I think Tim Cook has bad product and design taste [1], and see no reason to think that there are enough good design people at Apple to make a good car. I think they likely got stuck looking at making a car version of the gold Apple Watch Edition [2] and rightly shut the project down.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/07/31/ep-428

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/2/23900158/apple-watch-edit...