The Delorean Motor Company (DMC) has announced that they will be bringing the Delorean model back into production hopefully in 2013. The car that produced poor sales while in production in in the 1980s was immortalized by the popular movie franchise "Back to the Future" with Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. While the Delorean Motor Company seemed to have fallen off the face of the earth due to the flop in sales, the company was actually purchased by Texan entrepreneur Stephen Wynne, who eventually acquired the remaining stock and the logo. Although Wynnes' company is not actually part of the original DMC, the company does offer service to the DeLorean DMC-12 in five locations throughout the world.
According to Fox News, Wynne says that "(we) got the idea for the battery-powered DeLorean after seeing the success of the Tesla Roadster, and thinks it would be a fitting tribute to the movie version of the car which famously needed 1.21 'gigawatts' of electricity to travel through time." The car will be able to go from 0-60 in 8 seconds and will get approximately 100 miles per charge. There have been requests from consumers to bring this car back into production for the past two decades, and a prototype has already been built and tested, according
tgdaily. Wynne plans to sell at a price around $90,000 for the electric only DMC-12. Coincidentally, Back to the Future II took place in 2015, two years after the car is planned to be released. Maybe the movies weren't that farfetch'd after all.
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| Screenshot from Back to the Future film (Source:dreamroad.us) |
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