There have been plenty of cars that have been made famous, thanks to their role in various Hollywood blockbusters. Few have such a strange history as the DeLorean DMC-12. By the time it was featured in Back to the Future, production had already been stopped for a couple of years, and only around 8,500 were ever completed and put on the road. But soon, that number is actually going to start increasing.
You might wonder why, after all the popularity of Back to the Future, that no one thought to start producing the DMC-12 again. Well, there has been a big legal hurdle to producing a car that was originally designed in the 1980’s. Namely, the safety requirements have changed over the last 35 years. If someone wanted to start rolling these bad boys off the assembly line, they would have needed to completely overhaul the entire design to meet today’s standards.
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