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The team from Desert Fuel of Arizona consists of eight people who already have full-time jobs outside the automotive field. They are testing their dream of building a vehicle with easily replaceable modular parts--giving it a life expectancy of 50 years. Their X Prize test car is a Volkswagen Rabbit with an extra AC motor in the spare-tire well.

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