Came into work tonight and found..

[Overhaulin]

This the car park. First one I've seen in the flesh.





It even has the flux capacitor disguised aa a booster seat

[pilchardthecat]

8.21 gigawatts?

fk me that thing is ugly - a lightning strike might do it some good

[ewenm]

Built in the same city as the Titanic...

[Rotary Madness]

Id just Luuurve to own one of those at some point. The only problem being they are quite expensive, and theyre probably just going to go up. Ideally id like to make it up as a replica of the BTTF car, but theyre made out of sheet steel and weigh about the same as a blue whale, so a v8 conversion wouldnt help much anyways

Im pretty sure its still more cool then the batmobile

[LHDisbest]

A DeLorean is in my Lottery win garage.

[Fort Jefferson]

Overhaulin said:

First one I've seen in the flesh.

You've never been to a Midlands Breakfast Club meet, have you.

[g3org3y]

pilchardthecat said:

8.21 gigawatts?

Thought it was 1.21...?

Anyways, ubercool car imo.

[Blukoo]

Thats mine.

I left it there next week.

[T89 Preparation.]

Cool.

[Overhaulin]

Fort Jefferson said:

Overhaulin said:

First one I've seen in the flesh.

You've never been to a Midlands Breakfast Club meet, have you.

Here was me thinking they were quite rare.

I would guess this one is the only one in Norway though.

[sniff diesel]

Fort Jefferson said:

Overhaulin said:

First one I've seen in the flesh.

You've never been to a Midlands Breakfast Club meet, have you.

Raf Cosford?

[jayfish]

Blukoo said:

Thats mine.

I left it there next week.

[Frik]

LHDisbest said:

A DeLorean is in my Lottery win garage.

I'm interested why people like them so much.

Given the fact that they're, you know, quite st.

[eliot]

Saw one in the flesh few weeks ago - pretty rubbish TBH.

[Deluded]

Ive only ever seen one in the flesh. Outside the York Travelodge a few years back. I took photos too :-)

Always had a lust for one. I love them. Just something that was totaly different when new and still totally different now. Plus, i'm quite a fan of the BTTF films.

[Defcon]

Frik said:

LHDisbest said:

A DeLorean is in my Lottery win garage.

I'm interested why people like them so much.

Given the fact that they're, you know, quite st.

They attract attention, they have unorthodox features, they're a cult car, they aren't historically or predicted to be reliable in the future, they could have much better engines and the most common paintscheme is very unsusual. They're the past, future and present TVR, without the farty exhaust.

[Frik]

Or the handling, or the power...

ETA or the looks for that matter. Bar the escape-limiting doors and the heavy bodywork they are pretty unremarkable to survey too.

Edited by Frik on Friday 5th June 00:04

[AdamW]

Defcon said:

the most common paintscheme is very unsusual.

I know exactly what you're getting at, but

[Defcon]

AdamW said:

Defcon said:

the most common paintscheme is very unsusual.

I know exactly what you're getting at, but

I can't do anything about the contradiction (unpainted is technically a paint code, surely!?), but the spelling mistake is set in stone now.

As for:

Frik said:

Or the handling, or the power...

ETA or the looks for that matter. Bar the escape-limiting doors and the heavy bodywork they are pretty unremarkable to survey too.

Edited by Frik on Friday 5th June 00:04

Power I'll give you, that was left out of my post, and far from the original DeLorean Handling? Dealing with one car versus an entire manufacture I'll continue my generalisation, one has dissapointing, numb, overburdened handling, the other has a sensitive but ultimately unpredictable, unrefined approach (PS,to my dear TVRistas, I haven't found a critical point in those findings, i'm just stating the facts), compared to cars of the same vintage.

As for looks, at the time, the DeLorean was sculpted with the same long straight knife as the Jalpa and Pantera, all of which have stood the test of time, within the supercar bubble in my silly opinion. Looking at the designs of the past 5 years, they seem to seek out the older shapes, even the most mundane of family saloons have been swathed in Ulrich's finest moments. The most succesful Tivs are stuck in a timewarp, and I don't honestly think that they'll hit the same 'retro' preservation as the DeLorean, which really is a shame.

As usual, this is all in my opinion, so the opposite will likely happen and in 20 years the Cerbera will have all its basic spare parts in manufacture, and they will be worshipped as a cult icon, but those with hovering electric bubble cars will say that TVRs were poor handling, heavy engined tanks .

Oh and to add, in 20 years, unpainted bodywork will be the new reflex purple.

Edited by Defcon on Friday 5th June 00:38

[Frik]

To be fair, in styling terms I like the details. It's the proportions that don't cut it for me. It's too dumpy.