John DeLorean’s Daughter Wants to Build a New DeLorean Based on the C8 Corvette

Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of DeLorean these days.

There’s the Texas company led by former Karma Automotive executive Joost de Vries that’s planning an updated EV version called the Alpha5.

Then there’s Classic DMC, run by a Liverpool mechanic named Stephen Wynne who bought the DeLorean name and the original company’s parts inventory and factory drawings back in 1995. He’s since made his money servicing and reproducing parts for the original 9,000 DMC-12s.

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But only one company still has John DeLorean’s bloodline as CEO, his daughter Kathryn DeLorean.

Now her company – named DeLorean Next Generation Motors (DNG) – is planning a lineup of two DeLoreans, according to an exclusive story by Hagerty.

“I needed to find a way to build an affordable car for the DeLorean community,” Kathryn says. “They’ll be heartbroken forever if I don’t give them something.”

Hence, the upcoming pair of cars – led by the Model JZD at the top with only 42 hand-built units to be produced. For the common folk, there’s a less expensive version that will, appropriately enough, be based on a C8 Corvette, fitting since John Z. spent 17 years of his career at General Motors and was even president of Chevrolet from ’69 to ’72.

That version will replace the Corvette body with a design by DNG, including the iconic gullwing doors, and performance upgrades from aftermarket builders are in the works, too. Automotive designer Angel Guerra, who worked six years for Croatian EV firm Romac and stayed with them after its 2021 merger with Bugatti, has penned some renderings to give an idea what may lie ahead.

Kathryn says her dad was a big supporter of Zora Arkus Duntov’s desire to make the Corvette a mid-engine vehicle and even unsuccessfully tried to buy the engineering for the mid-engine Aerovette after founding DeLorean Motor Company.

Using a Corvette as the foundation for a new DeLorean “allows me to finish my dad’s story,” she says. “I’m building him his dream car.”

Source:
Hagerty

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