[HN Gopher] DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024
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DeLorean returns with 300-mile Taycan rival for 2024
Author : rmason
Score : 45 points
Date : 2022-05-30 20:45 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| duxup wrote:
| I would love an identical looking but updated DeLorean...
|
| A local guy has a DeLorian and folks in town LOVE seeing that car
| around town. Young, old, everyone.
| GordonS wrote:
| I saw one just the other day, in the small, rural Scottish town
| I live in - pretty sure the first I've ever seen in the UK!
|
| I had my young son with me, and I was gesticulating
| excitedly... then I remembered he hasn't even heard of the film
| :)
| KerrAvon wrote:
| > Each will serve as an avatar for an associated NFT, meaning
| they won't be road-registered and suitable only for track use.
| The rest of the production run, while still low-volume, will be
| built and marketed more conventionally and so will go through the
| necessary homologation processes for legal use on the road.
|
| LOL. John DeLorean would have approved of the grift.
| [deleted]
| greatpostman wrote:
| Looks like a Tesla with a couple delorean features thrown in. I
| hope this company fails
| [deleted]
| Flockster wrote:
| > "Initially, de Vries explained, the car will be sold in a
| limited run of 88 - referencing the speed needed to time-travel
| in the 1985 sci-fi film Back To The Future, in which the DMC
| famously starred.
|
| Each will serve as an avatar for an associated NFT, meaning they
| won't be road-registered and suitable only for track use."
|
| Why?!
| jhgb wrote:
| > suitable only for track use
|
| Ah, so NFT means Not For Transportation here, then.
| krallja wrote:
| EUREUREUREUREUREUREUREUREUREUREUREUREUREUREUREUR
| Flockster wrote:
| Yes, but then they follow up with:
|
| > "The rest of the production run, while still low-volume,
| will be built and marketed more conventionally and so will go
| through the necessary homologation processes for legal use on
| the road."
|
| Why can't the fancy, expensive, showoff NFT cars go through
| the same process?
| ytdytvhxgydvhh wrote:
| Seems like a lot of early builds go through recalls (e.g.
| Lucid's new Airs have been recalled a couple of times
| already). If collectors are willing to spend big bucks and
| buy cars that don't come with road-worthiness and legal
| compliance, why not take their money?
| ipspam wrote:
| This comment is the only time I have EVER said, "yeah, I
| guess an NFT makes sense"
| jccalhoun wrote:
| To get attention and maybe they can actually get enough
| investment based on attention to actually go into production.
| yuppie_scum wrote:
| It gets dumb people with lots of expendable money excited
| messe wrote:
| What purpose does the NFT serve when there is a physical object
| to back it?
| warning26 wrote:
| Well, you see, the physical object can be funged, while the
| NFT cannot!
| xt00 wrote:
| So after it disappears into the 1950s in two streaks of
| flames you can claim you still own it of course..
| tyrfing wrote:
| NFT to represent ownership or something like that, since they
| aren't road legal they probably won't have titles. As for
| actual purpose, it is of course marketing.
|
| Side note: it looks like they tried to sell a DeLorean DMC-12
| via NFT last year, but didn't actually sell it.
|
| This is a brand licensing company, not a car production
| company, thus the vagueness of what the vehicles actually
| are.
|
| https://brandsuntapped.com/licensing-haus-maria-alcaide-
| on-c...
| newsclues wrote:
| The ability for the manufacturer to get a cut from resales.
|
| And whatever they bundle to force the above.
| zeusk wrote:
| I could sell the car without ever caring about the
| "associated NFT".
| colechristensen wrote:
| NFT shouldn't have anything to do with roadworthiness, it's
| just an early production run for collectors that doesn't go
| through the various hoops to get rated for public roads and
| perhaps breaks some rules in order to be more fun on tracks.
| NFT is just a gimmick on top of a limited edition they can
| charge extra for and use to test things for the real run.
| [deleted]
| rfwhyte wrote:
| So a company who's only operational history is repairing and
| rebuilding ICE DeLoreans from old stock parts now wants us to
| believe they're capable of building a modern EV? I'd put good
| money on this one being yet more EV vaporware that will never
| actually see a production model roll of the line.
| colechristensen wrote:
| >"The car is being built in Italy - we've outsourced that - and
| we have some partners on the UK on the powertrain side."
|
| They're using existing platforms from other companies and
| customizing them.
|
| Similar to how the original Tesla Roadster was based in the
| Lotus Elise, they took the basic design and modified it to be
| an EV keeping as many parts as possible to simplify the design
| and safety process.
|
| It's easier to modify an existing design than to start from
| scratch and you get to outsource much of the process.
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| Would also note that EVs are massively easier to build than
| ICE vehicles.
| LanceJones wrote:
| Then why are so many legacy ICE manufacturers struggling so
| badly with manufacturing and production at scale?
| yuppie_scum wrote:
| But still not easy. Look at the dicey early examples of any
| Tesla for example..
| LanceJones wrote:
| Note that this is not true in Tesla's case. Elon and team
| _thought_ it would be easier to modify an existing design,
| but have since admitted that it was a mistake to do so.
| [deleted]
| rob74 wrote:
| > _CEO Joost de Vries, previously a high-ranking official at
| Tesla and Karma [...] has taken the helm from Brit Stephen
| Wynne, who had run DeLorean as an aftermarket support service
| since 1995, when he acquired the brand rights following the
| high-profile demise of the original company._
|
| ...to me that sounds like de Vries has taken over the company
| just so he can use the name, so what the previous owner did
| with it is not relevant. As to when something will actually
| roll off the line, that remains to be seen. Personally, I think
| they should have resurrected the original DeLorean (or
| something more closely resembling it) as an electric car,
| rather than this pretty interchangeable sportscar design...
| whywhywhywhy wrote:
| What's the point in a Delorean without the Delorean design
| language.
| imwillofficial wrote:
| I am more an more convinced that the modern world cannot create
| interesting art in the post modern age in pop culture. Mere
| rehash existing properties with no respect to the original.
|
| Nostalgia is played out.
| jimmaswell wrote:
| I read a while ago that they had the rights and could potentially
| get a limited reproduction permit for the old model. I was really
| hoping they'd make it the same as the iconic one but with
| electric. This design is good though. Nice to see cool style come
| back to cars somewhat with the likes of this and Tesla, as
| opposed to the soulless blobs of 1990 onwards.
| ardit33 wrote:
| I think it looks pretty good, but a bit away from the spirit of
| the original (which is more squarish). The CyberTruck gets closer
| to that sharp edges delorean look than this one.
|
| But, overrall looks good. It has some elements from the C4
| Corvette in the front end.
| samstave wrote:
| I like the car on its own, but I personally think its a joke to
| call it a delorean and make only passing references to the design
| of the original.
|
| It looks like someone just up the resolution on a Jag or
| something.
|
| The wheels are a weak ref, and the nose isnt even in the same
| species.
| candiddevmike wrote:
| These are the doors of a billionaire
| netsharc wrote:
| Feels like DeLorean has been "returning" for at least a decade
| now...
| avalys wrote:
| Whatever. They're going to make 88 of them (hah hah). This isn't
| a Taycan rival, it's a novelty project.
| phpisthebest wrote:
| This disappointing car seems like it is just waiting for
| hollywood to ruin another childhood franchise.
|
| No Flux Capacitor, no nostalgia at all other then them limiting
| the production run to 88... This has nothing in common with a
| Delorean
|
| Modern Hollywood takes a generic script and slaps a popular IP on
| it.... This is a taking a generic car and doing the same thing
| sschueller wrote:
| How is this a Tycan rival when it won't be road legal until a
| later point at which this whole company may be bankrupt again?
| Did they already run performance tests on track or are these just
| predictions?
| reitzensteinm wrote:
| At least they didn't call it a Tesla killer.
| layer8 wrote:
| No flux capacitor no buy.
| drfuchs wrote:
| Yeah, but there's 55 pounds of cocaine in the trunk.
| bitlax wrote:
| FCs are aftermarket.
| anm89 wrote:
| What a missed opportunity on the styling. Very little resemblance
| to the original and just plain boring and ugly.
| pnut wrote:
| Sorry but it looks boringly generic, straight off the wind tunnel
| supercar, also-ran snooze-a-thon assembly line.
| [deleted]
| Etheryte wrote:
| The design feels like a massive lost opportunity. There's a lot
| of legacy to pay homage to, but if you showed me the images with
| the logos removed, I couldn't even remotely guess what company
| came up with it. If anything, it looks like a fancy version of
| Polestar [0], never in a million years would I connect this to
| DeLorean.
|
| [0] https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/official-
| polestar-...
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