That's the '70's fella.
Okay. I thought they were still made in the eighties.
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DeLorean returns to production
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They're only planning to build ~20 cars a year, and the price will probably be high.
Hey, they're still making Morgans, so why not?
I love automotive anachronisms, but hate "kit cars" or repros...does this count as a "real" DeLorean? Does anyone care?
20 cars a year? I wonder how much profit they'll have because I doubt it's worth it.
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the bmw e28! (1982-1988)
Oops, sorry about the link.
I think they're "real" DeLoreans, since DMC Houston has bought the intellectual rights & so forth. As for the price, it's probably not an issue for a real enthusiast.
Hard to say what my favorite 80's car would be...I like the Porsche 930 (911 Turbo), as well as the E30 BMW M3...or maybe the Audi Quattro?
...Hmm, why all the German cars all the sudden?
I think they're "real" DeLoreans, since DMC Houston has bought the intellectual rights & so forth. As for the price, it's probably not an issue for a real enthusiast.
Hard to say what my favorite 80's car would be...I like the Porsche 930 (911 Turbo), as well as the E30 BMW M3...or maybe the Audi Quattro?
...Hmm, why all the German cars all the sudden?
John De Lorean hawked the car around a bit, including Ireland, the Irish government looked at his plans and laughed him out of the country.
The Thatcher government was desperate to try and solve the unemployment problem and of course the "troubles" in Northern Ireland at the time and took every word De Lorean spoke as gospel.
Belfast had at the time a large base of highly killed ship builders, and it was thought by politicians that this skill could be transferred into car manufacturing, despite there being no real history of car building.
Its not that the workers from Belfast were lazy or incompetent - they were just being asked to throw away a lifetime experience in ship building and start all over again in car manufacturing.
There was a very good BBC documentary about the De Lorean repeated shortly after his death, focused on the man and the company as well as the car and the film.
As for building the cars in Britain, i have to disagree with you.
Britain had, and still has, a highly skilled base of small car manufacturers pumping out exotic, individual and mostly expensive small production run sports cars.
It was simply that the British government at the time wanted the big investment in an low employment and scarred Northern Ireland.
Link to the BBC documentary web page, although the actual documentry isn't available to download.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/delorean.shtml
Did get some of my dates wrong, the decision to invest in Northern Ireland was made before Margaret Thatcher's government.
Interesting Wiki article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lorean_Motor_Company
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/delorean.shtml
Did get some of my dates wrong, the decision to invest in Northern Ireland was made before Margaret Thatcher's government.
Interesting Wiki article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lorean_Motor_Company
I think it was one of the coolest, sexiest cars ever built.
However, I don't see the point of re-building a 20 year-old design.
If you bought one of the new ones it just wouldn't feel like the real thing; it would always feel like a replica.
I wish they had the $$ to hire one of the world's top car designers -- someone like Fisker (designer of the Aston Martin DB9 and Vantage) -- to come up with a design that's as close as possible to the original and pays tribute to the car's grand heritage while taking it to the current millennium.
However, I don't see the point of re-building a 20 year-old design.
If you bought one of the new ones it just wouldn't feel like the real thing; it would always feel like a replica.
I wish they had the $$ to hire one of the world's top car designers -- someone like Fisker (designer of the Aston Martin DB9 and Vantage) -- to come up with a design that's as close as possible to the original and pays tribute to the car's grand heritage while taking it to the current millennium.
I see where you're coming from, but I think you have the wrong end of the stick personally. The collapse of the DeLorean Motor Company was more to do with John De Lorean himself and the way the business was run rather than the location of the factory. It could have been built in Tahiti and the company would still have collapsed. The problem was the financial side of things, I get the impression that you believe the problem was more to do with Belfast's lack of experience in car building rather than the fact the DeLorean Motor Company was a disaster in terms of how it was run.
The British government of course didn't exactly think things through it must be said
But will it look like this:
or this?
That looks an awful lot like the Lamborghini Gallardo.
Bbc Show Repeated
Car Crash, the documentry about the De lorean that i was banging on about earlier in this thread is being repeated.
BBC 4 10 PM and 1.10AM
"please delete me let me go"
Car Crash, the documentry about the De lorean that i was banging on about earlier in this thread is being repeated.
BBC 4 10 PM and 1.10AM
"please delete me let me go"
Does the optional flux capacitor still go into the back-seat?
Actually, I think it really was JigaWatts.
Actually, I think it really was JigaWatts.