DeLorean to go back into (limited) production?

[steve.s]

i would not worry.

the desirability or the two cars would be completely different, and perhaps the sort of drivers too.

ie i would not expect anyone here would be interested in buying a so called new car, with non of the 'history' etc

with regard to parts, i think the prices are pretty fair considering again the history, and someone has had to store them/ship them carefully for the last 25 years. imagine the bill for the unit?


How many car like ours 25 plus years old can you buy a brand new (nos) door. not many.
like a classic ferrari, lambo, lotus?. or even escorts, fiestas etc.the parts supply would just not be there.

in a way we are lucky that the parts were not just made for 10 000 cars as that door could be $4000 and we'd still have to pay. all supply and demand really.

makes me smile when the classic mags seem to say fairly difficult to get parts. this must really be one of the easiest of all.
There is not much that cannot be sourced
(will not mention my seat runner adjust bars or passenger carpet :lol: )

[Trevor FitzJohn]

The LA Times article made it to New Zealand this weekend - Sunday Star Times. Not bad for a country with probably 6 owners! As an owner I guess I am neutral to the idea of "new" DeLoreans. However I fully support DMCs decision to try. They have held the stock for over 25 years at an amazing cost. I think the prices they ask are very reasonable considering. It would have been so easy to have a lot of the dead stock sold for scap and downsized, they are not a charity, or the various clubs' storeroom. Hopefully when they are making a regular suppy of new Ds then the hard to get parts may in fact get easier to source. would I buy one - probably no. Cheers Trevor in NZ

[neal]

I think the Car going into production is a good thing, because as I said at Euro Tec its about keeping the car on the road & keeping the Delorean Name alive for Years to come, and you can only do that by making new cars.
As for the cars build in 1981-83 they will always be special because of the history.
These new cars are making history also, after 25 years after the factory closed the car is being reborn.

But then again the production should not have being stopped in the first place!

[Phil Peters]

I wonder if I'll have to ammend our club membership application form to read "Do you own an original or kit DeLorean?"

And I wonder who is going to be the first person in the UK to be stopped at the petrol station by Joe Bloggs saying "Hey, you must be the first person to get a NEW Delorean!!I hear they are making new ones now!!"

I'm trying to get an interview with James and/or Steve at DMCH to see if they'll share their thoughts with us in DeLorean News. I'll keep you posted.

[Guinney1971]

I cant help feeling abit cynical here, and echo some of what Jason said earlier.

Have DMCH magically found a vast quantity of LH front wings and driver's side torsion bars to build these cars? These items are supposedly like rocking horse excrement after all.....

I cant help thinking this is a wonderful PR exercise by James for DMCH..... although there is no doubt that it has completely raised the international profile of the car and aroused new interest in it.

[rdj104]

I have just received from the BBC the interview that I did that went out on World Service last week. I haven't listened to it yet.

It's a 6MB mp3. If someone has got hosting space I can send it on so others can listen to it. Or if someone knows a free host i can upload it to....

[NickT]

Email it to me and I'll host it on deloreans.co.uk

PM Sent.

NickT.

[NickT]

http://www.deloreans.co.uk/audio/

Regards

NickT

[Jonny Jones]

NickT Wrote:http://www.deloreans.co.uk/audio/

Regards

NickT

Nice one Nick!! The journalist from the World Service interview sounded like a complete gimp! You could tell he wasn't impressed at all, just wish they could send journalists that were genuinely interested in the subject matter. Great answers though mate, loving the ptssshhh from the twin turbo heheh!

[neal]

Jonny Jones Wrote:

NickT Wrote:http://www.deloreans.co.uk/audio/

Regards

NickT

Nice one Nick!! The journalist from the World Service interview sounded like a complete gimp! You could tell he wasn't impressed at all, just wish they could send journalists that were genuinely interested in the subject matter. Great answers though mate, loving the ptssshhh from the twin turbo heheh!

Yes, you done well

[Barson]

rdj104 Wrote:I have just received from the BBC the interview that I did that went out on World Service last week. I haven't listened to it yet.

It's a 6MB mp3. If someone has got hosting space I can send it on so others can listen to it. Or if someone knows a free host i can upload it to....

thanks mate.


He sounded scared when you started accelerating down the M-may

haha.

was he a prat?

how come it stalled?

well done and thanks

[rdj104]

It was definitely a difficult interview. I wouldn't say he was a gimp/prat as I didn't get any proper chance to chat to him. He definitely came to the interview with negative views and unfortunately the car playing up on a few issues mentioned before didn't help to change this view.

I could be wrong, but at a guess I reckon he could well have been starting his career as a journalist at about the time of the Delorean scandal/demise, so all the bad press at the time could be very familiar to him?

The stalling was just a combination of bad clutch control and it only firing on 5 cylinders.

It did feel a bit like a job interview, and was probably good practice for such things. As per the 3 counties interview, that's much easier where they come with a positive attitude and ask all the usual car show type questions. These questions were probably more from the Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight school of thought, trying to provoke debate, with more instant thought required to try and compose a reasonable response.

[Chris Hawes]

The other thing which you haven't clarified is that most people when being interviewed aren't trying to drive at the same time... I think you did rather well!

Do you know if the sixth cylinder needs just a new sparkplug/ht lead or something else?

[hana 5284]

There was only one lose knob it the car and im not talking about the gear stick or driver....he probely drives a scoda.....

[Rich Hanlon]

Certainly since I've been interested in the Delorean, and probably before, was it not always possible to specify a 'new build' Delorean from the DMCH website, to have it built to order?

Surely in that context, all that this current announcement means is that they're going to be doing the same as before, only manufacturing cars to go into the 'pool' to be sold, as opposed to manufacturing cars individually to a specific order?