The Paris Motor Show kicks into gear
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🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: All roads lead to Paris as the City of Light hosts its major motor show, with French and Chinese car manufacturers dominating the event with new reveals. Then, South America has exceeded its record for wildfires this year. The Amazon rainforest is seeing its worst fires in two decades; an area bigger than Sri Lanka has burned in the Brazilian Amazon alone.
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| 0:00.0 | Is the Paris Motor Show shifting gears? |
| 0:04.0 | Well, let's find out. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Marketplace's Morning Report and we're live from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Leanna Byrne. |
| 0:11.0 | So the 90th Paris Motor Show brings together the biggest names in the car world to show off |
| 0:16.1 | their latest tech and the show comes at a really interesting time for the industry. |
| 0:20.4 | Joining us from the show is the BBC's Theo Legge. Hello Theo. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello Theo. Good morning Theo what's it like there? What's grabbed your attention? |
| 0:28.6 | Well this has always been one of the big events of the year for the motor industry in Europe. |
| 0:35.3 | And this is the 90th edition of it. |
| 0:37.0 | Now, it is smaller than it used to be. |
| 0:39.0 | That's one thing I've noticed. |
| 0:40.6 | There are fewer exhibitors now. |
| 0:42.3 | And that's been the case really since the COVID pandemic. |
| 0:44.5 | A lot of big manufacturers decided that they could spend their millions somewhere else. |
| 0:49.5 | So there's been a real change I've seen here. |
| 0:51.5 | There are big manufacturers at the show and the giant |
| 0:54.6 | halls here are full. But let me read you some of the names of the companies exhibiting. |
| 0:59.5 | Ex-Peng, GAC, Skyworth, Maxis, Leep Motor, Hong Ki, 4 Thing, BYD. Now, Leanna, these are probably not familiar names for a reason. |
| 1:10.9 | It's because they're all Chinese Chinese and that's really the story here |
| 1:13.8 | a lot of the European manufacturers are staying away they're struggling at the |
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