Chapter 202 Americans are shocked, AMG is extremely depressed
"Woodcock, this is the latest information we have collected. A brand new military vehicle has appeared in China. It looks very tough. From Judging from the content of the report, it seems that the actual performance is also very good."
"I think it is necessary to report this news to the country as soon as possible and let the relevant departments evaluate the impact of this matter."
< br>As the China correspondent in the American Embassy, in addition to dealing with daily internal affairs, Smith is also naturally responsible for collecting some information about China.
This can be regarded as a global unspoken rule.
Military-related information is naturally the focus of collection.
Smith had already compiled a lot of information and reported on China's actions in the south.
His promotion from follower to third secretary is also related to his previous efforts.
After experiencing the benefits, Smith naturally became more active in this area of work.
“There is only one picture and related reports, no more performance parameters?”
Woodcock quickly browsed the information compiled by Smith and felt that he was not particularly satisfied.
He could expect that after submitting the information, he would face various inquiries.
Under normal circumstances, he would definitely want to clarify these issues and report them together.
“Further information is still under investigation, but judging from the situation of this report, this Humvee military vehicle should have only appeared this year, and there has been no news before.”
“ I think we can start the investigation from two aspects at the same time. On the one hand, we can let the personnel in Annan know about the actual combat situation. On the other hand, we can continue to investigate in China.”
"Of course, now that our relationship is relatively good and the information about this car has appeared in newspapers, I think we can inquire through the official channels of the embassy to see if this car can also be included in the aid to Afghanistan. "
"In this way, the relevant performance parameter information will naturally be available soon."
When Smith said this, Woodcock became interested. .
Taking several plans together sounds very feasible.
You can definitely give it a try yourself.
"Then we will act according to the plan you mentioned. I will also formally arrange personnel to contact the relevant departments in China."
"While reporting the information, the domestic side will also arrange our next steps. Just a moment.”
After giving these instructions, the American Embassy immediately started moving.
When these news gradually reached the United States, the car giants who were bidding for the United States' new generation of high-performance military vehicle projects were immediately confused.
"Thomson, the Pentagon has just forwarded a piece of information to various car companies. I think you need to take a good look at it."
Robert called the design director Thomson to his office with an ugly face.
As the president of AMC, Robert has been under great pressure in the past year.
The company's operating conditions are not very good, especially since oil prices have risen further since last year. Various American car companies have seemed a little unable to cope with the competition from fuel-efficient Japanese cars.
These are some very bad reflections in the financial report.
In order to reverse this situation, Robert invested most of the company's R&D resources in the project of a new generation of American high-performance off-road military vehicles.
AMC's various new technologies are used in this car under development, and it has now reached the stage of preparing to produce a prototype.
Once the prototype is produced next year and passes the review of the relevant American departments, AMC can immediately organize large-scale production.
At that time, their company's financial reporting situation will definitely be greatly improved.
After all, the prices for orders from relevant departments in the United States are still very impressive.
But at this critical moment, I saw the military vehicles reported in Chinese newspapers, which seemed to be highly similar to their own new generation products.
For a moment, his mood deteriorated.
"Robert, I will immediately arrange for someone to investigate to see if anyone has leaked the company's secrets."
"Especially in the appearance and body design departments , I will ask people to confirm.”
“A group of Chinese engineers have been reused in the company in recent years. It is likely that these people have leaked the secrets.”
Thomson finished reading. After the report content had been translated into English, his expression suddenly changed.
Why did the model I was responsible for come out early in China?
AMC’s same product is still on the drawing board.
This is unreasonable.
“We haven’t even produced a prototype, but China’s Hummer military vehicle has already been put into use on the battlefield.”
“What do you think the company’s technical personnel are like? If we leak the secret to the other party at the right time, will it be possible for the other party to produce the vehicle earlier than us?”
Robert was obviously very dissatisfied with Thomson's words.
Is this deceiving you that you don’t understand?
Leaking secrets!
AMC only formally initiated the project last year, and only finalized the design plan this year. Production of prototypes has not started, and prototype cars do not yet exist.
Under this situation, even if China can get the latest intelligence information from AMC every day, it is impossible to produce vehicles so quickly.
The only possibility is that someone in the AMC design team was lazy. After obtaining the appearance information of the Chinese Hummer military vehicle through some unknown channel, they promoted it as their own design plan within the company.
If this kind of thing is known to other car companies such as General Motors and Ford Motor, AMC will be humiliated.
When did American car companies end up copying Chinese car styling? "This situation is indeed a bit strange. I'll go investigate first and then find out what's going on."
Thomson also realized that his answer just now was a bit off.
Seeing how angry Robert was now, he didn't dare to say anything.
After all, no matter which possibility it is, this is not good news for him.
“Not only have we received the information related to this news report, but several other car companies must have also received it.”
“In case other car companies use this news to adjust their own information about the new The bidding plan for a new generation of high-performance off-road vehicles is likely to have a very negative impact on us.”
“You must consider this matter carefully”
Robert must put his pressure down to all management levels.
Otherwise he feels like he won’t be able to bear it anymore.
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"Austin, what do you think about this matter?"
While AMC was worrying about the information transferred from the Pentagon, General Motors Bian was not idle either.
As the largest car company in the United States, General Motors is also facing great pressure.
Car companies such as Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Hyundai Kia are developing too fast in the American market, with annual growth rates higher than General Motors.
Large-displacement models and some military-related products were originally GM's advantageous projects. As president, Murphy naturally hopes to continue the advantageous projects and at the same time improve the competitiveness of other products. Lift up.
In this case, after suddenly receiving the information from the Pentagon, Murphy suddenly had a lot of questions in his mind.
When Murphy personally visited China last year, he specially arranged for someone to conduct a survey on the development of China's automobile industry.
The conclusion is that China's automobile industry will not have any impact on General Motors' global development.
The other party's technical level is not at the same level as General Motors.
This conclusion can also be seen from the fact that the other party hopes to introduce some heavy truck technology.
But seeing the situation of the Humvee military vehicle today, he had some questions about last year's conclusion.
"Murphy, this situation is a bit strange."
"Not to mention other performances, the appearance design of the Hummer military vehicle alone is very impactful."
"It can be said that it is more sturdy and more powerful than the military vehicles currently mass-produced in any country in the world. Modern.”
“It’s like a phoenix suddenly emerged from a group of chickens.”
“It’s hard to believe that this is a product produced by a Chinese car factory. ”
Austin is also confused now.
Although the pictures in the information are not particularly clear, a lot of things can be seen.
This is a product worthy of the attention of all automobile companies.
“Aren’t we designing a new military off-road vehicle to participate in the Pentagon’s bidding?”
“Can we find a way to further collect relevant information and see if it is useful to us? Is there any help in product design? ”
“We just happened to have established contacts with the Automobile Bureau of the First Machinery Department of China and the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant, and we can make use of these contacts.”
Now that the company has received the intelligence collected and compiled by relevant departments, Murphy must think about how to use this information.
Relevant departments will forward this information, which also shows that the other party attaches great importance to this content.
“The appearance of this military vehicle called a Humvee really surprised me.”
“I am going to go to China again and continue to communicate with them.”
“It just so happens that our new generation flagship sedan has also entered the prototype production preparation stage. I have some questions and want to talk to Jiang Hui.”
Austin thought for a while and decided that he might as well fly to China himself.
Otherwise, the information collected through other channels would definitely not be so complete.
The most important thing is that he has a hunch that Jiang Hui must know some information about this Hummer military vehicle from China, and even directly participated in this project.
In the entire Chinese automobile industry, Austin only had a special impression of Jiang Hui.
Normally speaking, a model with such an impactful appearance like the Hummer should not appear in China.
Now that it has appeared, Austin feels that he must figure out the situation no matter what.
"It's okay. By the way, we can invite Jiang Hui to our company for inspection or work. Let's invite people over first."
"Don't take a look at the relationship between China and the United States. The difference is that simple persuasion will probably be very ineffective."
Murphy was still deeply impressed by Jiang Hui.
Now that Austin wants to go to China, he will definitely support it.
(End of this chapter)