"It's a pity to talk about Sabo. The damn Americans ruined him..."

Heidi began to talk about Saab's experience with Li Yifan, but when she mentioned the Americans, she gritted her teeth with hatred. It can be seen that she had a lot of opinions about the Americans destroying Saab.

Through her explanation, Li Yifan roughly learned about Sabo's past and present life.

This company made planes during World War II, and later changed its career to start building cars.

Because of the Nordics' seriousness and true nature, their cars have always been known for being solid and solid, but they were not very famous in the early days.

Until the 1970s, when the world was facing the test of the oil crisis, the price of gasoline soared. So many car design companies in the world were thinking about how to reduce the displacement of cars while not weakening the power of cars.

The first breakthrough was Saab. They took the lead in using the turbocharger used on the plane to the car's engine. Once the new car was launched, it quickly shocked the world with its strong power and ultra-low fuel consumption at the time.

It soon became a world-renowned brand and once became a best-selling car in Europe, which made Volkswagen unable to fight back.

But they were not in the glory for a few years, and soon the Japanese began to enter the automobile market. The Japanese did not play turbo at that time, but they took a different approach in fuel saving, which was to reduce the weight of the car as much as possible.

However, Saab adheres to the European car manufacturing concept and refuses to reduce the weight of the car body. Instead, it also adds reinforcement ribs to the car body to ensure the safety and safety of the car body.

It is logical that Saab's starting point is correct. But they just ignore the crucial point. That is, most people are quite short-sighted animals.

If they can quickly see the benefits on one hand, then they will forget the benefits that will bring them harm in another aspect.

Japanese cars have been successful. Although the driving experience is average, for most people, cars are used to buy groceries and get on and off work, and most people are not racers. So why are your car so fast and so sturdy?

The Germans followed the Japanese at this time, so Saab soon entered a period of downturn. Although he later relied on the continuous launch of new technologies and returned several times, he had completely lost the glory of the first-ranked market leader and could only become a second-rate niche brand.

In 1990, Saab was reorganized and the company's general equity was acquired by General Motors. General Motors shouted the slogan of global integration. It began to expand globally, acquiring 50% of Saab's shares, making them become Saab's largest shareholder.

At that time, Saab was able to stick to his own characteristics and maintain his personality. He launched several cars in succession, maintaining his true colors and maintaining his position in the market.

Although it is not a big hit, it cannot starve to death.

However, during this period, General Motors' life was not easy. Because he took too big steps and accidentally got the egg, General Motors fell into losses for many years.

In order to maximize the saving of R&D costs, General Motors has shouted the slogan of platformization, modelization and sector research and development.

So global integration began. At this time, they acquired 45% of Saab's shares and became the absolute ruler within Saab's company.

So they began to reform Saab. The global unified platform meant that Saab had to abandon his original character, unified procurement products, and appearance design sent by General Motors.

They completely lost their own characteristics. In order to save costs, they no longer developed and manufactured turbochargers themselves, but instead used low-cost Mitsubishi blowers.

In order to save on new car design, GM gave them a platform from Subaru. As a result, the new car 92-x developed by this platform received unanimous negative reviews as soon as it was launched, and it was nicknamed Subaru's 92-x by many car friends.

Later, a brand new SUV was launched, but because it adopted the universal SUV platform, it was also ridiculed as a universal shell replacement product.

In this way, Saab's market positioning became increasingly blurred, and it became increasingly niche in the market and became less and less accepted by consumers.

By the first half of this year, they had fallen into a state of losses for several consecutive years, and they were still suffering serious losses.

General Motors is also very shaking about the current situation of Saab, and shareholders have already proposed to stop production of Saab at the shareholders' meeting to sell the brand.

After hearing what Heidi said, Li Yifan learned about Saab's past and current situation. It seems that this car company's life is not easy, but this seems to provide himself with an opportunity to get a bargain.

"Actually, Saab's turbocharger technology can definitely be said to be no.1 in the turbocharged engine industry, and in some aspects, they are far stronger than Bosch."

Heidi said this with a decisive statement, and Li Yifan was also interested.

His few memories of Saab were that after General Motors went bankrupt, he had to throw away the company. When he bought it, he divested the company's main technical assets, leaving only some leftovers and cold soups to the market.

Even in this industry, there are still many companies in China who are eager to buy these leftovers and are willing to spend a lot of money to buy them.

At that time, many people who knew the industry sneered at this behavior. As a half-in-come insider, Li Yifan of course knew why state-owned enterprises wanted to break their heads and rob those broken things.

It’s nothing more than operating in a secret situation, spending a lot of money to buy some bad goods. Anyway, reputation has brought glory to the country, and state-owned enterprises have gone out and have had enough foreign-funded enterprises, so they have bought a lot of technical information.

In fact, everyone knows what's going on, it's just a feast for some corrupt officials to fill their own pockets.

Although a few years later, Sabo resurrected himself in China under the name of Kun Bao, consumers did not pay for this niche brand and their designs were ugly.

And the chassis, engine and other things are very awesome, but that is a junk thing from more than ten years ago. After all, it can only fool the layman after getting it now.

However, at the beginning of the 21st century, Saab did not stop production, so although their engine technology was not globally leading, they still retained the unique features of anxiousness.

"Especially their T-NYONIC engine management system, this has always been their unique technology. You should know that many car companies in the world are unwilling to engage in such technology development. Because this data accumulation is too time-consuming and labor-intensive, everyone usually buys Bosch or Delphi ECU systems to match their engines. However, Saab has always insisted on following its own research and development route. Because they have a creed that they know themselves best, they should also be themselves, so in terms of engine control systems, they have been insisting on their own research and development, and this persistence has lasted for thirty years..."

Heidi seemed to have a lot of affection for Sabo, and he told Sabo's stories very well.

Li Yifan doesn’t have that much affection for Sabo, nor will he be sentimental because of the business dilemma of this brand.

What he is paying attention to now is the T-North onic engine management system that Heidi mentioned. Sabo has been persisting for thirty years. Does it sound amazing?

Now this company is doing so poorly, so use your brain from them, hehe!

"The uniqueness of the T-Rionic engine management system is that it is designed specifically based on the needs of the turbocharged engine. It can accurately understand the driver's intentions and control the entire engine startup process and the temperature response of various parts, while improving the torque and throttle response sensitivity. That's why I told you that this system is the most critical asset of the turbocharged engine."

Damn, so awesome?

When Li Yifan heard this, he was surprised and was also happy. Damn, the things that he thought were difficult to deal with made him desperate, but he didn't expect that Heidi's unintentional words made him feel like another village of light.

Even if you can't get a turbocharger from the Americans and technology, you'll have a good idea to play Saab.

"And the most unique thing about this system is that it can minimize the turbo hysteresis effect. You should know that Saab was the first to play turbocharger technology and is the clearest about the advantages and disadvantages of the turbocharger. Therefore, the T-Rich onic engine management system they independently developed has a very unique response to slowing down the hysteresis effect of the turbocharger. At the beginning, he was able to judge the intervention, speed, etc. of the turbine by monitoring the temperature of various parts of the engine, so that the turbine can maintain the best working conditions at any time the engine is working."

Damn, this is not ordinary awesome, this is simply awesome!

When Li Yifan heard this, he could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart.

As a veteran, no one knows better than him that the shortcomings of turbocharged engines are the turbo hysteresis effect that has been criticized by countless people.

At the beginning of the engine starting, because the speed does not rise, the output power is insufficient, and the exhaust gas is not enough to drive the fan blades of the turbine, so the turbine rotation is hysteresis and cannot intervene in the engine's work as soon as possible, so that the purpose of outputting large torque at low speeds cannot be achieved.

This is the turbo hysteresis effect. In the era of large-scale turbocharger arrival, I don’t know how many manufacturers would be stumped by a problem. I didn’t expect that Saab had solved a problem so early.
Chapter completed!