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Great Scott! DeLorean is back (to the future) with new gullwinged Alpha5 electric sports car

Published 02 June 2022
By James Fossdyke
The brand made famous in the Back to the Future film franchise has unveiled its new gullwing coupé, the Alpha5.
Top five wedge shaped cars - Aston Martin Lagonda

Top five wedge-shaped cars

Although an iconic style, wedge shaped cars often came with a slice of unpredictability.
Published 10 March 2020
Elon Musk claims the Tesla Roadster will be able to fly

Elon Musk claims the Tesla Roadster can fly

The Tesla founder Elon Musk has issued yet another bold statement: when fitted with gas thrusters, the upcoming Roadster will be able to fly.
Published 09 January 2019
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Future bright for DeLorean after legal green light...

The DeLorean Motor Company is to build up to 300 of the gullwing sports cars that will for ever be associated with the Back to the Future film series.
Published 01 February 2016
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Stanford University creates driverless DeLorean that’ll...

It's October 21, 2015 (a.k.a. Back to the Future "Future Day") and the car of the moment is the DeLorean DMC-12 – you can’t move for stories centred...
Published 21 October 2015
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Interview: Danny Rogers, the man who invented the Flux...

Danny Rogers is a British graphic designer for film and TV turned producer who designed the core component that made time travel possible...
Published 21 October 2015
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Hey, Lexus, we need to borrow your . . . hoverboard

Flying cars, self-drying jackets, "sneakers" that fasten themselves, instant messages via fax: Back to the Future Part II, which was released in 1989...
Published 21 October 2015
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1981 DeLorean DMC-12 review

Welcome to the future. Today — October 21, 2015 — is the day to which Emmett "Doc" Brown, Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker travel in the sequel...
Published 21 October 2015
Products: John Z, the DeLorean and Me . . . tales from an insider, by Barrie Wills

Products: John Z, the DeLorean and Me . . . tales from...

Nobody has yet produced a musical based on the DeLorean saga, though the plot would be no more implausible than most operas
Published 19 October 2015
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Bond, Bueller, Bullitt and beyond: the star cars of...

As 007 returns to the big screen in an Aston Martin, Matt Bingham offers his pick of the supercars and old bangers that have become stars of film...
Published 07 September 2015
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Video: McLaren stages Back to the Future stunt for...

If you were to rank the Formula One teams for their sense of humour, McLaren would probably sit at the bottom of the list. That's despite those amusing...
Published 29 January 2015
Six real flying cars

Forget Back to the Future: here are six real flying...

Welcome to 2015, a year in which we pay for goods and services by thumbprint identification, video-call the office and . . . fly cars, if the Back...
Published 02 January 2015
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Video: Meet the world's biggest DeLorean fan

John DeLorean may have made plenty of enemies during his colourful lifetime, including the British, American and Swiss governments and the international...
Published 15 December 2014