Today’s Bizarro, exploiting an unexpected ambiguity:
It’s all in the parts. Components (of an automobile) or a role in a dramatic work (which, in this case, is to be taken by — surprise! — an automobile).
From NOAD2, the general sense of part:
a piece or segment of something such as an object, activity, or period of time, which combined with other pieces makes up the whole
with the specialized subsense:
a component of a machine: the production of aircraft parts
And then the dramatically specialized metaphorical sense:
a character as represented in a play or movie; a role played by an actor or actress: she played a lot of leading parts | he took the part of Prospero
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