There are no permanent friends between enterprises, only eternal interests.

This is absolutely true.

Cao Yang had a very clear understanding of this.

The same is true for the relationship between Nanshan Group and Ford Motor Company.

"Chris, everything is business and everything is negotiable."

"Including our 1.5t and 2.0t turbocharged engine technology."

Without much entanglement, Cao Yang agreed to this general direction.

Through this cooperation, if the turnover of Nanshan Engine can exceed that of Nanshan Transmission, then Nanshan Group's goal of becoming a 100-billion-dollar enterprise can be achieved as soon as possible.

As for clinging to technology, it actually doesn’t make much sense.

With Ford's technical strength, it mainly decided to turn to turbocharging in an all-round way. It would not take a few years to develop an engine of similar level.

By then, the cooperative relationship between the two parties will definitely not be that close.

Anyway, in Cao Yang's mind, after the value of this generation of engines is fully utilized, it will be time to transform to hybrid and electrification.

It is also a good idea to make a good sum of money now when the value is at its highest.

"Cao, don't worry, we at Ford will never treat our friends badly!"

"Your group's Xingchen Motors uses the dealer channel of Lincoln, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, for sales. We will give you an accurate answer within a week."

"At the same time, I will also quickly carry out the matter of dealing with Japanese car companies you just mentioned within the company."

"At the same time, we will also discuss with people from General Motors and DaimlerChrysler to get things done quickly."

Chris is a resolute person.

Ford is having a tough time every month right now.

Especially after entering 2006, the situation deteriorated rapidly.

So some changes are urgently needed.

"Then I'll wait for your good news."

"I happen to have an appointment with Austin from General Motors tomorrow, and I will have a good chat with him."

"By the way, I would like your help to promote the adoption of 8at within the company."

"I think this is also a good thing to enhance the selling point of Ford cars."

The main purpose of coming here today is to open up the sales channels of Ziweixing and the promotion of 8at.

However, Chris never mentioned 8at, and finally Cao Yang threw it out himself.

"I will communicate with the design side, but it won't be used on Ford models in the short term. Land Rover or Jaguar, Lincoln, it is possible."

"I will give you a preliminary reply to this question within a week."

Chris felt a rare sense of relief.

Cao Yang naturally had no doubts about this.

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"Mr. Cao, I think the engine technology cooperation plan proposed by Ford Motor Company can also be mentioned with General Motors?"

"The technology has to be licensed out anyway, so why not license it to a few more companies and sell more engines and related parts?"

As soon as she walked out of the door of Ford Motor Company, Zeng Tingting put forward her own suggestion.

"If we can cooperate with Ford, General Motors can indeed take the initiative to mention it."

"But it would be best if the engines the two companies cooperate with can be slightly different, otherwise they may have objections."

Ji Hua also put forward his own opinions.

Although General Motors is more difficult than Ford, it is larger.

Even in-depth cooperation in engine parts can significantly increase Nanshan Group's turnover.

For example, there are few in the world that can do a good job in the turbocharger of the engine above.

A turbocharger can easily cost around 3,000 yuan.

If it can sell 2 million turbochargers to General Motors a year, it can achieve a turnover of 6 billion.

Needless to say, in addition to turbochargers, Nanshan Group can also provide high value-added parts for engines such as generators, starters, and high-pressure oil pumps.

By then, GM may be able to contribute 10 billion yuan in revenue growth to Nanshan Group a year.

"Mr. Cao, if we supply a large number of parts to General Motors and Ford, they may ask us to build factories in North America to reduce supply risks."

"We may have to consider in advance how to deal with this."

Mi Ying, who had been silent until now, interrupted.

So far, all Nanshan Group's factories are in China.

We have only set up some offices abroad to do some daily communication with various customers.

If you want to set up a factory, the situation is completely different.

"It will depend on the situation at that time. If we really want to set up a factory, it will only be an assembly factory. All components will still be purchased from China, otherwise the cost will increase significantly."

"As for the assembly factory, we can make full use of our robotics and equipment technology to reduce the number of personnel as much as possible."

Cao Yang has no good influence on the workers here in the United States.

If you can do away with or use less of these "big men", it is naturally better to use them less.

If you really want to use it, you must find someone who is more obedient.

"Mr. Cao, if you want to set up a factory, it doesn't necessarily have to be in the United States. You can also go to Mexico in the south."

"In North America, there are free trade agreements between several countries. By setting up our factory in Mexico, we should be able to meet customer requirements and reduce costs at the same time."

Ji Hua has studied abroad in Germany for many years and is quite familiar with things overseas.

"Many Japanese parts companies have factories in Mexico. I think Mr. Ji's proposal is indeed very feasible."

Zeng Tingting also expressed her own opinions based on the information she had.

"Nanshan Group wants to provide parts and components to various OEMs. The improvement of global supply capabilities is definitely a topic that cannot be avoided."

"The sales department is also planning ahead to see which countries it will set up branches in the future."

Although Cao Yang wants to keep all his industries in China, sometimes the requirements of customers are there.

If you don't listen, you may miss this order.

So we still have to face this problem after all.

"No problem, I'll arrange for someone to sort it out right away, and also check some policies in various places in advance, so as not to be confused later."

For Zeng Tingting, there are more and more customers now, and it is becoming more and more difficult to manage.

All kinds of reasonable and unreasonable demands need to be considered.

Among them, the question of building factories overseas is one that is often asked.

In the next few days, Cao Yang and his team visited General Motors, Dodge Motors and other customers one after another.

On the Ford side, Chris quickly gave a reply that satisfied Cao Yang.

"Mr. Cao, have they really agreed to sell Ziweixing at Lincoln dealers?"

Zeng Tingting couldn't hide the joy on her face.

Building a sales channel from scratch is a very challenging task.

In particular, Xingchen Motors only has a car called MSI, which is a high-end luxury coupe.

This makes it even more difficult to do.

Now that we can rely on the channels of Ford and Lincoln, things will be much easier to handle.

"Tomorrow we can arrange for logistics companies to begin transporting the first batch of Ziweixing to several nearby major cities."

"Our Ziweixing will be officially launched in the United States."

As soon as Cao Yang said this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The promotion of 8at and the overseas launch of Ziweixing are the main purposes of this business trip.

There is no obvious progress in 8at yet, but fortunately Ziweixing has some good news.

In the next few days, Cao Yang and the others were naturally busy surrounding the listing of Ziweixing.

But after all, this is an away game, and it is obviously unrealistic to make a big splash like the domestic listing.

Fortunately, there is an advantage here, that is, Lincoln's sales channels are sound enough. Just by distributing goods to various dealers, they cleared out the first batch of delivered cars.

The second batch of trucks transported from Yangcheng are still floating on the sea.

"Chris, a Chinese coupe actually dares to sell for US$119,900 and US$124,900."
To be continued...