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Oh, What a Relic.(Escape Roads)
Byline: JAMES CHUNG
With its sleek, stainless-steel exterior, flashy design and gullwing doors that whisper about the future as they rise, the DeLorean DMC-12 is etched in our memories more than two decades after production ended.
Featured in the Back to the Future movies, the DMC-12 was a science-fiction vision, but the reality is it went extinct quite quickly-and lives on as a relic of the past.
And yet, "You cannot not look cool in this car,'' says this DMC-12's owner, Mike Sturba of Windsor, Ontario. Apparently, though, enough people felt they didn't need to look quite this cool.
The DeLorean glides along the road and hugs corners tightly, which comes as no surprise considering the automotive legends behind it. Lotus founder Colin Chapman designed the Lotus suspension and chassis for the DMC-12. Lotus Esprit designer Giorgetto Giugiaro created the futuristic style. And the car was the baby of John Z. DeLorean, the automotive maverick who was credited with initiating the muscle car movement as a General Motors engineer and executive in the 1960s.
Without the plutonium-powered flux capacitor required for Hollywood time travel, the 2.8-liter V6 engine needs 8.8 seconds to travel from 0 to 60 mph. Maybe that's not fast enough to bend the fabric of time, but it's enough for a trip to the past for both drivers and spectators. DeLorean owners like Sturba are used to camera strobe flashes when driving this prize.
"It looks more exotic than it is; no $1,200 oil jobs,'' Sturba laughs. For a fraction of the cost of other sports cars (a running DMC-12 can be bought for around $15,000), Sturba enjoys the same fame, perhaps more. "My uncle has two Vipers,'' he says, "and sometimes people will spit on them. No one has done that to my car.''
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Source: HighBeam Research, Oh, What a Relic.(Escape Roads)