Chapter 1729 (2/2)
Chen Zena asked stiffly, ”what are the four? Isn't it three? ”
Li Mu said: ”Jaguar and Land Rover are all in the UK, Volvo is in Sweden, but Land Rover has a factory in the United States. Before musk said this, you forgot?”
Chen zehe laughs: ”my English is not so good. I think I can know about it when I write it. If I listen to it, it will be 67%.”Li Mu nodded and said, ”anyway, four factories are right. I will not stop you if you want to live in them.”
Chen Ze asked, ”in case, I mean in case, in case it doesn't work, what should I do? Do you have any alternatives? ”
Li Mu shook his head and said, ”where are the alternatives?”
Speaking, Li Mu said seriously: ”but I'm honest, now the market of the automobile industry, you want to buy a Japanese car brand is certainly very tough, but if you want to buy a European non German brand, a U.S. brand, it's still very easy, really not good, we can also buy Cadillac, jeep or Alfa Romeo, these brands are losing heavily now, and will be more in the future Serious. ”
For the automobile industry, if the industry as a whole goes down and its own brand is not good enough, that day can really be described as arduous.
As long as an automobile brand doesn't want to close down, it must maintain the operation of the factory. Suppliers' spare parts should be purchased, their production lines should be moved, and workers should be busy. Otherwise, once they are shut down and dismissed, it will be difficult to reopen.
However, in order to maintain the operation of the production line, it is necessary to invest capital, raw materials, spare parts, wages of workers and management expenses, each of which is a huge cost. These money are thrown into the production of one car after another, but no one cares about the cars. As a result, there are more and more vehicles in stock, and the losses are more and more big. If we haven't got a place to pick them up, it will become a bottomless hole 。
Some auto companies look very bright. Fixed assets are worth billions of dollars, but another set of bank loans and suppliers' loans due to years of losses may not even have 100 million dollars of actual net assets.
Otherwise, those classic automobile enterprises of hundreds of years will not be merged and acquired by big automobile group, and then be re integrated and rejuvenated by its fame, technology, resources and channels.
These brands that can be bought by big auto groups are good. Those brands that can't be seen by big auto groups are really a disaster. For example, Guanzhi, a proper loss of a billion yuan a year, a group of people who have been working for many years, the total debt is still greater than the total assets. They have been losing money for several years in a row, and they don't know how many circles around the world they can make
At this time, Chen Ze looked at the time and said, ”I've been out for more than half an hour. Do you want to ask musk how far they've come?”
Li Mu smiled and said, ”I don't need to ask, but I'm sure it's still bullshit, but little Bill Ford can't directly refuse musk, otherwise musk will definitely contact me.”
If it's true that according to Bill Ford Jr., 5 billion yuan will never be sold, then musk will have to leave at most 10 minutes after Li Mu leaves, because he has no right to change Li Mu's final offer, which Bill Ford Jr. can't accept, so we can only break up without talking.
But now that half an hour has passed and Elon Musk hasn't heard from him, it shows that he must still be breaking up with Bill Ford Jr.
In fact, there is nothing to argue with in terms of price. Li Mu didn't give little Bill Ford any room to bargain. What he could argue with was just some details, which should be based on Little Bill Ford's acceptance of the five billion dollar offer.
Li Mu and his party arrived at the airport, because the approved departure time is more than one hour. After passing the security check, they boarded the plane in advance to rest while waiting for the departure.
While waiting, Li Mu made a phone call to Su Yingxue. During this period of time, they didn't meet each other. The number of calls between them was not too many. Not only was Li Mu too busy in daily life, but the time difference was also a thorny problem.
Su Yingxue just finished the course at this time. On the way back to the dormitory, she received a phone call from Li Mu. She was always indifferent and couldn't help but ask with surprise, ”how can you call me today?”
Li Mu said with a smile, ”just after talking about cooperation with a company, I hurried to the airport. Now I'm waiting for the take-off. The take-off time is quite long, and I have to wait for more than an hour.”
Su Yingxue snorted and said, ”it was boring that she thought of calling me?”
Li Mu said with a smile, ”why don't you care which airport I am at and where I'm going next?”
Su Yingxue couldn't help asking, ”where are you going? Are you coming to America? ”
”I'm already in America, now in Detroit,” Li said with a smile
Su Yingxue asked in surprise, ”when did you come? What happened to Detroit? ”
Li said, ”it's about cooperation. I arrived this morning. Now I'm ready to take off for Boston.”
With that, Li Mu looked at the time and said, ”it's more than five in the afternoon. I expect to fly at seven and land at eight forty. Do you want to wait for me to have dinner?”
Su Yingxue's voice suddenly excited and asked pleasantly, ”aren't you teasing me?”? Are you really in Detroit, coming to Boston? ”
”Of course.” Li Mu said, ”I arrived late. You should eat something to make up for it first. Don't wait for me hungry.”
Su Yingxue confirms that Li Mu is not joking, and immediately says happily, ”OK, I'll wait for you!”