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    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 China Automobile's leading R&D center focused on automotive safety.  This is the reason why Saab designers and engineers fell in love with him and happily accepted Jia Hongjian!  Of course, during the discussion, no one among these Swedes thought about technology leakage - for example, Saab's technology was taken away by China Automobile, and then leaked to the Chinese government, and finally to  Used in Chinese weapons and equipment.  ¡÷In this regard, Jia Hongjian told the other party that China is now qualified to make weapons and equipment. Although private companies can make weapons and equipment after going through bidding and review, Jia Hongjian and the Huaxia Hi-Tech Department really have no desire to do so.  To make weapons and equipment.  And besides, what if Saab's technology is spread inside Huaxia Automobile?

    China Automobile is not prepared to vomit after eating it, nor is it prepared to sell it in two or three years after buying Saab.  Huaxia Motors wants to operate Saab as an important brand, and apart from Tesla, an electric high-end car brand, Huaxia Motors currently has no high-end brands for conventional powertrains, so there will be no high-end brands within Huaxia Motors.  Brands come to compete with Saab. In the end, most of the technologies developed by Saab are definitely used in Saab's own cars.  It is normal for a little bit of it to go to mid- to low-end models, but mid-to-low-end models will not ignore Saab's various technologies - Saab's various technologies are all based on safety and increasing driving.  Starting from experience, it can be said that each technology has a certain cost. The more cars are installed, the cost will go up, but the price will not go up?  As the price goes up, the sales volume will decrease. It is very difficult for such a low-end brand to climb up to the high-end!

    ? Inside a car company.  It is basically impossible for a brand positioned at the mid- to low-end to move up to the high-end. Unless a high-end sub-brand is re-established, the inherent impression in the minds of consumers can defeat the manufacturers¡¯ attempts to move the mid-to-low-end brand to the high-end.  High-end push move.  For example, a brand like Xiali, which is very familiar to the domestic people, is a low-end car brand. If one day Xiali launches a mid-range car priced at around 200,000 yuan.  How many people will buy it?  Unless this Xiali car costing more than 200,000 yuan is very well made, ordinary people would think of buying a Xiali brand for 200,000 yuan?  Why not buy something else?  Xiali gives people the impression of being a cheap car, so spending 200,000 to buy Xiali still gives people the impression that they bought a cheap car!  Not to mention that if Xiali launches a high-end car priced at more than 400,000 yuan, it will stop the rich!  If Xiali really wants to launch a high-end car, it would be better to start a new sub-brand and develop everything from scratch. Then there won't be much resistance!  Jia Hongjian's series of explanations from business to market aspects really convinced these Saab researchers and engineers, and thus reassured them not to cause trouble during the acquisition process.  It even allows them to happily wait for the acquisition to be successful!

    In this way, during the process of reorganizing Saab's R&D center, as he came into contact with more and more projects that Saab had studied, was studying, and planned to study in the future, Jia Hongjian really discovered that Saab really couldn't do without external help - other things  Not to mention, as far as gearboxes are concerned, Saab actually wants to develop its own 4at automatic gearbox!  During the previous eight years of GM, Saab basically used Japanese Aisin gearboxes. However, privately, Saab still had an awkward personality and wanted to develop its own gearbox!  Speak the truth.  4at, a four-speed automatic transmission, is now the mainstream among transmissions.  But it has not been popular for long - the relatively large transmission manufacturers in the world are spending money to develop 6at, which is a 6-speed automatic transmission. After this comes out, consumers will definitely be more inclined.  As for buying one with 6at, one with only 4at seems to be technologically backward!

    This is because Saab itself is too small.  At the same time, they can't make much money, and GM is reluctant to spend R&D funds on them.  Without R&D funds, their development speed will of course be slower. If China Automobile does not take over, Saab's own development of 4at may have to wait until the international mainstream is all 6at.  Their 4at has just been successfully developed!  So how to solve this problem?  Can we just throw money at it?  As far as gearboxes are concerned, it¡¯s really not just about throwing money at it!  For example, in the engine field, Saab still has a lot of technology. After all, they were the first to use turbocharging. Therefore, Saab is still quite advanced in terms of turbocharging, adjusting engine and turbine matching, and even developing its own engines.  With two brushes, the problem is that their Saab is too small. Although they want to spread the stall, they just can¡¯t!

    If Huaxia Automobile invests money, it is really difficult for Saab to quickly follow the international level in gearboxes - because really speaking, there are not many independent gearbox manufacturers.  ??¡¯s!  That¡¯s right!  Everyone among the international giants knows that gearboxes are difficult to develop, so either they spent a lot of money to research their own gearboxes decades ago, or they directly acquired independent gearbox manufacturers and then spent money on research and development!  Some of the gearbox factories of other OEMs later became independent in order to make more money. Although they were controlled, they could still sell gearboxes to other brands.  Now for several well-known gearbox manufacturers in the world, Germany's ZF, also known as ZF, is an independent gearbox manufacturer, and then Japan's Aisin Seiki, which is Toyota's former independent gearbox factory.  After it came out, Toyota still owns more than 20% of the shares, and Toyota's cars basically use Aisin's transmissions.  Let¡¯s talk about the Japanese JETCO gearbox. It was also a gearbox factory owned by Nissan. Later, after it became independent, it ate up Mitsubishi¡¯s gearbox department and became such a JETCO gearbox. And they are still the same until now.  A company controlled by Nissan!

    Except for these relatively well-known companies that can sell gearboxes to the public, 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, it is necessary to quickly keep up with the world level in the field of gearboxes. This is not something that can be achieved by just spending money. After all, the research time is just short of others. If we spend money to pursue it, others will not.  You won't just wait for us without doing anything, right?  At the same time, it is really difficult to acquire gearbox manufacturers outside!  For example, Germany's ZF is ZF. Its annual sales profit is more than 4 billion US dollars. How can we acquire it?  Do we want to spend 40 billion or even 50 billion US dollars to acquire it?

    It is true that 40 billion or even 50 billion US dollars cannot be spent, but after spending so much money, one must fully consider whether to make a profit or lose it!  We can't possibly say that after spending 40 to 50 billion US dollars, we will just keep such a gearbox for our own use, right?  You must know that ZF gearboxes are now sold on several continents and are connected to almost all car parks around the world. Even many domestic car companies use ZF gearboxes!  It¡¯s 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, apart from anything else, we will have to deal with the ZF branches and factories in more than 100 countries around the world.  Not for sale?  Otherwise, you will lose money if you keep it!  Then there are hundreds of thousands of employees around the world, so basically all of them have to be fired, right?  With such a big set, how much money can ZF make for us in a year?  When can we earn back the investment of 40 to 50 billion US dollars?  Although we have money, there is a basis that we can be willful if we have money, but rich people are more rational!  As businessmen, every time we spend money, it is best to make money!

    "If such a government only costs four to five billion US dollars to buy, then Jia Hongjian can do whatever he wants. Forty to five billion US dollars is really too much!  Therefore, if you really want to acquire an independent transmission manufacturer, it is better to find one with a smaller size.  However, speaking of gearbox manufacturers, if there is no big automobile company to back them up, it will actually be quite difficult to develop Wait a minute!  Jia Hongjian suddenly remembered that in history, some domestic car companies bought the world's second largest transmission manufacturer around 2009?  This was what I saw in the news at the time. If I think about it now, I guess it was either the media talking nonsense or Jia Hongjian¡¯s memory of the details was wrong - the world¡¯s second largest transmission manufacturer is Aisin, and Aisin is owned by Toyota.  , can people sell it?  So it is estimated to be the second largest among independent transmission manufacturers?  So who is this independent transmission manufacturer?  Jia Hongjian thought for a while, and it seemed to his impression that such a manufacturer was in Australia?

    He thought of this and immediately started searching.  After spending a few minutes searching, I actually found an Australian transmission manufacturer¡ªD Private!  When he saw the name, Jia Hongjian immediately felt familiar. He immediately felt that it was this transmission manufacturer that our domestic car companies had gone to Australia to buy in history!  And when I saw this manufacturer¡¯s promotional page, it really said that they are the second largest independent transmission manufacturer in the world!  "A professional automatic transmission company integrating R&D, manufacturing and sales. It is one of the only two automatic transmission companies in the world that is independent of automobile companies. It covers an area of ??300,000 square meters and a factory area of ??36,000 square meters; Research Institute  The area is 3000m2. It has an annual production capacity of 180,000 automatic transmissions; the company has a history of more than 80 years and has strong technical accumulation and industrial experience"

    Hiss, it looks like this manufacturer is pretty good!  (To be continued.)
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