Reddit reviews The Delorean Story: The Car, the People, the Scandal
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>Delorean wasn't ultra rich. He had to get funding somewhere and allstate was the one who funded it and they wanted to build an ultra safe, cheap car because obviously that benefits themselves.
Allstate was not "the one who funded it", John Delorean secured multiple investors, Bank of America being one of the primary ones. That article you linked is from 1975, I don't know how much Allstate ended contributing, but they were not the primary investor. And the prototypes developed ended up being scrapped, the car was completely redesigned by Lotus. The bulk of the funding, however, came from the British Government in the amount of £100 million.
>Which Delorean didnt get in a contract and never actually received those incentives. Including the ability to avoid any export/import tariffs but they actually got fucked big on those.
Yes, he did. As I already stated, the British government contributed £100 million to the company. You are completely wrong about this.
>You misunderstand. The delorean should be as per delorean's own documented design be as low as the ferraris and such in my video. Deloreans are obviously not.
As I stated, at the last minute higher springs were installed in the front to meet recently passed bumper height regulations, which the DeLorean would have failed in its as-designed form. Even in stock form, the car is still lower than a corvette, if not quite as low as a Ferrari, so I wouldn't exactly call it "high like a truck".
You might want to read some actual books on the history of the DeLorean, instead of regurgitating misinformation you heard from other people. You can start here and here.