All Show, No Go!

Of course, there are also many people who like bigger and bigger, but that is only a small part. They still have to consider the needs of the mainstream market.

The new engine is very powerful, and using it in the existing model would be a waste of its potential. Developing a larger model is unnecessary and not feasible. Therefore, the only option is to make improvements based on the existing model's dimensions.

Since the engine can drive a heavier vehicle body and provide ample power, he could certainly develop a high-end SUV with even stronger performance and greater weight based on the existing chassis!

So after careful consideration, Little Taylor decided to develop a heavy-duty armored vehicle based on the existing large SUV chassis!

Although Taylor Motors is not a large company, don't forget that in addition to the production and sales of regular pickup trucks and SUVs, another major business of theirs is to modify vehicles for various special purposes according to customer needs. In addition to common RVs, engineering vehicles and other special vehicles, this naturally includes the modification of armored vehicles.

Therefore, Taylor Motors actually has a lot of experience in the field of armored vehicles.

Currently, apart from a limited number of bulletproof versions offered by a few car manufacturers, most bulletproof vehicles on the market are retrofitted with bulletproof features by modification shops, just like the bulletproof modification business that Taylor Company previously conducted.

Due to the complexity of bulletproof cars, the production and modification process takes much longer than that of ordinary cars. Therefore, whether you buy them directly or modify them later, you have to wait a considerable amount of time before delivery. As a result, the supply of bulletproof cars in the entire automotive market is not large.

The United States is a country where gun ownership is legal, and with the frequent occurrence of shootings in recent years, the demand for bulletproof cars has been increasing year by year. In addition, the delivery cycle for bulletproof cars is relatively long, so there is a sense of supply falling short of demand.

Moreover, although there is competition in the bulletproof car market, there are only a few types of bulletproof cars on the market. Even though bulletproof modification factories can have some impact, the overall competition is not that fierce, much stronger than in their original ordinary pickup truck and SUV market.

So Little Taylor confidently began developing the bulletproof SUV.

However, the new engine that Eddicott ultimately developed did not have the superior performance of similar engines that he claimed. At best, it was comparable to similar engines, and although it was indeed slightly better than the lower-version Ford engines they had previously purchased, the improvement was still very limited.

Originally, if you only look at this engine alone, it was already quite good. This meant that Taylor Motors finally had its own engine and no longer needed to purchase it from outside suppliers. This would greatly reduce production costs and significantly improve the company's overall strength.

However, when Little Taylor. planned to close the R&D department, Eddicott exaggerated the performance of the engine excessively in order to protect his financial resources. As a result, Little Taylor.'s new car development plan, which was based on this fictional "super engine", was carried out at extremely high standards from the very beginning.

The entire vehicle body is made of armor, ceramics, bulletproof glass, special alloys and bulletproof composite materials, with a bulletproof rating of VR7 level, which can effectively withstand attacks from AK47 and hand grenades. However, at the same time, this 5.2-meter-long large bulletproof off-road vehicle weighs 3.5 tons, which is more than a ton heavier than their original ordinary off-road vehicle of the same size.

According to the data originally provided by Eddicott, this new engine is more than capable of easily driving this heavy behemoth and maintaining very strong power.

However, the actual performance of this engine is far from what Eddicott described. This makes the bulletproof off-road vehicle, which was designed exactly according to the engine data he provided, a mere shell with a cool appearance and strong defense, but unable to even climb a slope after being equipped with this scaled-down engine.

After the engine was first installed on the prototype, most of the initial driving tests were barely passed, but the overall performance was very average. The acceleration performance and top speed were mediocre, far from the powerful performance planned.

The lack of power was fully exposed during the subsequent hill-climbing test.

Off-road vehicles inherently need to possess strong off-road capabilities, and bulletproof off-road vehicles, in addition to their powerful defensive capabilities, must also have the ability to quickly evacuate in the event of an attack.

If it gets stopped by a slightly steep slope, it's just a tortoise shell. No one would spend a fortune to buy a bulletproof car that can only stand still and take hits, but can't take them away quickly.

This new engine, while still excellent, was far from powerful and simply couldn't move this heavy, armored off-road vehicle. By then, it was too late to replace it with another engine.

From the very beginning of the design phase, this car was designed according to the engine dimensions and specifications provided by Eddicott. The engine compartment layout, the specifications and layout of the clutch and transmission, the arrangement of the drive shaft, the arrangement of the chassis and the monocoque body floor, and many other aspects of the design are closely related to the engine.

If we were to replace the engine with a different model at this point, all of these designs would have to be scrapped and rebuilt, and half of the previous efforts would have been wasted.

The time and money required to replace the engine, modify the design, and start the new research and development were beyond the reach of Taylor Motors at this point.

They had originally staked everything on developing this bulletproof off-road vehicle. If it had been successfully developed as planned, they might have been able to break into the market and rapidly expand their business.

However, at this time, Taylor Company had almost run out of working capital, its special vehicle modification business had been shut down, and its car sales had plummeted, almost to the point of being unable to make ends meet. The situation no longer allowed them to spend time and money modifying new models.

The company is on the verge of bankruptcy!

This armored SUV, brimming with Little Taylor's ambition to expand the company, ended in failure.

Now, this car company, which had failed in its new model development, suffered a complete business collapse, and was on the verge of bankruptcy, along with the failed bulletproof off-road vehicle, has fallen into Chen Mo's hands.

Chen Mo naturally wouldn't let the company that already belonged to him continue to decline. He had money and technology; all he needed to do now was find a good direction for development.