Thoughts on the updated 2017 DeLorean DMC-12? >80% original parts made in the 1980s >The interior will also get a breath of modernity thanks to air conditioning from Vintage Air, updated consumer electronics, and more comfortable seating. >Price under $100000
Future plans: >DeLorean is also currently in talks with manufacturers of prominent V6 engines >Electric DeLorean A prototype exists. Apparently the DMC-12 has lots of space for batteries, could reach substantial range
The only problem i see is that delorean's aerodynamics is shit.
David Sullivan
DeLoreans are meme cars.
Juan Sullivan
>they shouldve done is update the design It's in the works, alongside the classic version
Lucas Brooks
looks like a bad lamborgini
Ayden Nguyen
>80% original parts 80% just as pigfat then. it's gonna be just as shit and just as slow.
Asher Harris
This lazy trend of the last 15 years of modernising an old design needs to die in a hole.
Easton Sullivan
That looks like it belongs in GITS
Camden Gonzalez
That's not even a DeLorean render. That's a rendering of what a modern Detomaso Mangusta would look like. It was done by Maxime de Kaiser in 2011. Http://www.lesforgesmdk.blogspot.com
There is no new updated DeLorean coming. They don't have the capital to design an all new platform capable of meeting regulations. The only DeLorean coming is the classic DeLorean with an updated engine and transmission options.
Carter Reyes
The only thing that needs an update is the engine. For $100k a V8 is required minimum.
Nolan Jackson
>100k Price is likely to be closer to 60k.
Sebastian Evans
Refurbished $50k New old stock $100k
Brody Perry
The LGX in the new Camaro is pretty good. 335hp/285trq, sounds good, 7200RPM redline, reliable.
Nolan Flores
Exactly. That's why I hope it's the V6 they land on. last I heard, the 2 companies DeLorean was talking to about supplying V6 engines were Toyota and GM so it's entirely possible. I hope it's the LGX.
Juan Allen
Or you could have 455hp/455ft/lbs Torque, 6600rpm redline, reliable.
Juan Rivera
Modernizing an old design is what every auto manufacturer has been doing since the 40's you dunce. Every updated car is an edit of the last generation.
Dylan King
>Boost over revs what's wrong with you? Also, twin turbos are just asking for trouble. I love GM, but I'm waiting to hear about unreliability with the 3.6TT like we have with the 3.5 Ecoboost.
The DeLorean was never known for power so 400+ HP is just unnecessary. A 335 HP LGX would be MORE than enough.
Michael Flores
Why would it need a 6600rpm redline when power peaks at 5252rpm?
Luke Ramirez
Uh no. The only vehicle remotely doing that is the Suburban, and the Crown Vic until 2014. All other cars have went through a complete redesign one way or the other.
Ian Reed
I was talking about the new 6.2 liter LT1
Logan Harris
>Every updated car is an edit of the last generation As long as it's a continuous run you fucking strawmanning retard, and even then there's exceptions >outgoing Mustang and Camaro >"that" Thunderbird that started the trend
Jacob Jones
Power may peak at 5250, but the engine will keep pulling with a relatively flat curve right up until the redline.
My first car had an LQ1 that peaked at 5200 rpm and redlined at 7k, and it pulled hard all the way to redline.
John Reyes
Aren't they trying to avoid making too many changes so the cars can still be registered under the frames' original year of manufacture?
Lucas Hernandez
They bought up the entire bankrupt estate of the original DMC, and still have enough old stock to produce several hundred cars. Why not use it?
Some parts are becoming rare. According to a recent interview, they're starting to reproduce them, which is becoming much easier with advanced CAD/CAM technologies.
Ryan Young
Interesting. Did the fix the problems with the original had like?
Suspension is probably fixed. Back in the 1980s, the American DMC-12 had terrible suspension due to issues with regulation. European DMC-12 had better suspension, and that is now legal to drive in the US too.
Brakes are being updated
Doors no idea
Instruments updated
Power, see above, new V6 engine soon
Thomas Watson
except for porsche lmao
Oliver Ward
>80% original parts made in the 1980s
80% of it is still going to be shit and it'll never not be ugly.
Hunter Lopez
>the DeLorean is ugly Stale meme
Brody Robinson
>>>>>v6
Jonathan Morales
>the car that made me love cars he can't be serious?
Julian Lopez
>not John Delorean's own updated modern car design from 2005