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Rumormill: DeLorean Motor Company considering rescuing Pontiac Solstice?

General Motors has made a science out of sharing platforms. So when the company's Kappa platform was introduced for a new rear-drive roadster to be distributed across three different motor divisions, you'd have figured the program was pretty safe, right? Unfortunately for the workers at the Wilmington Assembly Plant which manufactured the Kappa roadsters, those three divisions were Pontiac, Saturn and Opel – three units which the General has either sold or shut down. Which is a shame, because a perfectly good rear-drive roadster ... Read more →

VIDEO: RSD's DeLorean soap box racer consumes 1.21 gigawatts of Red Bull Jeremy Korzeniewski

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. Only parking lots... plus a few small jumps and a high-banked turn. Oh, and we'll also need a bit of gravity, which is all that's powering Roland ...

eBay Find of the Day: DeLorean twin-turbo prototype engine Noah Joseph

Between the sports cars and his jet-set lifestyle, John Z. DeLorean was a man typified by excess. So would it come as any great surprise that he wasn't perfectly satisfied with the meager 170 ...

eBay Find of the Day: Back to the Future DeLorean replica [w/VIDEO] Jeremy Korzeniewski

The way we see it, if you're going to build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? Thankfully, Hollywood's Doc Brown agreed with us. In this case, style equals a 1981 DeLorean ...

Studios fighting for DeLorean biopic Jonathon Ramsey

It doesn't take a genius to figure out why Hollywood is working on a film about a car company going kaput. You might wonder, however, why three different factions are working on another movie about ...

Back In Time: John DeLorean biopic reportedly in the offing 8 months ago on Autoblog

According to Variety, Hollywood producers David Permut and Steve Lee Jones have secured the rights to John DeLorean's life story -- a film that's been in the works since late 1997. The fascinating tale will cover DeLorean's tenure at Packard, his rise at General Motors and instrumental role in ...

eBay find of the day: BTTF SriLorean 1 year ago on Autoblog

The seller states he's not really sure what this car is worth. Here's our estimate: it's worth even less than a regular '89 Scirocco with 123,000 miles. Why? Because it's been molested into a Delorean imposter. Not just any Delorean, either, but the Back To The Future Delorean, which so many people ...

Kobe rolls like Doc Brown to launch McFly kicks 1 year ago on Autoblog

Kobe Bryant showed up at UNDFTD this week to kick off the release of Nike's new McFly Hyperdunks. The McFlys are Back to the Future-themed basketball shoes, with a color scheme inspired by the shoes Michael J. Fox wore in Back to the Future II. They come complete with "2015" emblazoned on the right ...

Delorean's daughter speaks: Doesn't like DMC revival 1 year ago on Autoblog

Kathryn DeLorean appeared on the DMC talk forum as Dmckid recently and asked, "Do you have a question about JZD?" That would be John Zachary DeLorean. Members, would you believe, did have lots of questions about DeLorean, the man and the machine whose fortunes and iconic status are inseparable. ...

Back to the Future, Bullitt added to National Film Registry 1 year ago on Autoblog

Judging from how a generation of thirty-somethings have images of a flying, fusion-powered DeLorean imprinted in their DNA, we'd say that Back To The Future has left its mark. Likewise, Highland Green '68 Mustang fastbacks only look appropriate wearing American Racing Torq-Thrust Ds and flying ...

Get your Flux Capacitors right here! 1 year ago on Autoblog

Okay, let's get this straight. Back to the Future movies: cool. Making your DeLorean into a replica of the movie car: incredibly lame. Halfway between would be a reproduction flux capacitor. If you did buy this thing, you could certainly attain full lameness by installing in in your non-DeLorean. ...

DeLorean's stillborn 40-foot bus 1 year ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/DeLorean_s_stillborn_40_foot_bus'; Glomming onto a Federal program in the 1970s meant to spur the development of more accessible buses, DeLorean Motor Corporation saw a potential revenue stream. Not that the DMC 80 had anything to do with their now ...

Autoblog Podcast #75 2 years ago on Autoblog

So, it's a couple days late - call it a summer vacation hangover and let's just move on. We had a busy weekend covering both the Woodward Dream Cruise and the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, which pushed our schedule back. Once in front of our mics, we start Autoblog Podcast #75 by mulling the ...

DeLorean revival officially confirmed for next year 2 years ago on Autoblog

You may remember a post we did back in January about the DeLorean Motor Company selling flux capacitors and hover conversion kits on its website. The fictional for-sale items were a joke that got a lot of attention for the Texas-based company that's been selling old DeLorean parts and making new ...

Great Scott! Could new DeLoreans be coming? 2 years ago on Autoblog

There's still a Delorean Motor Company, but it's not in the business of building new vehicles. At least not yet. The Texas-based firm purchased a lot of the assets of John DeLorean's original entity when it went belly-up, and it, along with its regional affiliates, does a brisk business keeping the ...

Auto Lexicon: Top 5 four-wheeled metaphors 2 years ago on Autoblog

Here's a fun column we came across talking about cars as metaphors. Kind of like referring to something as the "Rolls-Royce" of its industry means it's the best (or most expensive, perhaps). The writer, Miss Cellania, lists five vehicles that rightly or wrongly have come to be symbols of the worst ...

Model cars made entirely out of paper 2 years ago on Autoblog

While perusing Autoblog Latino and brushing up on my Spanglish, I noticed this post that led me to a site called Paper Inside. Its simple tagline – Paper Models are Paper Inside – hints at what you'll find below the fold. The site offers numerous free downloads of paper models that ...

Delorean finally gets the engine it should have had all along - 3 rotor Wankel 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Delorean_with_a_300hp_3_rotor_Wankel_engine'; In the late sixties and early seventies, many car companies were enamored with the power density of Wankel rotary engines, including NSU, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz and General Motors. GM ultimately built at least ...

Time Machine: the DeLorean wristwatch 2 years ago on Autoblog

Say what you will of the late John DeLorean, but when push came to shove, he never tired of searching for creative ways to promote his business interests. One of the last initiatives he undertook was a time machine of sorts. Not quite like the one that immortalized his creation -- the ...

eBay Finds of the Day: Double dose of Delorean history - prototype #0001 and twin turbo 2 years ago on Autoblog

No need for lame BTTF jokes for this pair of DeLoreans. These deserve to stand on their own as two of the most significant vehicles in the history of DMC. A pair of DeLorean prototypes owned by Tony Ierardi of DeLorean Motor Company Florida are being offered on eBay to help raise some capital. The ...

The ill effects of an overheating Flux Capacitor 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/offbeat_news/The_ill_effects_of_an_overheating_Flux_Capacitor'; This is what happens when you don't get those 1.21 Jigowatts of power flowing cleanly. One unfortunate Delorean owner recently had a bit of a meltdown, but we don't think Doc Brown was anywhere in ...

eBay find of the day: Lost sketches of Delorean super luxury sedan 2 years ago on Autoblog

A few months back we told you about 10 pages of sketches done by John Delorean in 1980 that wound up on eBay. Well, this time 24 more pages of Delorean notes are up for auction dating all the way back to 1976. The sketches show details of a still-born DMC super luxury sedan that could easily be on ...

Great Scott! Flux Capacitor and Hover Conversion for sale on DeLorean website 2 years ago on Autoblog

The DeLorean Motor Company owes a lot to the Back to the Future franchise for its reverred place in pop culture history. While the original DeLorean Motor Company has ceased to exist, a different DeLorean Motor Company is now operating that does everything for the DMC-12, including full restores and ...

eBay find: DeLorean sketches 3 years ago on Autoblog

John Z. DeLorean began his automotive career in 1947 when he worked part time at Chrysler while in college. From there, he rose fairly quickly in Detroit and after securing the vice president position of car and truck production for GM, DeLorean quit and formed DeLorean Motor Company. Before DMC ...

DeLorean's weekly planners on eBay! 3 years ago on Autoblog

As one of the more colorful characters in recent automotive history, when John Z. DeLorean passed away in 2005, he left behind quite a legacy and quite a pile of paperwork. Among the many lingering items related to his business and personal life are some of his weekly planners. Two of them, from ...

Think Different. Apple + DeLorean 3 years ago on Autoblog

Who knows why DeLoreans often find themselves the canvas upon which mad scientists paint their insanity? Doc Brown and his flux capacitor notwithstanding, Ryan Brandys decided to take Apple Computer to task and think different when it came to building a custom carputer. As we all know, the ...

Hollywood's best and worst movie cars... take one! 3 years ago on Autoblog

On the heels of yet another movie promotion for Pixar's Cars, Cars.com (natch) has gone and selected what it considered the ten best movie cars of all time, along with five it figures should've been earmarked for the compactor. The envelope, please ... Best: 1981 DeLorean ...

eBay Find of the Day: The Back to the Future DeLorean 3 years ago on Autoblog

Great Scott! An incredible replica of Doc Brown's DeLorean from the Back to the Future movies is up on the auction block via everybody's favorite internet auction place, Ebay. We're used to amenities such as flight and time travel capability, but the vehicle also sports a cassette player, ...

Back To The Future: DeLorean Motor Co. alive and kicking in Florida 3 years ago on Autoblog

A solid argument could be made for retrofuturism as one of automotive design's defining themes over the past few years... witness offerings like the Chrysler PT Cruiser, Volkswagen New Beetle, MINI Cooper, and more recently, the Chevrolet HHR and Toyota FJ. So could there be a better ...






Autoblog Podcast #154: Gobbling up the News

Chris, Sam, and Dan kick out a podcast just in time for the long holiday drive.

 
 

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