Re: [DML] A Probably Stupid Question

["bjmccool" <bjmccool@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In actuality, the DMC has made a comeback. It just isn't in current 
production. The support, organizations and people behind the Delorean are 
stronger than they have ever been.
For the Delorean to be put back into production, the company would have to 
take on a completely different structure. Of all the businesses a person can 
start, an auto company is fraught with the most peril. It has nothing to do 
with John Delorean "sensing it". In fact John Delorean has tried 
continuously to put the Delorean or different designed Deloreans into 
production since the original company ceased production.
In the automotive world, you can either be very big or very small. Any 
attempt at re-starting the Delorean would need to be very small, say 500 
cars a year and never go above this amount. The car manufacturing business 
is incredibly cash intensive. You spend 2-3 years and millions of dollars on 
designing and engineering a product, hoping that it will be successful 
enough to pay the company back. If the car in question is your first or only 
product, then its success takes on a life or death decision for your 
company. At a small level, if something goes wrong, you can typically find 
someone or some organization that has 25-30 million dollars to help you out 
or for that matter help someone else re-start the company. At the level that 
DMC was at it would need 3 to 4 times this. With no long tract record to 
fall back on as a company and because of the amounts involved, people were 
reluctant to help out financially when it got into trouble. Most other 
specialty/small scale manufactures have gone through boom/bust cycles, where 
a mistake was made on a product or other financial gamble was taken and the 
company ceased and then was restarted. This was possible because of their 
small size.
The big auto makers didn't gang up on him any more than other auto makers 
that they were in competition with. At the production level that DMC was at, 
it was little more than a gnat on GM, Ford, or Chrysler's radar screen. 
There were different factors involved leading to the demise of the company, 
but this wasn't one of them. In fact AC Delco was one of the suppliers that 
John used. Why would GM allow this if it was really out to stop John?
I agree that we deserve what his vision has to offer, but it will have to 
come from someone on the automotive scene today. John could be involved in a 
new company, but it would have to be as more of a figure head/designer/idea 
man. Someone else would have to be involved as a recruiter of financial 
backing and as CEO. John has even stated that if someone would come up with 
the financial backing for a car of his design, he'd name it after them.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nitrousgarageworks" <nitrousgarageworks@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 10:47 PM
Subject: [DML] A Probably Stupid Question


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>  I have a question: why in this age of super cars, and our age group
> spending big bucks for the machines of their youths: Why didn' the
> DMC come back? Is John Delorean dead or something? We see the streets
> crawling with super cars, and he had a design that 20 years ago beat
> them all, why doesn't he sense it? Why doesn't he "do it again"? From
> what I understand of history the big "Auto Makers" ganged up on him,
> and shut him down. Why doesn't he take them on again? I think we
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