I think that the car had a fuctional Citroen 4 cylinder engine, but I don't know how it was mounted (rear like the current PRV-6 or transverse-ish like the Fiat prototype used to test the engine placement). Not sure about the headlights, but I'm pretty sure that the clearance lights were battery powered and the tail lights were non-functioning mock-ups. In several books about JZD & DMC this car played an important part. Along with it was shipped at least 1 other car that was fitted with a PRV-6 motor, and this was the car the engineers sneered at and made fun of (i.e. all of the welds in the exhasut system). Once it arrived the only thing more to ever be written about it was that the guys @ Lotus didn't care for the V-6 engine, and "...drove the 4-cylinder even less." Where this car ended up, I'm not too sure, but it may still be sitting on Lotus' property. A while back the DOC (I think) posted photos of a DeLorean prototype car sitting on Lotus' property. Lotus denied that the car was even there, so they wouldn't allow anyone to move it (I'm was confused too!). The pictures shown a car that was beyond a state of disrepair, but still had a great amount of historic value to it. Though I'm still not sure if this was the same car. -Robert vin 6585 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Thomas B" <tjb229@xxxx> wrote: > Does anyone know the details regaurding the prototype Delorean? I'm > talking about the one that was pictured in Stainless Steel Illusion. > It was the car with brown leather interior and airbags. Its front end > looked longer than the production D, and it didn't have the louvres > in the rear. Was this car drivable or just a show car? Is this car > still around today, and if so where is it?