Delorean Cars Take You Back To The Future

DeLorean was a real American success story, thewanted to start his own car company and break
poor boy who made good. DeLorean was thethe hold that Ford, Chrysler, and GM had on the
antithesis of the buttoned-down auto executiveAmerican auto industry. Entering the market in
of his day, sporting designer suits, dating models,1981, the car faced stiff competition from Datsun,
and moving in celebrity circles. Some sayMazda, and Porsche sports cars. Unfortunately,
DeLorean was vain, impulsive and sometimesthe DMC-12 racked up mediocre sales figures.
overbearing. DeLorean's car would live on after itDespite the De Lorean firm's failure with their car,
stopped being made, thanks primarily to Back towith its unpainted stainless steel skin and gull-wing
the Future, the top-grossing film of 1985.doors, the vehicle gained a cult following.
DeLorean Car ModelDespite DMC's flop, the car has persevered,
The DeLorean DMC-12 is a sports car that wasgaining notoriety largely as the time machine Fox
manufactured by the De Lorean Motor Companydrove in the blockbuster 1985 movie, Back to the
for the American market from 1981 to 1983 inFuture, and its two sequels.
Northern Ireland. Like Duran Duran, the Rubik'sDeLorean After the De Lorean Car
Cube and other Reagan-era icons, the car retainsDespite being cleared of all drug trafficking
a following. Delorean had the parts to build 20,000charges, DeLorean still had to battle many legal
cars, but only about 8,000 were produced beforecases stemming from the company's bankruptcy
the factory was closed. It's a car that never gotwell into the '90s. John DeLorean, developer of a
to its full development because it was gonefuturistic sportscar that captured the country's
before it really hit its prime. DeLorean reallyattention in the 1980s, died in March 2005.