Location: Bay Area
Posts: 382
My VIN: 10644
It?s now been a year since the Alpha5 was shown at Pebble Beach. It?s made an appearances in Fast X and the Petersen Museum. I seem to recall a management shakeup and a reduction in planned units. What?s the latest? If any of you have paid them anything, are you getting updates?
Christian Williams, Bay Area
#3452 from 2000-2005
#10644 since 2015
Posts: 38
My VIN: 16306
Other than the lawsuit from Karma, the only other news is that production will supposedly start in 2024 and it will launch as a 2025 model year.
https://www.hotcars.com/delorean-alp...thing-we-know/
Location: Cookeville, TN
Posts: 322
My VIN: 628
Club(s): (SEDOC) (DCUK)
Alpha 5? It's all just one big fart in the wind.
Location: SW FL
Posts: 744
Club(s): (DCF) (DCO) (DCUK)
Not a fan of that Alpha 5 aka DaVinci. Any worthwhile successor to the original needs to have a stainless body and gullwing doors, at minimum. As an Ital Design DaVinci - let it be that.Originally Posted by JBaker4981
Too bad the original body die situation is a disaster....
~LXA~
Dunmurry | Stuttgart | Leipzig | Munich | Tochigi | Fremont | Bratislava | Sindelfingen | Kansas City | Oakville | Coventry
Posts: 4,781
My VIN: Banged your VIN'S mom
The Alpha V was BS from the start and we all knew it.
At least they made a prototype albeit a rebadged existing car.
Kat's car was BS that never made it out of the bull...and we all knew it.
Location: Lexington, NC
Posts: 791
My VIN: #5000 (Grey, manual, SS chassis, intercooled twin turbo), #16128 (Grey, auto, efi twin turbo), #888
Club(s): (DCVA) (SEDOC) (DCUK)
I?ve heard some rumblings that the deposits are gone and the ones that put the money up are out the deposit money. Remember the slogan??it was never promised!
Posts: 4,781
My VIN: Banged your VIN'S mom
The deposits were not deposits on the car. I read the contract which states the first payments are to join the club, the second payment which I think was $5k for holding places and non refundable but applicable to the purchase price of the car and the price has yet to be disclosed.
Location: Syracuse, NY area
Posts: 1,026
My VIN: 10287
Club(s): (DMA)
History does seem to operate on repeat, evidently more than one analyst suggested spending money on "wine, women, and song..." rather than investing in JZD's DeLorean Motor Company as you would, "...get the same return and have more fun...". Actually you probably came out ever so slightly ahead with the real DMC as that investment was in a research and design tax shelter so at least you got a tax write off. So now your money only gets you on some Reimagined mailing list and a spot in line for their non-road legal piece of anonymity. I guess that's supposed to be.... progress?
Nick A.
1988 BMW 325is
1982 DeLorean DMC-12
1989 Jaguar XJ6
Location: Cookeville, TN
Posts: 322
My VIN: 628
Club(s): (SEDOC) (DCUK)
Least we forget that the Alpha5 was classified by DOT as an "Off-Road Use Only" vehicle. If it wasn't dead from the get-go, that sealed its fate last year.
Again.... just a fart in the wind.
Location: NW Ohio
Posts: 461
My VIN: 16506
Club(s): (DCO) (DCUK)
A few YEARS ago I signed up to be put on an email list with updates on the "new delorean" (not sure which iteration, definitely before the Alpha) and to this day, still... not one, single email with any info. Sigh.
Shannon Y
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