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DeLorean to Come Back (Sorta)
Alcibaides writes "DeLorean Motor Company, a suburban Houston company that rebuilds DeLoreans, is laying plans to bring the car back into limited production. The last DeLorean rolled off the assembly line in Northern Ireland in 1982. But like Duran Duran, the Rubik's Cube and other Reagan-era icons, the car retains a following. Of the 9,000 built in 1981 and 1982, about 6,500 are still on the road, according to James Espey, vice president of DeLorean Motor."
the new production run has the flux compensator as standard issue now ;)
If this were true we'd already be inundated with DeLoreans now, coming back in time to visit the momentous occassion when they decided to make them again.
One point twenty one gigawatts!
Is the hoverboard an option? I only want one when I can get a stock hoverboard to go with it!
.. to make the bodyshell corrode faster, to conform with the trend for everything to be made as craply as possible out of the worst materials.
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...but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the one point twenty-one gigawatts of electricity that I need.
A very common argument with my wife goes something like this: "Mark my words honey: I will have a DeLorean DMC-12 before I die!" "Where the hell are you going to find one?" "Uhhh" [tries to think of creative time-traveling solution] Thank you Slashdot. I think I may have finally won a fight! Bringing the total score to 1-189,203. Yes! Now, let's see if you bastards can handle 90...
barack to the future?
The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?
So some people do actually read the articles then?
Hey, even with a six cylinder, it could still get up to 88 miles per hour without to much trouble, provided you had gas.
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They'll be funding it by dealing meth instead of cocaine.
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I'm sure in 1985 gasoline is available at every corner drugstore, but in this century it's a little hard to come by.
DeLoreans are the only car to have snow tires mounted on all four wheels as standard equipment.
DeLoreans have chronic alignment problems. They always veer toward the white line.
The best fashion statement of the era was to own a DeLorean with license plates made by John himself.
Ba-dum-bah!
Let's play Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I'll be Pestilence.
I had passengers fall asleep on me several times.
Yeah, I had dates like that too.
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or i'll key the damned thing.
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