John Delorean and Reliability.

["Sternbach, William [IT]" <William_Sternbach@xxxx>]

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Hello,

I just wanted to make a polite comment about John Delorean and Reliability.

When John Delorean was an executive at General Motors,
he introduced a new car to compete with the foreign economy cars.
It was the Chevy Vega. It had a 2.3 Liter Overhead Cam 4 Cylinder engine.
My sister bought a Chevy Vega brand new.

She constantly had problems with it and after 1 year, she traded it in
to the dealer and she took a big financial loss.
The Chevy Vega was GM's least reliable car of all time.
Most Chevy Vega's never lasted long enough to make it to 50,000 miles.

When John Delorean created the DMC-12,
I believe that reliability was similar to the Chevy Vega's.
Most DMC-12's have less than 50,000 miles because it is difficult
to keep the DMC-12 running continuously for a long period of time
to accumulate 50,000 miles.

I am a fan of John Delorean and the DMC-12's,
but I hope it is ok if I make this polite comment that cars that he designed
have poor reliability.

It seems the best DMC-12's to buy are the ones with over 30,000 miles,
because most of the problems have already been fixed by the previous
owner. Another member of this list told me that if you buy one of these
"fixed" deloreans, you can expect troublefree operation for a long time.

What do you think?