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

["essexdick" <tny1964@xxxxxxx>]

   I dont think there is anyone, but does it matter really. I for one 
am not interested what people think about the cars, they dont have to 
buy one. I love em, and unless you have unlimited funds , what can 
you buy that generates as much interest as a delorean... nothing. so 
dont worry, the cars will outlast them anyway. cheers tony 3484


--- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "James" <james@xxxx> wrote:
>
> #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)
> 
> --------------------
> 
> 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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