Welcome in, today is Friday, August fourteenth, and we begin in Galicia, where Automotive News reports Spain is set to clear a Chinese car plant sited next to a naval base. Automotive News reports that Spain's Defense Ministry will approve state-owned Chinese automaker SAIC's plans to build a car plant in the Galicia region. We have not seen it matched elsewhere. A ministry spokesperson confirmed the decision to that outlet, and the same account ties the reported objections to the site's proximity to a naval base. A separate summary from that outlet describes intelligence warnings about potential espionage risks from the Chinese automaker. Those warnings are alleged and unconfirmed, and neither account states that any finding has been made. What changes here is the gate. National defense review was the mechanism that could have stopped the project, and per that reporting the ministry is set to clear it rather than use it, which makes this a reference point for how far reported security objections can hold up Chinese vehicle manufacturing inside the European Union. That reporting carries no effective date, no construction timetable and no conditions attached to the approval. Industry reaction leans away from the tariffs and security frame. Some practitioners argue the binding constraint on this wave of Chinese plants in Spain is not capital or policy but local talent and supplier requalification, on the view that a production line can be moved in about a year and a half, while a local leadership bench and a European parts and logistics ecosystem take considerably longer. A more skeptical thread in the channel questions whether the incoming manufacturers will devolve senior roles to local hires and adapt to European labour norms, with retention, not recruitment, framed as the likelier stall point. Also today, Toyota is recalling more than six hundred fifty-five thousand Camry vehicles over a turn signal fault, according to Just Auto. Per the same reporting, five hundred eight thousand, three hundred fifty-four of those are twenty twenty-five and twenty twenty-six Camry Hybrids sold in the United States, in a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That is the bulk of the campaign, and it lands squarely on current-generation hybrid volume, which is where the cost and the dealer service load will sit on Toyota's highest-running American nameplate. That reporting does not carry a remedy or an owner-notification date. Reaction in the trade leans toward reading this as a software defect rather than a hardware one, with some noting that a display bug taking out turn signals has surfaced at the industry's reliability leader. A recurring undertone there is that software-defined vehicles shift recall exposure toward code, and that recall tallies usually topped by electric newcomers now carry a legacy volume brand at the top. Now, a few more headlines moving the trade today. Hyundai is planning a twenty-six billion dollar product expansion into trucks, SUVs and commercial vehicles under chief executive Jose Muñoz, Automotive News reports, moving it toward a full-line brand by twenty thirty. Western European passenger vehicle sales grew for a sixth consecutive month in July, reaching nearly one million units, per Just Auto's industry data. And finally, following our earlier report on its federal approval, Amazon's Zoox has moved from free rides to paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas, Automotive World reports, which describes the fares as not cheap.