More than 100 firefighters battled a blaze at the General Motors Advanced Design Studio in California earlier this week, which destroyed at least one priceless concept car and took almost eight hours to extinguish.

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The fire, according to US publication Car and Driver , started at 5:50pm local time on Wednesday (October 22), and took around seven-and-a-half hours to be declared officially extinguished.

Nobody was injured during the fire.

Reports suggested lithium-ion battery packs and petrol-powered prototypes were part of the ignition so

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