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Billie Eilish has a No. 1 album, a spot at Coachella and 3,000 autographs to sign

LOS ANGELES - At 17 years old, Billie Eilish already owns her dream car: a matte-black Dodge Challenger that she pointed to with pride as it sat parked the other day in front of a Burbank rehearsal studio.

"Dude, I love it so much," she said, squinting in the afternoon sun. "I've been obsessed with it since I was like 12."

The problem? With a job that demands nearly every one of her waking hours, America's newest pop star hasn't found the time to secure her driver's license yet.

Given the speed at which her career is moving, it figures that Eilish - whose learner's permit, she clarified, allowed her to drive here with her mom as a watchful passenger - didn't wait to be properly credentialed before acquiring the wheels she wanted.

After all, it was late 2015

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