We can't let this Hua Xia company come in and mess things up!
This was the consensus of all the United States motorcyclists. The next step is how to deal with this BYD company that appeared out of nowhere.
There are only two ways to defeat your opponent in business. One is to release a more powerful new product and use its strength to defeat your opponent and regain control of the market.
Unfortunately, this method is unrealistic for United States motorcycles and even Harley-Davidson motorcycles. After all, it is impossible to increase the engine speed of the Harley-Davidson motorcycles to more than 400 km/h. Some technicians even think that 400 km/h is the boiling point of the motorcycle engine. It is impossible to break through this limit. This is the upper limit of gasoline engines.
Even if you have a new product and can produce a 480 km/h engine, not to mention how long it will take to mass-produce it, just the cost alone is probably more than 100,000 USD. How can you sell such a motorcycle to United States Captain, whose most expensive motorcycle is only 500 USD?
Therefore, it is impossible to surpass your opponent in terms of strength. Therefore, you can only use the second method.
That is to destroy your opponent.
There are only two ways to destroy your opponent.
The first is to destroy your opponent's brand by creating something that goes against the market or damages the reputation of your brand. This will completely destroy your opponent's brand value.
However, this method is obviously impossible. After all, these Hua Xia companies are not stupid. They are well-prepared in all aspects. It is impossible to expect them to destroy themselves in a short period of time.
Therefore, there is only one last method left. That is to help them destroy themselves.
This is the only method that Harley-Davidson and other motorcycle companies can use. In a situation where BYD is unable to release a new product in a short period of time, attacking BYD's reputation or finding flaws in their motorcycles is the best method.
These two methods are actually relatively easy. First is the speed. A speed of 480 km/h is undoubtedly very dangerous. It must be severely criticized for ignoring the safety of the rider. It must tell everyone that riding such a motorcycle is a dead end.
Therefore, not long after the second batch of United States Captain motorcycles was sold, some major United States media outlets appeared almost simultaneously to criticize BYD's Captain motorcycles.
A 480km/h motorcycle is too dangerous, and buying such a motorcycle is suicide. Then they found a few United States captains who were seriously injured while riding BYD bikes.
Needless to say, such cases were quite easy to find. After all, 480 yards was really suicidal.
However, the problem was that after the second batch of American team captains were sold, BYD cleverly signed all kinds of safety guarantee contracts. In terms of the law, BYD had nothing to do with it.
As for the first batch of contracts, BYD immediately issued a recall order to all customers who had purchased the first batch of motorcycles. They could buy back the motorcycles that they had sold at the original price.
If BYD was not willing to recall BYD's cars, they would need to sign the same disclaimer clause as the second batch. Anyway, all the loopholes in the law had been fixed. Even if BYD encountered a few problems occasionally, BYD would only need to pay compensation. It was impossible to defeat BYD with a lawsuit unless the US government was shameless enough to introduce a policy.
These news are mainly used to scare potential customers who want to buy United States Captains. They want to tell them that the motorcycles are too fast and too dangerous. A speed of 480 km/h is crazy. It is safer to buy their 360-km/h motorcycles.
What Harley-Davidson Motorcycles didn't expect was that BYD's business wasn't affected at all after the release of the press release. Instead, their business was even better than before. Their preorders had increased by more than 30% compared to a few days ago. Wang Chuanfu's eyebrows were about to jump up.
The reason is very simple. Originally, many customers did not know that there are motorcycles that can reach 480 km/h in this world. Now that they know, they naturally want to buy them. They have to thank Harley-Davidson and other companies for this.
Seeing this result, Harley-Davidson and other companies are naturally unwilling to accept it. So, they exposed that there is a group of people in the market who can break BYD's safety restrictions. They hope to use this to attack BYD.
Then, BYD's pre-orders increased by more than 30%. After all, those people who secretly unlocked motorcycles will not blatantly advertise themselves. So, most customers do not know about the unlocking service. When they heard that the speed limit is 120 km/h in the sales hall, they wanted to give up buying.
But now, they know that there is a way to unlock the speed limit. Thank you for reminding them. They have nothing to worry about!
As a result, Harley-Davidson Motorcycles and other companies could only watch with their mouths agape as the American team leader's quota exceeded the astonishing figure of 50,000 units within three days.
This made Wang Chuanfu feel a little embarrassed. He wanted to give Harley-Davidson and other companies a silk banner with the words "Industry Role Model – Benefiting Everyone" written on it. Unfortunately, Wang Chuanfu was too busy and quickly forgot about this idea. Otherwise, these companies will definitely be grateful.
Since the first plan did not work, they came up with another plan. Since they can't attack the safety for the time being, they have to do something else. So, Harley-Davidson invested a lot of money to buy a few United States Captains and dismantle them. They intend to find some quality problems from the United States Captains and attack them.
Well, the reason why they invested a lot of money is that Harley-Davidson did not manage to get the second batch of United States Captains. As for the third batch, they have to wait for at least half a month. They can't wait that long, so they can only spend 10,000 USD to buy a few United States Captains from scalpers.
It is said that when these scalpers found out that Harley-Davidson bought from them, they were surprised and happy. Then, they bragged about it for the rest of their lives.
However, the Harley-Davidson motorcycle was not without results. At least after dismantling it, they found that the United States Captains were not using a metal shell, but a plastic one. They immediately became excited.
This is definitely cutting corners. They must be severely criticized!
But when this plan was reported, it was rejected by the leaders. First of all, BYD did not actually say that it had a metal shell in the publicity. They only said that it had a metallic texture, a weapon of war, reinforced iron bones, and so on. Which word mentioned that the shell was made of metal? This was not an exaggeration at all!
Of course, this was not the most important thing. The most important thing was that the shell of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle was actually made of plastic. It had nothing to do with metal.
It was not that Harley-Davidson was unwilling to pay the cost. After all, the metal shell was actually not worth much. The key was that once the motorcycle was really equipped with a metal shell, its weight would at least double. At that time, not to mention 360 km/h, even a speed of 300 km/h would be difficult.
But when Harley-Davidson advertised, it actually said that it had a metal body. Although there were some word games in it, for example, the metal body referred to the entire skeleton. This was definitely made of pure metal.
As for the shell, it was not included in the scope of the body.
Although there was no problem with it, compared to the metallic texture that BYD advertised, it was much worse. Don't slap yourself in the face when the time comes!
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