June 12, 2016

The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was used to propel Marty McFly and Doc to the future in the Back to the Future film franchise. In the feature film series, Dr. Emmett Brown builds a time machine based on a DeLorean DMC-12 car, to gain insights into history and the future. The time machine requires a power input of 1.21 jigowatts (gigawatts) to operate, originally provided by a plutonium-fueled nuclear reactor. The DeLorean DMC-12 was the brainchild of automotive engineer John Z. DeLorean, who founded the DeLorean Motor Company in 1974. DeLorean Motor Company filed for bankruptcy in 1982. Approximately 9,200 cars were built, consisting of three model years, 1981, 1982 and 1983.