What is the DeLorean of 2010?
Sinaz20
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I just wanted to start a little discussion that, mind you, has no bearing or official connection to the BttF game whatsoever. I'm not being cheeky - this really just is random banter and discussion.
Way back, someone in the office joked, "The DeLorean is asking too much money, so we're going to get likeness rights from Universal and hire a sound-a-like."
But it got me thinking-- The DeLorean paid off on so many gags in the BttF series...
So, I'm wondering, if BttF were made today, what cars would have been good candidates for a 2010 time machine?
Personally, DeLorean is the be all end all, and it still works as a goofy car to build a time machine out of. It's almost as if DMC made the car specifically for this movie. It's even fun to say with an incredulous inflection: "Wait a minute, Doc... are you telling me you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean??"
I think maybe I could see a Hummer working-- it's gag worthy.
I just wanted to start a little discussion that, mind you, has no bearing or official connection to the BttF game whatsoever. I'm not being cheeky - this really just is random banter and discussion.
Way back, someone in the office joked, "The DeLorean is asking too much money, so we're going to get likeness rights from Universal and hire a sound-a-like."
But it got me thinking-- The DeLorean paid off on so many gags in the BttF series...
- It was a well known, yet hard to get, American exotic car... why not build a time machine with style!
- It was known for having serious performance compromises making the 88mph part a bit of a in-joke gag.
- It's heavy as all get out-- yet it eventually can fly.
- It looks like the alien spaceship on the farmer kid's comic book.
So, I'm wondering, if BttF were made today, what cars would have been good candidates for a 2010 time machine?
Personally, DeLorean is the be all end all, and it still works as a goofy car to build a time machine out of. It's almost as if DMC made the car specifically for this movie. It's even fun to say with an incredulous inflection: "Wait a minute, Doc... are you telling me you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean??"
I think maybe I could see a Hummer working-- it's gag worthy.
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Heh, that's exactly what I was thinking as I read your post.
Or it could go the other way with a little electric/smart car. They're easily recognised yet fairly uncommon, underperform compared to "real" cars, and tend to have a slightly futuristic look while being delightfully dinky.
Does it even have to be a car? Personally I'd love a time-travelling Vespa. Iconic good looks, distinctive retro styling, but kind of wimpy compared to "proper" motorcycles, and amusingly less than masculine. I'd buy one.
There aren't really any cars that match the DeLorean that have been on the market in the past decade, I don't think.
The best way to go, I think, would be something along the lines of the electric or air pump cars like the Airpod. They don't have the same cultural "resonance" as the DeLorean, but they have a "futuristic" look. You could also probe concept car designs, I suppose, but I think there's some appeal in something that actually exists now.
I dunno, the Hummer doesn't seem "sleek" enough to match the DeLorean in terms of matching stylistic value, which I think is the most important thing to consider when looking at an equivalent to the DeLorean.
For me, the appeal of the DeLorean as a time machine lies at least partially in its ridiculousness. Sure, it looks futuristic, but it also very much looks like a product of its time. It's just an 80s car pretty much like any other 80s car, except the doors open upways.
I like that it's NOT a sleek, well-polished machine (as a modern concept car would be). It's very obviously a homemade effort. It looks like what a time machine would look like if it was built by one crazy dude in his suburban garage. It's conceivably real, and that's where the love is for me.
Audience perspective could well have been different back in 1985 though.
A Smart Car could be funny... like I imagine the high pitch whine of its engine as it struggles to reach 88mph... and when it bursts through time, all it's paneling flies off.
As a bonus it was even marketed with the slogan "back to the future" I want one even if its not a time machine.
I could see the Hemi Charger filling that gap nicely in modern times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RyPamyWotM#t=0m46s
np: Sole And The Skyrider Band - Longshots (Plastique)
Camaro > Charger even with Michael bay trying to make it a robot. I also thought it was a Porsche engine in the Delorian (in 2 and 3).
If not that them TransAM from Knight Rider.
Nuff said i believe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2S7J_JBWds&feature=channel
win!
Someone needs to leak that on twitter as concept art from the game
Then watch all hell break loose.
It also didn't hurt that they slapped a Porsche engine in the thing for Part II after blowing multiple engines in the first movie.
American? What does that have to do with anything? The DMC-12 was made in Northern Ireland. And of course the Tesla Roadster has performance issues; it was designed by a bunch of internet tycoons, not automotive engineers.
Photoshop?
Manufactured in Northern Ireland for the cheap labor by a Michigan based company.
It's an American car, just like a Toyota is still a Japanese car, even if it was manufactured in the Ontario plant.
Am I mistaken?
And then there's the Chrysler Atlantic, which unfortunately is just a concept car:
that looks like the batmobile. i want it:eek:
It's very retro and very futuristic at the same time, so you can travel in style no matter what time you drop in.
I like it.
Holy crap!
That's like the Elephant Man of automobiles.
I get a little frightened when they... congregate like that. It's like they're plotting something.
Just think of the puns and gags you could make!
Or, I dunno, if you want to go for a sleek clean almost Portalish look, there's the Samsung eMX.
Although it's just a concept car.
Hah, no, but in all seriousness, perhaps a Beamer would fit.
50 percent engineering and 50 percent sheer lunacy.
And 5 mpg at max speed.
Wow that thing is ugly.
Poor KITT
How about this?
The whole design was futuristic at the time but that's not just it. It's the fact that DMC only ever released a Delorean, they went bust. The whole idea of making something in the same league as the Delorean today would be just as much of a failure.
Let's face it. The Delorean even though it's an absolutely awesome car is a complete failure, no company in their right mind would blow money on creating an equivalent. Without Back To The Future then the Delorean would be another easily forgotten car..
The ONLY modern equivalent would be if DMC got off their bums and designed a new car just as ridiculously cool as the Delorean.