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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 e
by Etheryte 4y ago
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-precept-going-production https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/official-polestar-...
- cromka 4y agoI’d say they not only missed opportunity but somehow also the overall ongoing trend of going back to the orthogonal aesthetics, which were precisely what defined the original DeLorean so distinctively. I mean just look at the Tesla Pickup or Hyuandai Ioniq 5! The smooth curves ain’t that sexy anymore. IMHO they’d literally would be way better off if they kept the original design as reasonably possible.
- mc32 4y agoThe original was junk. It only has cachet because of the association with the movie. Maybe the idea was nice, but the execution on the original was wanting.
- trial3 4y agoright, but the reason it was in the movie in the first place is because the car looked neat (and John DeLorean was also uh on trial for drug charges[0]) if Bob Zemeckis scrolled by this car writing the screenplay it would probably still call for a refrigerator [0] https://www.narfa.com/how-the-delorean-became-the-iconic-back-to-the-future-car/ https://www.narfa.com/how-the-delorean-became-the-iconic-bac...
- BitwiseFool 4y agoMechanically, it was junk. Aesthetically it was amazing. It was eye catching even before the movie.