# RIP: John DeLorean **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-delorean/295453 "2005-03-20T19:01:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-delorean/295453/1 "2005-03-20T19:01:19Z")
[John DeLorean dead at 80](http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/20/news/newsmakers/delorean_obit/?cnn=yes). ☹ I guess he’s flying around, back in the future now. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-delorean/295453/2 "2005-03-20T19:23:42Z")
Bummer. I owned one of his DMC cars for a while. It was fun to drive, but man, something broke down on it every 300 miles or so. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-delorean/295453/3 "2005-03-20T19:28:16Z")
/pours out a beer Just like every other red-blooded male who saw _Back to the Future_, I always wanted one of his cars. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-delorean/295453/4 "2005-03-20T19:47:12Z")
> [@](#): > > ATLANTA (CNN) - John DeLorean, who developed the futuristic-looking sportscar that captured the country’s attention during the early 1980s **but ultimately proved to be a marketing failure** , has died. He was 80. Marketing failure huh? ok… RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-delorean/295453/5 "2005-03-20T19:55:04Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > Marketing failure huh? ok… They were. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-delorean/295453/6 "2005-03-20T20:38:16Z")
I rather like the Fark tag. “John DeLorean dead at 80. Was trying for 88, but his flux-capacitor gave out” ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-delorean/295453/7 "2005-03-20T22:03:27Z")
A business man is caught, With twenty four Kilos He’s out on bail and out of jail, and that’s the way it goes - don’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-delorean/295453/8 "2005-03-20T23:41:10Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > Marketing failure huh? ok… There’s _a lot_ more to it than that, but I’ll save that discussion for another time. ( **QtM** mentioned part of the problem with the cars.) DeLorean was also responsible for most of GM’s muscle cars during the Sixties, even going as far as fabricating the paperwork so that the execs wouldn’t know how powerful the engines were that he was dropping into cars. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-delorean/295453/9 "2005-03-21T01:52:30Z")
I bet the casket has gull wings, too.