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"carbon fiber" filament usually has little shards of carbon fibers suspended in it. This makes the part less flexible than raw ABS...when cool. It's not like they do a layup of carbon fiber over 3D printed ABS, that would almost defeat the purpose.
If they'd done that, 3D print a mold or buck and then do a carbon layup over it, it'd be made of epoxy, which doesn't melt.