Han Songlin got into the driver's seat and felt around. The whole driver's seat felt pretty good, without that oppressive feeling.
Turning around, sideways, and so on, all felt pretty good.
Just looking at the buttons on the car made Han Songlin feel a little bad. Why would his purely domestically produced car use English buttons!
On the Fuxing Ruikang before, Han Songlin remembered, the text on the buttons was in Chinese characters!
'The text on the buttons has to be in Chinese. This car was produced for sale in China. Many of our domestic consumers don't understand English. When it comes to exporting in the future, it's fine to change the text on the buttons to English!'
Xia Qiong's face flushed. Although Han Songlin's tone was soft, she understood what he meant.
'Don't worry, boss, we'll pay attention to that in the future.'
Why use English? Isn't it because you want the car to look high-end?
At this time, all of China had a sense of foreign admiration. After suddenly opening the country's doors, they saw the good sounds of foreign countries, as well as cars and airplanes, good food, nice clothes, and money.
This directly impacted the minds of many people.
To rebuild self-confidence, they had to wait until the Chinese economy had completely picked up.
The rebuilding of China's self-confidence can be said to have begun in 2008, when a complete change of mindset began to take place. By 2020, a crushing superiority over Western countries had formed in the mindset.
Looking back, I can't help but wonder how naive I was before, actually thinking that these stupid countries were awesome.
Han Songlin has always had this mentality, and naturally looks down on foreigners.
He can't control the cars produced by other companies, but the cars produced by his own company must be in Chinese.
People who buy domestic cars will always buy domestic cars.
People who don't buy domestic cars will never look down on domestic cars.
So, why not let people who buy domestic cars feel comfortable using them!
'Apart from the buttons, the instrument panel should also be in Chinese, with the exception of the measurement units, which should be in letters. I hate English when I'm driving, I don't even know what the buttons and the display actually show.'
Yang Zixing smiles and says, 'The boss is right, if we want to build a car for the Chinese people, we should let the people drive our car and know how to operate it as soon as they get in.'
Xia Qiong says, 'Boss, Mr Yang, I know what to do next!'
Han Songlin nodded with satisfaction: 'Now, this car, I think it's pretty good. Is there any problem that hasn't been solved yet?'
'Right now, the main problems are the electric windows and the sunroof.'
This car even has electric windows and a sunroof?
Han Songlin couldn't help but lean over to take a look, and indeed there was a sunroof.
As for the electric windows, Han Songlin simply pressed the button on the door, and the window slowly lowered.
To be honest, technically, it doesn't seem too difficult to implement electric windows and a sunroof.
'Is there a problem?'
'The sunroof leaks in heavy rain, and the electric windows often malfunction.'
Han Songlin rubbed his forehead: 'Can't you just use the manual windows? And get rid of the sunroof.'
The sunroof looks quite high-end, but after buying it, can you open it more than twice a year?
It's a kind of tasteless design. If you don't have it, you don't think it's high-end, but if you have it, you can't usually use it.
At this moment, Han Songlin suddenly realised a problem. The reason for the slow progress of the development of the Furey car was because there were too many configurations.
Anyway, at this moment, do people who buy cars care about the messy configurations on the car?
They shouldn't care too much.
First of all, they just want a car, and it doesn't matter if the car has air conditioning or not.
You still need air conditioning, otherwise it's really hot in the summer.
And it's too cold in the winter.
A car without air conditioning is a very poor driving experience.
People who can afford a car these days don't care about the little bit of gas money you save.
Xia Qiong was a bit at a loss. There was no problem with eliminating these, but they had struggled for a long time to design them.
It would be a pity to eliminate them all at once.
Moreover, a lot of the technology was developed by the internal research and development project team of Fuxing Industry.
If they are not applied to the car, then for these research and development project teams, they will not be able to get product dividends.
Han Songlin realised the problem and had to hold a special meeting; at the meeting, Han Songlin asked everyone to first come up with a basic version of the Furei car, and then in the future, continue to launch advanced versions with higher configurations.
You cannot say that you will suddenly give out all the good things at once, because that will suddenly spoil the consumer's taste.
If you spoil the consumer's appetite, they won't buy what you offer later.
Of course, Han Songlin definitely didn't say this.
Instead, he put it in a more high-end and impressive way: 'We can't sell consumers immature technology, and we can't let consumers pay for our immaturity. First, we'll make a good basic model of the Furui car, and then we'll gradually add features, one after the other, as they become mature. We want to make Furui a car manufacturer that the people can really trust.'
It is actually not good to have too many functions on a car.
What is the car with the lowest failure rate?
It is the car with fewer functions, especially fewer electronic functions, and more mechanical transmission.
Why?
Because this type of car has been developed for many years, and the technology is extremely mature.
In January, Foryou Motors finalized the Foryou VⅠbasic version model.
The basic version of the car uses all the very mature technology available.
So during the test, it performed quite well, with an extremely low failure rate. Anyway, after a test drive around the country, it came back safely.
It has been to the north, and its performance was quite good.
In addition to the basic version, in April, the problem with the electric windows was finally solved, so an upgraded version was created.
As for the sunroof, the problem of water leakage has not been completely solved, so it has not been officially launched.
Han Songlin did not stay in Yanghe for long. After the inspection, he went straight back to Jiangzhong. A few days later, he went to Changxing Machine Tool to have a look.
Changxing Machine Tool is now mainly supported by the old machine tools it produced before, and the newly developed automatic machine tools also maintain a certain market share.
Especially in the machine tool market in Jiangzhong.
Changxing Machine Tool has introduced a new policy, which is that factories can take their own machine tools back to use first, and can make payments by instalments, or even with zero down payment.
Of course, instalment payments definitely require a certain interest rate or something.
In this way, a large part of the financial pressure of setting up a factory is actually transferred to Changxing Machine Tool.
This is undoubtedly a very attractive thing for many small factories.