Don't give them any ideas.

And they didn't handle well either. But still neat cars.

@@Colorado_Native When I was a junior in highschool (2004) I remember seeing one for sale in my neighborhood. It was mint condition w/ 30K miles for only 3K. I wanted so much to get it, but my father talked me out of it. I ended up getting a 91' Toyota MR-2 Turbo instead.

@@Mak-Daddy They are neat. I am retired USAF now, but came back to the States and my brother and I went to see Back to the Future. The theater had one parked out front. It was very neat to walk around and check out. Almost as good as a Dallas Cowgirl. Almost.

Certainly very unreliable! Tools parts from so many other manufacturers, jaguar, Renault to name 2. Drum brakes🤦 it was a disaster. Titanic built in Northern Ireland it sunk! Delorean built in Northern Ireland company goes bust. Owner caught in a hotel room with a suitcase full of the devil’s dandruff 😂 not a grey advert for my country 😂

@@stewarty28Titanic was fine when it left Northern Ireland, was an Englishman who stuck it in an iceberg.

I love the 5 lug wheel conversion and massive brakes too. Looks more modern and way safer with more power. Allows those fabulous wheels too.

Many people said that before him , And none of them had owned one either.

Yes^

Sure, but what's the cost? And any more reliable?

If they sounded like they imagined in Back to the Future.

Lotus didn't go for more power not because of the transmission, but for marketing reasons. The up and coming models had more power, so it would be foolish to put the esprit with the sage or more power to match the new vehicles. The UN1 box has no trouble holding the power. It seems that a few 5th gear failures from shaft overhang, labels every Renault box as weak, which they are not. Internet wives tales seem to be more popular than the facts.

Good call.

It's been done. There used to be a triple rotor with Porsche transaxle delorean about.

That was the owner of the LS swapped car

lol that was me, cammo yes, cutoff no. I own and built the LS swapped car in this video. I’m the guy that usually answers the technical questions. I was wanting an education on the Lotus car. Next time I will wear a suit

Agreed. They'll do 88 mph now for sure.

"What kind of moron puts an anemic boat anchor into a sports car? " All the bean counters in nearly every car company, like GM for instance when they crippled the Fiero. It was designed to have a new high performance v6 made specifically for it, instead they put in the iron duke 4 cylinder that the small USPS delivery trucks used and then later an existing low power v6 from family cars they already had on the shelves.

I believe that 4.4 V8 in the XC90 was built by Yamaha, even though the engine's design was conceived by Volvo.

I agree. Lots of good choices these days.

@@tjmoneybags def lots of options. of course buying one is completely out of my reach🤣

LOL I got that one.

Never understood why anyone is obsessed with cup holders. Can count how often I've required a drink in a car on one hand in 30 years of driving .

@@sandersson2813 I've owned my DeLorean since 1996 and there's NO WAY IN HELL I'd ever get in it with liquids. Period. I love my car too much.

Hey Rhett, Yes sir, runs great !

Already had to do it. Rear fascia off job, 6 bolts and a multi pin connector for the taillights

to far, too early

That’s to funny ! I like your vidios !

Giugiaro designed both the DeLorean and the Esprit.

Why? Oil pan is higher that the frame.

Doubtful. I don't think he's taking it off road anytime soon and it's practically in line with the tires, so unless someone welds a manhole cover sticking straight up in the middle of the lane and he doesn't see it in the dark, I think it will probably be just fine.

But he's got a Delorean so can go back to the future and sort it.

This In-N-Out Burger was on blue diamond Road. The first and third Sunday of every month there’s a car show called gears and grinds. I highly recommend going to that one.

Like the future cars had the stock engine inside, but the sound dubbed over was from a Porsche V8

Delorean and Esprit share the same chassis since Delorean was developed by Lotus. Chassis in Delorean is just reversed.

@@1183newman yeah I know that's why I said that, but I dont like saying that as it makes it seem like its a knock off instead of its own thing, and what do you mean reversed,

@@kavinskysmith4094 the chassis is opposite way around in the delorean due to how delorean is rear engined and the esprit is rear mid engined. Same chassis essentially but opposite way around in delorean.

@@1183newman you mean that literally, like the seat and the steering rack are all mounted backwards?

In 1981 there was no V8 making close to 300 hp. The Corvette of the time was under 200.

@@VegasShuffle There were plenty capable of making that kind of power at the time, but the two oil crisis of 73 and 79 (which lasted until the mid eighties) changed everything in terms of what manufacturers could make and sell. Everything was being detuned and crippled to cope with the times.

I'm pretty sure all his custom cars are built to order.

Modern 4cyl is more powerful than V8s from the 1980s. Nobody really needs a V8 anymore except for ego stroking.

First of all that Lotus V-8 is a pretty small displacement engine as V-8’s go and it does not weight much more than the stock engine. And secondly it will not make the car handle worse. It would make the car more tail heavy of course and therefore it would tend to oversteer more but that could be compensated for simply by using slightly wider wheels and tires on the rear. And you would need them to be wider anyway to transfer all that extra power to the road.

@@Novusod - While it would be correct to say that all modern engines have much more horsepower per liter than engines from the 80’s it is not be even remotely correct to say that all modern 4-cylinder engines are more powerful than all 80’s V-8 engines. By the way, I’m not a V-8 fan myself and all of the 19 cars I’ve owned have had 4-cylinder engines except for the 93 RX-7 which, had a rotary engine. Still, we should get our facts straight here.

​@@SLOBeachboyAmericans especially seem to get a truly pathetic amount of HP from large engines, especially in older cars. You could easily get a four/six cylinder engine in there which would make this infinitely better than a low power lazy V8.