Delorean is back from the dead.

Run_to_da_hills

Not good for current Delorean car owners whose prise possession increases in value the less of them that are about. Enthusiasts in the States have decided to put this car back in production again with improvements on the original.

With only two cars produced every month there will be a long waiting listand at the end of it cutomers can expect to part with $57,500 (£36,889).



http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/motoring/delorean-sports-car-back-to-the-future-and-back-from-the-dead-14696833.html

seamus

It's a very retro-looking car now though, it's probably be a draw for mid-life crises and not much else.

They should have gone for a redesign along the same lines as the original, but taking modern aerodynamics and technology into account.

cabrwab

There is one of them i've seen a few times around stillorgan.
Savage car!
So rare to see them.

Fair play to the fans for getting together and putting them back into production.
Would love to get a spin in one childhood dream to have one, something tells me it'd turn into a nightmare though!

bazz26

They were not a great car in the prime of their youth.

Poorly built, not fast and not great to drive. Mostly made famous by being build of stainless steel, having gulwing doors, their founder screwing the British Government over for £50m and then going to jail for possession of drugs, oh and the Back To The Future movies.

Still nice to see and sit in one though.

smash

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Not good for current Delorean car owners whose prise possession increases in value the less of them that are about.

Na, sure the original will always be an icon, this is just a reproduction really.

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

With only two cars produced every month there will be a long waiting listand at the end of it cutomers can expect to part with $57,500 (£36,889).

Doubt it, they're dated looking and for that money you could get a proper sports car like a 355.

Tazz T

Only car worth driving in my opinion. I don't think the price would put people off.

I'd buy one. I wonder do the 'extras' include a Flux Capacitor?

Run_to_da_hills

steve06 wrote: »

Na, sure the original will always be an icon, this is just a reproduction really..

A reproduction with all the teething problems ironed out, probably the reliability of Toyota jap technology instead of Renault. :pac:

steve06 wrote: »

Doubt it, they're dated looking and for that money you could get a proper sports car like a 355.

The only thing holding back their sales would be the current recession in the states. These will always be a cult car and there is plenty over there will still want these despite what they are.

MetzgerMeister

For that kind of money, yuo're only paying for the novelty of having a "Back to the Future" car. Yes, it is an iconic motor but as steve said, you'd get a more useful, proper sports car for that money!

MetzgerMeister

Tazz T wrote: »

I wonder do the 'extras' include a Flux Capacitor?

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to say that :rolleyes:

Run_to_da_hills

einheisserschre wrote: »

For that kind of money, yuo're only paying for the novelty of having a "Back to the Future" car. Yes, it is an iconic motor but as steve said, you'd get a more useful, proper sports car for that money!

People never really considered them as a proper "sports car", mechanically they were just a tuned up version of the Renault Fuego as many of their components were shared.

RonnieT

If it had been a case of it being possible for the problems to be 'ironed out', it would have happened within the lifetime of the cars. They were truly terrible - heavy with the gullwing doors, underpowered, underbraked, underengineered, the stainless steel finish picked up grease from every hand that touched it, and pricewise, they were competing not with something on a similar dynamic level like an Iszuzu Piazza, but with Porcshe 911 Turbo's.

Last I head the body moldings were being used to hold down lobster pots off the coast of Galway, so guessing the reproductions are going to be cast from an existing car

Remaking a Delorean is like opening a factory to rebuild Trabants; pretty naff in their day but with a cult following now who have never experienced what the car was like to drive. But then again, the terrible nature of the finished product was all part of the Delorean tale :cool:

smash

For 6k less you could have.... http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1524440.htm

Robbo

Tazz T wrote: »

I'd buy one. I wonder do the 'extras' include a Flux Capacitor?

Available in both VAG TDredEye and a Honda V-Tec engine with treble underhand camshafts which fulfil your every wish.

MetzgerMeister

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

People never really considered them as a proper "sports car", mechanically they were just a tuned up version of the Renault Fuego as many of their components were shared.

I never said people consider them to be proper sports cars

Cookie_Monster

They're almost a cult car and will gain sales due to that alone I reckon.

There's a guy in Ballybrack (Dublin) who has 2!

galwaytt

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

People never really considered them as a proper "sports car", mechanically they were just a tuned up version of the Renault Fuego as many of their components were shared.

....no it isn't ! ........ not unless you added two cylinders, and then put the engine in the back of Fuego, instead of the front !!

That's akin to saying a Scirocco is the same as a Veyron !

Run_to_da_hills

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

They're almost a cult car and will gain sales due to that alone I reckon.

There's a guy in Ballybrack (Dublin) who has 2!

They are a cult car, same as the original Beetle, Split VW screen bus and Citroen DS and 2CV. Other than improvements to the mechanics / electrics this company wont get anywhere if they try to make exterior modifications to the bodywork. A mate of mine in Boston has two of them, people who have them are generally slow to shift them on.

keithclancy

Sounds like they are restoring old ones ......

........."

Now based in Houston, Texas, car-mad Wynne and his team have been able to fix up the chassis as well as replace up to 80% of worn or damaged wings and body panels and improve the wiring "

Teferi

Haha, I was just thinking about the Delorean today and how I would love to fix one up to look like the Delorean time machine. I think this is fate.

R.O.R

Teferi wrote: »

Haha, I was just thinking about the Delorean today and how I would love to fix one up to look like the Delorean time machine. I think this is fate.

Someone has already done that. It was at the ALMC show in Gormanstown last year. Thought I had a pic, but I've just got 3 normal DeLorean's.