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Don't have a source ready but if I remember correctly they never planned to build the car themselves. There are plenty of contract manufacturers out there that build for a variety of brands (Magna Steyr in Austria is a typical example). Then Apple adds it's custom electronics and AI driving assistants and voila you got an iCar.

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I believe you’re right, but I thought the plan was to design it all themselves as opposed to buying/licensing an existing platform as skinning it + their electronics.

But then again they’ve changed things so many times according to the rumors maybe both were true at various times.

That’s true; and I think even more recently they were in talks with Kia, who publicly let the cat out of the bag

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