DeLorean to revive headquarters in San Antonio for new electric vehicle

[TexasTowelie]

Source: San Antonio Express-News

Predictions from Back to the Future II may have not entirely come true, but it looks like DeLorean will live on with a new electric vehicle and it will all start here in San Antonio.

DeLorean Motor Company, the maker of the iconic DMC DeLorean that was the centerpiece of the Back to the Future franchise, plans to zoom back onto the automotive scene by reestablishing its headquarters at Port San Antonio, near Lackland Air Force Base, according to a news release from economic development group greater: SATX.

You may have caught a tease of the gull wing door vehicle during last night's Super Bowl.

The company's new global headquarters and manufacturing hub will facilitate production of its new DeLorean electric vehicle, once "various incentive packages" are approved. Details on the incentive packages were not disclosed.

Read more: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Delorean-headquarters-in-San-Antonio-electric-16917307.php

[efhmc]

1. Grandsons and I were just talking about the DeLorean a month ago.

[csziggy]

15. My mother almost bought a Delorean years ago - before Back to the Future came out

All of us "kids" were amazed that she, a very traditional type of person, would even consider buying something like that. Her standard car was a four door Cadillac sedan so a Delorean would have been a complete departure.

Of course, after the movie came out, we were disappointed that she had not bought one.

[CaptainTruth]

2. If I can use it to travel to a future where TFG no longer walks the earth...

...I just might buy one.

[paulkienitz]

3. it's obviously a DeLorean in name only... but who would even want that name?

The reason the DeLorean was used in the Back To The Future comedies is because by then the company name had already become a joke.

[NullTuples]

6. According to the inverviews, the reason was...

They figured it was exactly the care Doc Emmett Brown would've picked up relatively cheap that had would've fit his requirements.
The stainless shell was part of the story line and they wanted it to be as believable as possible.

Also, it really did look like entrapment IIR. But by that point he really had mismanaged the company into the ground anyway; that's what made him an easy mark for law enforcement looking for a cap-feather.


Although...well...this is awkward.

I just went to,

https://www.delorean.com/pages/classic-delorean

and the browser tab label reads: "Transition Page to the Website"

Not actually being ready for big events was sort of a hallmark of the original DeLorean company, too...

[csziggy]

16. Apparently the company and parts inventory was acquired in 1995

In 1995, Liverpool-born mechanic Stephen Wynne[4] founded the current DeLorean Motor Company located in Humble, Texas, and shortly thereafter acquired the remaining parts inventory[5][6] and the stylized "DMC" logo trademark of DeLorean Motor Company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_Motor_Company

According to Wikipedia move than two thirds of the original Deloreans are still on the road and the company has been producing replacement parts to support them.

I wonder if they have a big stock of bodies and will build the new electric versions in the original style bodies?

[KS Toronado]

4. I don't understand why they would go with electric power

When they have Mr. Fusion?

[NullTuples]

5. THAT'S where I've seen the "Cybertruck" - I KNEW it looked familiar!

IIR DeLorean's engineers found it too difficult to work with stainless to build the entire car so they built what became known as a spaceframe and sheathed it in stainless steel panels. That way the bends needed would all be so much simpler.

[SeattleVet]

7. My wife: "It'll be an e-Lorean"

That's one of the many reasons I love her dearly.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. Gasoline? Where we're going we don't need gas! Whoooshh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jmowreader]

9. It's going to have horsepower this time, hopefully

One of the things that killed the car last time was that it had as much power as an Army M880 Dodge pickup.

[KS Toronado]

11. I know someone who bought one brand new

He loved the looks of the car but always said a VW bug would out run it. Electric motor would cure that.

[jmowreader]

12. Assuming they put enough of a motor in it to deal with the problem

If they put the 100-horse motor off my printing press in the car, no. (I doubt they’d do that, though; that motor costs $5000 more than a DeLorean did at introduction.)

What I would do is talk to Elon Musk. I don’t necessarily like the guy, but the power train out of a Model S Plaid would give the car sufficient zip - and if you waved around enough cash he’d sell them to you.

[KS Toronado]

13. He probably buys them

from one of the dozen companies who make them.

[jmowreader]

17. He might be making his own control electronics

I know Bosch makes a complete drop-in EV power train, but buying the control electronics is so un-Musklike…imagine what would happen if someone like Rich Benoit could just buy replacement parts for the Teslas he fixes on the open market.

[EX500rider]

18. Yeah it was pretty weak for a sports car

The DeLorean's engine is a Peugeot-Renault-Volvo (PRV) 2.85 L (174 cu in) SOHC V6, rated at 130 hp (132 PS; 97 kW) at 5,500 rpm and torque of 153 lb⋅ft (207 N⋅m) at 2,750 rpm.

[jmowreader]

19. The worst part is...

…the engine bay in a DeLorean won’t hold anything else without a lot of cutting. Because you know if it would, all those cars would have Chevrolet 350 crate motors by now.

Come to think of it, the car should have shipped from the factory with a Camaro motor in it.

[twodogsbarking]

10. History lesson

On October 19, 1982, the automaker John Z. DeLorean is arrested and charged with conspiracy to obtain and distribute 55 pounds of cocaine. DeLorean was acquitted of the drug charges in August 1984, but his legal woes were only beginning. He soon went on trial for fraud and over the next two decades was forced to pay millions of dollars to creditors and lawyers.

[hamsterjill]

14. Cool for San Antonio

Hopefully jobs!!!