At this time, foreign automobile giants are also paying attention to this conference.
After all, Audi's press conference was so grand, and the engine of the Audi A4 was even featured on the news broadcast. No matter how stupid they are, they can't do nothing.
It is true that they still disdain Audi cars from the bottom of their hearts, but they will definitely maintain a certain degree of vigilance, otherwise they would not have developed to where they are today.
When the Audi A4 just debuted at the press conference, they had no idea. In their opinion, Daxia companies like to play these gimmicks. What they pursue is always good-looking appearance. What is the use of good-looking appearance? Only something that is so practical can be useful.
But when Lu Haifeng introduced the turbocharged engine, it immediately aroused the shock of giants from all sides. How could a groundbreaking engine be developed so easily?
If this is true, their position in the automotive field will be shaken, and even the pattern of the global automotive industry will undergo huge changes, and their so-called advantages will no longer exist.
At the Mercedes-Benz Group, when the person in charge of news following the Audi A4 launch saw this scene, his eyes were full of disbelief, so the person in charge hurriedly reported to his boss, and he hurried to the office of Dujie Qiaopu, chairman of Mercedes-Benz.
"The boss is not good, something is not good, something big happened"
"What's the matter? Didn't you pay attention to the Audi A4 launch conference?"
"Boss, Huaxing Technology has developed a new type of engine called a turbocharged engine, which has been installed on the Audi A4. Its performance is 40% higher than our naturally aspirated engine."
"What, a turbocharged engine"
"What kind of engine is this?"
"Why haven't I heard of it before? There are engine types in the world that we don't know about. How can it be 40% better than our engine performance?"
Du Jie Qiaopu asked in shock: "Are you sure this is not a cover-up trick they used to deliberately confuse us?"
The first thing he thought of was the false news that was deliberately released to confuse them. You must know that Mercedes-Benz has been a car company for hundreds of years. Is it possible that there is something they don't know about any engine product on the market?
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After hearing this, the person in charge smiled bitterly and said: "Boss, this is true. This was said by Lu Haifeng, the chairman of Huaxing Technology, himself at the press conference."
"And the turbocharged engine he mentioned has been installed in the Audi A4, the protagonist of the launch today. Since he dares to promote it like this, their technology must have reached this stage."
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After listening to his subordinate's words, Dujie Qiaopu fell into silence. Even though he looked calm on the surface, his heart was already boiling.
How is this possible? How can a small Huaxing Technology develop such a powerful engine?
Forget about other car companies such as Bora and Alto. After all, the two sides have been competing with each other for many years. They are both losing and losing, and they always maintain a delicate balance.
However, Huaxing Technology was defeated by a company from a country with backward automobile technology in the backward country of Daxia. Du Jie-Qiaopu was extremely unwilling to do so.
The arrival of the Huaxing Technology Audi A4 immediately broke the tacit understanding between the giants. Can their status as giants be maintained if this continues?
Will they still have a foothold in Daxia's huge B-class car market by then?
You must know that the Daxia Automobile Market is the largest market in the world. Thirty percent of the Mercedes-Benz Group's annual car sales and 60% of profits come from the Daxia Automobile Market.
Take last year as an example. Their global sales of Benma for the whole year were 2.3 million units. In the Daxia market, they accounted for 800,000 units and 60% of the profits. Once they lose the Daxia market,
market, the losses caused to them can be imagined.
Putting all this aside, Audi has now developed a turbocharged engine and installed it on its Audi A4. They thought it was an ordinary engine when they saw it on the Xinwen Broadcast.
As for the turbocharged engine that Audi now develops and installs on its Audi A4, they had no news at all before. Once their turbocharged engine is 40% more powerful than a naturally aspirated engine, then they will
What kind of situation will we face?
If Audi is given a few years, let alone the Chinese market, it may not even be able to maintain its local market. How terrifying is the 40% gap in performance?
Mercedes-Benz's breakthroughs in engine technology every year are only 3% to 5% optimization of the old engines, and this 40% is undoubtedly a huge gap.
Not to mention that turbocharged engines are still a new field. They have no technology accumulation at all. Let alone technology accumulation. This is the first time I have heard of turbocharged engines today. So how can they compete with the Audi A4?
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So now Dujie Qiaopu is completely panicked. He was still disdainful of Audi cars in the morning. So what if a small company develops an engine?
It is even possible that such an engine was developed with the support of the entire Daxia Kingdom. It would be impossible to break through again, so he did not take the Audi A4 seriously before.
But now that Audi cars have shown various strengths, he has changed his previous thinking. Audi cars are not as simple as he imagined.
If he still doesn't care at this moment, then he is the biggest fool in the world. As the head of an automobile giant, how can he not have an IQ that is not online?
What makes Du Jie Qiaopu even more panicked is that in order to suppress Audi, they deliberately delayed the launch of the B-class Mercedes-Benz B260.
Just waiting to be launched at the same time as the Audi A4, in order to highlight the superior performance of their Mercedes-Benz products, and at the same time bring the Audi brand to its bottom, letting it know that the majesty of their giant cannot be challenged by others.
But is the Audi A4 now equipped with a turbocharged engine really something that our new model can beat? This made Du Jie-Qiaopu doubt his own product for the first time. Can it beat it?
If this failure occurs, will the B-class car market be able to maintain its current status and market?
Although Audi has just launched a new car, they have more than a dozen Mercedes-Benz models on sale at the same time.
But if Audi can launch the B-class luxury car Audi A4, why can't it launch a C-class luxury car? As long as it has a turbocharged engine, it will be invincible.
He has never thought about D-class luxury cars at all, because D-class luxury cars do not require technology and require the accumulation of history.