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Now we'll start with some news of Ford.

And earlier on this week, there was a kind of an industry event called the automotive news congress the

great and good were there and jim farley the CEO of ford was talking on stage and i was watching

this one and really interested about what he said about you the deal with volksvagan and the

evis so if you don't know i'll remind you if you do, to recap, the Ford Explorer and the Ford Capri,

both built on the MEP platform here in Europe. That's Volkswagen's platform. Meanwhile,

Volkswagen's new vans, like the multi-van and the transporter, are built on the Ford Transit

Commercial Technology, so swapping of stuff.

A big deal between those two companies.

It took 15 minutes, he says, because he walked down the hall,

went into the office of Chairman Bill Ford,

explained what the deal was.

He gave it the nod, talked to some executives,

called VW back 15 minutes later, and the Germans were flawed.

It took them two more months to negotiate with the ownership of VW back 15 minutes later and the Germans were flawed. It took them two more months to negotiate with the ownership of VW,

which is one of the things I'll talk about in a special show coming soon,

about why VW is so hamstrung,

but just because of the way they've got to go talk to part owners,

the Works Council, the state of Lower Saxony,

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