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Tesla motor, Shelby Cobra body, Kia battery: watch electric Cobra stun a race crowd

Green Car Reports

In 1962, a 39-year-old Carroll Shelby stuffed a Ford V-8 into an AC Ace to create one of the most sought after performance cars ever made, the AC Cobra. Some 50 years later, a group of engineers from British Columbia, Canada has brought Shelby's idea—small two-seat sports car, very big power—into a new age.

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Rivian R1T gets serious off-road treatment–now it looks like the Cybertruck’s less triangular cousin

Teslarati

It looks like a Kia on the outside. Its only downside is the look, and someway, somehow if I could become Rivian’s Shelby or Brabus, I would love to be,” he said. The Apocalypse Nirvana, which is created from a quad-motor Rivian R1T, is expected to sell for about $150,000. I think it’s an amazing truck.

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