DeLorean Proves the Existence of Irony

DeLorean: Still Making Time Travel Possible

Not only is the sun shining in the UK--making this a pretty good, albeit really cold, day-- but what came across the feed this morning has to be the most exciting news to reach car and nerd fandom, well, ever. Never has a confluence of these two spheres been so complete than when one considers the DeLorean Motor Company. And yes, dear readers, DMC is planning to come back. DMC is, of course, the company that gave us the iconic (and forever idiosyncratic) DMC-12. Nothing fixes the 'Back to the Future' franchise in the 1980s like the DeLorean. Nothing. Only the failure of Pan Am was more significant in making all movies prior to 1991 seem quaintly old-fashioned.
According to the article, DMC is weighing a plan to continue production of the Pontiac Solstice because some mythical creature named 'JZD' remembered it from a past life, or some other flaky explanation like that. The real question: does DMC really expect to be taken seriously if they refer to their founder as 'JZD?' Let's not forget, this was a man who funded his corporation by extorting the Irish government and selling cocaine (scroll down to 'Entrapment'). He was already sketchy enough! Let's hope that this '80's comeback is more like 'Don't Stop Believing' and less like leg warmers. Those definitely could have stayed confined to history.