Re: [doc] An excerpt from "Crap Cars" by Richard Dredge

["neal barclay" <neal.barclay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sarah wakely of Autocar magazine liked the car to.
Neal doc 324/clock no.1804 (former employee)
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  From: James 
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  Subject: [doc] An excerpt from "Crap Cars" by Richard Dredge


  #37 on a list of 50...why do all UK automotive "journalists" seem to
  hate the DeLorean? Is there one who does like the car that I am
  unaware of?

  James Espey
  DMC (Texas)

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  DELOREAN DMC-12 (1981-1983)

  John Z. DeLorean spent much of the 1960s and early 1970s working for
  GM, where he created cars such as the legendary Pontiac GTO. That's
  the sort of cool stuff you get to do when you're a handsome cowboy
  figure and your middle name starts with a Z. The trouble started when
  John Z. got sick of working for The Man and decided to create his own
  "ethical" sports car. Originally his "ethics" revolved around
  environmental friendliness, although this soon gave way to the rather
  less ethical business of persuading the British government to give him
  enormous bags of cash so he could set up a brand-new factory in
  Northern Ireland. The end result was, frankly, dismal. Sure that
  stainless steel body looked good, at least until it got covered in
  fingerprints, but the build quality was appalling and that 2.8-liter
  V6 engine was so weak it would struggle to pull a hobo off your
  sister. DMC-12 sales were dismal, falling rapidly to zero when John Z.
  got caught in a doomed money laundering sting and had to shut his car
  factory forever. The car did rise again as the star of the movie Back
  to the Future, although even in 1955 they'd probably have noticed it
  was a broken promise.

  IF THIS CAR WAS ... A REAL TIME MACHINE, MAYBE THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
  COULD GO GET THEIR MONEY BACK. 





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