DeLorean DMC-12: Blast from the Past - XCAR
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2014
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The DeLorean DMC-12 is a legend. Its starring role in Back To The Future put it in front of millions all over the world and its development was, erm, newsworthy... We got the keys to an unmolested 80's DeLorean and hit the road.
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This version of the delorean is actually the one I’ve been looking for. That hood, automatic transmission, those rims and tires. All what I hope to have one day.
This guy doesn't really sound like he knows what he's talking about. I've had my 82 DeLorean for over 12 years now and it is definitely a very responsive car and a great handling car for what it is and even though I have done an extensive amount of restoration work on the car myself and some customization to a point but even before I started the restoration and tearing down the car the car was still a very responsive well handling car and quite honestly I think very well built despite what everybody says and thinks about it. When I bought my car all I did was rebuild the fuel system and I drove the car around on everything that was still original and I literally beat the hell out of it just to see what would break and the only thing that failed was a clutch slave cylinder and that part I found out was originally replaced in 1986 and was the only part replaced on the car. I I think it's a well-built and beautiful car and it's definitely something you would want to take on a long cruise because it is absolutely comfortable!
Such a well done video. I love the historical background in your videos. I too adore the DeLorean thanks to Back to the Future. Thank you for this video!
P.S. Your shirt is awesome lol.
The best review/footage of this car on youtube and I've seen them all! Best looking car ever, period.
Done. And keep up the great work. I'm not a big motor head, just a DeLorean nut and your shots and close ups coupled with the child like excitement of the presenter pretty much perfectly summed up why I love this car.
Great scott! It,s timeless...i was born in 1985. When back to the future came in theathers Cars from 80,s are my favourites I like the simple design great rip John delorean great review choom LOL choom means dear friend
Thanks for bringing us the story behind the car again XCAR! Some interesting stuff i likely would have never known!
Still one of my favorites cars of all time
Another great video. Really great work Alex!
Loved the video XCAR. I live right down the street from the DeLorean factory in Humble. Funny thing is I drive down that road right off of the Beltway right behind that church everyday. If you are on the freeway in the evenings the sun hits the DeLoreans just right and the stainless steel shines. Great that someone is keeping those cars alive.
I have to say, you guys are making some of the best automotive videos in the world... yes even better than Top Gear.
Great episode, its awesome seeing you in my hometown Houston.
I wonder if John Z really was part of an FBI sting or not. The old videos from the motel room where it happened wasn't really telling. It's a shame that DMC never succeeded. He was a brilliant man with natural charm and personality. Great job, XCAR!
10:00 "There's that word again! Heavy! Why are things so heavy in the future, is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
Love the Hill Valley class of '55 shirt!
Keep doing exactly this sort of thing, XCAR! Now that Chris Harris seems to be backing away from /Drive, you are hands down my favorite RUclips channel!
Timeless Design
Thanks Mr Giugiaro
Beautiful car 😁 . Thank you !
Amazing
I've never been a huge fan but Your car is spectacular!
as an automotive eng. student I always find XCAR stories really inspiring
Intro with lightning and the hill valley high school tee, just made my day!
***** thanks for the reply, oh yeah definitely one of the greatest car of all time, even if not so performance wise..
Interesting stuff!
People talk about how heavy it is. It's less than 3000 pounds. That's a featherweight by today's standards. It's the anemic engine with around 130hp that makes it seem heavy. Not to mention the one he's driving has a 3 speed automatic.
Bellissima!
Love the shirt.
Buying one soon....
awesome video. Great camera lead, cut, wonderful pictures. Most of all, accurate and well chosen facts provided, summarizing the story in short. Who is owner of the car shown? Have front tires correct dimensions (195/60R14)? I would want to know how owner got these tires. Actually, BF Goodrich Radial T/A are not available in these dimensions any longer, but only in 215/60R14. But tires shown don't seem to be that size.
I've always wanted one of these. I'd love to get one and just modify it and make it better, new suspension, engine, transmission, and try and do something with the gage cluster. The design is so cool and I love it, it would be amazing to make it a bit more sporty.
Don't blame it on the PRV V6 engine. For the era, this engine was similar if not better then other engines in the same category!
great video ... dream car ... anyone know whats the music?
I have been looking at buying one of these cars I have yet to make up my mind but they're really really cool
it was a great video to watch. and I like what you said about it being more than the sum of its parts because it is true. Uncle has 2 of them an Auto and Manual Both Great cars I had the honor of driving the auto a few times best time of my life and a really great car. Now with DMC making New ones and the New Electric Delorean makes it even more newer. And to that fact there are so many New mods you can do to it new Turbo Engine better suspension better brakes just to name a few new upgrades.
Ppl if anybody knows the opening theme pls share)
Great story told by the way.
I love how XCAR is evolving with time!!
back to the future!
let's go back in time
can anyone please tell me the name of the song? im assuming its from he audio network
Heh, y'know there's a Japanese visual novel / anime known as Steins;Gate that I really like. It involves some time machine shenanigans, and in particular, the cast develops a way to send e-mails to the past. After a brief discussion they name said e-mails "D-mails" as a shortening of "DeLorean-Mail".
Pretty neat imo.
Even my wife who has no clue about cars immediately recognized the DeLorean from Back To The Future
Such an Awesome car, but there was so much more potential there.
wahts going on with the carpet ? is the dashboard rocked or waht ? ^^
Oh the irony.Just saw a back to the future ad before the video.
You missed the opportunity with that lightning strike behind you to go back (or forward) in time.
Does anyone have info about the music at the end?
It has a nice sound. :-D
+meatloaf666999 Darude - Sandstorm
Rotflol, dude trust me I know sandstorm and that's most definitely NOT sandstorm. lol
That song has been garbage since I was in middleschool 15 years ago. lolol
Those brakes look positively terrifying. I think I had a truck that stopped like that DeLorean, back in the day.....
Something seems off about them. Mine are fine. Those must need a bleed.
Although that car has always been really cool, I've always thought that it looks a little awkward. The aesthetic and silhouette of it are great, so I wouldn't want to change that, but I think it could benefit a lot from some very subtle resto-modding. Lower the car a bit, and put some nicer wheels on. And making the front fascia and splitter look a bit sleeker and aggressive, but still keeping that square, 80s style to it. Maybe the back could use a little sprucing up too, in a similar fashion.
Will the flux capacitor option make it a hybrid & eligible for a tax rebate?
Name the musics please!!
10:20 love that
My perfect DeLorean = Delorean + upgraded disk brakes + 6-speed manual transmission + S54 E46 M3 engine + upgraded coil-over spring set.
This guy is a pretty good host, take note BBC!
Dat lightning 12:47
Where is the flux capacitor? :P
Keep the looks and design, but with modern tech this would be awesome car! Would love it with electric motors
same price as boxster spyder.. which one would you get?
Cayman
+Chinaman Champ Nope I would Stick with the DMC-12
Well, when the future comes and petrol is dead, ill still get myself a Delorean. It’ll still look great and futuristic, especially when its electric or a hybrid of some kind when i have it modified.
There was a reason he was able to clear his name, you know.
Humble Texas
The fact that it doesn't actually go up to 88mph makes me very sad
Pikachu at 12:47
Can u please review new modern car.
If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 140.8 kilometers per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit
Houston Texas?
Humble, Texas
pretty much. A suburb called Humble, next to the airport. But yeah, Houston. not too far from my house actually
I recognized it cuz I went to school up there!
dickcheese663 is there a show room in Humble?
dealership fully stocked with parts and new car sales
Also deloreans don't have roof lights so you can get rammed in the rear by a semi truck or something big
I would make that my project car.
That would be really great idea
One BIG flaw in this film... You didn't go back in time!!! and I didnt see the sparkles and the fire left by the wheel tracks! ahah
I think the brakes in that example may have had something wrong. The brakes aren't really THAT bad in those cars.
LS3 and Stop Tech will fix her right up.
Yes
7:30 If that is true, JZD just needed to NOT be desperate. Sad really. He had some great followup ideas planned.
And to get the money he needed without spending a dime of his own? An inspiration. Truly. You don't have to be stupid rich to give it a go if you have the where with all else. It is almost enough to ignore his fall.
Hope one of the leading car companies Tesla , Ford , Fiat\Chrysler ,Toyota , Honda , Nissan\Datsun , Mitsubishi , Volvo , Saab , Volkswagon\Group , Mercedes Build some of their cars with a Brushed Stainless Steel finish !
The DeLorean DMC-12. The only car that's as cool as it is shit.
My Volvo has the same kind of engine.
"Its a bit wobbly, a bit smushy, but then again it was made for the US market"...
Honest question, what the F does he mean by that? I really want to know LOL.
***** Thanks for the comment, thats exactly the type of info I was looking for! Im not exactly a 'car guy' so when im watching car vids theres always some lingo that I dont pick up. Thanks again.
funny, considering American cars these days (ahem Corvette) are generally built from plastic
@@Wilantonjakov You clearly have a remarkable knowledge of cars. Tell us more.
feedbacky.....?
Long live John Z.!
The shirt probably costs $30
We had a new 82. Constant cooling systems issues. Not quick, handled well.. crap load of attention. Lots of Jokes "How many grams to the hour?" I was a 4th grader, so kids were surrounding it if my parents picked me up form school.
I don't know why you had to focus on the negatives XCar. There are plenty of other youtube videos out there that will do the same nitpicking and retelling of its troubled past. I already know how terrible the DeLorean is in stock form so why not show off all of the upgrades that are available. I mean you were at the new DeLorean shop for Christ's sake.
Maybe because this is a review, not a commercial.
They could give an honest opinion on the upgrades. Its not like they would try to sell them to you. It would be pointless if it were to be a commercial because probably only one or two people watching this owns a DeLorean.
Because its about its history which is full of negatives both in the creator and the car but like he said the car itself is greater then the sum of its parts. They are not worried about what you can do to one now
I had a focus but it broke down when I went up a hill ):< so I obanded it there for a year now now probly some guy toke it so I have my fricking Gran torino that's so reliable that it never broke down on me besides that one time it was like 111 degrees and the thing was over the temp gauge I had to pull over and the scone I did that the car broke down of how hot it is so I took the hood off and put it in the big trunk and I got my water and pour it over the engine Bessie's some parts to keep it cool agian
I love xcar. But I really wish auto journalists would take interest in cars that haven't been covered to death.
We do, but no one clicks on those films...
you got the keys to a bone stock DeLorean...Im sorry...
Cool car but it's got a slow rubbish v6 Renault engine in the back which is the worst thing that delorean could have done to the car .38 years on this car is an icon and will stand the test of time for years to come
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I love this car such a iconic car I want one . The thing I hate is the slow noisy Renault engine it's the worst engine known to mankind it's an ugly slow wheezy piece of shit
What is the most queer car you can buy new or old today ?
First
Im not sure you know what that word means
+PHONYASIAN
In the smallest penis ever contest.
rubbish car but so awesome!!
Oh? You've owned and lived with one? Or do you think they're rubbish because they can't do 0-60 in 3 seconds?
johnnyd83 I love the DeLorean but it's rubbish. Face it. It has a sluggish PRV engine, emissions control ruined everything about it and it was so unreliable it had to be rebuilt when it was shipped to America. It was a terrible car - that doesn't make it any less cool though.
JackpodyDK
You're right, mostly. The cat converter took a good 40hp right off the top. But those restrictions are easily undone, bringing the DMC up to spec.
As far as reliability, yes. The very first cars had issues. Almost 99% of which cured by a bigger alternator. But that was only the very first cars when all eyes were on DMC. That's why the hype precedes truth.
The fact that the kinks in the early cars were easily sussed out and the vast majority were very reliable is the boring truth compared to the saucy hype.
So I disagree. They aren't rubbish. They're still daily drivers after 30 years.
They're just slow stock. Not unreliable.
But if all someone cares about is pure speed, yes. Rubbish.
I've tortured mine for 15 years. It always, always starts in 1 crank and gets me from A-B. I've gone through several cars while my Delorean still fires up the first time, every time.
So no. They are not unreliable. That is a myth.
JackpodyDK Let's see, a Delorean from 1980, versusa Ferrari from 2010. what is the age difference?
Oh that's right, 30 straight years.
And how was the technology back in the 1980s? Then again, Lambor Countach from 1980s. Heard of it? No. So can't say rubbish car until you compare the age. You might as well say Maserati Spyder rubbish cuz compare it to the Delorean, they are about the same. But Maserati, would you say rubbish to it?No.
benjamin tham You're assuming so many things. When did I ever mention Ferrari? When did I mention years? When did I mention the Countach? When did I compare? I said the DeLorean is a fucking fantastic car and you still bring me down.
probably the worst car to drive at a race track, but nice too look at and tootle around in
I wasn't aware of what a true piece of junk that thing is. Takes some mystique away from the films.
God the only thing cool is the doors...and even those apparently don't work half the time.
Mine's been fine for every one of the 15 years I've owned it so far. Even delivered pizza in it. I have tortured it to no end. Never left me stranded. Still starts up every time. Doors work great and are perfect for tight spaces. They open up, not out. They also protect you from the rain/snow! :)
The motor is underpowered, stock. That was the sore spot. But it's very reliable.
johnnyd83 Dude, if my pizza was delivered by a DeLorean I would cream my pants.
looks like star ship drives like a pig.
back to the future!
+enrico fumi NO WAY