Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

In front of Li Weidong is a white car with a boxy front, boxy headlights, and a silver crown logo in the middle of the boxy air grille.

This is the first generation of the car, the seventh generation of the Toyota Crown.

"You can actually see this old cannon in China! It's quite new." Li Weidong leaned over, circled the body, and then looked at the cockpit through the glass.

"It's still a right-hand drive car. This should be the version sold in RB, not the model that Toyota uses exclusively for export." Li Weidong secretly thought.

RB's cars are right-hand drive cars, but since most of the cars in the world are left-hand drive cars, most of the cars exported by RB are also left-hand drive cars, especially after entering the 1980s, the United States became RB. A large number of RB cars are to be exported to the United States, and RB produces more left-hand drive cars than right-hand drive cars.

In China in the early 1980s, the management of imported cars was not standardized. When importing cars, it did not choose whether it was a right-hand drive car or a left-hand drive car, as long as there was a car, it was inevitable that some right-hand drive cars would be imported.

It was not until the country established the Automobile Industry Import and Export Corporation that China's automobile imports began to be gradually standardized.

Although this seventh-generation Crown is a right-hand drive car, it still has to abide by China's traffic laws and drive on the right when it hits the road. For drivers of right-hand drive vehicles, it is still somewhat unaccustomed to drive on the right.

Li Weidong wanted to open the car door and go into the cab to have a look, but a voice stopped Li Weidong.

"That comrade, what are you doing!"

Li Weidong followed the voice and saw an auto mechanic in his thirties approaching.

"Comrade, I just want to look at this car." Li Weidong replied.

Seeing that Li Weidong was a young man, the auto repair worker couldn't help but ask, "Who are you? From that department? What are you doing in our repair workshop?"

"I'm here from the transportation company in Qinghe area to visit and study." Li Weidong paused, then said, "You, Director Wei, also know it. He asked me to watch it in the workshop."

Li Weidong moved out of Wei Bin, the director of the repair workshop, and the auto repair workers couldn't stop him any more. He looked at Li Weidong coldly and arrogantly, and said, "Then take a good look, don't act blindly, if you break it, you won't be able to compensate. rise."

"Don't worry, I'm also an auto mechanic, so I can't break it." Li Weidong replied.

"Auto mechanic? Judging from your age, you haven't repaired a few cars before!" The worker snorted coldly, and then said, "It's good for you not to do anything blindly. The car in front of you is an imported car. It's not the old Jiefang that you usually repair, and you can't afford it if you break it. But you Qinghe shouldn't have such an imported car! Presumably you don't know what kind of car it is."

Jicheng is the provincial capital after all, and the Yellow River Automobile Factory is a key provincial enterprise. Faced with Li Weidong, an auto mechanic from Qinghe, the workers of the Yellow River Factory can't help but feel a little arrogant.

Li Weidong smiled, and then replied, "This is the Toyota Crown of the seventh generation."

"What generation? What field? The crown is right, did you guess it by looking at the sign on the front of the car?" The worker asked sarcastically.

At that time, imported crowns were relatively rare, and most people had never seen them. The auto mechanic at the Yellow River Factory only knew that the car was called the Crown, but did not know that the Crown was produced by Toyota, much less that it was the seventh-generation Crown.

Li Weidong had no choice but to explain: "Crown is a brand of Toyota Motor, Toyota knows it? The largest car manufacturer of RB can also be ranked in the top ten in the world. Crown Motors started production in 1955. Basically every four or five years, there will be a new generation, and in 1983, it has been replaced by the seventh generation, which is our current car."

"Really or not? It's not your kid's nonsense, right? But it's imported by RB, and you'll be right when the time comes.

"The worker said it with a skeptical face, but after listening to what Li Weidong said, the worker has already believed it by seven or eight points.

Li Weidong handed the worker a cigarette and asked, "What's the name of this comrade?"

The worker took the cigarette and put it in his chest pocket, then answered, "My name is Chen Jinlong. Comrade, what is your name?"

"My name is Li Weidong, you can just call me Xiao Li." Li Weidong pointed at the seven-generation crown, and said, "This crown car is considered a luxury car in RB, and it is rare in China. Your Yellow River Factory It is indeed a big company, but it is so powerful that even a crown car can be obtained."

"Although our Yellow River factory is a provincial key enterprise, it is not worthy of such a good imported car. This car is specially equipped to receive foreign guests. I heard that there are only two in our province, and one is in the Dongdao City Foreign Trade Bureau. , the other one is the one in front of us, from the Provincial Foreign Trade Department." Liu Jinlong replied.

"It turns out that this car belongs to the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade, was it sent for maintenance?" Li Weidong asked again.

Liu Jinlong shook his head: "No, there is no need to send it to us for maintenance. This car is broken, and the general repair shop can't solve it, so it was sent to us. Our technology here is still better than that of ordinary repair shops. "

"That's right, you build cars!" Li Weidong complimented, and then asked, "Then the car is here, is it repaired?"

"I checked it, it hasn't been repaired yet." Liu Jinlong replied.

"What's wrong?" Li Weidong asked again.

"It should be a problem with the gearbox. But the gearbox of this car is different from other cars. The gears of this car are not one, two, three or four, but English letters. As long as you put the gear on and keep pressing the accelerator, you don't need to change at all. Shift. You haven't seen a car that doesn't shift!" Liu Jinlong said with some flaunting.

Li Weidong turned his head to look inside the car, saw the automatic gear lever and the P/R/N/D/S gears, and knew that the Crown was using a continuously variable automatic transmission.

RB cars like to use CVT. The biggest difference between CVT and common hydraulic automatic transmission is in structure. The automatic transmission is hydraulically controlled gear shifting, while the CVT is composed of a transmission disc and a transmission belt.

Therefore, the continuously variable transmission is simpler in structure, smaller in size, and more stable when shifting, without the feeling of "pause" when shifting gears in traditional transmissions.

The reason why RB people are keen on CVT is also because the CVT is small in size. RB is more popular in small cars in China. The CVT does not take up space and can be used with small cars.

In the 1980s, the domestic automobile industry was relatively backward, and the skills of the auto mechanics were not very good. The domestic auto mechanics had never repaired cars with automatic gears, nor did they understand the structure of the continuously variable transmission, so they could not repair this seventh generation. crown.

I just heard Liu Jinlong say: "We haven't repaired the car with this kind of gearbox, so we put the car here first, let the driver go back and get the vehicle manual of this car, and after we read the vehicle manual, we will disassemble it. gearbox."

As soon as Liu Jinlong finished speaking, someone appeared outside the repair workshop and walked in quickly.

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here, the driver of this car is here." Liu Jinlong looked at the man outside.

"Master Liu, I've brought the vehicle manual." The crown car driver carried a cloth pocket, then took out a thick vehicle manual and handed it to Liu Jinlong.

"It's hard work." Liu Jinlong took over the vehicle manual.

"What the hard work, as long as you can fix the car quickly, it's worth it for me to make two more trips." The driver said.

At this time, Liu Jinlong had already opened the vehicle manual, and in the next second, Liu Jinlong's expression became embarrassed.

"Why is it in Japanese! Who can understand this!"