DeLorean

[jaybird]

how many believe john delorean was set up? when i was a kid in the 80s there were all the delorean jokes and no one questioned he was a drug dealer.
john delorean was one of the youngest and brightest auto executives ever, cutting edge, ahead of his time, highly intelligent. these are not qualities you normally find with drug dealers. the drug deal meeting when he was busted, they never mentioned that john was told and believed he was meeting investors, not drug dealers. another thing they never mention, the amount of drugs at the hotel was huge, enough to put someone away for a very long sentence, a very serious drug offense, so big it would be tough for a good attorney to deal it down to small jail time. but john spent no time in prison or jail, all he had to do was one thing, agree to get out of the car business.
so the feds went to all this trouble to bust J Delorean and fight the good fight of war on drugs. and then all of a sudden they dont care about the good fight anymore as long as JD gets out of the car biz.
this was back in 82. has our government always been completely corrupt? i think yes

 

[tytlyf]

I haven't followed anything concerning him. But his car was definitely ahead of the time. Certain corporations have been influencing the government for decades or longer. They killed the electric car decades ago (oil corporations are to blame). I think the culprits would be in the auto industry worried about competition with Delorean or something of the sort.

1979 book about General Motors[edit]
After DeLorean left General Motors, Patrick Wright, author and former Business Week reporter, approached him with the idea of writing a book based on his experiences there. DeLorean agreed to dictate his recollections for Wright, who wrote the book. The final product, published in 1979, On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors, sold approximately 1.6 million copies, but disagreements over the content led to a conflict between the collaborators, with Wright eventually publishing the book on his own

 

[jaybird]

I haven't followed anything concerning him. But his car was definitely ahead of the time. Certain corporations have been influencing the government for decades or longer. They killed the electric car decades ago (oil corporations are to blame). I think the culprits would be in the auto industry worried about competition with Delorean or something of the sort.

it would be nothing new. about 25 years before delorean there was another car maker ahead of his time named tucker and they did the same thing to him. he was the first to incorporate seatbelts, break away glass and airbags which the big auto makers cared nothing about. they care a lot about saving money but care nothing of saving human lives.

 

[tytlyf]

it would be nothing new. about 25 years before delorean there was another car maker ahead of his time named tucker and they did the same thing to him. he was the first to incorporate seatbelts, break away glass and airbags which the big auto makers cared nothing about. they care a lot about saving money but care nothing of saving human lives.

Some people put profits over people. There's nothing wrong with capitalism, but when it reaches a certain level it becomes corrupt and greedy.

 

[Underhill]

I don't buy it. Tucker was a different situation altogether. The DeLorean as a car was crap. It was bad even compared to the cars of the day.

He had some ideas, many of them bad. Some of them good but untenable.

The car was supposed to be mid-engined (which would be good) was changed to rear engined (which made it unstable). It was supposed to be a rotary engine (which while it sounds good, probably would have been terrible) they ended up picking a terrible Peugeot/Renault V6 (unreliable even by French standards) and later put in Chrysler 318 V8 (which are slow but at least reliable) which today are mainly used as boat anchors. They are made of stainless, which while it sounds wonderful, makes it outrageously difficult to work on, making repairs and insurance extremely expensive. Supposedly the car handled quite well in development (probably because of its mid engine) but in the end it made the Porsche 911 (which were known at the time as widow-makers) look stable by comparison.

It was really a terrible car. It looked cool, but tops the Lamborghini Countach in the look but don't drive category. Not an easy feat.