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Chapter 204 Zotye + supercar = ???

Once upon a time, Zotye car owners, who were at the bottom of the contempt chain in the car circle, have transformed themselves into the object of envy among the majority of car owners.

Such a huge change is really beyond the imagination of the stupid netizens.

Some netizens even don't believe it and think that the call for Zotye's old car owners is a rumor.

I went to car apps such as Autohome and Hechedi to check it out.

As soon as I entered, I found that the originally deserted Zotye forum was filled with new posts.

18 Zotye car owners are celebrating the Chinese New Year as they all share the "lifetime maintenance" service they enjoyed at their local 4S stores.

There are no tricks, no need to pay any money, you just go into the store and we will do the maintenance for you.

Wu Xiaodong, a die-hard Zotye fan, asked the 4S staff when he queued up to register for maintenance at the Zotye 4S store just now: "Aren't you afraid that the new boss will go bankrupt if you do it so freely?"

Looking at the crowded repair bays in the maintenance workshop, Wu Xiaodong seemed to see countless money flowing in front of him.

In the past, he would go to a small repair shop or a roadside store for maintenance, where he would spend 2 or 300 yuan to replace the engine oil and filter.

After all, with my financial situation, I can drive a Zotye, so why do I need to go to a 4S shop for maintenance? Naturally, I will save as much as possible.

As a result, Wu Xiaodong has now benefited from a wave of huge benefits given back by manufacturers without knowing it. He is excited but also worried that such an activity will be gone in two days.

Unexpectedly, the 4S store staff who was busy registering car owners said confidently: "Brother Wu, our Zotye now has two large companies, Magic Cube Group and Red Star Trading, backing it up. To put it bluntly, it has become more powerful. The big boss, Mr. Jue, said at the shareholders' meeting that he would inject billion yuan into Zotye every year until it makes a profit."

When Wu Xiaodong and a group of old car owners from Yiwu who were gathered nearby heard the figure of 10 billion, they all exclaimed "WTF?"

Even though the base of 18 old car owners is large, the actual cost of "lifetime maintenance" is only about 10 billion yuan a year.

After all, since Magic Cube Group took over Zotye, all of Zotye’s mechanical parts and materials have been monopolized by Chen Jue, while the offline 4S stores only have to pay the labor cost.

They spent more than 10 billion yuan on building word-of-mouth and marketing, and also made it onto several hot search lists because of the Zotye call-up order incident. No matter how you look at it, it's a profit.

Of course, this "lifetime maintenance" is not without restrictions.

In addition to providing services only to owners of Zotye's old models worth 18 yuan, the types of maintenance are also limited to the normal driving functions of the vehicle.

Once an accident or collision occurs, Zotye will not bear the insurance claim. Doing so will be suspected of insurance fraud and embezzlement of "lifetime maintenance" funds.

Such rules are set to strictly prevent the 4S stores and dealers from playing tricks.

"Zotye's new boss has a big vision!"

"Look at this trending search, it's already at the top seven or eight. Even if you pay for it yourself, it may not have this effect even if you spend hundreds of millions."

"By the way, when will the cash coupons for exchanging old items for new ones be issued?"

"Except for the SR9, which has many problems, the quality of other models of our Zotye is indeed impeccable. But the old cars have been driven for a long time, so we have to replace them with new ones!" There was a lot of discussion in the store lobby.

After all, due to bankruptcy and reorganization in recent years, Zotye has not launched any new models since 2019, which has made many old Zotye fans feel regretful.

Wu Xiaodong, who had just registered and was waiting in line for maintenance, heard the discussion of the brother next to him, so he tactically took a sip of the free hot coffee and listened attentively.

The staff member continued to explain: "The 5 yuan new car voucher will be bundled with the old car owners' green registration certificates. The new car models are tentatively scheduled to be released before the Spring Festival. There will be many models this time, involving SUVs, sedans, MPVs and other series of products. It is said that one of the supercars was designed by the big boss himself."

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire 4S hall was stunned!
Then everyone went crazy!

"Wo… Shit!"

"What did I just hear?"

"Supercar???"

"My Zotye is going to build a supercar?"

"The tape measure department is really taking off this time!"

We all know that the parent company of the newly acquired Zotye is very powerful, but we didn’t expect it to be this powerful.

Look at Xiaomi, which took several years to launch a Porsche SU7. As soon as Zotye was revived, it immediately started to make changes to its entire series.

TMD is even going to make a supercar, how can these old car owners not be shocked and excited.

I recall a joke in the car industry back then: "If you can drive a cheap supercar in this life, you can only rely on Zotye!"

As a result, netizens treated him as a joke, but Zotye’s new boss actually planned to take it seriously.

Even Wu Xiaodong, who had just taken two sips of coffee tactically, choked and coughed several times after hearing this explosive inside information, and almost spit out the coffee he had just drunk!
……

The fact that Zotye is going to build a supercar is actually not big news.

During the most prosperous period of the Tape Measure Department in the past, in addition to replicating the SR9 based on the Porsche Macan, it was also rumored that internal personnel had created a copycat supercar model that looked like the Lamborghini LP700.

As the only major shareholder of Zotye, Chen Jue believes that these old news are just rumors in the automotive circle and on the Internet.

Who would have thought that when leading the team to visit Zotye's internal car factory, we actually found the legendary Zotye ZT700 with the Z logo in a sealed and dusty garage.

"Brother Ying, is this car sure to be on the road?" Chen Jue looked around the Zotye supercar. The appearance was not exactly the same as the Lamborghini, but it was 80% similar.

"The most capable one!"

"This ZT700 was a concept car designed by the design department. It has been crash-tested and the results are pretty good. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has also issued a license for it to be put on the road."

"Later, due to lack of funds, the supercar project was terminated." Yingren said with a red face.

Before he founded Zotye, it was actually the largest state-owned auto parts manufacturer in Kangyong City. When it first started making cars, it learned from Geely's Li Shufu and started out by making Japanese copycat cars.

In the past, most of the old domestic car companies started their development by learning from Japanese, Korean, European and American car companies.

Even Toyota, Ford, and General Motors, the old auto giants, copied German cars in their early days.

Anyway, everyone started out by stealing, so the eldest brother shouldn’t laugh at the second brother.

When it came to Yingren's Zotye, they just copied with all their might, and even almost replicated the Lamborghini LP700 1:1.

Chen Jue was so shocked that he exclaimed, "Awesome!"

However, apart from the appearance of a supercar, the engine, chassis, and gearbox of this Zotye ZT700 are a mess.

自研的V8发动机，马力只有310匹。搭配上同样自研的8AT变速箱，0~100最快只能跑进5.6秒。

This is the result of the entire vehicle using lightweight carbon fiber covering and aluminum chassis parts. Nowadays, even domestic entry-level new energy vehicles such as BYD Qin L on the road cannot outperform it.

No wonder Yingren didn’t dare to put this Zotye ZT700 on the car market for sale.

With such rubbish parameters and acceleration performance, if it were launched on the market, it would be ridiculed by the automotive industry!
Even a big copycat like Zotye is a little embarrassed about this.

However, when he heard that this Zotye supercar could be legally driven on the road, a playful smile appeared on Chen Jue's face.

So after attending the shareholders' meeting, Zotye held a few days of small meetings internally to complete the initial reorganization.

Chen Jue asked Ying Ren to find a trailer and deliver the Zotye ZT700 to the Rubik's Cube factory in Rui County overnight.

Ying Ren, who had just been re-promoted as the chairman of Zotye, naturally agreed to the boss's suggestion of playing with cars.

After all, Zotye has a lot of copycat models like this in its garage, so just consider them as gifts for the big boss.

But when he heard Chen Jue asking him to contact an exporter he knew, intending to send this ZT700 as a "camouflaged car" to Germany for road testing and lap time measurement.

Yingren's expression immediately became a little tense!

"Camouflage? Send it to Germany?"

"Hiss~ Mr. Jue, are you...are you planning to send it to the Nürburgring for testing?"

(End of this chapter)