#536 - Military and civilian use
"It's you!"
After thinking it over, Lu Haifeng directly exchanged for the design drawings of the Knight XV!
After selecting the armored vehicle blueprints, Lu Haifeng looked to see if there were any off-road vehicles with better performance!
Because the cars that the big bosses ride in simply don't match their status!
Therefore, what Lu Haifeng needed was an SUV model with extremely strong off-road capabilities!
This model not only needed to have a very large space, but most importantly, it had to ensure passability and strong performance!
Subsequently, Lu Haifeng searched for off-road vehicles in the system store!
As Lu Haifeng searched, dozens of off-road vehicle models instantly appeared before Lu Haifeng!
Lu Haifeng still excluded those future technology products, leaving only a few models for him to choose from!
Suddenly, a boxy off-road vehicle model appeared before Lu Haifeng!
When he saw this car, Lu Haifeng was a little surprised!
"Huh! Could it be that this car doesn't exist in this world yet!"
The model blueprint that Lu Haifeng saw was the G-Class full-size SUV from Mercedes-Benz in his previous life.
Commonly known as the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon!
Although this car body is boxy, it is full of a tough guy's aura, giving people a very fierce feeling!
Since this car appeared in the system, it means that this car definitely hasn't appeared in this world yet!
However, Lu Haifeng still searched for this model online!
With the search, Lu Haifeng found that this model did not exist in this world!
"This is very interesting. Since you don't have it, then I'll take it and use it without any politeness!"
It can be said that every man has a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon in his heart.
Lu Haifeng doesn't need to say more about the off-road performance of this model. It is basically the most powerful model among off-road vehicles of the same size!
It can easily conquer all kinds of terrain!
If the cost of this model can be appropriately controlled between 300,000 and 400,000!
Lu Haifeng believes that this model can definitely meet the army's demand for off-road vehicles!
And this model also has certain bulletproof capabilities!
After that, Lu Haifeng immediately exchanged for the blueprints!
After exchanging for the blueprints, Lu Haifeng couldn't wait to find Tang San and Sun Er!
He gave them the design pictures of the Knight XV and the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon!
At the same time, Lu Haifeng also briefly explained to them both!
These two cars are models specially supplied to the army, so they need to be modified in a targeted manner!
"For the Knight XV, modify the chassis and replace it with all of our Audi's power system!"
"Also, install our Audi's four-wheel drive system!"
"And wherever mechanical parts can be used, try not to use electronic products!"
"As for this G-Wagon model, I plan to sell it in two versions in the future: civilian and military!"
"Like the Knight XV, the military version should use mechanical structures as much as possible to ensure convenient maintenance and low failure rate!"
"The civilian version will be made into Audi's luxury all-terrain SUV model!"
"The standard should be higher than the Audi Q7!"
"Well, let's just include it in the Audi Q series!"
"Call it the Audi Q9."
"As for the Knight XV, let's just call it the 'Mengshi' (Warrior), and also include it in the Audi brand!"
"In the future, we will launch a civilian version together, and design it according to the interior in the design drawings!"
"Make it as luxurious as possible!"
Lu Haifeng felt it was a bit wasteful to only provide these two cars for the army!
So, after thinking for a while, Lu Haifeng decided to launch military and civilian versions in the future!
The military version focuses on practicality, while the civilian version must reflect sufficient luxury to attract the attention of those nouveau riches!
And the name and appearance of the vehicles also need to be changed!
The Knight XV is renamed the Audi Mengshi series, and the car logo is changed to the Audi logo!
And the G-Wagon is included in the Audi Q series SUV family!
And its positioning should be higher than the Audi Q7 that Audi is about to launch!
So it's named Audi Q9.
Of course, the front face and car logo of these two cars also need to be redesigned and changed to the Audi front face and car logo!
Lu Haifeng carefully explained to Tang San and Sun Er in the laboratory, many of the standards for the military and civilian versions of these two cars!
"President Lu, we understand!"
When Tang San and Sun Er heard Lu Haifeng's words, they immediately nodded and agreed that they understood!
Then, the two immediately summoned the people from the R\u0026D department and started the research and development work for the two models!
Because the power systems of these two models are readily available, Audi now has many engines and transmissions that they can choose from!
According to Lu Haifeng's requirements, the Mengshi model is equipped with Audi's V10 mechanical turbocharging engine and uses a reinforced version of the PDK gearbox!
The Audi Q9 is equipped with V8, V10, and V12 engines, matched with the PDK gearbox!
After all, this model is positioned as a luxury all-terrain off-road SUV, so of course it must be equipped with a more powerful engine!
However, Tang San and the others spent a lot of time on the chassis of these two models!
Because these two cars use non-load-bearing chassis, and the Mengshi model's chassis also needs to be specially strengthened!
And Audi had never developed this kind of non-load-bearing chassis before!
So Lu Haifeng also found the chassis of the Ford F-Series pickup truck for Tang San and the others to refer to!
With Tang San's ability, Lu Haifeng believed that with a reference object, they could quickly create the chassis technology that Lu Haifeng needed!
And in terms of car body steel plates, bulletproof glass, and special bulletproof tires!
Lu Haifeng specially contacted the most well-known manufacturers at home and abroad to customize the accessories needed for the two models!
While Tang San and Sun Er were leading the technical department to develop these two models!
Lu Haifeng led the technical department to adjust the fifth phase factory of Audi!
Because among all Audi factories, only this production line is very different from the modular architecture used by the current Audi factories!
So Lu Haifeng plans to dedicate this production line to producing vehicles for the army in the future!
As for the civilian version of the car, the Mengshi will be produced by hand!
The Audi Q9 will be produced using Audi's modular architecture platform!
After these years of development, Audi's assembly plant and power plant have been separated!
So now several workshops have been vacated in the Audi assembly plant!
So last year, Lu Haifeng re-planned and adjusted the production workshop!
Various plans and adjustments took several months to complete!
