the two—time former fi champion will be part of the toyota factory team with whom he's already won twos bbc.com/sport. but from me, and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. we will see you again in the next hour. take care. hello. there's a battle between cold and mild air taking place across the uk at the moment to see which wins out for the weekend. spoiler, it is the cold air. already in place across northern parts of the uk. on the dividing line between the two before the cold air wins and heads south, some of us are about to get a lot of heavy rain through friday into early saturday, and the moors of southwest england into wales and northern england from this waving weather front. finally as it does clear by the end of saturday, from southeast england, that is when the cold air travels further south. already in place across the northern half of the uk, a touch of frost for you to start the day, and a mild start the further south you are. a fine start for many of us, a few showers in scotland. here comes the rain from the southwest and wales into the midlands, especially the

factory glue facing china and europe. slid deeper into contraction, giving the weakest reading since 2009. auto sales look equally grim. nissan's 18% drop led declines. toyotaid not fare much better. the severity stokes fears that the long anticipated car sale we call, carmageddon, -- maty -- may be arrivinig arriving. it is not look good. what is the problem? >> as you said, the picture is not complete. we will get ford and gm chrysler today with quarterly figures. but what we have seen is as you say. we have seen these numbers really drop, particularly on the asian side. the german carmakers did ok. volkswagen had a very tough quarter or month. but bmw and daimler did all right. 34. the difference between bmw and mercedes sales in the month of september. they outsold mercedes by a grand total of 34 cars. net and neck. -- neck and neck. anna: that is a granular -- is granular. what is the bigger picture? is it about weakness in the confused byare they the move away from traditional cars into electric? it's probably a bit of all of that. it shows that if you are not top of the game in terms of your model lineup, if you have cars out there that feel dated, y