Mercedes-Benz withdrew from the joint venture with BAIC? It's actually a false alarm!

The day before yesterday, an article entitled "Mercedes-Benz officially withdrew from the joint venture technology company with BAIC" made many people feel excited immediately after seeing it.

At first glance, will this change? Take a closer look, technology company? What the hell is this?

It is understood that as early as 20 15, Saab and Mercedes-Benz Technology Group (MB? TECH), a joint venture company named "Beiqi Deben Technology Center Co., Ltd." was established through joint venture, with both parties holding 5 1% and 49% respectively.

Beiqi Deben is mainly responsible for the design and development of high-end models of Beiqi brand. For example, the "famous" BJ90 built with the old Mercedes-Benz GL chassis is one of the representative works of BAIC Deben. Although this car, dubbed as "hanging a dog's head and selling mutton", is ugly, its interior and price are completely the level of a Mercedes-Benz flagship SUV-with 3.0TV6 and 4.0T? V8 engine, priced at 698,000-998,000 yuan.

In addition, BAIC Deben also made full use of Mercedes-Benz's experience to help BAIC brand better absorb and reuse the acquired SAAB brand technology, thus making the silicon carbide brand develop better.

Now, the sudden withdrawal of Mercedes-Benz Technology Group means that BAIC will no longer be able to get technical support from Mercedes-Benz.

The shares have changed, and the impact is not as big as expected?

In fact, the equity change of Beiqi Deben Company was completed as early as May this year. By querying the company's enterprise information, we can know that in May 13 MB? TECH Co., Ltd., together with several foreign directors, has officially withdrawn from BAIC Deben Company, and BAIC Deben has also been changed from a Sino-foreign joint venture company to an ordinary sole proprietorship company, but the registered capital of the company has increased from 6,543,800 yuan to 69,024,380 yuan.

To be honest, the impact of this share change on Beijing Benz itself or BAIC's own brand is actually not too great. First of all, Beijing Benz does not need the technology of Beiqi Deben. As a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz, MB? Tech's own technology is also limited. To put it bluntly, they are all outdated technologies of Mercedes-Benz.

On the other hand, for BAIC, although the phrase "losing the technical support of Mercedes-Benz" seems very serious, to be honest, since its establishment five years ago, BAIC has actually not acquired too much technology, and more just added a so-called "Deben" technical gimmick to product promotion, so the existence of BAIC Deben may always be a "chicken rib" for both parties.

Does it remind you of Honda (China)? ?

Obviously, the so-called withdrawal of Mercedes-Benz from the joint venture company is another typical example of the media trying to "make a big news", but it is actually a "natural merger". Its actual impact is not even as great as that of Guangqi Honda's acquisition of Honda Motor (China) in April this year.

When the news first came out, many people thought it was Honda's intention to "quit China" because many media were "more and more mysterious". Actually, it is not. It's just that Guangqi Honda, a joint venture of Guangqi Honda, has acquired a vehicle export manufacturing enterprise set up by Honda in China. In other words, in the future, Honda will produce complete vehicles (mainly Fit in Europe and America) and parts in China, and then export them to other countries.

Guangqi Honda made this acquisition mainly because it took a fancy to the "excess capacity" of Honda (China) production line. After the acquisition, it can increase the production capacity of its domestic products without expanding the original factory, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

So what if I really quit? ?

Whether Mercedes-Benz "quits the joint venture" or Honda "quits China", this kind of news can cause an uproar every time, more because everyone has been very sensitive to foreign technology. After experiencing the era of "exchanging market for technology", although the automobile market in China has really developed vigorously, the market has been exchanged, but few technologies have been exchanged.

Fortunately, in recent years, the performance of major independent head brands has become more and more competitive, and the development of self-developed technology and supporting parts has become more and more smooth. Coupled with the arrival of new energy trends, the gap between American and international brands has narrowed rapidly. Although it is still difficult to surpass, at least we are no longer subject to others. Besides, in the face of such a big market in China, no matter which brand dares to "offend" us rashly.

After all, we now have the confidence to shout: even if you really quit, so what?

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.