Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc (AML) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning or good afternoon all and welcome to the Aston Martin Lagonda Q3 2025 results. My name is Adam and I'll be your operator today. If you'd like to ask a question during the Q&A portion of today's call, you may do so by pressing star followed by one on your telephone keypad to enter the queue. And I will now hand the floor to Adrian Hallmark to begin. So Adrian, please go ahead when you're ready. Good morning and thank you, Adam. So first of all, a warm welcome to everybody and thank you for joining the call for the Aston Martin Q3 2025 results. Before we take questions on the line, Doug and I would like to provide a summary of our operational financial outlook during the last quarter, sorry, review for the last quarter and outlook for the rest of the year. Recognize that we already updated the market earlier this month. Much of what we will share today, you'll be already aware of. But it is important that we focus now on what we're doing and building forwards to highlight some of the actions that we've already taken in response to the challenges that we face. Let's start with operations, the heart of our business, and that's essentially our cars. As we said at the beginning of this year, we remain focused on refreshing our core models available to customers. Aston has a long-standing tradition of using the S suffix for the high-performance derivatives of core models, and we've continued that tradition this year by adding the Vantage S, DBXS, and most recently, the DB12S. We now also have the Volante or Roadster models available for all of our sports cars, and we recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of the iconic Volante name with the release of a limited edition, Q by Aston Martin, DB12, and Vanquish models. There will be much more to come in 2026, and...