Chapter 1808

With the development of the Mars migration program, more and more rich people in the world are interested in this project.

Li Mu asked people to build a website, which is only open to users with more than 100 million US dollars of personal assets.

Once you are interested in participating in the project, you can sign up for a website account to get more details about the Mars migration program.

At the same time, Li Mu also fulfilled his promise, first investing 500 million dollars to SpaceX for further research on recoverable launch vehicles.

Knowing that this is an extremely long project, Li Mu didn't continue to pay attention to the company after he finished the publicity and investment.

At present, he has more important things, that is, the overall relocation of Volvo.

China's capital construction speed is well-known in the world. Yanjing city has granted the land to Muye automobile group, and the construction of factory buildings, office buildings and dormitories for the first phase of the project has been started for a long time.

The first one to be completed is the factory building. The factory building here has been completed one after another. Volvo's team in Sweden began to dismantle part of the production lines and transport them to China.

When the first batch of production lines arrived at Tianjin port, hundreds of container trucks were used to transport them back and forth.

At the same time, installation technicians and engineers from Volvo, production equipment manufacturers and domestic outsourcing teams also gathered in Yanjing to start assembling Volvo's first production line in China.

Volvo has several production lines, each of which basically corresponds to different platforms. Li Mu's first priority is p24 platform, which mainly produces XC series SUV.

However, Li Mu is not ready to leave the production line to Volvo.

His idea is to take this production line and use it directly for the brand of Makino, and then use it to produce the first autonomous SUV of Makino, Makino aurora.

Aurora, the big model of the year, naturally didn't want to let it go.

He is going to describe and match with the designer to design a drawing. First, he will get the shape of Aurora, and then he will put the shell of aurora on the chassis of Volvo XC60.

To put it bluntly, it's an XC60 in Aurora and with the logo of the safari car.

Of course, there is also a problem. XC60 is a medium and high-end SUV with a market price range of 400000-600000. If it is sold domestically, it can only serve a small group.

Before Harvard, the best selling SUV in China was actually Honda's CRV and Tucson's 200000-300000 joint venture SUV.

Therefore, on the basis of XC60, it is necessary to reduce the cost and terminal price.

For example, the engine does not have the whole high-power. 2.0L naturally aspirated engine is the main power configuration, which is dedicated to walking volume. 2.0T and 2.5 naturally aspirated engines are used as high-end power configuration, which is used to walk luxury models.

besides, the gearbox should not be too high-end. 4-speed is the main speed on ordinary automatic gearbox, 5-speed on high-end models.

as for the four-wheel drive system, the middle and low-end are used No, only high-end models.

That is to say, on the basis of XC60, the overall configuration is reduced, and finally a set of models that can span the 200000-400000 range is created;

the appearance of evoque can be said to be immortal, so once the evoque is finalized, make a magnified version on the basis of it, and then upgrade all configurations, that is the Range Rover Sport.

When the assembly line was assembled, Chen Ze, who always liked racing cars, and Elon Musk, who was working on Tesla, came to the scene to watch.

Elon Musk is also preparing to build Tesla's own new production line in Yanjing. For him, in the future, it is natural to hold Li Mu's thigh tightly, and Tesla and Muye Automobile Group will advance and retreat together.

The assembly of the production line is a complex and tedious process, but due to the man's natural love for industrial products, Li Mu almost goes to the scene every day to stare at it.

At the same time, Volvo's car design team has arrived in Yanjing and started to work in Yanjing.

In the first week of their coming, Li Mu took them to work out the design drawings and renderings of Aurora models.

Li Mu doesn't know about car design, but he knows what the aurora looks like, what the overall shape is, and what the front, back and sides look like.

Describe all these to the designer, let the designer first draw a sketch, and then polish it a little bit according to his requirements.

In the beginning, the car designers from Sweden and other European countries scoffed at Li Mu's request.

They think that as the company's boss, you should focus on doing well what the boss has to do. Why do you have to compete with us for jobs or even direct our specific work?

But what they didn't know was that although Li Mu didn't know about car design, there were many good things in his mind.

Aurora is just one of them. There are many other classic models, as low as fox and as high as Rolls Royce. He has a clear idea of what each hot model looks like.Alexander vikander, the head of Volvo's car design team and a Swede, was very dissatisfied with Li Mu's requirements. He even proposed on the spot that if Li Mu insisted on interfering in the design team's creation work, he would be the first to resign from his post.

Li Mu said directly, "I won't approve your resignation. Don't forget that I signed a double salary labor contract for you, and you also signed a double liquidated damages with me. If you stand me up at this time, take out the liquidated damages. At the same time, because you have worked for me for less than three years, you will be subject to three-year competition restrictions in this industry. In the next three years, you will not You have to work in the automotive industry. "

The other side just wanted to frighten Li Mu and let him have a little self-knowledge. Don't interfere in the work of the design team, but unexpectedly, this guy directly moved out the default terms with himself.

It is true that these Europeans, who used to work in Sweden, are very resistant to working so far away from home because of their excellent salary.

If they don't come to China, they will be disbanded on the spot in Sweden. After disbanded, they will find new jobs.

First of all, there are no ordinary passenger car enterprises in Sweden. If they want to find a job, they must leave Sweden and develop in the four countries of Britain, France, Germany and Italy. However, the automobile design level of these four countries is actually higher than that of Sweden.

The car models designed in Sweden are very common in appearance design, and there is nothing particularly brilliant. Most of Volvo's car models only make you think that Oh, it's very motherly and honest, but very few of them can make people feel that I'm going. It's really good-looking.

On the contrary, German and Italian classic designs appear frequently.

The main models of BMW are basically pretty, and the later X6 even led the design trend of the scooter. Not only the domestic manufacturers imitated it, but also the Coupe models of several later SUVs of Mercedes Benz have the shadow of BMW X6;

Mercedes Benz from the later new C, e, s as well as the whole series of GLA, GLC, gle and GLS, almost all of which are good designs for internal and external repair, better than Volvo It's so good. Interior design is unique.

Audi is also very good at modeling design. Most of the a series q series are enduring classic models. However, this guy keeps driving at a low speed and keeps walking at a low speed. In the middle of those years, they are in full bloom. A4, A6, Q5 and Q7 are beautiful one by one. As a result, 10 years later, they are getting uglier and more shabby. Before Q7, it was a very aggressive large SUV, but later, they are changing The more ugly it is, the more it is basically reduced to the point where no one buys it.

Not to mention Italy, a large number of classic Super running brands and the appearance of a car are all classic works of automobile industry design.

Even in France, although a series of exotic models have been produced, it has to be said that people's cars are very good-looking as a whole.

Volvo is the only one that has nothing to do with good-looking sincerity.

Especially the Volvo of this year, the shape is simply endless.

So, at the level of Alexander vicander and his team, if he didn't know where to recruit the design team for a while, he would have brought them together.

Based on Li Mu's understanding of vehicle aesthetics of later generations, the comprehensive level of this team is no better than that of the team that designed Jili meirenbao.

Alexander vicander was shocked by his ruthless and business-oriented attitude. He finally came to China. He didn't want to lose a cent, pay a lot of liquidated damages and go back with a three-year competition agreement.

So he could only put away his previous arrogance, immediately changed his face, and said to Li Mu, "Mr. Li, if you have any personal idea that you want to achieve, please tell us, we will help you to present it perfectly."

Li Mu didn't have a good face to give in and kneel and lick him for a long time. He said coldly, "you can present 80% of what I think in my mind, and I will even if you succeed."

Alexandre vicander is angry. You are insulting. What's wrong? I've designed cars for so many years. Can't I compare with you? Don't you just start a Mercedes G series? The car looks like a large cardboard box, so I choose this car for you, and I know that your aesthetic of the car is the same thing.

However, the God of wealth dare not offend anyone, so he can only Baba said: "Mr. Li, you are right, we are far from you."

After that, he also waited to see Li Mu's joke and said, "Mr. Li, what kind of car model do you want to design? Maybe tell us."

Li Mu nodded and said, "first of all, I want to make it clear to you that this is an SUV. As for its shape, it should be..."

Li Mu described the outline. After listening to Alexander vicander, he felt like a mess.

Today's automobile design language is mostly the combination of solid lines and circular arcs, but the SUV Li Mu wants to make is actually a large, short, sharp headed and slip back SUV

Who has seen the car look from the side, is the front high, the back low bevel shape? I feel like vomiting when I take this line out, OK?

He tried to suggest to Li Mu, saying, "Mr. Li, I think the sketch of your car should raise your butt a little bit, pull up the whole car, lower the height of the engine hood a little bit, and then add some round arcs to connect and neutralize, so that the car will look better."Li Mu really wanted to scold him after listening. Didn't you design another old XC90 for me? What about you fooling two fools?