Yahoo Autos DeLorean Next Generation Motors has another DeLorean for you
The fact that there can be so much drama today about a company that lasted only about three years, went out of business 40 years ago, and only made 9,000 examples of a single car is astounding. But nothing associated with the name DeLorean has ever been boring or predictable — not the man, not his cars, not his legacy. The DeLorean universe has taken another turn with the arrival of a company called DeLorean Next Generation Motors (DNG) that created the car you see above, the Model JZD. That initialism stands for John Zachary DeLorean, the name of the man that started all this. Even wilder, DeLorean's daughter Kat DeLorean Seymour is the nucleus of DNG.
First, the Model JZD. The company's website says it was designed by Angel Guerra and Allan Portilho as a tribute to the DMC-12, the original stainless steel coupe. Kat apparently saw the design and asked Angel and Allan to join her in getting DNG going.
There isn't much to know about the JZD yet because the creators are still working through the answers. For instance, it was designed with an electric drivetrain in mind, but that's now being weighed against an internal combustion drivetrain. What we have learned is that some of the original DMC-12 engineers will be contributing to this car's development. What we see is a sleek design that hews close to the forebear with two gullwing doors in an unabashedly coupe form and just two seats. We like it a lot.
