Author Topic: PICs OF FAST HOT CARS!!!  (Read 12532 times)

Offline Frank N. O.

  • Alpha Rooster
  • *****
  • Posts: 2446
  • Spin It!
Re: PICs OF FAST HOT CARS!!!
« Reply #15 on: July 17, 2006, 11:16:20 PM »
That's ok, there is a life outside of the forum and I fully understand there are some things that come first, and forgetting something for a few days isn't a problem in this case :) Very very nice looking car, looks similar in colour to what Chey described that her mom's BMW was, that's a E46 M3 btw, with manual transmission, no-one in that family uses automatic gears and they all love cars, that family have had cars like VW Beetles by the dozens, Karmann Ghia's, Porsche 914, Lotus Europa, Esprit etc. etc.

Btw, the 12 in DMC-12 was because the car was planned to be sold for 12000 USD but it was delayed and then the currency rates between UK and USA had changed so it ended up at 25000 USD instead. John planned for too many to be built and sold, more than any other car in it's class, if the goals had been lowered the car might've been around still. There was a replacement for the DMC-12 already designed when the company went bust, that was what became the ItalDesign Ford Maya (look at it and note the similarities in size etc.). It was John DeLorean that insisted in fixed isntead fo pop-up headlights and that there were rear-3/4 windows instead of the tiny windows behind the doors on the Esprit for instance, and having driven inside one let me tell you that the visibility is actually very good comapred to any other low exotic car 8) For 1984 they'd developed a new front suspension that quote "Did wonders for the handling" and a totally custom-built twin-turbo set-up where only the crankshaft kept from the original PRV V6 and that car would accelerate from Porsche 928 and Ferrari 328 with ease and for the time was supposed to have an unpresidented long warranty. Two engines were made, one in the prototype car that had intake scoops over the engine intake at the back and another display engine that's now fitted in a DMC owned by another enthusiast who also started the DMC One parts-company.

Frank
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
— Leonardo da Vinci