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Two of Europe’s most venerable names in the car industry, Porsche and Ferrari, are surfacing in an EU debate about a plan to kill the combustion engine — and they’re changing the conversation.

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The news comes after the uproar over Penguin’s bowdlerization of Roald Dahl’s works.