Rebirth in a Perfect Era Chapter 1808: Start designing Aurora
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As the immigration Mars program continues to ferment, more and more rich people in the world are beginning to be interested in this project.
Li Mu made a special website, website is only open to users with more than 100 million USD personal assets.
Once you are interested in participating in this project, you can register for an website account to get more details about the immigration Mars program.
At the same time, Li Mu also fulfilled its commitment, first invested 500 million USD to SpaceX for further research on the launch vehicle available for recycling.
Because I know that this is an extremely long project, Li Mu has not continued to follow this company after doing publicity and investing funds.
He has more important things right now, that is the overall relocation of Volvo.
The infrastructure construction speed of China is well-known in the world. The Yanjing city approved the Muye automobile group. The factory building, office building and dormitory of the first phase of the project have started construction.
The first one to be completed is the factory building. This factory building has been built one after another. The team of Volvo in Sweden has also begun to disassemble and transport some production lines to China.
When the first batch of production lines arrived in Tianjin ’s ports, hundreds of container freight cars were used to transport them back and forth.
At the same time, installation technicians and engineers from Volvo, production equipment manufacturers and domestic and foreign contract teams also gathered in Yanjing and began to assemble the first production line of Volvo in China.
Volvo has several production lines, each of which basically corresponds to a different platform. The most important thing for Li Mu is the P24 platform that mainly produces XC series SUVs.
However, Li Mu is not prepared to continue this production line to Volvo.
His idea is to take this production line and use it directly with Muye car's own brand, and then use it to produce the Muye car's first autonomous SUV, Muye Aurora.
Aurora, the big explosion model of that year, naturally he would not let go.
He is ready to describe and design the picture with the designer himself, first get out the shape of the aurora, then put the aurora shell on the chassis of VolvoXC60.
Frankly speaking, it's an XC60 with aurora shell and Muye car logo.
Of course, there is still a problem. XC60 is a mid-to-high-end mid-level SUV with a market price of 400,000 to 600,000. If it is sold domestically, it will inevitably only serve niche groups.
Before Harvard was up, the best-selling SUV in China was actually a joint venture SUV with a range of 200,000 to 300,000 between Honda CRV and Hyundai / modern Tucson.
Therefore, certain reductions must be made on the basis of XC60 to reduce costs and terminal selling prices.
For example, the engine is not high-powered. The 2.0-liter naturally aspirated power configuration is the main force, and the specific amount of travel; the 2.0T and 2.5 naturally aspirated engines are used as high-end power configurations for luxury models; /
Besides, do n’t use too high-end gearboxes. The four-speeds on ordinary automatic gearboxes are mainly used, and the five-speeds on high-end models;
As for the four-wheel drive system, the low-end is not suitable for high-end models.
That is to say, on the basis of the XC60, the overall reduction of the allocation, the final allocation of a model that can span the range of 200,000 to 400,000;
The shape of the Aurora car can be said to last forever, so once the Aurora is finalized, make an enlarged version of it, and then upgrade all the configurations, it is the Land Rover Range Rover sport. Version.
When the production line was assembled, the Chen Ze who had always liked racing and the Elon · Musk that was doing Tesla ran to the scene to observe.
Elon · Musk is also currently preparing for the establishment of Tesla's own full freshman production line in Yanjing. For him, in the future, it is natural to hold the thighs of Li Mu's. Tesla and Muye Automobile Group will advance and retreat.
Assembly of the production line is a complicated and tedious process, but due to the natural love of men for industrial products, Li Mu will stare at the scene almost every day, looking very happy.
At the same time, the car design team of Volvo has also arrived at Yanjing and started to work officially in Yanjing.
And Li Mu pulled them in the first week of their arrival, preparing them to make the design drawings and renderings of the Aurora models.
Li Mu does n’t understand car design, but he knows what the aurora looks like, what the overall shape looks like, what the front, back, and sides look like.
Describe all of these to the designer, and let the designer make the sketch first, and then polish it a little according to his requirements.
At the beginning, the car designers in Sweden and other European countries scoffed at Li Mu's.
They think that as the boss of the company, you should focus on doing what the boss wants to do. Why should you grab a job with us or even direct our specific work?
But what they do n’t know is that Li Mu although does n’t understand car design, but there are so many good things in mind.
Aurora is just one of them, and there are many other classic models, as low as Fox and high as Rolls Royce, and he has a clear idea of what each hot model looks like.
Volvo's automotive design team person in charge and Swede Alexander Vickander were very dissatisfied with the requirements of Li Mu's. He even proposed on the spot that if Li Mu insisted on interfering with the design team's creative work, he would first resign from Li Mu.
Li Mu directly said: "I will not approve your resignation, do n’t forget that I signed you a double-pay salary labor contract, you also signed double liquidated damages with me, if you let me Pigeons, then the penalty will be taken out. At the same time, because you have not worked for me for three years, you will also be subject to three years of competition in this industry. In the next three years, you will not be allowed to engage in automotive-related industries. "
The other party just wanted to scare Li Mu, let him be a little self-knowledge, do n’t intervene in the work of the design team, but didn't expect, this guy even moved out of the breach of contract clause with himself directly.
It is true that these Europeans who originally worked in Sweden were very resistant to working so far away from home. The reason for coming is because of the excellent salary.
If they do not come to China, they will be faced with being disbanded in Sweden. After the dissolution, they will have to find a new job.
First of all, Sweden itself has no ordinary passenger car companies. If they want to find a job, they must leave Sweden to develop in the four countries of Britain, France, Germany and Italy. However, the car design level of these four countries is actually all Above Sweden.
The Swedish-designed models are very general in appearance design, and there is nothing particularly outstanding. Most of the Volvo models will make you look at them, and you will only feel that they are very **** honest, but very few models are eye-catching. As soon as I lighted up, I thought I was going, really damned was pretty.
In contrast, German and Italian classic designs are frequent.
BMW's main models are basically very good looking. Later X6 even led the design trend of the scooter. Not only domestic manufacturers imitated it, even the Mercedes later several SUV coupe models also have BMW X6. 'S shadow;
Mercedes from the later new C, E, S and GLA, GLC, GLE and GLS full series, almost all are good designs with both internal and external repairs, which is really better than Volvo, and the interior design is absolutely amazing. dust.
In fact, Audi is also very awesome in terms of styling design. The A series Q series are mostly enduring classic models, but this brothers is low and high and low. In the middle of the years, it was indeed full bloom, A4, A6, Q5 and Q7 are beautiful one game after another. As a result, after 10 years, they are getting more and more ugly and declining. Before Q7, it was a very domineering large SUV. As a result, it became more and more ugly, and finally basically fell. To the point where no one buys.
Not to mention Italy, a lot of classic supercar brands, just take out the shape of a car, all are classics designed by the automobile industry.
Even in France, although has produced a series of exotic models, but it has to be said that the cars of others are still pretty good overall.
Only Volvo has nothing to do with good-looking and sincere.
Especially this year's Volvo, the shape is simply beyond words.
So, at the level of Alexander Wikand and his team, if they would n’t know where to go for the design team at one and a half times, they would have put them all together.
Based on Li Mu's understanding of the aesthetics of future vehicles, the overall level of this team is no better than the team that designed the Geely Beauty Leopard.
Alexander Vikander was taken aback by his unrelenting, official attitude, and finally came to China, he was also reluctant to make a penny without making money, and lost a lot of liquidated damages, and took three years Go back to the competition agreement.
So he can only put away his previous arrogance, and immediately changed his face, and said to Li Mu: "Chief Li, if you have any personal ideas you want to achieve, please tell us, we will help you present it perfectly. "
Li Mu did n’t give up on his concession and kneel licking for a long time, coldly said: "You can show 80% of the things in my mind, I will succeed even if you are."
Alexander Vikander is anxious, you are really insulting, why? I have designed cars for so many years, can't you compare with you? Don't you open an MercedesG series? The car looks like a large carton, so I chose this car for you, and I know that your aesthetic is just that.
However, the God of Wealth did n’t dare to offend anyone, so he could only say: "Chief Li, you are right, we are really far away from you."
After finishing, he also waited to read the Li Mu's joke and said: "Chief Li, what kind of car do you want to design, probably tell us about it."
Li Mu nodded and said, "First of all, I want to make it clear to you that this is an SUV, as for its shape, it should be ..."
Li Mu probably described a silhouette. After hearing it, Alexander Wikand felt really messed up.
The current car design language is mostly a combination of three-dimensional lines and rounded arcs, but the SUV to be built by Li Mu turned out to be a sharp big head and short body SUV ...
Who has seen a car look from the side, with a sloping shape that is high in the front and low in the back? Would you like to vomit after taking out this line?
He tried to suggest to Li Mu, saying: "Chief Li, I think your sketch of this car should raise the buttocks a little, raise the car as a whole, lower the hood height a little, and then add some more Rounded arcs connect and neutralize, which makes the car look better. "
After listening to Li Mu, I really want to scold him. Did n’t you design an old XC90 for me? How about you two fools?