Motoring Discussion > De lorean to return Buying / Selling
Thread Author: carmalade Replies: 11
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New Wed 27 Jan 16 21:39 
 De lorean to return - carmalade
Get your orders in now chaps!!www.engadget.com/2016/01/27/deloreans-are-coming-back-as-we-hit-peak-back-to-the-future/
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New Thu 28 Jan 16 14:46 
 De lorean to return - Armel Coussine
Delorean is all mouth and trousers with no bottom. Pure cosmetics. No proper car person would give one a second glance.
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New Thu 28 Jan 16 14:57 
 De lorean to return - Mike Hannon
Absolutely. In my, albeit limited, experience it was one of the worst put together motors I ever came across and a pig to drive as well.
The only good thing was, a woman - who shall be nameless although I think she is no longer with us - had said 'come and try my De Lorean'. I couldn't pass up an offer like that. And I was right...
In my opinion every time a De Lorean changes hands there should be a surcharge, with the proceeds going back to British taxpayers.
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New Thu 28 Jan 16 15:07 
 De lorean to return - Alanovich
Ah come on, AC. Glorious lunacy. I thought that would be your bag.
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New Thu 28 Jan 16 15:32 
 De lorean to return - Armel Coussine
Not very glorious. For glorious lunacy, try Shelsley Walsh perched on top of a Maybach with a 21-litre Zeppelin engine...

The Delorean was supposed to be a sensible American sporting car. John Delorean did a drawing of what he wanted it to look like, and a committee of deadbeats did all the bitza work. It had a Renault V6 in the tail didn't it? Perhaps it was mid-engined. Anyway it was said to handle like a total pig.
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New Thu 28 Jan 16 16:17 
 De lorean to return - Armel Coussine
If I remember right the car sat on a cruciform chassis with under-engineered wishbone suspension at each corner. Bolted on top of that was a very heavy glassfibre reinforced plastic body - the gull-wing doors were very heavy indeed. Glued to the outside with, er, glue were (again very heavy) brushed stainless steel panels.

The opposite of a proper car, like a two-ton set of false eyelashes if you see what I mean. Yuck.
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New Thu 28 Jan 16 17:08 
 De lorean to return - Falkirk Bairn
De Lorean - Back in the Future?
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New Thu 28 Jan 16 19:39 
 De lorean to return - The Melting Snowman
French engine and gearbox.
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New Fri 29 Jan 16 13:47 
 De lorean to return - Armel Coussine
>> like a two-ton set of false eyelashes if you see what I mean. Yuck.

And there are apparently poseurs ready to pay $100,000 for one!

(I don't think it looks too bad actually. But it is quite bad, as was John Delorean in a different way).
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New Fri 29 Jan 16 11:16 
 De lorean to return - Mike Hannon
>> try Shelsley Walsh perched on top of a Maybach with a 21-litre Zeppelin engine... <<

Looking at a picture of that one on the office wall as I type. Driven at Wiscombe by the great Roger Collings. That's real life - no need for the Ulster/USA/French fantasy rubbish.
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New Fri 29 Jan 16 14:06 
 De lorean to return - TheManWithNoName
You can polish a De Lorean but you can't polish a turd. Even second time round.
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New Fri 29 Jan 16 14:18 
 De lorean to return - bathtub tom
It was a hell of a way to ruin an Esprit.
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