#353 - Honda Puppy

Piaocheng!

Now, Lu Haifeng was watching the live press conference video of Faster sent by Du Chengnan, analyzing the intentions of these reporters.

Obviously, at the Faster press conference, every sentence from these reporters was about the Audi R8, and even their questions were clearly provocative, which was very interesting.

Lu Haifeng looked at the malicious reporters in the video, sneering in his heart.

He didn't even need to think about who could do such a thing; it could only be the Germans.

These Germans, who constantly touted themselves as European gentlemen, were secretly doing such petty and underhanded things.

And that old rogue who claimed to be an English gentleman, having lived such a long life in vain, couldn't even see through such a simple provocation.

Or perhaps Hilton Fath, being an experienced old fox, had already seen that someone was stirring up trouble, but he seized the opportunity to use this method to gain greater attention for Faster SV.

If that were the case, then Lu Haifeng had to admit that the old man's goal had been achieved.

Just look at how everyone on the internet was discussing Faster and Hilton Fath.

Hilton Fath sacrificed his personal reputation to gain maximum attention for Faster SV.

After figuring this out, Lu Haifeng couldn't help but admire Hilton Fath; this old man was definitely a ruthless character.

"Tsk tsk…"

"This old man is using a counter-strategy; he's definitely not a simple character!"

"But who exactly is behind all of this?"

"Xin Ke Paulo! It shouldn't be him; although the people at Benma Motors are annoying, they shouldn't be so despicable!"

"Then who could it be? Baolai, Autuo?"

"Let's not think about it for now; they will jump out in a few days. When the water comes, we'll build a dam; when the soldiers come, we'll put up a barrier!"

Although Audi and Benma Motors had been at odds several times, Lu Haifeng understood that this car company shouldn't do such despicable things.

Lu Haifeng guessed that the mastermind behind this matter must be one of the German car companies, but Lu Haifeng didn't know which one it was yet.

Because only they could target Audi in such a way, happy to see Audi and other car companies fight again.

However, Lu Haifeng was clearly wrong this time! This time, the person who bribed the media to provoke Faster was not a German car company executive, but someone else.

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Daxia District, Honda Branch.

Honda Koinu sat on the sofa in his office, legs crossed, holding a glass of aged Lafite, saying smugly: "I'm just too smart, to be able to think of this way to disgust Audi!"

"Hmph, damn Lu Haifeng, it's all your fault that Honda has suffered heavy losses!"

"I couldn't find a chance before, but this time I must attract several enemies to you, making your supercar Audi R8 a target of public criticism!"

In recent months, Honda's battle with Liji Motors in the A-class car market has been devastating.

In order to seize the market, Honda Koinu even gritted his teeth and lowered the price of the Honda Civic again and again, eventually reaching the same price as Liji Motors' Qin PRO.

As a result, although the sales of the Honda Civic went up, it suffered huge losses in profits.

In Honda Koinu's view, all of this was caused by Lu Haifeng. If he hadn't provided Daxia's car companies with engines, transmissions, etc., their Honda Civic would not have been so miserable.

He had been unable to find a suitable opportunity to cause trouble for Audi, but he happened to see that Audi was about to release a new car, the supercar Audi R8.

Because he learned that England's Faster would also release a new supercar at this time, he bribed some reporters in advance.

He wanted these reporters to fan the flames at the Faster press conference to cause a war between the two car companies!

Honda Koinu thought his plan was very good, causing some trouble for Audi, and then hiding aside to watch the show.

But he didn't know that those reporters he bribed sold him out at the first opportunity afterward.

Du Chengnan, the editor-in-chief of Dongche.com, had very good relationships in the industry. Afterward, he only needed a meal to find out the truth.

Although Honda Koinu didn't come forward personally, it was someone from Honda's Daxia District internal staff who contacted these reporters.

So, after knowing who was causing trouble, Du Chengnan immediately called Lu Haifeng, who was far away in Piaocheng, and told him the matter.

Lu Haifeng was also very surprised when he first received this news from Du Chengnan.

He initially thought that the executives of the German car companies were instigating the provocation, but he didn't expect it to be someone from Honda Motors who was causing trouble.

There is no love without a cause, and now Lu Haifeng guessed that the reason why Honda Motors was doing this should be related to Audi stealing their powertrain.

After knowing who was causing trouble, Lu Haifeng thought to himself: "The person who came up with this idea must be an idiot!"

"Trying to cause trouble for Audi with this method is really ignorant!"

Lu Haifeng ignored the remarks of Hilton Fath, the vice president of Faster.

Because as long as he responded, he would definitely fall into Hilton Fath's trap, and the old man would take the opportunity to use Audi's popularity to his advantage.

Because in commercial competition, there are always one trick after another, and you can easily fall into the opponent's trap if you are not careful.

Moreover, after the launch of the Audi R8, the number of pre-orders has already achieved a proud result, and Lu Haifeng is now busy celebrating!

He has no time to play with this old man.

Within just one day of the Audi R8's launch, all 60 units of the Audi R8 Limited Edition had been sold.

Lu Haifeng exclaimed that there were still so many rich people in Daxia!

The limited-edition Audi R8 was completely sold out in just one day.

Lu Haifeng finally kept one of the limited-edition Audi R8s for himself. As the chairman of Audi Motors, it wouldn't be right if he didn't have his own limited edition.

So, many rich people who didn't get the limited edition Audi R8 called Audi Motors, asking if there would be another batch of limited editions.

When they received the reply that Audi Motors didn't have any more, these rich people were very disappointed.

At the same time, they criticized Audi Motors, asking why they couldn't add more limited editions, even if it was 166 units.

There were only 66 Audi R8 Limited Editions worldwide, and there would be no more Audi R8 Limited Editions in the future.

Some rich people who didn't buy the limited-edition Audi R8 turned around and bought a mass-produced version. After all, it had the same performance as the limited edition, only with a soft top and a hard top.

So, the mass-produced Audi R8 also sold one hundred units in one day.

This achievement was enough to make Audi's supercar famous overnight.