My Italian: Chapter 493 booming auto industry

Remember [New] for a second,! Turin has become more and more important in the Italian economic map in recent years, and has been promoted from the sixth largest industrial city in Italy to the top three.

The rapid development of Turin is of course due to its huge automobile manufacturing industry. At present, when it comes to Italian cars, all countries agree that it is Fiat, and Fiat is still the largest car manufacturing company in the world. Although other countries gradually have their own auto industries, the first-mover advantage is not so easy to break. If nothing else, Fiat's numerous patents are an existence that many aspiring to gain a foothold in the auto industry cannot avoid. .

Fortunately, Fiat also knows not to provoke public anger, so they are willing to authorize these car patents, and they can get the right to use the patents as long as they give money. Just last year, Fiat earned more than 8 million lire from patent licensing alone.

However, the income from these patents can only be regarded as additional income. For Fiat, the most important thing is that its own car manufacturing is the fundamental.

Last year, Fiat built more than 80,000 vehicles, and the best seller was the Fiat Model A.

Yes, it is the cheapest car Fiat sells. With a tarpaulin carport, it looks like a simple A-type car in every way. It is the best car Fiat sells.

Of course, the current A-type car is definitely different from the A-type car sold at the beginning, at least the current A-type car has also undergone certain upgrades. After all, Fiat has spent a lot on automotive research in recent years, and many practical small technologies can be improved without much money. In this case, people who are cash-strapped and desperately want a car can choose this model.

In the last year, the Model A sold more than 50,000 units, each priced at only 3,100 lire, and the whole world can no longer find a car that costs less than the Model A.

Fiat can sell the car at such a low price. On the one hand, it is large-scale production. After all, as long as the scale is increased, the price of materials will be suppressed. On the other hand, it is excellent in cost control. In this regard, Fiat's The founder, Giovanni Agnelli, has made great contributions. He has thoroughly decomposed and optimized the production process of automobiles, which has greatly improved the production speed of Fiat automobiles.

And Fiat's salary is also good. A qualified worker works five days a week, nine hours a day, and can earn around 240 lire per month. Although this does not seem high, and compared with the high salaries in the United States, it is a bit far behind, but in Italy, it is already very good. Every time Fiat recruits workers, it can be crowded, and there should not be too many people who want to enter the Fiat factory.

In addition to the best-selling Model A, Fiat's Model B sells well, with more than 20,000 sold last year.

In front of the price advantage of the A-type car, the B-type car, which was originally intended to be a replacement for the A-type car, its performance and styling advantages are all useless, which makes Fiat executives laugh and cry.

Speaking of which, the B-type car is actually not expensive. The current price of 4,200 lire is considered a car that is close enough to the people. But the price difference was 1,100 lire, which directly more than doubled the sales of the B-type car.

In addition to the A and B cars, Fiat also has a Model S. This is Fiat's foray into the premium segment. The streamlined body has a metallic luster paint, as well as leather seats with mahogany calfskin, ivory inlaid ashtrays and other decorations, making the entire S-type car very visually impactful.

The price of each car is as high as 54,000 liras, making many rich and noble people choose this car as their travel car.

With these three vehicles, Fiat accounted for two-thirds of the world's car sales last year.

At present, in addition to Fiat, automobile companies in various countries are also developing and growing with the injection of capital. For example, in the United States, a man named Ford created the first mass-produced car factory in the United States. The Ford Model A he sold was heard to sell well in the United States, squeezing a lot of Fiat's share in the country. . And in France, Renault is not bad, and also sells a lot of cars. As for Germany, Daimler and Mercedes-Benz also show the presence of German cars.

Of course, these car companies do not pose a threat to Fiat at present. It must be known that Fiat has a considerable first-mover advantage, and coupled with its strong capital, these little brothers can only follow the soup.

In addition to these three cars, Fiat has just launched a car, the Fiat van.

Yep, it's a truck.

There has long been a consensus among Fiat executives about the car's foray into transportation. As long as there is a good cargo truck, the heavy-duty carriages on the market will not be able to fight back, and the transportation industry will surely become a new growth point for automobile sales.

So after 3 years of research and development, Fiat finally came up with a van. The car is powered by an 80-horsepower gasoline engine jointly developed by Fiat and the Milan Power Laboratory, which can load 1.5 tons of cargo and run at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour.

Once this truck was launched, it immediately attracted a strong response from the market, and its first batch of 2,000 trucks were sold out. More van orders then snowed to Fiat. Because the user who buys the car can calculate the account, a heavy-duty carriage can only pull one ton of goods on the road, but it needs 4 horses, and the appetite of the horses is not small. And the animals can't keep moving, so after a few hours of work, the horses have to rest.

Although the truck looks more expensive, a truck that can pull 1.5 tons is priced at 5,800 lire, but in terms of usability, it really beats the carriage.

In docks, mines and other workplaces that require high-intensity transportation, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com this truck completely abuses the carriage. In addition, in terms of long-distance transportation, trucks are also not comparable to carriages by virtue of their cargo volume and speed. Therefore, the appearance of such a truck will bring so many orders to Fiat.

It needs to be said a little more here. Among the many orders, there are also some orders from the military of various countries, especially the number of orders purchased by the domestic military and the German military.

The Italian military purchased 200 vehicles, while the German military purchased 500 vehicles.

What makes the militaries of both countries so important is simply its payload.

The German military has experimented with the use of Fiat trucks to tow the artillery maneuver. In the towing experiment of a Krupp 105mm light howitzer, the artillery was easily pulled 48 kilometers by the car, and it ended because of wheel damage. .

However, the German military saw the huge role of trucks in the military field, so it wanted to buy more vehicles and conduct further experiments.

Of course, it is not excluded that Germany and Italy will allow Fiat to develop trucks with better performance for the transportation of larger artillery in the future.

But this is certainly not a bad thing for Fiat to enter the military's field of vision.