Automotive Black Technology Chapter 335: ：Repay money for R&D?
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Yes, Knight XV,
It was the time and space before Li Fanyu, Dwayne Johnson's car in Fast and Furious 5 - the car that was two laps bigger than a Hummer.
Known as the king of off-road.
This car has a length of more than six meters and a width and height of 2.5 meters. It is no exaggeration to say that the size of this car is about to break away from the category of off-road vehicles.
If you try harder in terms of size, it will become a small armored vehicle!
Corresponding to this size is its curb weight of nearly six tons. In order to give this steel monster speed, the Knight XV is equipped with a 6.8-displacement V10 engine. With a maximum horsepower of 406 horses and a maximum power output of 300KW, this big guy can carry a weight of six tons and run at a top speed of 170KM/h.
For such a huge model, this speed cannot be said to be slow.
Thanks to the non-load-bearing body and full-time four-wheel drive system, relying on the V10 engine, the Knight XV is truly capable of handling various extreme terrains such as crater roads and sandy deserts. It's easy to get used to it.
Of course, these performances are only the basic qualities of this car.
The most commendable thing about Knight XV is his innate gene - protective nature.
Yes, this is a car whose safety level can reach international level II even if it is equipped as standard.
In the time and space before Li Fanyu, the body and chassis of this model used thickened bulletproof steel plates. The front bumper and wheel arches are made of expensive fiberglass. All windows are directly made of 64mm thick laminated bulletproof glass.
The effect of this performance is that it can directly withstand NATO standard hard steel nuclear bullets with a caliber of 7.62x51 mm, or about ten kilograms of TNT.
In Li Fanyu's opinion, the performance of this car can fully meet the needs of the army.
If there are any shortcomings...ahem, it depends on whether they can afford the cost...
In a time and space where the course of automobile history had not changed, the price of this car in the United States was approximately $400,000. But because of the super large displacement and super high import tax, it was a scam when entering the country; the selling price directly exceeded the 20 million mark...
Of course, this is off topic.
Since Li Fanyu now wants to produce this car, he cannot rely on the domestic selling price of the previous time and space.
As for the Cavalier Fifteen, the original design concept was not actually based on military vehicles, but to meet the safe travel needs of the rich.
To be precise, it is a bodyguard car.
It is from this perspective that in addition to performance, the Cavalier XV also has an extremely luxurious interior; such as Wilton cashmere carpets, AM leather, 6-way adjustable seats, ALPINE-dvd navigation system, night Vision and rear full-angle camera...
Anyway, the most expensive and best things are matched with everything that can be matched,
That rush is exactly the same as described by Li Chengru’s classic line in "The Big Shot";
Choose the best materials and hire French designers to create the most luxurious interior! The first-class sofa is directly in the back, and the leather has to be AM at the very least. We won’t kill any sheep over two years old, but we will kill the skins of lambs that have just been weaned. Wilton carpets, ALPIN Edvd navigation systems, Swarovski crystal ashtrays, everything that can be installed is installed for him!
The boss can only sit in the back row, and he will be assigned a bodyguard in the front row. A bald man with a big gold chain will sit in the passenger seat. If someone comes to the front of the car, don't worry. No matter what happened, I would have to say to them with bared teeth: "What are you looking at?", with an authentic Northeastern Tieling accent, Beier has murderous intent!
……
Ahem, that’s too far off topic.
Anyway, the interior concept of Knight XV is not to be the most expensive, but to be more expensive...
If it is used as a military vehicle, removing these useless parts without affecting the hard performance can greatly reduce costs.
Based on the US price of Knight XV being 400,000 U.S. dollars, it should be directly discounted by 200,000 dollars, which is equivalent to about 1.4 million yuan.
And what Li Fanyu calculated in his heart was this price. But even so, one Knight fifteen for ten Warriors is more than enough.
The car is definitely a good car, but I just don’t know if the army can use it.
......
The next day, Li Fanyu took the drawings and some worries to the address that the chimney told him on the phone.
This is a guest house in the Tiancheng Military Division.
This was the first time for Li Fanyu to come to this kind of place. He looked around curiously and felt...as if he had traveled back to the 1990s. All the facilities in this room, except for the phone that can be called a new one, look like the filming set of a period drama.
It's so crude.
The teapot and washbasin are still enamel!
Looking at the design drawing in his hand, Chimney frowned and took out the cigarette out of habit. As soon as the crumpled Hongtashan was held in his mouth, Li Fanyu coughed heavily.
He brushed aside Li Fanyu and took down the cigarette. Putting the lighter in his hand on the table, he smashed it and smacked his lips.
"You... Knight Fifteen... were just designed yesterday?"
Li Fanyu spread his hands, "Yes, is there any problem?"
The big chimney gave a rare grin and said with a smile: "If you can design it, you can definitely make it, right?"
Hey, I have such a bad temper!
Li Fan was so stupid that he smiled back, "Look at what you said, why do you dare me to tease you? Why should I bother to draw it if I can't do it? Take a look, the general performance parameters are all marked. It’s impossible to make it 100% the same in the test run, but it’s close to 10%.”
Well, it can only be said that they are inseparable.
After all, if the army needs it, there are too many flashy designs on Knight XV that need to be removed. Both appearance and performance require certain adjustments.
"Then this price estimate..."
Coming!
I knew the price would be a barrier!
Li Fanyu quickly waved his hand and said, "This price is not accurate, but according to my estimate of the price of domestic parts and the assembled vehicle, the difference is less than 200,000."
Chimney nodded. Although his face was calm, his heart was already in turmoil.
Before his trip, he was actually dissatisfied with his mission.
Not for anything else, he had a hundred doubts about the superior department directly handing over the military vehicle replacement project to Zhengxin.
In his opinion, Zhengxin must have left and not run away.
So he had a strong disdain for Li Fanyu; he had seen too many of these people over the years as a military supplier, relying on his connections and backing to make a lot of money.
But now it seems that the kid in front of me still has some ink in his stomach.
Judging from the design drawings, this big guy can definitely meet the standards for military vehicle replacement. It can even be said that it is beyond.
If a real car can really look like what this guy said, then it will definitely be a good car!
The warriors currently deployed in the army have obviously failed to keep up with the times. As early as 20 years ago, people abroad relied on high-performance military vehicles for integrated logistics and modular operations, and the battlefield rapidly advanced. On the battlefield in Iraq, the United States relied on two military vehicles, Hippopotamus and Hyena, to achieve the fastest advancement in the history of war.
After the war broke out, it only took more than ten days from the intervention of ground troops to the capture of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. This speed of advancement is extremely astonishing.
The Iraq War perfectly illustrates the influence of high-tech weapons and military equipment on modern warfare.
So as a Chinese soldier, we have to face up to a problem - if war breaks out one day, what will we use to fight against it?
Unlike world hegemons like the United States, China's defense expenditures are not that generous because there is no need for foreign wars.
Take the Warriors as an example. They were originally developed by Beiqi to meet the needs of training and daily transportation. It is said that this type of car should have been eliminated long ago. It is even said that when the Warrior was first delivered for use, the United States was already equipped with Hippopotamus and Hyena, two third-generation multi-purpose military vehicles that far exceeded the Warrior in size and performance.
Why hasn’t China’s military vehicles been replaced?
It’s not like we’re short of money!
So, he sniffed, suppressed his cigarette, and asked tentatively: "How much money will it cost to develop this car?"
Li Fanyu's uneasy look instantly turned into confusion.
"What? Give R&D funds back?" (To be continued.)