The answer is a small yes and a big no. The DeLorean car venture problems reminds me of Alejandro DeTomaso - founder of DeTomaso Automobili S.p.A. DeTomaso had an agreement with Ford Motor to develop a European sports car to sell in existing American car retail dealerships. The car was the Pantera. The Pantera although fast & after extensive modifications a good car, needed extensive reworking when new. Even though DeTomaso had an agreement & money from Ford, the Panteras were rough and lacked fit & finish detail. The cars leaked. The very first DeLorean cars assembled needed a lot of love by the first owners and the dealer technicians. The cars as a whole were just as good, if not better, that the current offerings from any of the car manufactures...especially the POS American cars from 1981. The very first cars delivered to the United States, needed hours of "quality assurance evaluation." The early cars were partially disassembled and reassembled to correct the poor workmanship from the Irish factory workforce & engineering miscalculations from DMC & Lotus. The workmanship issues and miscalculations were small, detail oriented, fit & finish miscalculations, not major structural defects or poor engineering planning. One of the first examples of an engineering miscalculation was water dripping into the interior by the headliner material in the first hundred DeLorean cars. The Headliner material consists of four parts. Two door areas and fore aft areas. The gullwing headliner areas are flawless as was the aft area. The area that gave the DeLorean owner grievance was the fore area of the headliner. The material in that area was tucked under the gigantic gullwing door weather seal in the door water channel areas. [Bricklin cars didn't have a water channel or in some cases, weather seals causing a deluge of water to enter the interior] The material that was tucked under the seal, absorbed water accumulating enough water to eventually drip into the interior. A small drip, not a deluge of water. This small detail oriented mistake was corrected buy a pair of scissors...to cut the headliner material out of the water channel, and away from the door weather seal. Problem solved. The miscalculation wasn't in one of the 14 pieces of weather seals, it was a small piece of headliner material. Best Wishes, Michael Pack