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DeLorean to Come Back (Sorta)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-childhood-dream dept.

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."

5 of 263 comments (clear)

  1. Cool by DaMattster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So we can now go, "precisely 88 miles per hour." Sorry, folks, had to say it.

  2. Features? by techsoldaten · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Will the new ones come with a flux capacitor standard?

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  3. DeLorean to Come Back... To the Future! by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Keep that baby under 55mph or god help you.

  4. Re:Flux compensator? by GroeFaZ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Give the parent the benefit of the doubt. In the German translation of "Back to the Future", the device in question was indeed translated as "Flux-Kompensator". Translate that back into English and you get "flux compensator". Just saying.

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  5. 1.21 GIGAWATTS!!! by Moniker42 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd be willing to buy one of these just to see what happens when it reaches 88mph.