In this regard, Jia Hongjian told the other party that China is also qualified to manufacture weapons and equipment. Although private companies can manufacture weapons and equipment after bidding and auditing, Jia Hongjian and the Huaxia High-Tech Department really did not want to come. Make weapons and equipment.And besides, what if Saab's technology is diffused inside Huaxia Automobile?

Huaxia Automobile is not going to vomit, nor is it going to sell Saab two or three years after it is sold.Huaxia Motors wants to operate Saab as an important brand, and besides Tesla, a high-end electric car brand under Huaxia Motors, there is no high-end brand of conventional power, so Huaxia Motors will not have any Brands come to compete with Saab. In the end, the technology developed by Saab must still be used in Saab's own cars.And it is normal for some of the flow to the low-end models, but the low-end models will not ignore the various technologies of Saab on Sanqi 21 - Saab's various technologies are all based on safety and increasing driving experience. As a starting point, it can be said that each of these technologies requires a certain cost. If there are too many cars, the cost will increase, and the price will not increase?When the price goes up, the sales volume will decrease. It is very difficult for this kind of low-end brand to climb to the high end!

In a car company, it is basically impossible for a brand positioned at the mid-to-low end to climb to the high end. Unless a high-end brand is re-established, otherwise the inherent impression in the minds of consumers can defeat the various attempts of the manufacturer. The move of mid-to-low-end brands to high-end.For example, Xiali is a brand familiar to ordinary people in China.It is a low-end car brand in itself. If one day Xiali launched a mid-end car worth around 20 yuan, how many people would buy it?Unless this Xiali car with more than 20 yuan is too good, ordinary people will think about buying a Xiali brand for 20 yuan?Why not buy something else?Xiali gives the impression that it is a cheap car.So spending 20 to buy Xiali feels like buying a cheap car!Not to mention that if Xiali launches a high-end car worth more than 40 yuan, it will stop the rich!Xiali really wants to launch high-end cars, so it's better to start a new sub-brand and develop everything from scratch, but there is not much resistance!Jia Hongjian gave such a series of explanations from management to market.It really convinced the researchers and engineers of this group of Saab, so that these people were reassured that they would not make trouble during the acquisition process, and even allowed them to happily wait for the acquisition to succeed!

So in the process of reorganizing the Saab R&D Center, as he came into contact with more and more projects that Saab had researched, is researching, and planned to research in the future, Jia Hongjian really found that Saab really can’t do without external help—other Not to mention, as far as the gearbox is concerned, Saab is still thinking about developing a 4AT automatic gearbox by itself!In the previous 8 years belonging to GM, this Saab basically used Japan's Aisin gearbox, but in private, this Saab's character is still awkward, or he wants to develop his own gearbox!Speak the truth. Although the 4AT automatic transmission with four gears is now the mainstream in the transmission, it has not been popular for a long time-the relatively large transmission manufacturers in the world are spending money on research and development of the 6AT. It is an automatic transmission with 6 gears. After this comes out, consumers will definitely be more inclined to buy 6AT. Only 4AT seems to be technologically backward!

This is because Saab itself is too small and can't make much money at the same time, so GM is not willing to spend R&D funds on them.No R&D funding.The speed of their development is of course slow. If there is no Huaxia Automobile, Saab will develop 4AT by itself and wait until the international mainstream is all 6AT. Their 4AT has just been successfully developed!So how to solve this problem?Just throw money at us?As far as the gearbox is concerned.It’s not just about throwing money at you!For example, in the field of engines, Saab itself still has a lot of technology. After all, they were the first to use turbocharging back then, so Saab still has a lot of experience in turbocharging, adjusting the matching of engines and turbos, and even developing its own engines. Two brushes.The problem is that their Saab is too small. Although they want to spread the stall, it is a pity that they can't spread it!

If it is said that Huaxia Motors poured in money, in fact, it is really difficult for Saab to quickly follow up with the international level in gearboxes-because really speaking, few gearbox manufacturers are independent. !That's right!Everyone in the international giants knows that gearboxes are not easy to make, so either they have spent a lot of money on researching their own transmissions decades ago, or they have directly acquired independent transmission manufacturers, and then invested money in research and development!In some cases, the gearbox factories of other OEMs simply became independent in order to make more money. Although they are controlled, they can still sell gearboxes to other brands.For several well-known transmission manufacturers in the world, the German ZF, which is called ZF for short, is an independent transmission manufacturer, and the next Japanese Aisin Seiki is the independent transmission factory of Toyota. It came out, and now Toyota has participated in more than 20% of the shares, and Toyota's cars basically use Aisin gearboxes.Then there is Japan's Jetco gearbox, which was once a gearbox factory under Nissan. Later, after becoming independent, it ate Mitsubishi's gearbox department and became such a Czech special. A company owned by Nissan!

Except for these relatively well-known companies that can sell gearboxes publicly, most car companies still use their own gearbox products.For example, Honda uses its own gearbox, and Mercedes-Benz also uses its own gearbox!Therefore, in order to quickly catch up with the world level in the field of gearboxes, it is really not possible to research it just by spending money. After all, the research time is short of others. You won't just wait for us without doing anything, will you?At the same time, the gearbox manufacturers outside are really hard to buy!For example, Germany's ZF is ZF. Its annual sales profit is more than 40 billion US dollars. How can we buy it?Do we want to spend 400 billion or even 500 billion US dollars for acquisitions?

It is true that 400 billion or even 500 billion U.S. dollars cannot be spent, but after spending so much money, it is necessary to fully consider whether to earn or lose!It is impossible for us to say that after spending 500 billion US dollars, we can keep such a gearbox for our own use, right?You must know that ZF gearboxes are now sold on several continents, and they have connections with almost all car parks in the world. Even many domestic car companies use ZF gearboxes!It is because they have a wide range of businesses that their sales are high!If we spend a lot of money to buy such a factory, and then provide gearboxes for our own brand, nothing else, we have to deal with ZF branches and factories in more than 100 countries around the world and sell them. drop it?Otherwise, you will lose money if you keep it!Then there are 10,000+ employees around the world, so basically all of them will be fired, right?After such a big set, how much money can ZF make us in a year?When will the investment of 500 billion US dollars be earned back?Although it is said that we are rich, there is a basis for being self-willed with money, but rich people are more rational!As a businessman, every money spent is the best way to make money!

If it is said that such a ZF can be purchased for only 500-09 billion US dollars, then Jia Hongjian can be self-willed, [-] billion US dollars is really too much!Therefore, if you really want to acquire an independent transmission manufacturer, it is really better to find a smaller one.But gearbox manufacturers really say that without the backing of a big auto company, it is actually quite difficult to develop... Wait!Jia Hongjian suddenly remembered that in history, a domestic car company bought the second largest transmission manufacturer in the world around [-]?The news at that time was like this. If you think about it now, it is probably either the media’s nonsense, or Jia Hongjian’s memory of the details is wrong—the world’s second largest transmission manufacturer is Aisin, and Aisin is owned by Toyota. , can people sell it?So it is estimated that it is the second largest among independent transmission manufacturers?So who is this independent transmission manufacturer?Jia Hongjian thought for a while, and it seems that such a manufacturer is based in Australia?

He thought of this, and immediately started searching.After spending a few minutes searching, I found an Australian transmission manufacturer - DSI!Seeing this name, Jia Hongjian immediately felt familiar, and immediately felt that it was this transmission manufacturer that our domestic car companies went to Australia to buy in history!And seeing this manufacturer's promotional page, it really says that they are the second largest independent transmission manufacturer in the world! "A professional automatic transmission company integrating R&D, manufacturing and sales, is one of the only two automatic transmission companies in the world independent of automobile manufacturers, covering an area of ​​300000 square meters and a factory area of ​​36000m2; The area is 3000m2. It has an annual production capacity of 18 automatic transmissions; the company has a history of more than 80 years and has strong technical accumulation and industrial experience..."

Hey, it looks like this manufacturer is pretty good! (~^~)