The company located in Texas have fought for years for the right to take up production of the sports car with its gull-wing doors, originally built in 1981 and -82 in only nine thousand copies. Best known was the one that Future machine in the movie Back to the Future when the actor Michael J. Fox in the role of Marty McFly drove a DMC-12.
The original DeLorean company went bankrupt in 1982, but a new one with the same name was founded in 1995 in Texas and purchased parts warehouse, which contains millions of parts. It has devoted itself to repair and resale of used DMC-12, but also wanted to start the production of new car because the demand has been felt.
The problems have been right to use the mark, as well as to get the car approved by the US traffic safety authorities.
But last year they made a deal for trademark rights, while a new law made it possible to manufacture cars in very small series of so-called replica cars. They just need to meet the security requirements that were in force when the original vehicle was new.
Therefore expects Delo’s Motor Co. to manufacture 300 new cars will use a variety of original parts from the warehouse, but also some newly manufactured. One example is the engine, which was originally a V6A manufactured in France and are also used by Volvo. Where the Texas company is currently in discussions with various manufacturers about which machine to use.
The new construction is expected to get under way in spring 2017 and the price is projected to be somewhere just under $ 100 000.
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