DeLorean Motor Company existed for barely seven years, founded in 1975 by former General Motors executive John DeLorean and gone into receivership by October 1982, having built one car.[1] That car, the stainless-steel DMC-12, was assembled in a purpose-built factory in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, funded substantially by the British government as a job-creation scheme, a deal that unravelled along with the company after John DeLorean’s arrest on drug-trafficking charges in October 1982, of which he was later acquitted. The DMC-12 would have been a footnote had Robert Zemeckis not cast one as a time machine three years later.
Brand
DeLorean
DeLorean Motor Company (DMC)
- Founded
- 1975
- Origin
- United States
- Nameplates
- 1
Identity
- Country of origin
- United States
- Founded
- 1975
- Dissolved
- 1982
Nameplates (1)
Computed from every entry that names this brand, never a hand-maintained list. Each nameplate is a hub over its own generations.
Cars (1)
Every generation and halo trim from this brand, with the figures each one carries. Sort by any column; a car we have not sourced a figure for sorts last rather than as a zero.
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Body style
Era
| DeLorean DMC-12 | 1981–1982 | 97 kW | — | 209 km/h | 1,233 kg |
Sources & attribution
- Last verified
- 2026-09-24
- Origin axis
- United States
Logo: File:Delorean DMC-12 Logo.svg · DeLorean Motor Company. Displayed unmodified to identify this manufacturer's own vehicle, editorially and without any suggestion of endorsement or affiliation. Commons records the file as public domain for copyright purposes; the basis for display here is trademark nominative use, not a copyright licence.
Accent colour: Sampled from the badge's own SVG source, whose single background rectangle is filled solid black (#000000), matching the real DMC badge, which is a black plate on the DeLorean's brushed-stainless bodywork. No separate published brand colour exists for a company that built and sold cars for barely a year and a half.
References
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DeLorean Motor Company. Wikipedia · revision 1359243639 · read 2026-09-24
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