[DML] Re: DMC-12

[Brian Metz <metz.50@xxxx>]

Are our cars really a model "DMC 12"? I vaugely remember reading something
to the effect of the message below, but I thought that this was a prototype
and not the production car. By the way, the title to my D does not say
that it is a "DMC 12." The model is something strange like "scedt16000".
(can't remember exactly what it is right now).
Brian 16584

>Conventional wisdom holds that the "DMC-12" was the twelfth incarnation
>of the original concept that began as the Allstate-DeLorean DSV-1
>(DeLorean Safety Vehicle). The designation DSV-12 was the final
>fundamental design incarnation by Bill Collins that would later be
>contracted out for production design to Ital Design of Turin, Italy,
>owned by Giorgetto Giugiaro. DSV-12 was changed to DMC-12 when Allstate
>pulled out of the project in 1974. At that time the target price of
>DMC-12 was $7K (1974 dollars) and it was called the DMC-12 at that time.
>The designation DMC-12 was finalized before Giugiaro got involved.
>He started the production design in 1975. 


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