DeLorean To Re-Enter Production

By The_Night_Rider on January 27, 2016@manlymovie

The DMC 12 DeLorean is like that certain type of woman that you really want to fuck. There’s nothing particularly attractive about her, some might even call her unattractive. You just know you’ve got to get in her. The DeLorean was a great car, a piece of shit truth be told, but desirable. The Stephen Wynne restoration company was hitherto one of the only ways to get one since the company’s official closure.

In 1997 they acquired all the remaining parts inventory and the rights to reproduce parts, and after a lengthy court case finally settled with the widow of John DeLorean for the rights to use the DeLorean Motor Company name, trademarks and logo last year. Now they’ve told Click2Houston that new cars are on the way for the first time in over three decades!

“It’s fantastic. It is a game-changer for us. We’ve been wanting this to happen,” Wynne said. “That was a green light to go back into production. That was prohibited. It was against the law to do it. It’s huge for us. It means we’re back as a car company again.”

If you’re unclear of how momentous this is, just know that only 9000 DeLoreans were ever produced, and of them only roughly 6500 still exist. While refurbished models typically go for $45,000 to $55,000, Wynne is hoping to sell the new ones for less than $100,000. Oh, and if you’re at all worried about the new DMC modernizing the iconic stainless steel look of the vehicle, don’t be, because the only major changes are likely to be under the hood.

“There’s no reason to change the appearance of the car,” Wynne assured. “As we go into the program, we’ll decide what areas need to be freshened up”

But you know, the movie DMC-12 is modified, and I don’t just mean all those bits of stuff sticking all over it. That car looks cooler than a restored DeLorean because, for a start, it has been aggressively lowered. Also the car in the movies is sexed up with the sounds from a Porsche 928 V8 and some type of supercharger also dubbed in – that’s presumably the distinct whining the car makes throughout the movie, although it’s never mentioned by Doc Brown, that’s one way to reliably get such a car to hit 90MPH. I’m surprised some millionaire hasn’t dropped a supercharged 4.5 V8 into this chassis. If only they all sounded like this…