"Boss, let me tell you good news. Now we have gained a firm foothold in Europe."

On the phone, Jack Welch was very excited, and his tone was even more of a sense of seeking credit. Of course, this is also a natural person. I, a worker, made achievements, so of course I had to let the boss know.

"oh?"

Chen Geng responded very cooperatively, signaling Jack Welch to continue, saying, "I'm listening."

Jack Welch is not humble either. Foreigners never know what humility is: "Last month, our actual monthly sales in Europe were 4,000 units, and there were orders of 11,000 vehicles waiting to be delivered! In line with our publicity and offensive, our cars have now become quite well-known in Europe."

Speaking of this, Jack Welch's voice was a little louder than just now: "If we don't have capacity issues and transportation issues, our sales can increase by at least 40% on this basis."

Amc has only been officially launched in Europe for three months, but has obtained the data of 4,000 monthly sales, and it is full every month. Jack Welch does have enough confidence to be proud.

"Not bad, very good. Amc can quickly open up the situation in Europe and gain a foothold. Jack, you are the first priority," Chen Geng praised Jack Welch hard, and then asked: "What is the biggest problem we are facing in Europe now? Is there any problem with production capacity?"

Chen Geng didn't think Jack Welch called him this phone to show off and repay his merits.

Facts proved that Chen Geng guessed right. Jack Welch didn't even have half of the circle with Chen Gengra: "There are indeed some problems with production capacity. You know, because many of the spare parts on our cars are designed and manufactured separately, which is completely different from the previous standards, so it will take some time for the spare parts suppliers to climb up the production capacity, but this is not the biggest problem."

"oh?"

"The biggest problem is actually transportation," said Jack Welch. "Now, all the models we sell in Europe need to cross thousands of kilometers of Atlantic Ocean, loading, customs declaration, unloading, and entering the customs... These things are too cumbersome and take too long. Just the time spent in transportation, many customers who place orders decide to cancel orders because they have to wait too long."

Chen Geng frowned: "This is indeed a problem."

The width of the Atlantic Ocean is more than 2,400 to 2,800 kilometers, but the distance between the ocean is not only determined by the width of the ocean, but also by the distance between the two ports. Cars produced by Amc are loaded from the Great Lakes. If they arrive at the port of Iceland, the transportation distance is more than 3,200 kilometers. Now the average cruise speed of cargo ships on the Atlantic route is 14.7 knots, that is, 27.22 kilometers per hour. The sailing time at sea alone takes five days. Including the customs declaration of the two ports, the fastest entry time is seven days.

This is just transportation. It takes at least one month from receiving the order and starting to place a production schedule, formal production and then loading the ship. It will take at least one month during this period. It is no wonder that so many customers cancel the order.

Chen Geng did not go around with Jack Welch and asked directly: "So you plan to start preparing for local European factories now?"

"No, no, no," Jack Welch shook his head immediately: "I can find a way to solve the transportation problem. In order not to overstimulate the local car manufacturers in Europe, the current transportation capacity is actually acceptable. I want to tell you another thing."

"What?"

"They started fighting back."

"Hmm?" Chen Geng raised his eyebrows and asked back, "Isn't this something I had expected long ago?"

No matter how awesome you are, you cannot snatch food from other people's bowls, and you cannot snatch food while you are not allowed to speak. Even dogs know how to protect food, let alone capitalists? Even if Europe has handed over the world's leadership since World War II, it is not that it is not a matter of bullying American companies that can't fight back or scold or retaliate.

If the actual results of amc are not good, it would be fine, but once amc gains a firm foothold in Europe, it will inevitably attract counterattacks from veteran European automobile giants such as Renault, Citroen, Elysee, Wolfburg, and Daimler Group. This is certain and certain. As for Jack Welch to tell him about this?

"Yes, this is expected," Jack Welch said a little bitter, but he had to explain why he asked his boss for help: "But these local European car brands are not competing with us or promoting us, but use the media to question our product strength."

"Um?"

Jack Welch explained: "For example, the Polo in Wolfburg, their benchmark model is its own Audi 50, which has won a considerable ranking in various European competitions for several consecutive years;

For example, the Peugeot Group's small car, Peugeot 204, and the Peugeot 205, which they just launched this year, are models with a brilliant history, especially the Peugeot 204, which once broke 40 records on the Montmarley Circuit;

For example, golf in Wolf Castle…”

"Okay, okay, I know what you mean," Chen Geng interrupted before Jack Welch finished speaking: "What do you mean is that these European car brands, because we have no international racing honors, will attack our models without technical content?"

"Yes, that's it."

Jack Welch was a little depressed and even a little resentful, because in the face of these European local snakes, you really couldn't find a suitable reason to refute for a while:

Peugeot 204 broke 40 track records at Montmarley. Is this true? He won several championships in the World Automobile Rally Championship and hit the podium several times. Is this true?

Wolfburg Polo won one, two, three, and four in many European car events. Is this true?

And Renault, Citroen...

Every brand of every model has countless glory in it. These are things that can be used to brag and show off, but what about you?

No!

There is nothing.

Of course, if you force yourself to look for it, amc has not participated in some car events in the United States. Unfortunately, Europeans are full of disdain and contempt for the "circle without technical content" car sports in the United States, believing that these car sports cannot reflect the technical content of a car at all, and they are not even worthy of being called car sports...

You said you are awesome?

Have the ability to run a lap in the Dakar Rally?
Chapter completed!