Hello, welcome to the advanced carcast podcast. I'm Matt, the motorator DeAndre here with

Alastor Weaver. How are you? I'm good, thanks Matt. Yeah, fighting a bit of a cold, but struggling

on manfully. That's just because you have kids. I haven't had a cold in like 10 years. Everybody's just gone back to school and it's just a petri dish. So the six-year-old got sick. Then my three and a half-year-old got sick. My wife kind of just about manate, you know, just about holding on. And then the smile out of work, I was like, I don't feel good. Yeah. I've smashed the bit of me. See, but, you know, I don't get like, you know, babysitter come in and look after me and feed me and, you know, look after me on the safer. I'm here doing a podcast. So what can you do? So if I sound a bit nasally, that's why I'll do my best to muscle through. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Glad to to muscle through.

Well, thank you.

I appreciate that.

Glad to have you here. And stuff going on.

We've got huge week.

Yeah, just all of a sudden it came up.

I checked a few days ago and I was like, it's boring.

This week's nothing's happening.

But I realized there's, their show is happening. There's auto show is happening.

There's, there's announcements being made just not in my neighborhood. It was really interesting because,

you know, we, I'm not going to re-religate the whole idea of the end of the auto show, but

it's the Munich Auto Show next week. We've got our head of new Steve Ewing going out there.

But it's, you know, there's really big news from Germany's big three.

And whether they've been had a degree of sort of political pressure or whatever around the auto show, we've got to make some noise.

But yeah, really big week because both Mercedes, BMW and Audi have all basically come out with vehicles that said, this is what our

design language of the future. And in layman speak, what that means is, this is, you know, we are

going to develop three new models and say, this is what all the cars of the future are going to

look like. And they do this kind of almost once a generation.

And, you know, BMW, Audi and Mercedes have all had this kind of slightly controversial aesthetic for a few years.

And they brought in, certainly in Audi's case, big name new designer.

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