#366 - Bad idea

Lu Haifeng, hearing Li Li's words, understood his concerns and reassured him, "Don't worry, President Li! Our domestic consumers won't demand that domestic cars adhere to higher safety and quality standards!"

"After all, our domestic consumers naturally understand the situation of our domestic cars, and besides, our domestic cars have always performed very well in terms of safety!"

"Consumers recognize this, so the situation you're worried about won't happen!"

The reality was just as Lu Haifeng said; the consumers of Great Xia Country were very tolerant of domestic cars.

In the past, they hated that domestic cars weren't competitive, which is why they constantly criticized them.

However, now that domestic cars had the three major components provided by Audi, the people no longer criticized the three major components of domestic cars.

Because the domestic three major components provided by Audi had already reached the world's top technical level.

Even after the Liji Qin PRO, equipped with a domestic engine, was released, the Qin PRO won the recognition of all consumers with its excellent reputation.

After all, the price of domestic cars was what it was. To expect them to be cheap, durable, fuel-efficient, safe, and also to adhere to European and American technical quality standards?

Lu Haifeng believed that anyone who wasn't crazy would know that this was impossible.

Besides, even if domestic cars didn't meet the quality standards of European and American technology, their safety performance was still much better than those joint venture brands.

Therefore, domestic consumers were very understanding of the difficulties faced by domestic cars, so no one attacked domestic cars because of this matter.

Even if there were occasionally a few people with ulterior motives trying to stir things up, they would quickly be scolded into trembling by netizens.

That's why Lu Haifeng said that the worries of Li Li and the others in the domestic car industry were unnecessary.

Lu Haifeng not only knew about the things that had happened in the past two days, but he also secretly helped them promote a wave of public opinion.

Because Toyota Junko's trick of 'stealing the beams and pillars' was actually taught to her by Lu Haifeng.

A few days ago, after Toyota Junko returned to Great Xia Country, she made a phone call to Lu Haifeng.

During the call, Toyota Junko complained to Lu Haifeng that because of the Honda Civic's broken axle incident, consumers were now very unfriendly towards Japanese car companies.

Even if she decided to update and upgrade Toyota's best-selling models, she certainly wouldn't get consumer support in the short term.

At that time, Toyota Junko pitifully asked Lu Haifeng if there was a way to reverse the decline.

To temporarily shift consumers' attention away from Japanese car companies, giving Toyota some time to complete a gorgeous transformation.

Lu Haifeng initially refused this kind of thing. After all, Toyota was Audi's biggest future competitor.

Lu Haifeng hadn't already added insult to injury, which was already considering Toyota Junko's face.

It was impossible for Lu Haifeng to come up with a solution for them now.

However, nothing is absolute. After hearing Toyota Junko's pitiful and delicate voice, Lu Haifeng couldn't bear to refuse.

So, in a flash of inspiration, he thought of a good idea. After thinking of this idea, Lu Haifeng couldn't help but laugh. 'I'm really a genius.'

Toyota Junko, hearing Lu Haifeng's laughter, asked in confusion, "I wonder what Feng-jun is laughing at? Can you tell Junko?"

Lu Haifeng, hearing Toyota Junko's words, said with a smile, "I've thought of a good idea for you. You can make a fuss about the car safety crash tests!"

This method could buy Toyota Junko some time, disgust other car companies, and benefit the consumers of Great Xia Country.

The method Lu Haifeng thought of was to make a fuss about the 'car production safety standards'.

That is, the commonly known car safety crash test standards.

Every new model produced by a car manufacturer must undergo this safety crash test and obtain a certificate of conformity before it can be allowed to be sold on the market.

However, Great Xia Country has always had lower crash test standards in order to protect the reputation of domestic cars, which did not meet European and American crash test standards.

So, this huge gap has led many foreign brand manufacturers to reduce the cost of the entire vehicle as much as possible to increase profits while meeting the Great Xia Country crash test standards.

The most common area for this was in reducing configurations on vehicles.

Where did these foreign car companies reduce configurations the most?

The places where these car companies reduced configurations the most were anti-collision steel beams, body frame strength, safety configurations, parts manufacturing materials, and so on.

Slightly replacing even a small amount of these things could save a significant portion of the cost.

Although Lu Haifeng looked down on EU standards, the EU standards have mandatory requirements for these cars.

Whether it's the strength of the body frame or the safety configuration, it has a set of extremely strict minimum standards.

Under these minimum standards, the cost for foreign manufacturers is much higher than within Great Xia Country.

Audi has always implemented the extremely strict five-star crash test standards. So far, few foreign car companies dare to implement the five-star crash test standards that Audi has launched.

Didn't Toyota Junko want Toyota's updated and upgraded models to implement EU standards?

So, Lu Haifeng came up with a bad idea for her, to secretly fuel the flames and guide public opinion to foreign car companies implementing two safety standards in two regions.

Taking this opportunity to push out European and American car companies to divert consumers' attention.

By the way, he could also drag these European and American car companies down, forcing them to implement their so-called EU standards in Great Xia Country.

In this way, Toyota Junko would not only have time for Toyota's models to complete the update and upgrade, but also benefit the people of Great Xia Country.

How could Lu Haifeng not do something like this that would kill two birds with one stone?

Toyota Junko, hearing Lu Haifeng's words, increasingly felt that this method was good.

So, after Toyota Junko hung up Lu Haifeng's phone, she immediately arranged for people to guide public opinion.

At the same time, the careful Toyota Junko also accidentally leaked this news to Honda Nami of Honda.

Because she was sure that after Honda Nami knew about this matter, she would definitely secretly push this matter forward together.

This was also a very beneficial thing for Honda.

After all, one person doing something is not as good as two people doing it together.

Toyota Junko and Toyota Nami had known each other since they were children.

And the two of them had disliked each other since they were young, so the various competitions between the two of them had never ended since childhood.

Sure enough, as Toyota Junko expected, Honda Nami, the person in charge of Honda's Great Xia region, received the news.

Honda Nami knew that this was Toyota Junko's intention, but she had no choice but to spend a lot of money to secretly promote public opinion along with her.

Because this was also an opportunity for Honda to divert consumers' attention.