Three years ago, Wang Xiaolin stood in the middle of the Bird's Nest, which was the highlight of his life, and the night of The Race Lin burned 100 million yuan, and the air was filled with the smell of renminbi.
Three years later, Wang Xiaolin had already fled to a beautiful country, and his inability to buy a ticket back to China became a shield for him not to take responsibility, so he was jokingly called "the second Jia Yueting" by netizens.
Recently, the circle of friends is sighing "If you can go back to 2019, I will definitely ...", perhaps Wang Xiaolin, who is far away from the USA in a foreign country, thinks the same at this moment. If he hadn't tried to make money in the name of building cars, pitting employees, suppliers and shareholders, the situation might not have been as out of control and bad as it is now.
But there is no regret medicine in the world, all this is already an established fact. Over the years, Sailin Automobile has experienced assets being seized, accounts frozen, the chairman of the board of directors being investigated, the factory being forced to close, and recently it has made headlines on the front page of automobiles and finance, that is, the company's assets have been listed for auction. It can really be said that I saw him rise up the Zhu Lou, watched him feast on guests, and watched him collapse.
Of course, the new car-making forces that have fallen from the peak to the trough, Sai Lin is not the first, nor will it be the last. At present, there are already many new car-making forces lying in the ICU, and their current situation is also very embarrassing.
Aichi Cars
Born in February 2017, Aichi has three fathers with very hard backgrounds, namely Harmony Automobile, Foxconn and Tencent, and Byton Automobile, which is also a new car-making force, and it is a cousin.
Unfortunately, Byton Automobile, which "burned 8.4 billion yuan in 3 years and can't build a mass production car", is recently filing for bankruptcy liquidation, while AIWAYS' annual sales last year were only a pitiful 3,011 units, and only 552 units in Q1 2022. What does this sales mean? Needless to say, you know it.
Not only is sales sluggish, a number of automobile and financial media have broken the news, starting from 2020, Aichi began to reduce wages for employees internally, and then deteriorated to arrears of wages, and even suppliers can not afford to pay.
At the beginning of April, a fire incident in Chengdu at Aichi U5 undoubtedly magnified the current miserable situation of Aichi. Nowadays, the new investor Chen Xuanlin has "entered" Aichi, the original head of Fu Qiang will be marginalized, and it is only a matter of time before Aichi changes the sky.
However, if there is no sales volume, no sound volume, no quality Aichi, can the new capital rescue it from the ICU? Maybe it's harder than ascending to heaven.
Cloudy Cars
On the new energy track, Yundu got up early in the morning, but rushed to a late set.
Founded in 2015, Yundu is backed by fuqi group, which is a mixed operation. At that time, Yundu was the undisputed first batch of new car-making forces in China, and its fame was no less than that of the Ningde era in Fujian.
Sucking on the milk of new energy subsidies, although Yundu did not come up with any eye-catching products, the days were still quite moist. However, with the release of the new energy subsidy policy in 2019, the national subsidy fell by more than 50%, and all local subsidies were cancelled, and Yundu's sales that year plummeted, with only a pitiful 2566 vehicles, a sharp decline of 72.4% year-on-year.
Such a devastating blow directly put Yundu into a state of temporary suspension of work and production, and as of March 31 this year, the total debt of Yundu has reached 1.682 billion yuan.
Maybe Aichi is luckier than Yundu, at least there are already investors to take over. Nowadays, Yundu Automobile, which is in the predicament of suspension of production, huge losses and insolvency, is still waiting for the arrival of the white knight, if there is no external fund "blood transfusion" for a long time, this new force that has been lying in the ICU, I am afraid it will not last long.
Skyline Cars
The predecessor of Tianji is Electric Cafe, which was originally one of LeTV's car brands, and after the break of the LeTV capital chain, Zhang Hailiang, who was responsible for the electric coffee car project, led the team to start another stove and hatched the current Tianji Automobile.
Zhang Hailiang is a famous post-70s young marshal in the automotive industry, once the most promising vice president of SAIC Group, due to his long-term work experience in SAIC Volkswagen, many media people called Tianji "the Volkswagen system of new car-making forces".
However, the fate of the high-end Skyrim is much more tragic than that of "Wei Xiaoli". Deliveries of the first ME7 began in September 2020, but the first year was delivered with less than 100 units. Deliveries of the second model, the ME5, began in November 2021, but throughout 2021, Skyline cars have delivered less than 2,000 units cumulatively.
For example, the Skyline Center, which opened in Beijing's Oriental Plaza in January 2021, suffered the fate of closing in mid-April this year. Some media disclosed that in the month before the withdrawal of the store, only 4 cars were sold. To this day, the volume of deliveries on the Internet about Skyrim remains a mystery.
Recently, a number of automobile and financial media have revealed that Tianji Automobile owes about 30 million yuan to its partners, and the production of mass-produced models is also hindered by insufficient supply of parts, and there are some problems in the capital chain. On the surface, Skyrim's situation is slightly better than that of Aichi and Yundu, but there is not much time left for it.
【Conclusion】The above is a brief comment through the sale of Sailin Automobile, which is a wake-up call to the entire automobile industry, that is, we are talking about the new forces of car manufacturing at the end of the moment are struggling, and the above 3 companies are in danger, and there is a possibility of going out at any time. What are your views and opinions on this? Welcome to leave a message with us.