In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love.

Chapter 544: It doesn't make sense to say it, and it's impossible to soak in it
SUVs with six or seven seats have been around for many years.

In the early days, the layout was 232. The front two seats were as close to a sedan as possible, the back three seats were similar to ordinary five seats, and the last two seats could be folded and stored for emergency use.

The seven-seat capacity standard is enough to be opened and filled in an emergency.

The last two seats are as cramped as small benches.

Then the MPV commercial vehicle had seven seats arranged in a 223 layout, with the second row being particularly noble and luxurious, and all the multi-functions were packed in.

Three rows of three seats or attendant seats, it's fine as long as it works.

But there are very few private cars bought in this way. The occasional owners who buy MPVs look like full-time drivers who are ready to pick people up at the airport at any time.

The sales data of one million MPVs out of 30 million vehicles also excludes a considerable number of real commercial vehicles.

The data will not lie.

So from the perspective of modern car models, it is really Li Xiang, the kind of product manager thinking that is despised by Lao Chang. In the long-term operation of automobile websites, he summarized and refined the idea of ​​using SUVs as commercial vehicles to meet the family's luxury taste.

Combining these two cars together, the layout is 222, with a large screen and queen seats in the front row to make up for the loss of the co-pilot seat.

The second row is made into the most comfortable aviation multi-functional chairs, and the third row is also luxurious.

In this way, the couple can sit in the front on a daily basis, and if there are children, one of them can sit in the back to accompany the child. The elderly can also sit in the back, and there is no problem with having a second child. The application space of the six seats is very wide.

SUVs can also cater to almost all scenarios.

It’s just that it was positioned as a luxury product from the beginning, and the selling price of more than 400,000 yuan limited its popularity.

If he had aimed at the full market penetration of the 200,000 to 300,000 yuan range from the beginning, and had taken advantage of the influence of graphic car websites at the time, Li Xiang might have really been able to sell his car like a Totoro.

But it was too late. His internet thinking of hoping for a stock listing made him not regard the number of cars sold as the real goal, but to occupy a high-end reputation position. However, he did not have the ambition and ruthlessness of Cheng Dazui who was determined to drag down Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

Once other manufacturers come to their senses and imitate and follow suit, the only way out for Li will be to lower prices and move into the low-end market. It is too late to try to reduce prices in disguise to boost sales.

Basically marginalized and half-out.

Looking at the Leading M9 in front of him, Zi Xiaowei became even more certain: "What is this? It's just this one. It can't be a retractable LCD screen, a projection screen. Damn, there's really someone this tall. This thing is very cheap, especially after using it for a while. It will be even uglier if the edges curl up. Not to mention the inherent flaws of projection screens in terms of light perception..."

"Hey, these second-row seats are great. The armrests must be able to be raised and lowered so they can be adapted to more scenarios. Some manufacturers use luxurious, fully enclosed hard armrests, but if the boss is holding his secretary in the back row, it's very crowded and the experience is not good..."

"This blackout curtain is copied from Mercedes-Benz, right? We considered it at the time, but later we decided it wasn't necessary due to cost considerations. Luxury does have this flavor."

"The window and door buttons are pretty good. That crappy European design team of the Evita is exactly what you said: no design, no experience. You can criticize them internally, but you can't say that to others. Those are two different things. Even if you're deliberately trying to create a topic, that's not the way to do it. It just makes people think you're a fool..."

Just looking at the teacher's nagging tone, it feels like he is teaching something from the bottom of his heart, and he wouldn't get angry even if he was scolded, right?

Maizi described how she looked at Mr. Cheng with her eyes almost popping out of her head in anger, but she couldn't say anything and had to stretch her neck to listen.

Because every point Zi Xiaowei made seemed to hit the nail on the head!

"Hidden handles are really bad. You guys are the most thoughtful. Push-button electric doors with a manual inner-opening door hidden underneath. I scrapped that design from the Evita Coupe. The selling point should be somewhere else. For example, we developed a central control armrest that connects to the rear armrest and hides a vertical screen in the armrest. And your hidden safe is all great. You haven't applied for a patent for it, have you?"

"Shit, they really applied? Then I have to find a way to get around it..."

You said this guy was an enemy, and you told him all the details. He was one of us, but he stabbed us in the back.

Perhaps the two words that Lei Jun used to describe it are the most appropriate: friendly competitors.

He is a friend, but also a businessman who is not dishonest.

Zi Xiaowei was able to steal more experience from the third row, and it can be said that this is the best and most luxurious third row he has ever seen.

This can be said to be the key point of the new thinking in making a six-seater car. It depends on whether the third row is suitable for daily comfortable riding.

The Hongqi six-seater luxury SUV I bought in Shanghai before was a poor student who couldn't even copy homework. It looked luxurious and classy, ​​but in reality, it had no idea what it was made of. Zi Xiaowei almost wanted to turn into a camera to record it, but basically, he could learn a lot from just one look.

Of course, they also reciprocate: "The coupe goes without saying. The Totoro is also a six-seater SUV, but our focus is on family and youth, not luxury and prestige. It's already excellent, but can it be better and more ingenious? For example, Japanese cars have many ways to fold and hide the third row. There are two domestic seat manufacturers that do a great job in this area and are worth recommending."

"Honda has a car that flips the third row straight back, turning the backrest into a seat cushion and vice versa, so you can fish facing backwards. Nissan's third row folds completely flat, hidden in the floor, creating a huge space. If you want luxury, the Cullinan has a drawer box in the trunk that pulls out and becomes two exquisite temporary seat cushions. It's even more impressive than the Honda's. I recommend you learn from it."

This is Zi Xiaowei's strength. He is very good at learning from others and observing the advantages of top students. He can find out the logical thinking behind the success of these advantages, and then try to figure out whether they can be used by his own students.

This is also the reason why he buys every car he sees now.

Every best-selling or popular car has its own advantages, so it’s a good idea to learn from them.

By this point, everyone around couldn't help but nod their heads frequently.

These are all what you see is what you get. These are details that can be improved immediately. They will only benefit the future of your own car, will not increase any costs, and are not traps.

Old Cheng's expression became much calmer.

But Zi Xiaowei looked from the third row to the trunk, then walked back to the front of the car, seemingly taking a casual look.

The appearance of the entire car is that of a Mercedes-Benz GLS with a new skin. There is no need to go into the details of the body's undulations, streamlined shape, or the design language of the headlights and front end. It is enough to grasp the key points such as the overall size, the proportion between the front end and the cabin, the length-to-width ratio, and the proportion between the windows and the body.

The Totoro, Lixiang L9, and Weilai ES8 are all top students along the way, while the Changpai V8 and Hongqi six-seater are all poor students who didn't understand what they were learning.

Zi Xiaowei, who was incredibly familiar with this kind of high-quality, stripped-down car body, frowned, then finally pointed and said, "Mr. Cheng, I know you don't like it, but I still have to say this. Try not to focus on smart driving as a selling point. If you just say, 'Let go,' consumers will let go. If you say you can work while driving, consumers will dare to go to the back seat to have children or watch movies. Even if one person dies because of a smart driving mishap, this goes against the basic principle that technology should serve humanity."

He was referring to the raised laser radar cover in the middle above the windshield of the car.

When it comes to telling stories for new energy vehicles, established car companies are clueless because they have witnessed countless tragic car accidents.

The new forces dare to brag about everything. In order to attract capital, achieve performance, and list on the US and Hong Kong stock markets, they dare to use any gimmicks, no matter how fantastic.

Including this protruding thing on the windshield, it seems that new energy vehicles are not high-tech without this thing.

All flagship car models are trying their best to install this and are also promoting it in various ways. As long as the laser radar is turned on, the surveillance cameras and mobile phone cameras passing by can be burned.

It looks like the golden bowl of Buddha.

But in fact, there is already a huge uproar in the industry. Lao Chang, Lao Chen and even the boss of Tesla are all technical people who sneer at lidar. They believe that camera video capture and millimeter wave radar capture are more reliable and effective, and lidar is just a gimmick.

People who come from the Internet background often like this thing very much. It has a strong sense of high technology and the storytelling content is particularly rich.

Mr. Cheng is of course the latter.

He has also advocated for intelligent driving countless times... he should have been advocating for it vigorously on all occasions, and he was even a senior executive of a car company who openly talked about letting go of the steering wheel and handing over the driving to the vehicle.

In theory, his actions at Citibank would be enough to lead to a lawsuit and billions of dollars in compensation.

But just like he always likes to use the best, biggest and brightest words in his publicity, but has never been sued under the Advertising Law.

He became increasingly brazen: "This is the power of high technology! In our cars, even if the accelerator is used as a brake, it's difficult to crash. If you haven't reached this level of technology, don't make such ignorant remarks."

Zi Xiaowei was helpless: "I fully understand that you want to use rhetoric to boost the attitudes of partners, investors, dealers, and all parties in your company, but can you please consider that cars are not mobile phones? No matter how much a mobile phone brags, it's just about taking a photo. Cars can really cause accidents and kill people!"

President Cheng had been putting up with him for a long time, and he immediately fired back, "You're questioning our scientific researchers. We've paid the price of global sanctions to bring glory to our country and stand at the pinnacle of technological leadership. You're being dishonest..."

Zi Xiaowei scratched his head. Damn, she is even harder to communicate with than the rich girl.

This can't be soaked either.

(End of this chapter)