Well if I remarry rich or win the lottery, I guess I can afford this. I would love to have this!
Even if the car isn’t vaporware, the production rollout is going to look suspiciously like vaporware. According to the article, they’re first going to make a set of track-only cars (so they don’t have to go through the process of government inspections and road worthiness, possibly also so they can keep the cars in house and tweak them constantly to keep them running). Nothing on the car is, or has to be, amazing or bespoke for the company to actually be successful, but starting a car company from scratch — even a limited production run company — is hugely expensive.
The biggest draw right now is the nameplate, one that was purchased and bears no relation other than IP to the original car (and to be honest, other than kitsch value, that car wasn’t much to crow about). Some other company in the same price range but with actual output capability starts making electric cars with gull wing doors (which is becoming more and more common in prototype designs) and DMC is just another startup EV company without a production history.
It’s nice if you can afford two cars, gullwing doors are neat unless it’s raining and I wonder how they do in a heavy wind.
Batteries feeding a flux capacitor? Interesting.
It’s interesting that the speedometer only goes up to 88 mph on these new models.
Road and Track - my favorite magazine, along with Car and Driver, in my youth.
Gullwings show up a lot in Chinese dramas that feature rich heirs. Usually males driving but, occasionally, females when they’re stressing power personalities.
Due South - Hot Rod Lincoln - Johnny Bond
https://youtu.be/0qMROUoXhSc
How far will it go with all that performance being used?
300 miles of nursed and nervous range on 85 to 100 Kwh of 1/2 ton of batteries seems to be the holy grail and limit of the EV. That range will get me about 80% of the way to my normal long drive destination. It will also get me a just barely round trip to the nearest city and some driving around when I get there for errands.
Not enough. 400 reliable miles in all conditions with accessory, air conditioning or heater comfort is necessary.
As for the tire wear at three times the rate of a normal car due to packing around that 1,000 lbs of batteries all the time... no sale.
The green weenies are doing all they can to push us into this.
They push this stuff every so often.
2012 was “CARB laws put the car on hold”
2018 was “we’re trying to find a crate motor to use because the one we wanted to use will be out of production in 5 years”
DMC has released a lot of concepts in the last 10 years. They will never produce a car.
They’re fat and happy making limited production runs of 83 DMC-12s in CA and selling them for obscene amounts of money.
more electric crap noone wants. I like gasoline