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."

Hopefully...

[bomanbot]

the new production run has the flux compensator as standard issue now ;)

Obviously this never happens

[nurhussein]

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!

Options

[yabba-dabba-do]

Is the hoverboard an option? I only want one when I can get a stock hoverboard to go with it!

I hope they found out how..

[zmollusc]

.. 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.

Flux compensator?

[Anonymous Coward]

You are hereby excommunicated from /.

This sucker's electrical...

[Anonymous Coward]

...but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the one point twenty-one gigawatts of electricity that I need.

Re:Options

[iknownuttin]

Is the hoverboard an option? I only want one when I can get a stock hoverboard to go with it!

No, but I understand that there's a cocaine compartment.

Re:Flux compensator?

[WED Fan]

You are hereby excommunicated from /.

Hopped-up-on-goof-balls-Jesus-On-a-pogo-stick-ch rist, I've been telling everyone that /. was a religion!

Proof!

Now, what does that make Neal and Taco?

Re:Hopefully...

[gEvil (beta)]

Leave him alone. He's just capacitating for his lack of vocabulary...

Serendipity

[Zaphod2016]

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...

Re:Flux compensator?

[gEvil (beta)]

Now, what does that make Neal and Taco?

Child molesters? Zing!

Re:Hopefully...

[bomanbot]

Yeah, thats it. Stupid crappy German translation ruined my joke :-(

Re:Saw a discovery channel special.

[wkitchen]

He had enough parts made to produce a ton of cars...

Wouldn't that be approximately one car?

Of course they're bringing it back!

[Derek Loev]

The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?

Re:Seems there is need to update the design...

[geekinaseat]

(read august issue of playboy)

So some people do actually read the articles then?

Re:The car retains a following

[Mercano]

Hey, even with a six cylinder, it could still get up to 88 miles per hour without to much trouble, provided you had gas.

I hear to make it more modern...

[Shadow Wrought]

They'll be funding it by dealing meth instead of cocaine.

Re:The car retains a following

[Minwee]

I'm sure in 1985 gasoline is available at every corner drugstore, but in this century it's a little hard to come by.

Re:Serendipity

[DieByWire]

Thank you Slashdot. I think I may have finally won a fight!

Um, actually, you just started the next one. Sorry to have to break the bad news to you.

Jokes

[bigt_littleodd]

Jokes from back in the day when John D was busted:

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!

Re:A few facts from someone who had one (late 80's

[Anonymous Coward]

I had passengers fall asleep on me several times.
Yeah, I had dates like that too.

Re:Options

[OldManAndTheC++]

I understand that there's a cocaine compartment

Yep. The owner's manual refers to it as the "blow hole".

Re:Styling is the ONLY good thing about this car

[Reaperducer]

It's slow and heavy. It's grossly underpowered. It's nothing like a 'sports car'

Bowling is a sport. I think that's the justification.

Just don't blare out Duran Duran

[Tablizer]

or i'll key the damned thing.

Re:Just don't blare out Duran Duran

[Dachannien]

Your pathetic keys cannot penetrate my stainless-steeltanium armor.

Re:Flux compensator?

[okjeff]

GREAT SCOTT!