It may have helped Marty McFly travel through time, but the DeLorean proved to be one of the worst cars ever made, leading to John DeLorean being caught up in an FBI drugs sting and accused of stealing from the British taxpayer. So why is his daughter hellbent on getting it back on the road? “Wait a minute, Doc, are you telling me that you built a time machine ..
. out of a DeLorean?” Marty McFly exclaims. “The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?” Dr Emmett Brown replies.
Almost 40 years after one of the most distinctive-looking and controversial cars ever conceived rolled out of a cloud of dry ice and into Hollywood legend, it’s back from the future, or rather the past. Kat DeLorean, the daughter of John DeLorean, the man who dreamt up the futuristic machine with stainless-steel body and gull-wing doors, is launching a sports car that she says will bear her name and – she hopes – help clear his. John was an engineer-turned-celebrity three decades before Elon Musk blazed a similar trail.
A maverick like Musk, he had been a shining star of boardrooms at General Motors before turning his back on the established auto industry and setting up his DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) in 1975. Dapper and charismatic, he rubbed shoulders with Hollywood stars and was a darling of the chat show circuit. His marriage to Cristina Ferrare, a beautiful fashion model – Kat’s mother – made them irresistible to headline wr.