MTL - Rebirth in a Perfect Era

As the immigration to Mars program continues to ferment, more and more rich people in the world are becoming interested in this project.

Li Mu made a website dedicated to users whose personal assets are more than 100 million US dollars.

Once you are interested in participating in this project, you can register for a website account and get more details about the Immigration Mars Program.

At the same time, Li Mu also fulfilled his promise, first investing 500 million US dollars in pae for further research on the launch vehicle that can be recycled.

Knowing that this is an extremely long project, Li Mu did not continue to pay attention to this company after he finished propaganda and invested funds.

Right now, he has something more important, which is Volvo's overall relocation.

The speed of China's infrastructure construction is world-famous. The land granted to Makino Motors by Yanjing City has started construction of the plant, office building and dormitory for the first phase.

The first to be completed is the factory building, which has been completed one after another. Volvo's team in Sweden has also begun to disassemble some production lines and transport them to Huaxia.

When the first batch of production lines arrived at the port of Jinshi, 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 to begin assembling Volvo's first production line in China.

Volvo has several production lines, each of which basically corresponds to a different platform. The first thing Li Mu needs is the p24 platform, which is the main production series.

However, Li Mu was not prepared to leave this production line to Volvo.

His idea is to bring this production line directly to Makino Motors ’own brand and then use it to produce Makino Motors’ first autonomous V, Makino Aurora.

Aurora, the big model of the year, was naturally reluctant to let go.

He prepared, described and matched the designer's design, first worked out the shape of the Aurora, and then put the Aurora shell on the Volvo 60's chassis.

To put it plainly, it is a 60 with an Aurora case and a Makino car lg hanging on it.

Of course, there is still a problem. 60 is considered to be a mid-to-high-end v. The market price is between 400,000 and 600,000. If it is sold domestically, it must only serve a small group.

Before the Harvard did not get up, the best v sold in China was actually a 200,000-300,000 joint venture v such as Honda's rv and Hyundai Tucson.

Therefore, a certain reduction must be made on the basis of 60 to reduce costs and terminal selling prices.

For example, the engine does not have to be high-powered. The 20-liter naturally-aspirated power configuration is mainly used for volume; the 20t and 25 naturally-aspirated engines are used as high-end power configurations for luxury models;

In addition, do not use gearboxes that are too high-end. Ordinary automatic gearboxes are mainly 4-speed, and high-end models are 5-speed.

As for the four-wheel drive system, the mid-to-low end is not suitable, and only the high-end models are available.

This means that the overall allocation is reduced based on 60, and finally a set of models that can span the 200,000 to 400,000 range is drummed up;

The shape of the Aurora car can be said to be long-lasting, so once the Aurora is finalized, make an enlarged version based on it, and then upgrade all the configurations, which is the sports version of the Land Rover Range Rover.

When the production line was assembled, Chen Ze, who had always liked cars, and Elon Musk, who was doing Tesla, came to the scene to observe.

Elon Musk is also preparing to set up Tesla's own new production line in Yanjing. For him, in the future, it is natural to hold Li Mu's thigh tightly. Tesla and Makino Motors Group will advance and retreat together.

The assembly of the production line is a complicated and tedious process, but due to the man's natural love for industrial products, Li Mu will stare at the scene almost every day, watching it with joy.

At the same time, Volvo's automotive design team has also arrived in Yanjing and has officially started working in Yanjing.

And in the first week of their arrival, Li Mu pulled them, ready to let them make the design drawings of the Aurora models and the renderings of the effects.

Li Mu doesn't understand car design, but he knows what the aurora looks like, what the overall shape is, and what the front, back and side look like.

Describe all of this to the designer, let the designer first sketch, and then polish it a little bit according to his requirements.

At the beginning, these car designers in Sweden and other European countries scoffed at Li Mu's requirements.

They feel that as a company owner, you should focus on doing what the boss wants to do. Why bother with us and even direct our specific work?

But what they don't know is that although Li Mu doesn't understand car design, there are a lot of good things in his mind.

Aurora is just one of them. There are many other classic models, as low as Fox and as high as Rolls Royce. Every hot model looks like what he knows.

Volvo ’s automotive design team leader, Swede Alexander Vicand, was very dissatisfied with Li Mu's requirements. He even suggested on the spot that if Li Mu insisted on interfering with the design team ’s creative work, he would be the first to resign from Li Mu.

Li Mu directly said: "I will not approve your resignation. Do n’t forget that I signed a double-paying labor contract and you also signed a double penalty fee. If you release my pigeons at this time, then Take out the liquidated damages, and because you have n’t worked for me for three years, you will still be subject to a three-year competition limit in this industry. In the next three years, you will not be allowed to engage in automobile-related industries. "

The other person just wanted to scare Li Mu and make him a little self-aware. Don't get involved in the design team's work, but he didn't expect that this guy directly moved out of the breach clause with himself.

It is true that these Europeans who originally worked in Sweden are very resistant to working so far away from home. They came because of the excellent salary.

If they don't come to Huaxia, they will face dissolution in Sweden. After dissolution, they will have to find new jobs.

First of all, there are no ordinary passenger car companies in Sweden. If they want to find a job, they must leave Sweden and develop in four countries: Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. However, the level of car design in these four countries is actually in Sweden. on.

The Swedish-designed models are very general in appearance design. There is nothing particularly outstanding. Most of Volvo's models will make you feel that you will see it. It's **** honest, but very few models can make people shine. I think it's **** good to go.

In contrast, classic designs from Germany and Italy are frequent.

The main models of BMW are basically very good-looking. The later 6 even led the design trend of backshoes. Not only domestic manufacturers imitated it, but even the later PE models of Mercedes-Benz also had the shadow of BMW 6.

From the later new, e, and g, gl, gle, and gl series, almost all of them are good designs that are both internal and external. It is really better than Volvo, and the interior design is a must.

In fact, Audi is also awesome in terms of styling design. The a series q series are mostly enduring classic models, but this buddy opened low and walked high and low again. In the middle of the years, it was indeed full bloom, a4, a6, q5, Q7, one game one beautiful, the result is 10 years later, it is getting uglier and more embarrassing, before q7 is a very domineering large v, but the result is more and more ugly later, and finally basically fell to no Where people buy.

Not to mention Italy, a large number of classic supercar brands, casually come up with a car shape, are all classics designed by the automotive industry.

Even in France, although a series of wonderful models have been produced, it has to be said that other cars are pretty good overall.

Volvo alone has nothing to do with good looks.

Especially at Volvo this year, the shape is almost impossible to say.

Therefore, based on the level of Alexander Wikand and his team, if they would not know where to go to design the team for a short while, they would have been embarrassed.

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 Leopard.

Alexander Vicand was startled by his unrelenting and business-like attitude. He finally came to Huaxia. He was also unwilling to make a penny and made no money. He lost a lot of liquidated damages and returned with a three-year competition agreement .

So he could only put away his arrogance and immediately changed his face and said to Li Mu, "If you have any personal ideas you want to achieve, please let us know and we will help you present them perfectly."

Li Mu did not give up on his concealment and kneel licking for a long time, and said coldly: "You can show what I have in my mind to 80, I will be successful even if you."

Alexander Vicand was so anxious that you are really insulting. What's wrong? I have designed a car for so many years, can't compare with you? Don't you just drive a Mercedes g-series? The car looks like a large carton, so I chose this car for you, and I also know that your aesthetics of the car is the same.

However, God of Wealth did not dare to offend, so he could only say, "Mr. Li, you are right, we are indeed a long way behind you compared to you ~ www. ~ finished, He also waited to see Li Mu's joke and said, "General Manager Li, what kind of car model do you want to design? Probably tell us about it. "

Li Mu nodded and said, "First of all, I want to tell you clearly that this is a v. As for its shape, it should be ..."

Li Mu probably described a silhouette, and Alexander Wikander felt really confused after hearing it.

The current car design language is mostly a combination of three-dimensional lines and rounded arcs, but the v that Li Mu wants to make turns out to be a sharp-headed, short-handed v ...

Who's seen a car seen from the side with a beveled shape that is high in the front and low in the back? Would you like to vomit this line out?

He tried to advise Li Mu and said, "General Li, I think your sketch of this car should raise your butt, pull the car higher, lower the hood height, and then add some round The arcs connect and neutralize, which makes the car look better. "

Li Mu really wanted to scold him after listening, didn't you design an old 90 for me again? What about you fool?