Hello, welcome to the Edmonds Carcast podcast.

I'm Matt the moderator, DeAndre here with Alastor Weaver, our first show back for 2026.

Welcome home.

Thank you very much.

Happy New Year, everybody.

Nice to be back. 2026 is here and all that. I am spectacularly jet-lacked. My boy got me up at 140 this morning. I only got back from Europe on Sunday. And my three-year-old decided at 140 a.m. was the time to get up because presumably that's the time he was getting up in Europe. So yeah, it's already

a long day and it's not lunchtime yet. It's before noon over here. I know. I was like, long.

I tell you it's amazingly how productive you are before 7 a.m. took a Christmas tree down,

you know, took it out the door. Did it unpack the bags, did a huge amount of work in before in those six hours up to

breakfast time.

So overall, a good trip.

Yeah, good trip.

Nice to see family.

Get back to the mother country, as you want to call it that.

So, yeah, so you went home, but then also France.

Right, because your wife's from France.

You got family at both locations. You guys got to go visit everybody, hop planes back and

forth. And I, tell me a little bit about the automotive differences in the UK and France.

Is it, do you look forward to one more than the other? I mean, it's kind of,

it's kind of interesting because I've been out there, you know, it's 2018 that I emigrated. So I feel like

out of the scene. And I think we talked about this on a previous show, but so much has changed,

particularly in the UK where a lot of the Chinese brands, they don't have the tariffs that we do in the US. There's not as many restrictions. And also, they were quite clever in buying up old British brands like MG, the famous MG brand is now owned by the Chinese. So if you look at the top telling, top 10 selling cars in the UK, they're actually got Chinese brands in there. And I think they've now got like 10% market share, if I remember correctly.

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