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Inside the Car Company That's Resurrecting the DeLorean
« on: January 21, 2019, 02:43:16 am »
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a25938392/inside-delorean-motor-company/

Inside the Car Company That's Resurrecting the DeLorean
By Matt Blitz   
Jan 18, 2019

The speedometer climbs as we race down a straightaway in Humble, Texas. As the needle edges to 60, 70, then 80 miles per hour, the 36-year-old automobile rattles and the wind whistles through the windows. Finally the DeLorean zooms up to 88 miles per hour and we feel, just for a moment, like we've gone back to the future.

Then, a series of loud honks from the other side of the road, followed by animated waving, awaken us out of our speed spell. “We get that all the time," says DeLorean Motor Company CEO Stephen Wynne, sitting shotgun. “That doesn’t happen with any other car.”

After our speed reverie, we pull back into DMC’s Texas headquarters, located in this Houston suburb. It’s a wet November day and DeLoreans line the parking lot. “It’s the only lot in the country where you see this many DeLoreans at any given time,” Wynne says.

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Re: Inside the Car Company That's Resurrecting the DeLorean
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2019, 02:46:39 am »
This is my density.
I stand with Roosgirl.

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Re: Inside the Car Company That's Resurrecting the DeLorean
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2019, 02:48:25 am »

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Re: Inside the Car Company That's Resurrecting the DeLorean
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2019, 03:49:53 am »
Finally the DeLorean zooms up to 88 miles per hour

Fake news. Anyone who has ever been in one of these shit boxes with that awful 2.8 liter knows well that anything over 75 is impossible

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Re: Inside the Car Company That's Resurrecting the DeLorean
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2019, 03:52:04 am »
Finally the DeLorean zooms up to 88 miles per hour

Fake news. Anyone who has ever been in one of these shit boxes with that awful 2.8 liter knows well that anything over 75 is impossible

Those were Volvo engines, weren't they?

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Re: Inside the Car Company That's Resurrecting the DeLorean
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2019, 04:08:59 am »
Well, a new 350 to 400 hp engine will help a touch... I don't now about y'all though, but personally, if I were to throw 100k down for a car, that still ain't enough HP to amount to a row of pins.

And the thing is terribly outdated... A body change would help a lot. That thing looks so '80s' that it sucks.

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Re: Inside the Car Company That's Resurrecting the DeLorean
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2019, 04:10:26 am »
Well, a new 350 to 400 hp engine will help a touch... I don't now about y'all though, but personally, if I were to throw 100k down for a car, that still ain't enough HP to amount to a row of pins.

And the thing is terribly outdated... A body change would help a lot. That thing looks so '80s' that it sucks.

Don't be pissing on the 80s, man.

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Re: Inside the Car Company That's Resurrecting the DeLorean
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2019, 04:12:57 am »
That's heavy man!

"Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?"
« Last Edit: January 21, 2019, 04:13:49 am by dfwgator »

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