It's been nearly 40 years since the release of Back to the Future, but the DeLorean remains cool as ever thanks to its beautiful industrial design and gull-wing doors. Now it's officially coming back, and it's going electric.
In a teaser revealed shortly before the Super Bowl, the DeLorean Motor Company teased the return of the iconic car. "The Future was never promised," the tweet reads. "Reimagine today."
The Future was never promised. Reimagine today.
— DeLorean Motor Company (@deloreanmotorco) February 13, 2022
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It's accompanied by a 15 second video featuring the silhouette of the familiar gull-wing doors. The accompanying hashtags reveal that it will be an electric vehicle while suggesting that it will have a focus on luxury.
The announcement marks the return of the famous but short-lived car, which only lasted between 1981 and 1982. Cool as it looked with its stainless steel body, the DeLorean was infamous for being underpowered. The original DeLorean Motor Company went bust in 1982.
The DeLorean was already out of production by the time it made its debut in 1985's Back to the Future, but Robert Zemeckis' sci-fi hit made it instantly iconic among movie fans.
"The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?" Doc Brown famously asked Marty McFly before taking it for a test drive in the parking lot of the Twin Pines Mall (later the Lone Pine Mall).
It's unclear how faithful the new DeLorean will be to the original, though one assumes that it won't deviate too far from its classic design. It's set to debut sometime in 2022. With paradox-free time travel potentially being proven possible, maybe we can finally make Doc Brown's dream a reality.
While you wait, check out the Back to the Future screenwriter's answer to one of the film's most infamous plot holes, as well as our list of 20 actors who were replaced during their movie's production.
