Skipping over the residential-friendly MakerBot Replicator, the company used a beastly industrial VX4000 3D printer to craft three 1:3 scale models of the car with a plot to blow them to smithereens.

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The Swedish authorities gave permission for an experimental plot in 1999, and last April for large-scale planting.

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But the security services and the police claim, in London, at least, that this was a very credible plot, fairly sophisticated and quite ambitious in its grand scale.

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