Ann: Market Update for Half Year ending 30 June 2022, page-10

The last comment is a tad unfair.

If there's a global semiconductor shortage, and new cars have become more complex, requiring more of these tiny but essential items, how do you expect APE to control that?

And the war between Russia and Ukraine that's affecting Eastern European neighbours and probably even German-domiciled car manufacturers, again, what would you suggest APE does?

These are real, not imagined, causes. Nor are they just some lame excuse: they're factual.

APE is unlikely to have been able to forecast a global shortage of a key 'ingredient' such as semiconductors, and nor could it foresee that Chairman XI would continue to pursue 'COVID-zero' and suddenly lock down major cities.

I'd be certain it's pulling out all stops to secure deliveries as fast as possible but APE isn't God, or the leader of a major power like the USA.