A lysergic trip to the byd fever in China

When I wanted to realize, two women were making selfies by my side. They were looking for, without dissimulation, the best way to frame me next to them.

They did not, of course, for my beauty. I don’t believe it, at least.

It is much more likely that the last thing to be expected to meet when they accepted byd’s invitation to attend the ceremony that the unit celebrated 1,000,000 Dolphin Surf It was seeing a group of European journalists. We were there to know some of the Latest Innovations of the Company But also cover what is his first great milestone.

On his way to climb to be “one of the three major car manufacturers in the next five years”, Byd has put on the street a million units of the units of the Byd Seagull. Or, as we know him in Europe, Byd Dolphin Surf. A figure that they have reached in just 27 months and for which they had a great party prepared.

Accompany me on this trip to the heart of the byd fever in China. A sometimes lysergic trip, sometimes incomprehensible and, of course, totally different from what we can expect from a European manufacturer.

Lost among the metadata of a mobile to know who

Byd had promised us that we would know the Xi’an factory. Considered the largest vehicle production plant in the world (according to the brand maturely 13.3 million square meters), the immensity seemed even greater with all the lines stopped. “On Sunday, you don’t work,” explain the workers of the company itself.

Although they also pointed out that everything depends on demand and market requirements. It seems that in China, as in any other part of the world, the market sends. In fact, according to Reutersit seems that the company is going through a momentary break, raising the foot of the accelerator.

Be that as it may, there I was in the middle of an empty plant that only filled the screams of a good handful of fans of the brand, attending how my face was immortalized in the memory of a folding phone of Huawei and a second mobile from Xiaomi.

Someday, I imagine, the two women will no longer wear those two white shirts with bright letters in which it reads Super Seagull and they will ask with the same strangeness as who I was that kid of the screen.

Behind us, a handful of Byd Dolphin Surf on the light line, where the body defects are checked, and a sign in which it was indicated that we were before unit 1,000,000. A little over two years ago, this car or existed.

Now, A group of enthusiasts They are the cornerstone of a party that would have its peak in a convention hall in the city of Xi’an.

There we would arrive later, aboard a dolphin surf with which We tried your eye from Godthe most advanced autonomous driving system that, yes, for this car is limited to highways.

What we found when we got off was a real party of brand enthusiasts. The entrance to the enclosure was guarded by more than a dozen personalized cars. They were vehicles from the clients who had wanted to contribute their grain of sand. Had returned to two thousand tunneros from Spain. But in Chinese slope.

That is, in format Cute or eminently Friki. With some Byd Seagull/Dolphin Surf painted like a racing car, with its vinyl, its multicolored paint and a great presence of black and red. Toyo wheels with the registration painted on the side of them. A good spoiler in the back.

But also a pink and blue unit in pastel tones. Easily questionable combination. Like the unit with dozens of Labubus tied in the trunk of the car with a chain in the purest skin shelter style of El Corte Inglés. Later, among the screams of the attendees claiming theirs would find out what this doll is It has also become fashionable in Spain.

Swirling among cars, customers and brand fans. And influencers, of course. Influencers showing the event in the purest style of Chinese streamers that a couple of years ago They gathered on the bass of a bridge. Surprise, in fact, how easy it is to see a streamer on the street telling live God knows what.

A crazy celebration

That same was wondering that night. We had an hour and fifteen minutes of gala for when I made the decision to leave the living room for a moment to go to the bathroom.

I had been delaying the inevitable for a while and after 75 minutes of talk in which the maximum responsible for the vehicle told their experience I understood that there was still a good time sitting there. I decided After the second musical issue.

It was then, with the appearance of a group tributed to The Who that seemed taken from a parody of El Terrat, when I left the room. It was the second time that those singers, all of them from a Byd Dolphin Surf, appeared on the scene to encourage attendees. We were, of course, in the intermediate.

Those who did not rest were the two influencers that, live in the immensity of the Hall of the Convention Center, showed on the screen what seemed like a kind of Teleth of Byd accessories. I don’t know how many would be following the event live, but surely one of them was inside.

I checked it on my return. While attendees stirred colored sticks in a dark lounge singing and Dancing to the rhythm of seventies hymns and eighties of, Mies neighboring seats looked moved the screens of their mobile phones. There they were, at the same party that continued with great interest in a panel of less than seven inches.

The lights lit shortly after and the gala exploded like a confetti cannon. In the next hour, the new commercial offer of the Dolphin Surf Byd for China (less than 9,000 euros, by the way) would be overshadowed in an unbridled career of unexpected events.

In a few moments, the 10 people who had received the 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 units … from the Dolphin Surf byd took the stage to receive their gifts. It was the moment of the public. Byd wanted to return part of the love received throughout the day.

And what better than a labubu?

Labubus for those who show more enthusiasm in front of the camera! And the madness unleashed. Assistants dancing, attendees raising neon posters, couples creating giant hearts. Three, four draws later, Tsunami Labubu seemed to have devastated the spirits. I do not blame the fan of the brand in front of them, who was focused on the game started with a card video game on his mobile phone. By then, it should be a little less fan.

Only one thing could get him out of the self -absorption. Another raffle! Much faster than my ability to understand that at night, in an instant almost all the attendees grabbed the mobile phone and stirred it strongly. Something new was at stake. Specifically, a folding camping game, with table, chairs and tent included.

The relationship of an entire arsenal of accessories for the campsite with a car designed by and for the urban environment? None. At least I thought that when the graceful ones went up to pose with their gifts. By then, my head already asked for a truce. More than two hours had passed since that gala began.

I needed the stimuli to cease.

And ceased after they entered Liuyi Wang and Qianyi Wangcelebres twins World Champions and Olympic Synchronized Swimming. The gala came to an end, the surprise was on stage and the attendees seemed to give the first symptoms of exhaustion. I had given them about 100 minutes before.

It was the climax, Our favorite tribute band He took the stage again. The clock already counted almost two and a half hours when the pseudo Berto Romero with a microphone said goodbye.

I, with a tired face, thanked it. With half a smile, I recognize, I asked the show to continue. I felt like the American astronaut who lands in a Marciano raised in Catch the flag.

But, of course, the only one who should seem a Martian there was me.

Without shaking my colored sticks, without stirring my mobile phone to receive a tent that I will never use.

Without fighting for a labubu.

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