These exerpts are taken from different DMC Brochures.

STYLE
John Z. DeLorean's luxury Grand Touring concept was relined into a work of automotive art by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the founder of world famous ITAL DESIGN. The wedge shape, as it finds it's interpretation in the DeLorean, is not only stunning to look at but aerodynamically efficient as well.

STAINLESS STEEL
This concern with both form and funtcion is carried throughout the car. The DeLorean uses the ultimate coating -stainless steel- on the panels that cover the entire body. The stainless needs no maintenance to prevent rust or corrosion.

UNDERNEATH
The body beneath the stainless is also impervious to the degrading effects of rust. The fiberglass-reinforced panels are made by a special vacuum-assisted resin-injection process that places the resin precisely where it's needed to provide maximum strength.

GULL-WING DOORS
The DeLorean body is designed with the human body in mind. Ground-hugging sports cars are notoriously awkward to enter and exit. Not so with the DeLorean's gull-wing doors. They swing up and tower above the roof so there is nothing to impede entry. A scant 14 inches of clearance is all that's nedded. The low door sill, the unobstructed clear hatchway, the overhead space all are completely unexpected in a car that's only 45 inches high.
The gull-wing door itself is a triumph of technology. The torsion bar used to ease it's opening and closing is made in a sub-frigid bath of liquid nirogen. While immersed in the liquid nitrogen, the torsion bar is twisted through ten full revolutions to rearrange the grain structure of the metal. The finished bar can open and close the door at least 50,000 times without losing strength.

INSIDE
As you ease yourself into the luscious leather seats, you'll be glad that in this one area DMC designers chose tradition not technology. The hides, from a Scottish tannery which supplies the Royal Family, impart the unforgettable feel, aroma and looks of a luxurious time past.
The dashboard instruments have been selected for their value as providers of vital informationa and not as electronic trinkets or ornaments. White needles sweeping across a black background provide instant comprehension so the driver can react promptly to road conditions.

UNSEEN ADVANTAGES
The frame and 30 other hidden components are treated with a special plastic coating to prevent corrosion. The pieces are grit blasted, heated, then dipped into a tank of fluidized epoxy powder. This epoxy coating provides protection against rust, road salt and flying gravel displaced by the high speed motion of the car. Special care has been taken to protect the fuel tank. The blow-molded, high-density plastic tank can never corrode and it's tucked safely between the frame members, behind the front cross member. The tank is made in Norway by a firm founded by Alfred Nobel.

SUSPENSION
The suspension exists to isolate you from too intimate contact with the road while providing good control and handling. A fully independent suspension with unequal length upper and lower control arms graces each corner. Carefully selected coil springs, a front anti-roll bar, rack-and-pinion steering and diagonal rear trailing arms contribute to the suspension's superior handling characteristics. Large 4-wheel disc brakes are standard and the braking forces have been carefully proportioned front-to-rear to assure maximum fade-free control in extreme situations. Goodyear developed the distinctive tread pattern of the Neutral Contour Tires (NCT) from it's Formula One program. Unlike conventionally molded tires, these high-performance NCT steel-belted radials are molded in the very shape they will assume when mounted on the car's cast aluminum wheels. Cornering and braking forces are therefore distributed more evenly throughout the tire's structure.

POWERTRAIN
The motive force behind the DeLorean is provided by a lightweight aluminum V6 that resides between the rear legs of the chassis. The overhead-camshaft, fuel-injected 2.85 liter engine develops 130 horsepower and delivers 19 mpg estimated and an especially impressive 29 MPG highway. The engine is mated with either a 5-speed manual transaxle or a 3-speed automatic.

Please keep in mind these are all specs for a stock DMC-12. I will be adding a page with the modifications we have done to ours....lowering springs, shocks, Yokohama AVS tires, cross drilled/vented rotors, larger bore fuel injectors, stainless clutch line, stainless coolant bottle, lower air dam, blackouts and hopefully soon TURBOS!! ***IF you got this far, please take the time to vote! =)=)

Our first poll was What is John Z. DeLorean up to these days? 136 people voted and 44% of them didn't know he was still alive. That's ok, higher than I thought.:) He is 77 and he is doing well. Eric and I met and spoke with him in Cleveland 2000. His Daughter, Katherine, had a baby girl last year.

Ok so another 44% knew about him desiging two new cars and trying to get that started up.

32% thought he was in jail. that's ok too. A lot of people like to inform us of that when they see our car. In reality, JZD only spent 6 hrs. in jail and was acquitted of everything because of entrapment. Then he countersued and won but the media didn't cover any of that.
The final 16% know that he is active in the DeLorean community. Good for you! So thanks for voting and vote again! If you really like our site and read this far than you should know that the current poll, all of those cars share a history with the DeLorean. Later Gators.