RE: DeLorean Set To Rise Again?
Discussion
LuS1fer said:
Good point. Skim reading is not a good way to read articles.
Still an odd decision to call a company after a drug dealer and to "make the GM connection" especially since the name is now forever connected to fraud and failure and of course Delorean had nothing to do with this car at all. Might just as well call the MG TF a Delorean.
On the other hand, Maybe a Drug Delorean. Free Coke with every car purchased. Star it in a new film with Amy Winehouse as the heroin... and have a racing version where they try to shed a few grams. Has Gordon Brown been approached to invest?
You're aware that John de Lorean was found not guilty? Sure, he was no angel, but (legaly speaking at least), he wasn't a drug dealer.Still an odd decision to call a company after a drug dealer and to "make the GM connection" especially since the name is now forever connected to fraud and failure and of course Delorean had nothing to do with this car at all. Might just as well call the MG TF a Delorean.
On the other hand, Maybe a Drug Delorean. Free Coke with every car purchased. Star it in a new film with Amy Winehouse as the heroin... and have a racing version where they try to shed a few grams. Has Gordon Brown been approached to invest?
The De Lorean name has a lot of resonance with people of a certain age, not least thanks to the car being one of the most iconic in cinema history. If I had pots of cash, I'd have one in the garage, if only to say "yeah, I've got a Delorean" - to me that has more value than "yeah, I've got a Ferrari". Moving along, with a decent product, it could work. My concern would be that this isn't much of a basis for a decent car - sounds good on paper, didn't work in reality. Although perhaps that's because GM were genetically programmed to make sh*t car, but hey. I remember the Opel Speedster or whatever it was called in Europe being reviewed and being called the most disappointing car the testers had ever driven thanks to its on-paper spec and the promise of the VX220 being let down by the reality of the thing.
Anyway, if it can be sorted to handle and it keeps its looks then this would be an interesting little car.
LuS1fer said:
Some stuff and then...
On the other hand, Maybe a Drug Delorean. Free Coke with every car purchased. Star it in a new film with Amy Winehouse as the heroin... and have a racing version where they try to shed a few grams. Has Gordon Brown been approached to invest?
I saw what you did there with Amy Winehouse...but then you went and threw it all away by writing Coke instead of coke.On the other hand, Maybe a Drug Delorean. Free Coke with every car purchased. Star it in a new film with Amy Winehouse as the heroin... and have a racing version where they try to shed a few grams. Has Gordon Brown been approached to invest?
Anyhoo, I don't see why there's also all this fuss over Deloreans and drug dealing. There was always more to Deloreans than that.
There was also tax fraud and rust.
In the DeLoran trial, a jury determined he wouldn’t have committed a crime had he not been enticed by federal agents — a violation of the guidelines set down for federal stings and effectively only committed the crime on the basis of agent provocateur. The US Government overstepped the mark and so he was acquitted.
O J Simpson was also acquitted though.
It would never have happened if Charlie's Angels had investigated it.
I would agree that DeLorean has a certain resonance with a certain age demographic, as did Knight Rider, Bandit and the General Lee and indeed, the Batmobile and as far as I go back, the Monkeemobile (Pontiac GTO based) but no-one has set up a car company on the back of it. Quite the opposite in a way with Pontiac on the chopping block and the Charger being a distant shadow of the original. However, save for producing a stainless steel sports car with gullwing doors, I don't see the name has any huge allure - I suppose an analogy woukld be someone creating the Viper car company and producing the old BMW Z3 or something.
O J Simpson was also acquitted though.
It would never have happened if Charlie's Angels had investigated it.
I would agree that DeLorean has a certain resonance with a certain age demographic, as did Knight Rider, Bandit and the General Lee and indeed, the Batmobile and as far as I go back, the Monkeemobile (Pontiac GTO based) but no-one has set up a car company on the back of it. Quite the opposite in a way with Pontiac on the chopping block and the Charger being a distant shadow of the original. However, save for producing a stainless steel sports car with gullwing doors, I don't see the name has any huge allure - I suppose an analogy woukld be someone creating the Viper car company and producing the old BMW Z3 or something.
Oily Nails said:
had to be done
1,000,000,000W = 1GW (a thousand million watts)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigawatt#Multiples
Still a cool film and did wonders for the image of the car, which I liked anyway because of the stainless steel body.
HMMM??? This is a Joke!!!????
I had a Delorean, Relability was Fantastic, leave it on trickle charger for months on end, it would start on the button!
Handling (euro spec) as good as my 300zx
Drugs in the car, never found any!!??
Fell to pieces?, nothing fell off it except the key broke in the ignition barrel but it was nearly 30 y/o so I accept that!
Crap??? well it turned heads everywhere I went. not as crap as some "prestige" cars I've owned.
But I suppose with this site, there is some people that knock everything "The Scum" tells them too? eg, SOTW Skoda Estelle!
I cant see there being any enthusiasts buying this crap, sorry.
But you can Brand sh!!!!te and sell it!
Thats my 5 pence worth
I had a Delorean, Relability was Fantastic, leave it on trickle charger for months on end, it would start on the button!
Handling (euro spec) as good as my 300zx
Drugs in the car, never found any!!??
Fell to pieces?, nothing fell off it except the key broke in the ignition barrel but it was nearly 30 y/o so I accept that!
Crap??? well it turned heads everywhere I went. not as crap as some "prestige" cars I've owned.
But I suppose with this site, there is some people that knock everything "The Scum" tells them too? eg, SOTW Skoda Estelle!
I cant see there being any enthusiasts buying this crap, sorry.
But you can Brand sh!!!!te and sell it!
Thats my 5 pence worth
One reason why they should never resurrect the DeLorean brand....someone...somewhere in Hollywood will sign over a blank cheque, and before you know it - Back To the Future 4.
I always thought what made the DeLorean awesome were the various time traveling modifications - big vents, pipework etc.
Also, "DeLorean" sounds cool if said in an American accent, but in a French accent...
I always thought what made the DeLorean awesome were the various time traveling modifications - big vents, pipework etc.
Also, "DeLorean" sounds cool if said in an American accent, but in a French accent...
Is Delorean going to pay back all the money that the british tax payers put into the original company ?????
Sorry, but not a Delorean fan ...... Especially if you read how the company was financially supported by the tax payer. And lets face it, what a load of crap the original car was.
The money would have gone alot futher if the government had put it into Morgan or TVR.
Sorry, but not a Delorean fan ...... Especially if you read how the company was financially supported by the tax payer. And lets face it, what a load of crap the original car was.
The money would have gone alot futher if the government had put it into Morgan or TVR.
Jim Green said:
Is Delorean going to pay back all the money that the british tax payers put into the original company ?????
Sorry, but not a Delorean fan ...... Especially if you read how the company was financially supported by the tax payer. And lets face it, what a load of crap the original car was.
The money would have gone alot futher if the government had put it into Morgan or TVR.
I want my money back from the government for the Millenium wheel, bus lanes I never use, Weapons fired on innocent civilians with beards, speed humps that ruin my car, ROVER, the scrappage scheme (Sorry, but not a Delorean fan ...... Especially if you read how the company was financially supported by the tax payer. And lets face it, what a load of crap the original car was.
The money would have gone alot futher if the government had put it into Morgan or TVR.
LuS1fer said:
Still an odd decision to call a company after a drug dealer and to "make the GM connection" especially since the name is now forever connected to fraud and failure and of course Delorean had nothing to do with this car at all. Might just as well call the MG TF a Delorean.
Just for your interest. I think there are worse examples out there..."Ford and Adolf Hitler admired each other's achievements.[32] Adolf Hitler kept a life-size portrait of Ford next to his desk.[32] "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration," Hitler told a Detroit News reporter two years before becoming the Chancellor of Germany in 1933.[32] In July 1938, four months after the German annexation of Austria, Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal awarded by Nazi Germany to foreigners.[32]" - Wiki
And let's not forget good old Henry's published articles. Which feature such classics as the below!
Quite frankly I'd rather buy a from a convicted rapist let alone alledged baghead from Northern Ireland.
Ancient history in either case though...
catso said:
wedgeinald said:
Unfortunately its GIGAWATTS just mis-pronounced (as always by americans?)
1,000,000,000W = 1GW (a thousand million watts)
So is that a Billion Watts?... 1,000,000,000W = 1GW (a thousand million watts)
So it looks like DeLorean really are back and what is absolutely AMAZING is that they are planning to release an updated version of the SAME car.
If only Ferrari re-released the F40 and McLaren the F1 in their original form but slightly updated... This is the way to do it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17428818
If only Ferrari re-released the F40 and McLaren the F1 in their original form but slightly updated... This is the way to do it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17428818
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