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Chapter 472 - Chapter 471 Luxury Car Brands

Fan Bingbing did not take on the movie "Apple" like Barron did in his previous life.

However, the film's director still found Fan Bingbing. Although she did not agree to star in the film, she still invested in the film and helped the film's female director Li Yu contact other actresses.

This year's opening ceremony and first match of the German World Cup will be held at the Allianz Arena in Munich on June 9.

Allianz Arena is very familiar to many football fans. It is the home stadium of the Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich.

In fact, the Allianz Arena was originally jointly funded and built by city rivals Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich, with each side holding a 50% stake. It just opened a year ago, at the end of May last year.

However, more than ten years later, Bayern Munich bought the entire stadium and made it their exclusive home.

The A&R shipyard is located near the port of Bremen in the northwest of Germany, while Munich is located in the southeast of Germany. Therefore, traveling from Bremen to Munich is almost crossing the entire Germany.

After deciding to buy the super yacht, there were still a few days before the opening of the World Cup, so Barron took advantage of this time to visit many places in Germany with Fan Bingbing...

Such an opportunity is rare, and Fan Bingbing was very happy to be able to spend some time with Barendo. The two of them even entered the Netherlands from Germany and spent a day in Amsterdam.

Barron arrived in Munich before the World Cup started.

Munich is the capital of the German state of Bavaria. After arriving here, Barron was invited to visit the headquarters of BMW.

After all, as we all know, the abbreviation of BMW is "don't touch me"... BMW, and its full name is Bavarian Tractor... uh, no, it's Bayerische Motoren Werke AG.

"Hello, Your Highness, and this beautiful lady..."

The person who received Barron was not Dr. Punk, the 60-year-old chairman and CEO of BMW, but Reithofer, the director in charge of its production department.

He will take over as Chairman and CEO of BMW on September 1 this year.

In fact, Barron has always been an important customer of BMW - he has purchased many Rolls-Royce cars so far, and most of them are specially customized.

In fact, given his current status, if he had chosen a "British brand", he would have had to choose between Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

However, these two brands, one belonging to BMW and the other to Volkswagen, have been bought by German companies.

In the beginning, Rolls-Royce and Bentley belonged to the same company - Rolls-Royce Bentley.

Simply put, since 1931, Rolls-Royce and Bentley have merged into one company.

In 1998, Rolls-Royce Bentley fell into a financial crisis and was on the verge of bankruptcy.

So at that time, BMW and Volkswagen successively bid to acquire the company.

The main reason is that they all want to acquire the two luxury car brands, Rolls-Royce and Bentley, to fill their product lines.

Ultimately, Volkswagen outbid the competition and won Rolls-Royce Bentley.

But the story did not end here. Although Volkswagen completed the acquisition of Rolls-Royce Bentley, it found that they had no right to produce Rolls-Royce cars.

Why?

Because at that time many key components of Rolls-Royce Bentley came from BMW - including Rolls-Royce Aircraft Engine Company, the source of their engines, in which BMW also held a stake.

BMW threatened Volkswagen that it would stop supplying engines, air conditioning and other key components to the Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph and Bentley Arnage.

Volkswagen is well aware that without these parts from BMW they cannot produce Rolls-Royce or Bentley cars.

It will take Volkswagen another 4 to 5 years to develop a new model.

Ultimately, BMW agreed to continue supplying parts to Rolls-Royce, and Volkswagen could only produce Rolls-Royce until 2002, after which BMW would build a new base to produce Rolls-Royce.

BMW offered £40 million for the Rolls-Royce brand, while Volkswagen offered £640 million for the Bentley brand and the Rolls-Royce-Bentley plant in Crewe, England, and the Cosworth engine plant.

Barron has sent the CEO of Caesar Fund to America to negotiate with Ford to acquire their once-acquired British car brands, including Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover.

If given the chance, he would naturally hope to buy Rolls-Royce and Bentley, two of Britain's top luxury car brands, from BMW and Volkswagen.

But now it seems that this possibility is very low.

Because unlike Ford, which is already on the decline and suffering heavy losses, BMW and Volkswagen will not easily give up their two top luxury car brands, and the development of these two brands is going well in the future.

Not to mention Rolls-Royce and Bentley, I'm afraid it wouldn't be so easy to acquire Mini from BMW.

Therefore, after visiting and touring the BMW headquarters, Baron did not raise any topic of acquisition and left there with Fan Bingbing.

Next, Barron went to watch the opening ceremony of the World Cup and subsequent games with Fan Bingbing.

Even before the World Cup, the second Devonshire Hotel on the European continent opened in Munich.

This time, Barron and Fan Bingbing stayed in the Duke's Suite of the Devonshire Hotel (Munich) - because of the World Cup, even a luxury hotel like the Devonshire Hotel was almost full.

It can be said that the world's focus during this period is on the World Cup in Germany.

However, neither Barron nor Fan Bingbing's identities are suitable for being filmed by the camera.

Otherwise it would definitely make the front page of every newspaper...

Therefore, whether it was the opening ceremony, the opening match, or the subsequent games, they all watched them in the special VIP boxes.

The opening match was between the host Germany team and the Costa Rica team, which was in the same group as the Chinese national football team in the last World Cup.

The final result of the game also shows that there was no weak team in the same group as the Chinese national football team.

Although the German team won the game 4-2, Costa Rica still stubbornly scored two goals against the relatively strong German team (which eventually finished third).

"Your Highness, Mr. Ferran O'Neill has sent the information about the fund company he selected to your email, as well as the information about some traders you asked him to investigate..."

"Okay, I understand."

After Wang Wanting left, Barron walked into the study of the suite and turned on the computer.

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