BBC Top Gear Magazine

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The Back to the Future star is set to be reborn as an electric sports car

- Greg Potts

Huge news for time travel fans the DeLorean is back What you see here is the work of Scouser Stephen Wynne and his modern day Texasbased DeLorean Motor Company Wynne founded the company in  and acquired the DMC rights tooling engineerin­g drawings and company records two years later

Repairs and rebuilds of the original cars were Wynne’s bread and butter for a while but the company has made multiple previous attempts to bring the car back with a run of replicas in ƒ„… and an EV conversion in ƒ„

This looks like the real deal though Italdesign the crayon house founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro who penned the original is responsibl­e for the updated shape with the giant gullwing doors and rear window louvres providing the allimportant link to John DeLorean’s Belfastbuilt original Bad news though apparently stainless steel won’t be an exterior option We’re still waiting to hear whether flux capacitors and hoverboard­s will be available

We’ll get more details when it is revealed at Pebble Beach in August but you’ll already have noticed that it’s a fourseater We know that there’ll be an allelectric powertrain that allows for „ …„mph in ƒ  seconds and a top speed of ’’mph New DeLorean is also targeting a drag coefficien­t of „ ƒ• and a comprehens­ive –„„mile range from a „kWh battery

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