This could have been a great car company, all it needed was a better motor and time for the workers to become more skilled to get better quality, I love the stainless steel look of it, its a classic

It's a sad story. The DeLorean left a great legacy for many entrepreneurs as an inspiration. Let's just say he was a great ostentatious man with an expensive lifestyle. The people of Belfast had their job prospects shattered, and despite having no experience in building vehicles, they had great potential! But without a doubt, for me, the DMC is and will be the most glamorous sports car I've ever seen, and that's after seeing every car there is and ever will be. Thanks for the documentary!

my father has a delorian from 1982

It's a real shame it failed, because it's a good indicator that giving a man a good job and giving him a life he enjoys and feels valued in, can fix all sorts of troubles

People mock the engine power but the 1981 Corvette had 181 hp at the time. Today the Corvette has about 490 hp. You cannot compare 1981 engine technology to modern engines

Still a breathtaking car. It actually only needs a better motor, and it's ready to be rereleased, because it is such modern looking and a solid car.

Its interesting to see how the translation of 70's era GM management rolled right into DMC. The 3 design teams competing with one another was straight out of GM, as was the style of negotiations as well as the spin with the finances... its like taking a GM project and applying it to a startup operation. Alas, there was no parent GM to bail things out towards the end when everything started rolling against them.

The part thats fascinating though was how quickly everything fell into place... those time frames are incredible, not only to build a plant, but to take employees off the street with a brand new design and to be able to crank out cars. The 400 hour rework doesn't seem unreasonable for pilot production on pretty much anything that's so new, even with experienced people at the helm. Amazing!

Don't care what anyone says, I love John Delorean, he's a legend, he was a great soul for the world.  And what a wonderful machine, I can see his true vision of how DMC12 was meant to be intended, and it's a beautiful vehicle (a benchmark really).   Especially with the modern day engine uprates and customisation you can do with it.  R.I.P.

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   I am the proud owner of a 1967 Pontiac that has a unique engine John DeLorean designed
   for GM I believe in 1965-66.... Happy to be able to say even thou the engine is 50 years old
   and never been rebuilt, it started right up today and operated flawlessly during my entire
   journey of 30 or so miles....
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Sting: Creating a crime that doesn't exist and arresting someone for it.  How is this legal?

After having viewed the tragic story I really feel sorry for the entire failed project, not least for the high hopes created in Northern Ireland. But I also feel that the whole disaster roots in John DeLorean's hubris generated by his fast career with US car makers. He thought that he'd succeed in everything he touched. Had he listened to specialists for development and production, he could have had a more realistic approach and might have actually produced a better car. Thus, he clearly overestimated his competence, which finally had to lead to this deplorable "car crash".

Say what you want about John Z Delorean but he had cojones! He was GM's top design engineer with 44 automotive patents to his name. He wanted GM to be more innovative and cutting-edge by building these kind of cars but all GM wanted to do is build these little candy-ass four-cylinder cars to compete against the Japanese. So JZ gave up a $600,000-a-year job to start his own company. How many of us would have that kind of courage? Of the 9000 cars ever built, almost 7000 were still on the road 25 years later so these cars were built to last. More than we can say about most cars today.

Very interesting to me. I had never known all the details of this endeavor. It was poignant in particular, for me, because I was working as an engineer for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan and got laid off from work the same year as the DeLorean fiasco. But, unlike the management at Ford, I lost my job like the workers in Belfast and I never got my job back. And like DeLorean, the management at Ford was unscathed, even though they were the cause of the failures at the car companies. Smooth talking privileged salemen always win out.

I remember seeing my first DeLorean when I was a kid in college, It looked like it was worth $50,000 sitting in front of one of the most prestigious hotels in Philly. As I walk around it I said to myself, someday, someday. About 10 years ago I finally thought maybe this was that day, then the economy when into its worse decline since the great depression and I lost my business. I try to stay positive and keep telling myself, someday kid, someday.

"In 1999, DeLorean declared personal bankruptcy after fighting around 40 legal cases since the collapse of DeLorean Motor Company.  He was forced to sell his 434-acre estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, in 2000.  It was purchased by real estate tycoon and future 45th President of the United States Donald Trump and converted to a golf course."

If you consider DeLorean a crook, he was also a highly capable car executive who built a fine car that Northern Ireland can be proud of.

We used to find investors in wall street.  When you go to any government for money for your business,--you deserve to lose your business. Not sure if he had a choice.

My flight instructor owened one and let me have it for a weekend while he borrowed my truck to haul materials for a cabin he was building in the mountains. I loved it. What a babe magnet with those gull wings!

Granted the car isn't perfect, I love my DeLorean for its style, reliability, and its place in automotive history. Thanks, JZD.
Matt Carpenter
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Such a cool car. I wish DMC had succeeded as a car company.