A few days ago, Wei Jianjun, the founder of Great Wall Motors, released a set of videos of himself driving a motorcycle, with the text "This old guy who grew up with me has been as good as new for 40 years".
This is a brand promotion video, which should be a warm-up for the Great Wall's new eight-cylinder soul motorcycle, and it is not a big deal; However, some netizens still questioned that according to the "Regulations on Mandatory Scrapping Standards for Motor Vehicles", the scrapping life of two-wheeled motorcycles is 13 years, so the car should have been scrapped a long time ago, even if it was not scrapped, it could not be driven into the road, so Wei Jianjun's practice of driving this motorcycle must be a problem.
Wei Jianjun responded to this, and the content is as follows.
Interpretation of doubts
The response was still sincere, Wei Jianjun first explained that the vehicles occasionally drove on the roads in the village and the factory area, and secondly, he explained that the filming of the promotional video had received support and temporary management of a section of the road he was driving on.
It's just that there is still no response to the failure of the vehicle to be scrapped, how can this be explained?
The author can only make kind suggestions to some netizens:
Don't find fault.
The "Interim Provisions on Motorcycle Scrapping Standards" was implemented on October 1, 2002, and there were motorcycle scrapping regulations from this year; Later, the "Regulations on Compulsory Scrapping Standards for Motor Vehicles" came into effect on May 1, 2013, and motorcycles and automobiles were merged together for management. Wei Jianjun's Happiness 250 motorcycle is 40 years old, which means that the car has not undergone forced scrapping in the whole process from landing to being collected.
In fact, not only Wei Jianjun's Happy 250 motorcycle has not been scrapped, many motorcycle clubs have such a collection model, and the author often goes to the motorcycle store where the vehicle is maintained has the same collection car.
However, one thing is certain, that is, this car must not have a household, and it can be driven in the factory, because the factory is equal to people's backyard, and people can drive it as they want in their own yard; But can you open it casually in the village? That's a little weird, isn't it?
The answer is still those three words:
Don't find fault.
Village roads generally do not belong to administrative roads, that is, they do not belong to 1/2/3/4/class roads, unless they are directly connected to the organized villages and the established villages; The general village road is not managed by the traffic department, and the traffic police have never gone to the village to check the car, so in the rural roads can often see low-speed electric vehicles, agricultural machinery without license plates, and all kinds of motorcycles without license plates, some motorcycles that are only used in the countryside will not be licensed from the time of purchase.
Shizhuang Village is Wei Jianjun's hometown, and this village has borrowed a lot from the management experience of Great Wall Motor Company in transportation and other aspects, and it will inevitably receive a lot of help from Wei Jianjun; Therefore, there is no problem for Wei Jianjun to ride a bicycle on the road in the village, even if it is not Wei Jianjun, there is no problem for other people to ride unlicensed motorcycles or other means of transportation on the village road.
The question worth thinking about is this car
The 40-year-old happiness 250 can drive normally as long as it is maintained normally, Wei Jianjun can still ride this car in the fields, if there is no mandatory scrapping regulations for motorcycles, this car will have a license plate, an old man and an old car is another scene.
So the real question worth thinking about here is not whether Wei Jianjun has a problem riding an old car in the blind spot of traffic management, but whether the motorcycle should be forced to be scrapped! If they are all scrapped in accordance with the regulations, motor vehicles will not form a culture at any time.
On May 17th, the Beijing International Motorcycle Show will begin.
This time, Wei Jianjun of Great Wall Motors will bring his eight-cylinder soul motorcycle to the exhibition, and it may even be directly listed, and the motorcycles exhibited this time will inevitably have many eye-catching products; Among them, there will be fun-type locomotives, the price of these cars is often tens of thousands of yuan, the price of medium and large displacement locomotives is often tens of thousands of yuan, most of the motorcycle friends who will buy these motorcycles have cars, and they basically do not use motorcycles to commute on weekdays, so the average annual mileage of a motorcycle is only a few thousand kilometers, and some are even only a few hundred kilometers.
According to the standard of 13 years of mandatory scrapping, what will be scrapped at that time is a quasi-new car.
Is it reasonable, and is it a waste of resources?
That's what really hurts.
Epilogue:
Great Wall Motor's recent sales performance is not good to evaluate, and the product planning ideas are also confused, but everything must be done on a case-by-case basis, and there is no need to find fault with one person; Wei Jianjun is a success or a failure in the operation of Great Wall Motors, objectively it has little to do with car enthusiasts, on the contrary, there are some obviously irrational, for Wei Jianjun and the Great Wall brand evaluation is actually from individual competitors MKT/KOL, which brand believes in knowing, but even so can not stop the trend of declining sales of off-road vehicles, although the total sales of Great Wall Motors are not high, but there is still a leading position in the two major markets of off-road vehicles and pickup trucks.
However, each has its own strengths, so isn't it good for a hundred flowers to bloom?
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