1.21 Gigawatts!!!!!!!

Damn!

Damn Damn!

Interesting. Didn't they dump all the original molds for parts in the ocean back during the "Holy Fuck, DeLoreon likes coke!" days?

Are they individually milling each piece, or did they design and build new molds?

Either way, awesome.

In the movie its pronounced "1.21 Jiggawats!!!!!!" Here a cool site.
www.timemachineforhire.com/

yikes. when i read about this earlier... i was seriously hoping the engine would be one of the things to not make it into the "new" ones. and be replaced with something a little more modern and powerful than the original Peugeot/Renault/Volvo brick.

130hp and 0-60 approaching 11 seconds... not impressive at all these days.

something newer from the same family or at least use the later turbo'd version of the engine... something better than the original.

I hate it when the Flux Capacitor is only available with the premium package.

Who cares about the muscle of the thing. It's still a really cool car!
Besides, if you have the bank account to slam down 40k for an outdated, 20 pieces a year car, you can afford to switch out the engine as well...

@x23: 130hp wasn't even that impressive for an early 1980's sports car, which is part of the reason (the Porsche 911 had 180+), nor was its chassis particularly impressive. But that movie sure idolized that car...I agree it would be much cooler to shoehorn in something like a Dodge Hemi in there, if it'll fit.

Damn Damn Damn!

@Guimmer: That always bothered me, until I went to look it up; apparently they weren't just being ridiculous, and the soft G is perfectly legitimate when used in "gigawatt". Who knew. [en.wikipedia.org]

Wonder if these ones will run on garbage?

In high school, my GF's mother had a DeLorean. Sweet car, very impractical. Finding someone who could fix it was the big problem. A modern engine that's familiar to local shops would definitely be a benefit.

She picked me up after school in it one day. What a day.

It's about time somebody brought back the DeLorean. Mr. Fusion will make a hybrid look like a gas hog.

I dream about having one someday, but I would have to have a lot of money, because that couldn't possibly be a daily driver. I would worry about it breaking down, and having the local mechanic laugh at me when I ask them to fix it.

And the other thing, this isn't exactly "back in production", this is 200 engines and chassis found in some warehouse (body panels are easy to make). If this was truly a production car, they would have molds to produce any part needed. And I agree, although many are purists and want the feeling of the original engine, I certainly wouldn't be apposed to a more modern efficient (faster) engine that could be more easily worked on.

Dude, the engine was the lamest thing about the car. It's the one thing I wouldn't keep if I were going to start building new DeLoreans.

42-grand is nothing when you consider going to the future, buying a sports almanac and bringing it back ...I think you know where I'm going with this. It's like buying a hybrid. The money you save at the pump eventually pays for the car itself. Or something.

*drool*

*drool*

We had a Delorean in our family when I was growing up . . . drove it to homecoming, actually (that was far more memorable than anything that happened during or after homecoming . . which should tell you something). Decent car, but as already mentioned, not exactly spritely off the line, and it was heavy to boot. I forget the exact rear-weight bias (60%?), but I can tell you that it liked to get sideways at the drop of a hat in a turn and once the ass-end got "out there" it didn't wanna' come back too easily.

Once you got past the novelty factor and gawking by people, it was a quite impractical and not exactly a dynamically pleasing vehicle. It pretty much sat in our garage, and only got driven sporadically. My Dad eventually sold the thing for like $22,000 with something like 15k miles on the clock back in 1990-ish.

The move to bring it back to production smacks of retro-profiteering. Good for them if they can turn a buck or two I guess.

It'll be ready and shining by 2015... Back from the past.

The existing Delorean Motor Company (no relation to the original company) sells a "performance tuned" version of the original Peugeot-Renault-Volvo V6 found in the DMC-12.

Pushes bhp to 197 and torque to 192, which is not too shabby IMO. It's roughly a 50% improvement over the original hp and 25% over original torque.

$5250 to tune your PRV engine, $6750 to buy a pre-tuned one from them.

I'd just buy a used Delorean on ebay for about 15k and spend the $5250 to upgrade the engine.

There have also been successful engine swaps to a Northstar V8, Chevy small block, and a 3-rotor wankel from a Mazda RX-7 (with gearbox from a 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 !!!).

I watched a documentary on the delorean, there is a warehouse here in US, i am pretty sure is the same plant that these guys have. per the documentary, they had tons of doors (left and right), hoods, panels, etc etc... which they have for sale or to replace when delorean owners sent their cars for reconditioning.
i looked at one at a weekly car show in Ft. Lauderdale, the owner was nice enough to give everyone a history lesson on the car and also on delorean itself. but after sitting in the car without driving it, i could tell it was an uncomfortable car. definitely not a daily driver, this car is a piece of 80s memorabilia, which owners are hoping to cash in sometime in the future.

as for the engine that it came with, it was not that impressive in the 80s... i mean, look at the mustangs and camaros in that era, they had a beefy engine. i think they should put at least a VW turbo engine in there to give it some power and make it to where owners can purchase after market performance parts...

but, as old and impractical that car is, it is always cool to see one down the road, it will always turn heads.

@Hodo:
I can tell you that it liked to get sideways at the drop of a hat in a turn and once the ass-end got "out there" it didn't wanna' come back too easily.

Yeah, it was a rear-engined car, not mid-engined as most exotics tend to be. Really hard to get that setup handling right. Just ask anyone who's driven an early 911 Porsche.

You know, I was talking to someone about Back to the Future recently, and really if you come to think about it, if it wasn't for Back to the Future, nobody but car nerds would remember DeLoreans today.

Bah! I saw the title of this article and thought it was actually going back into production. I want full production. I want one. :(

The DeLorean is the epitome of style over substance. POS then, POS now.

Yep. What majicko said above.

The History Channel did a "Modern Marvels" segment on the DeLorean and DMC outfit in Houston. The parts were acquired from an auction/buyout in the UK following the bankruptcy and plant closure. The video showed the Northen Ireland shipping labels on the crates and crates of parts.

I'm curious as to what extent the chassis are new-old-stock, or currently fabricated... and whether these cars will be titled and sold as 2007 models, or 1982 models... as emissions and safety laws may have changed. For a while, there was an outfit near Nogales that was able to skirt DOT/EPA rules and import new Mexican Beetles, by disassembling and rebuilding the Mexican cars atop the the vintage American market chassis still labeled with old VINs.

Ehh. If you want a real retro car, buy an Avanti instead.

@jwardell:

for that comment you should be banned...

i keed. that was funny.

OK, so aside from the Flux-capacitor debate, I bet this would be a great car to get Tesla involved and have an electric version. With its "Futuristic" notoriety, I think it would look the part better than Tesla itself...What? should it run on banana peel as well?

When they 1st came out I heard the comment, " Wow, stainless steel bodies! These things will last forever.......".
Who knew?

i hope they make a more modern version of it too. those doors do look kinda cool.

I thought the DeLorean was Aluminium?

as long as they don't bring back Huey Lewis & the News too, everything will be cool

@Lukewpnunn: Nope. Stainless steel body panels.

'course...the frame isn't stainless steel, and is prone to rust.

They aquired the rights to the company?!
There goes John Delorean's newer design before he died..

Sucks.

great... they've collected a bunch of crappy overheating 80MPH engines... may as well be Trabants. The body and style, however, is awesome. Shove an MR2 or similar decent-life engine (or better yet HYBRID) in that stainless steel beauty and you've got yourself the best of all worlds... why re-create tragedy when you can make rhapsody?

@Murph1908: Please tell me the day was cool 'cuz you did it with your GF's hot mom, not because of the car ride.

@zarchitect:
Wonder if an RB26Dett would fit inside of that?

@Havok154: Maybe, but we know a 20B will :)

Fantasy Garage! Fantasy Garage!

Hey, it's nice that you guys are like the local news broadcasters in Los Angeles; read the morning paper, find an interesting article that someone else took time to write, and just regurgitate the information.

Jeez, nothing pisses me off more than when credit isn't given when due. If you're gonna link it, link it to the original-original source.

L.A. Times never gets enough credit....

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