DeLorean Is Back, in EV Form, With the Alpha5 Sedan
Of course the Alpha5 has Gullwing doors, but it's still a departure from the original.
A little while back, DeLorean Motor Company released a teaser shot of its upcoming EV sedan, and you might have been wondering exactly what year it was, exactly, when you read that news. The DeLorean run by John Z. is long gone, but its spirit (if not look) lives on in the Alpha5, which is the product of DeLorean Reimagined LLC, headed by Karma alums Joost de Vries and Troy Beetz, and penned by ItalDesign—whose founder, Giorgetto Giugiaro, created the origami form of the original DMC-12.
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Details of the Alpha5 are sparse, but its massive Gullwing doors recall those of the Tesla Model X, providing a huge portal to the four-placeinterior, which has a clean look that very reminiscent of that other American EV company—no yoke, however, to be seen. Ambitious numbers are paired to the speculative renders of this future vehicle, including a range exceeding 300 miles from a 100+ kWh battery, and a 2.99-second sprint to 60 mph. There had to be a nod to "Back to the Future" in there somewhere, so there's also an estimated run from 0-88 mph, which should take 4.35 seconds.
Otherwise, we'll have to wait until the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance to learn more (possibly) and see a physical incarnation of this neo-DeLorean in the (apparently not brushed stainless steel) metal.
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Like a lot of the other staffers here, Alex Kierstein took the hard way to get to car writing. Although he always loved cars, he wasn’t sure a career in automotive media could possibly pan out. So, after an undergraduate degree in English at the University of Washington, he headed to law school. To be clear, it sucked. After a lot of false starts, and with little else to lose, he got a job at Turn 10 Studios supporting the Forza 4 and Forza Horizon 1 launches. The friendships made there led to a job at a major automotive publication in Michigan, and after a few years to MotorTrend. He lives in the Seattle area with a small but scruffy fleet of great vehicles, including a V-8 4Runner and a C5 Corvette, and he also dabbles in scruffy vintage watches and film cameras.
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