03-30-2013, 08:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2013, 08:26 AM by conan_murder.)
This is the try that I survived the longest and I think is the best. I play on easy as I'm a complete idiot when it comes to Business Management, even on earlier attempts on easy weren't successful either.
I started my company in Luanda which in 1900 was a Portuguese colony. I designed a complete crapbox, named the Cheapest Ever (I really call it that). The car isn't the cheapest for customer, but it's almost the cheapest car you can make, single cylinder, really rubbish chassis, gearbox that can go forward and backward (I can go even cheaper if I use only forward, but I don't like it, it's not practical).
First, I place my first branch in London and New York, there's a lot of demand for cars there, I sold it for a few hundred dollars at first, but then I gradually raise the price, I found that in London I can sell it at $1,000 and still sell well, but in New York I sell it at $900. I sell it at around 100-130 unit a month for each places. I make quite a lot of profit just selling the damn thing. I tried expanding my company to many other places, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Seoul, L.A. but none smaller market made any profit for me.
But then I think, that's not what anyone would want, selling an overpriced crapbox. So I decided to use the profit to try and find a new market for 'good' car, first, I make a 4x4 sport coupe with V6 engine, I call it the Quattro, but that didn't sell, so I designed a new Touring car, call it an M5, with V12 engine and light chassis it's really goes, but that didn't sell either.
I tried making an advance car every 2-3 years, including a modernize version of the original Cheapest Ever, but all of them were a complete flop. I designed a lot of engines, chassis, gearboxes. A lot of them were technical masterpiece, but none actually sell.
All of the profit I made through times, including the World War I, are made from the Cheapest Ever, I never change the price that much, I always sell it at $1,000 (Which later I raised it in New York as well). The press really love it, they said it's horrible when it came out, and they still say it's horrible now.
I also included the save, it's in 1920 something, which is around the time company is going down, I can't help it, if you can save it, please do tell how you did it!
I started my company in Luanda which in 1900 was a Portuguese colony. I designed a complete crapbox, named the Cheapest Ever (I really call it that). The car isn't the cheapest for customer, but it's almost the cheapest car you can make, single cylinder, really rubbish chassis, gearbox that can go forward and backward (I can go even cheaper if I use only forward, but I don't like it, it's not practical).
First, I place my first branch in London and New York, there's a lot of demand for cars there, I sold it for a few hundred dollars at first, but then I gradually raise the price, I found that in London I can sell it at $1,000 and still sell well, but in New York I sell it at $900. I sell it at around 100-130 unit a month for each places. I make quite a lot of profit just selling the damn thing. I tried expanding my company to many other places, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Seoul, L.A. but none smaller market made any profit for me.
But then I think, that's not what anyone would want, selling an overpriced crapbox. So I decided to use the profit to try and find a new market for 'good' car, first, I make a 4x4 sport coupe with V6 engine, I call it the Quattro, but that didn't sell, so I designed a new Touring car, call it an M5, with V12 engine and light chassis it's really goes, but that didn't sell either.
I tried making an advance car every 2-3 years, including a modernize version of the original Cheapest Ever, but all of them were a complete flop. I designed a lot of engines, chassis, gearboxes. A lot of them were technical masterpiece, but none actually sell.
All of the profit I made through times, including the World War I, are made from the Cheapest Ever, I never change the price that much, I always sell it at $1,000 (Which later I raised it in New York as well). The press really love it, they said it's horrible when it came out, and they still say it's horrible now.
I also included the save, it's in 1920 something, which is around the time company is going down, I can't help it, if you can save it, please do tell how you did it!