Chapter 399

Xie liaosha is familiar with Gorky automobile factory. Now most government officials are riding Volga premium cars, which can be said to be Gorky's top product. Originally, Golgi automobile factory had another more high-end seagull brand car, which was specially produced for national leaders in the past, and was also used as a national gift to foreign heads of state. Unfortunately, this kind of car has been replaced by the Gil car produced by Moscow's likhachov automobile factory. The Gil 4104 limousine that Xie liaosha is riding now is the product of likhachov automobile factory, while the Gil car that the state leaders are riding is a specially customized bulletproof version.

As for another product mentioned by Glencore experts, LADA is a best-selling product produced by Volga, another automobile factory on the Volga River. The consumer groups of LADA and Volga are totally different. LADA is a family car for ordinary people, while Volga is a business car.

Before taking office, Xie liaosha decided to visit Volga automobile factory and LADA's production line. Volga automobile factory is located in the middle reaches of the Volga River in the city of tauriati. This automobile factory was built in 1960s in cooperation with Fiat Group of Italy. At that time, it was the members of the Communist Youth League who built a modern automobile city in five years on a piece of barren land. Nasja spent two days arranging everything for the expedition. After that, Xie liaosha took the subordinates of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation to take a charter flight to the city of tauriati.

Xie liaosha's team includes not only staff from the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation, but also experts from the Ministry of automobile industry, as well as heads of some foreign trade companies engaged in automobile trade. According to seliosha, there are not many countries and regions in the world that can be regarded as the Soviet Union's automobile consumers. The United States is imposing sanctions on the Soviet Union. The automobile industry in Western Europe is even better than that in the Soviet Union. Only Latin America, Africa, and Asia are the markets for seliosha, so for seliosha, a good and cheap LADA is more important than a high-end Volga.

The Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation's visit to Volga automobile factory naturally attaches importance to it. Senior party officials from the automobile factory personally went to the airport to meet Xie liaosha's delegation, and escorted Xie liaosha all the way back to the hotel. Senior party officials didn't dare to disturb Xie liaosha's rest too much. After confirming the investigation arrangement with nasjia, senior party officials left first. It was not until the next morning that they arranged a car from the factory to pick Xie liaosha up from the hotel for investigation.

Led by senior party officials, managers and sales company leaders, Xie liaosha visited LADA Niwa's production line. As a mature model born nearly ten years ago, LADA Niva has many obvious advantages. First of all, it has excellent off-road performance. Although it is a small car, it has the off-road performance not inferior to that of British Land Rover and German Benz. Moreover, this car is durable and has excellent driving performance. It needs to be overhauled after running ten times the distance from Moscow to Vladivostok. As for the price of the car, most Russian families can afford it. In some remote villages, LADA Niva is even used as a tractor.

After visiting the production line, seryosa witnessed the outstanding performance of LADA Niva in the off-road obstacle field of Volga automobile factory. So Xie liaosha was very curious to ask the person in charge of the sales company: "since your product is so excellent, how about the sales situation abroad?"

The person in charge quickly replied: "our market share in the socialist countries in Eastern Europe has always been very high, and the sales situation is very good!"

He laughed, shook his head, and then asked, "what about countries other than the socialist camp in Eastern Europe? What's the situation? "

"This? A few years ago, our sales in Austria and Spain once ranked in the top 10, but later we had to give up the markets in these two countries because of sanctions and intensified market competition. But now in some Asian countries, as well as Mongolia, our products are still the best-selling models in the market! " The person in charge of sales replied.

Xie liaosha nodded and no longer expressed his opinions and questions to the person in charge. He called the senior party officials and managers of Volga automobile factory and asked in a low voice: "tell me the truth, is there a big gap between our car and similar foreign products?"

"Our main selling point is good quality and low price. Although it is not as fancy as foreign cars, we are equipped with air conditioning system which is rare in similar models. If it is not for sanctions, I believe our products can earn more foreign exchange income for the country!" Said a senior party official at the car factory.

"In fact, what I am most concerned about is whether we can open up some new markets for LADA, such as Latin American countries?" Xie liaosha asked.

"Cuba is one of our traditional big customers!" The manager of the car factory replied.

"How was their feedback?" Xie liaosha asked with concern.

"They like our own air-conditioning system best, because we are the cheapest of all cars with air conditioning!" The manager replied.

Xie liaosha is very satisfied with this. In Xie liaosha's heart, although LADA has many advantages, it is not suitable to use it to earn foreign exchange. However, it is very suitable to import livestock products, coffee, soybeans, even tobacco and other agricultural and animal husbandry products by barter trade if they are exported to agricultural and animal husbandry developed countries such as Brazil and Argentina. After all, these countries are not rich countries, and they are not rich in foreign exchange. If they put forward barter transactions, the other side should not refuse.

Thinking of this, seryosa has decided his first trading partner, which is Columbia, the home of Medellin group and Cali group. Let Colombia become one of the overseas dumping countries of Soviet cars, and then began to spread to neighboring countries. People in these countries speak the same Spanish, which should not cost much to promote. What's more, through auto trade, it is more convenient and safe for his Latin American customers to transfer their assets to Europe with loose supervision. In that case, he will be able to mobilize more funds. As for the use of these funds, Xie liaosha thinks that it may be a good choice to empty Japan in the near future.