#563 - Build a factory in England
The next day, afternoon!
While Lu Haifeng was inspecting the Faster factory in Birmingham, Zhao Jianhua led a team to Europe!
The reason Lu Haifeng asked Zhao Jianhua to come was because he wouldn't be staying in England for more than a few days before heading to the beautiful country!
The Audi car affairs in England needed someone to take charge!
Only Zhao Jianhua could personally oversee this matter!
After arranging things, the designers and engineers Lu Haifeng brought would stay at the Faster factory for a period of time!
They would only return to China after Hilton Fath had rehired all the talent needed!
The Faster P1, although designed, only had its exterior and interior finalized!
Its powertrain still needed tuning and an engine selection!
Faster had accumulated a great deal of experience in engine, gearbox, and chassis technology over the years in the sports car field!
Faster had several high-performance engines and gearboxes under its banner!
To meet Hilton Fath's requirements for the Faster P1, striving for ultimate acceleration and handling,
Lu Haifeng put a lot of thought into this car!
He not only equipped the car with Audi's latest high-performance V10 turbocharged engine,
This engine was Audi's newest water-cooled turbo V10 boosted engine!
This engine can reach a maximum power of 700 kilowatts, a maximum torque of 1080 Nm, and after tuning, can unleash a maximum of 970 horsepower!
It is definitely a monster-level performance engine!
However, to install this engine in the Faster P1, further tuning and design were required!
Audi's engine was very impressive, but neither Faster nor Audi had a gearbox that could withstand such powerful torque and power, because the engine was too powerful!
For this reason, Hilton Fath personally sought out a company in England specializing in gearbox technology for supercars!
He commissioned this company to develop a gearbox that could withstand ultra-high torque and achieve maximum transmission efficiency!
With Faster's shortage of engineers, the engineers Lu Haifeng brought to Hilton Fath were a great help!
Anyway, Faster was now a subsidiary controlled by Audi!
Therefore, Hilton Fath didn't care much about Audi's engineers accessing Faster's core technology!
Hilton Fath even handed over all of Faster's core technologies to the engineers Lu Haifeng brought for research!
Including Faster's proud engine technology and chassis technology!
It was the first time that Audi's engineers had access to the core technologies of other car companies!
Especially the engine technology and chassis technology of a veteran supercar brand, which was a great learning opportunity for them!
Now Hilton Fath was busy with the development of new models!
On the other hand, Lu Haifeng and Zhao Jianhua were busy with the construction of Audi's England factory!
Lu Haifeng entrusted the construction of the England factory entirely to people from his own country!
Lu Haifeng had a good cooperative foundation with the Construction First Bureau, and they were all old acquaintances!
So Lu Haifeng directly contacted Liu Junlun, the head of the Construction First Bureau, and asked him to help build the factory there!
Lu Haifeng only learned during his New Year's visit that Liu Junlun's relationship with the Ye family was so close!
Because Liu Junlun was a soldier and also a subordinate of the old man!
In a sense, they were all family!
So Lu Haifeng contacted Liu Junlun at the first opportunity!
"Uncle Liu, you must help me with this!"
"I wouldn't dare to hire foreigners for this kind of construction project!"
On the phone, Lu Haifeng explained the construction of the factory in England and the future construction of the factory in North America in detail to Liu Junlun!
"No problem, leave it to me!"
"I will have someone from the overseas business department contact you later, don't worry!"
When Liu Junlun heard that Lu Haifeng was going to build a factory abroad, he immediately said that there was absolutely no problem!
Now Audi was a treasure in the eyes of some big bosses above!
It was a person who won glory for the country and made contributions to the nation!
The higher-ups would definitely support him at the first opportunity for Audi's factory construction in England!
"Okay, then thank you, Uncle Liu!"
Done!
After settling the factory construction, Lu Haifeng instructed Zhao Jianhua to quickly build the sales network!
England was a small place with a small population!
Lu Haifeng estimated that only fifty-odd 4S stores needed to be built nationwide to cover the entire England!
This wouldn't cost much money, so Lu Haifeng directly asked Zhao Jianhua to register a company in England!
He would build his own sales network and run direct-sale stores!
… …
There was no airtight wall in the world. Although the matter of Audi acquiring a stake in Faster Supercar!
Under the intentional low-key suppression of Lu Haifeng and Hilton Fath, it did not attract the attention of other car companies!
However, Faster's frequent major moves to poach people, and even the matter of customizing supercar gearboxes, still aroused the suspicion of other car companies!
All European car manufacturers, including suppliers, were members of the European Automobile Alliance!
Therefore, if any car company made a move, other car companies would know the news at the first opportunity!
The matter of Faster customizing high-strength torque and high transmission efficiency gearboxes soon reached the ears of other supercar brands!
Moreover, not to mention that Hilton Fath had been frequently contacting designers and engineers from other supercar brands these days!
Faster Supercar's obvious poaching behavior completely angered the executives of other car companies!
Lamborghini and Ferrari, as Faster's arch-rivals and one of the world's three major supercar brands,
During the rise of Faster Supercar, Hilton Fath had forged an indelible hatred with these two companies!
Hilton Fath, known for his poisonous tongue, led Faster Supercar's rise!
He didn't know how many times he had sprayed these two competitors to promote his new cars!
So when the two car companies learned that Faster was developing a new car, they immediately launched a detailed investigation!
They wanted to get first-hand news about Faster Supercar's new car!
However, before they could investigate the news about Faster Supercar's new car, they found out another terrifying thing!
That was that Audi was building a factory in England silently!
Moreover, Audi had acquired a stake in the Faster Supercar brand!
