Well, at least it would finally have some power... (unintentional joke)... those things were gutless. My Dad test drove one when he was looking to buy them when they first came out... and it was like there was something wrong. We kept looking for a "go fast" button, or if the e-brake was on, or something. Seriously gutless. Pretty, though! My bigger interest is in the NHTSA ruling allowing low-volume builds of old styles. I'd love to see a resurgence of coach builders... let the metal/plastic artists go crazy like in the 1930's, and make some truly interesting vehicles. The original Honda CVCC and CRX... a Datsun 510... first gen Acura Integra... Saturn wagon... hell, how about an actual station wagon? And that's just pedestrian, normal, everyday cars that were brilliant. Seeing modern versions of these on the road today would be amazing... especially with the variety of powerplants available now, and low-volume manufacturing being so accessible to small shops...
The Delorean DMC-12 came about when John DeLorean saw the Porsche Tapiro concept by Giugaro at the 1970 Turin auto show And chatted up Fiat about buying Ferrari Dino 246 V6s to help Ferrari hit homologation. He had wanted an NSU/Citroen Wankel rotary but NSU did worse with rotaries than Mazda ever did and then the French got involved and it was a catastrophe. Fiat dicked DeLorean around almost (but not quite) as much as they did Ford, having learned they could do that. Then Citroen dicked him around because he'd proven himself gullible. In the end he landed a wretched Peugeot V6, kinda like how Saab built several hundred thousand 95s, 96s and Sonnetts with surplus Ford tractor engines. Giugaro, meanwhile, took what had been a futuristic vision of the Porsche 914 and turned it into a futuristic vision of a Chevette. the Bricklin SV-1 is a piece of shit but at least it's a badly-skinned AMC Javelin, rather than ten years of value engineering assembled in Northern Ireland at the height of The Troubles. What I love is they gave it to Colin Chapman to fix. "Hmm... I have a 2-liter mid-engined wedge-shaped car that I'm going bankrupt making and you'd like me to make yours better than mine? For money? I WILL GET RIGHT ON THAT MATE"
I'm processing my reaction to this. Part of me wants this to become reality... but the realistic version of me realizes that it's a heavy, low performing car that, other than iconic looks - was never a great car, and slapping an EV drivetrain in it may not be the most logical choice.
Seriously screw DeLoreans, dude...National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has completed a regulation permitting low volume motor vehicle manufacturers to begin selling replica cars that resemble vehicles produced at least 25 years ago.
