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Welcome to the Views Room, a podcast from Reuters' Breaking Views.

I'm Anthony Curry, and here with me on the phone from Hong Kong is Peter Sweeney.

How are you?

I'm good, Anthony. How are you?

Very well, very well, sitting here down under in Melbourne.

So finally extending the podcast all the way around the world and to the bottom of it.

So today, what we want to talk about is the wonderful world of cars, well, car makers.

We've got plenty to dig into.

Pete, you're going to kick us off a bit with some of the conventional automakers. I'll jump in with you. And then, of course, we'll get to the big deal of the week, the biggest spack that we've seen so far, though chances are, given where this market's going, this spack market is going, is going to be overtaken at some point, pardon the pun, but lucid motors, the deal for lucid motors, one of these upsarts. Let's start off with what's going on with our traditional friends.

So the General Motors, the Fords, the Toyotas of this world.

Pete, you're looking at the Japanese carmakers and their results recently.

You're feeling relatively good about them, aren't you?

All things considered?

Yeah, well, it is a mixed story.

I mean, not, I mean, like with all the automakers, I mean, but clearly the big brands like Toyota and Honda came out looking pretty good,

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