The new DeLorean will be an electric sports car designed by Italdesign
The famous Back to the Future car is ready for its second life, in collaboration with Italdesign
The cooperation with DeLorean Motor Company begins in 1974 when John Z. DeLorean, ex GM vice president, and William Collins, DMC president, create a program for a two seats car with rear engine.
Intended almost exclusively for American market, DMC 12 must be economical but in the meantime immediately recognizable, for this reason the bodywork is in brushed steel non painted, and seagull wind opening only seen before on Mercedes 300SL in 1954. The same abbreviation chosen for this car suggests the sale’s price, established in $ 12.000 (amount that will be very increased). A few details remind the Medici I and the Hyundai Pony, two prototypes that John Z. DeLorean noticed at Italdesign stand at Turin Motor Show in 1974, and those details pushed him to choose Giugiaro for the design of his new car.
The famous Back to the Future car is ready for its second life, in collaboration with Italdesign
The DeLorean DMC-12 is the only car model built by the DeLorean Motor Company, from 1981 to 1982.
The DMC-12 featured gullwing doors and unpainted stainless steel bodywork. About 9,200 examples of DMC-12 were produced. The car became world famous for its appearance in Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future film trilogy, in which a specimen was used by Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown as the basis for his time machine.
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