The company has confirmed that the new engine, which will come from a yet-to-be-announced manufacturer, will be “considerably more powerful.” What’s more, the company says the new car will include bigger wheels, a sturdier braking system, and top-of-the-line shock absorbers. To ensure the cars are as close to the original specifications as possible, DeLorean will use many existing parts-which have spent decades in a warehouse in Belfast, Northern Ireland-though the cassette player and measly 130 horsepower engine won’t make it into the new model. Thanks in large part to the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act, a new law that, among other things, makes it more financially viable for carmakers to produce small numbers of vintage motor vehicles, the company plans to build and sell 300 new DeLoreans annually for the next four years. The DeLorean Motor Co., a small Texas-based firm, recently announced that it will restart production of the famous DeLorean DMC-12 sports car. out of a DeLorean?” Marty McFly might as well have been speaking for the entire audience of mystified moviegoers in what has become an iconic scene from Robert Zemeckis’s 1985 hit Back to the Future. Doc, are you telling me you built a time machine.
There’s a reason why it never really became a successful seller.“Wait a minute. Per Gaines, producer Neil Canton said, “It was a cool-looking car, but it really wasn’t a good car. Made of stainless steel, the car looked interesting but did not perform well. Meanwhile, the car did not have a good reputation, and the art and effects team had to rig it. As they hashed out their revised script, John DeLorean was arrested and stood trial for cocaine trafficking.
A nuclear power surge would have powered it into another time period, but Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale came up with another imaginative idea: the DeLorean DMC-12.Īccording to the book, We Don’t Need Road: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by Caseen Gaines, they abandoned their truck-in-the-desert scenario in favor of this unique car. Originally, Back to the Future writers had a standalone time machine sitting in a pickup truck driven by Marty and Doc.
‘Back to the Future’ DeLorean DMC-12 at special anniversary screening, 2015 in New York City | Theo Wargo/Getty Images The ‘Back to the Future’ DeLorean ‘wasn’t a good car’
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