DeLorean Motors Reimagined, the Texas-based non-DeLorean-but-also-not-not-DeLorean company that promised a future for the DMC-12 in a 2022 Super Bowl ad wants to remind you that it’s a totally new car builds that is absolutely real and 100 percent existing. In fact, it’s building so much that the company will show its full concept early – on August 18, three days before the car was due to launch at Pebble Beach.
A press release issued today via PR Newswire, as the media page of the DMR website is an email address only, showed a photo of the forthcoming EV concept alongside its new debut date. The “three-quarter shot,” which is neither a photograph nor a three-quarter angle of the car, raises even more questions about the whole of this concept. Here’s the full, uncropped photo:
Starting from the bottom, the drawing appears to mimic the Acura Integra with an embossed logo on the back of the car. Notably, this logo isn’t the same version found on DeLorean’s website – it’s the version Italdesign used when it announced its involvement in the project. The center bar of DeLorean’s second E borrows Italdesign’s Italian flag motif, possibly indicating that this rendering was made in that shop and not directly from DeLorean Motors Reimagined.
If you drive up the back of the car, its plate gaps raise some odd questions. The center of the car features a single, small panel, separate from the rest of the body, likely intended as an active rear wing. Normal, good, all good there. The other gap running down the rear is a lot stranger: it appears to be a hatchback, but one with the hatch running all the way to the diffuser. In other words, this concept appears to have no rear bumper whatsoever. Where they’re going, they might not need them.
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The biggest oddity, however, comes on the top of the car. Looking back at the image from DeLorean’s Super Bowl commercial, the angle of the doors to the roof looks like a sharp crease – similar to the original DMC-12. On the new concept, however, they curve like a Nissan Z. Did the version shown at the Super Bowl have anything to do with the concept? Will the concept have anything to do with reality?
DeLorean Motors Reimagined has a significant amount of work to do in its quantum overlay of DeLorean to be and not to be before convincing buyers that it can launch a real product. Until then, take his concepts with a grain of salt — or a whole bite.