The successor to the Back to the Future car: a sports car with winks for movie buffs

Among the jumble of dates he has Back to the Future In its three episodes, May 30 does not appear as a day that deserves to be remembered by those who fell in love with the saga. But in 2022 a milestone was added that has a link with one of the great protagonists of history: the new DeLorean was known through and throughthe car that shaped the time machine that allowed Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown to travel.

This new model, which has been anticipated in recent weeks, has only the original the brand, which is a coupé, designed by Italdesign and the vertical opening of the doors. Obviously it’s been four decades since the launch of the DMC-12, so it should have a profile in line with these times. In fact, it has similarities to other electrical components already on the market, including Tesla.

The car is called Alpha5. As it turned out, it’s just the start of operations for the new DeLorean, which promises to launch more models in the coming years and not all with plug-in motorizationbut there would be some variant of combustion, just as originally was the DMC-12 that Emmett Brown had turned into the most elegant time machine.

How is the new DeLorean doing

In DeLorean’s first time travel in Back to the Future, the scientist’s test with his dog Einstein sitting in the driver’s seat, the car took 19 seconds of footage to go from 0 to 140 kilometers per hour, the famous 88 miles of speed in which the flow driver was activated and the time machine activated.

The Alpha5 lacks the sci-fi technology that director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Bob Gale brought to the original car. But it has such power that it would allow it to reach the goal necessary to travel through time much faster.

In fact, in this first presentation of the car, DeLorean has anticipated some data but he has saved many for the day he will show it fully to society, which will happen in August, during the Pebble Beach Contest of Elegance, a fixture for classic cars in the Californian summer.

There are also no details on the number or characteristics of the car’s zero-emission power plant. They indicated that it will have a battery of around 100 kWh of capacity, which will give it an estimated range in the EPA cycle of around 483 kilometers.

Among the advantages is the first mention to fans of the saga, with informed data but with an estimated character: its maximum speed will be 241 km / h (electronically limited), while will be able to accelerate from 0 to 100 in 3.4 seconds and in just 4.3 seconds it will reach 88 miles per hour (140 km / h).

As in the original, the shapes of the car were outlined by Italdesign, the prestigious company founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro. In fact, it is somewhat reminiscent of the Italdesign DaVinci Concept, known in 2019, albeit with differences in the trunk and in the sportiness that winks at the 80s model.

The Alpha5 measures 4.95 meters in length, 2.04 in width and 1.37 in height, figures that bring it closer to the dimensions of a sedan and away from the 4.21 meters long and 2 meters high of the DMC- 12. As already seen in the teasers, The gull-wing doors appear and the crisp design of the light array.

It is a coupe but with the 2 + 2 configuration, for four occupants in the individual bucket seats. The interior is essentially digital, with few physical controls. Therefore, it has a multimedia display in a tablet-style vertical layout.

Production of the Alpha5 will begin in 2024 and It will be in the form of a limited edition with only 88 units. Yes, another nod to the film. In any case, this car opens the door to the new era of DeLorean, which has already hinted at the possibility of other models, such as a sports car with a V8 engine, a sedan and an SUV with hydrogen mechanics.

This is the other big challenge for the new owners of the brand: overcoming the failure suffered in the 1980s, when John DeLorean launched it with a single model, the DMC-12, as it was wrecked following a scandal in 1982 due to the which the entrepreneur ended up in prison, accused of drug trafficking.

So much so that if it weren’t for Back to the Future, the brand would have been forgotten. However, in 1995 the English engineer Stephen Wynne, current CEO of the company, was acquiredbehind the revival of the car back from the past.

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