{"id":21435,"date":"2016-01-31T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T19:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/the-delorean-motor-company-may-soon-start-building-new-cars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:01:37","slug":"the-delorean-motor-company-may-soon-start-building-new-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/the-delorean-motor-company-may-soon-start-building-new-cars","title":{"rendered":"The DeLorean Motor Company may soon start building \u2018new\u2019 cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-delorean-motor-company-may-soon-start-building-new-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DeLorean could soon be going back into production thanks to a new law that exempts small volume car manufacturers from the safety requirements applied to most new car makers. Also, I\u2019m going to attempt to write this article without any <i>Back to the Future<\/i> jokes.<\/p>\n<p>The law only applies to \u201creplica\u201d vehicles, that is, cars that resemble the body of another vehicle produced at least 25 years ago. Think stuff like the Shelby Cobra or the \u201865 Mustang \u2014 or the venerable DeLorean.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delorean.com\">DeLorean Motor Company<\/a>, which acquired what was left of the original manufacturer 30 years ago, currently focuses on repairing and restoring all the DeLorean vehicles that are floating around the world. But now, with this specialty legislation, the company can use its millions of factory parts (and some that have been recreated from the original blueprints) to build new, 2017 model year DeLoreans complete with a crate engine from an outside supplier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/1\/27\/10844326\/delorean-motor-company-new-low-volume\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DeLorean could soon be going back into production thanks to a new law that exempts small volume car manufacturers from the safety requirements applied to most new car makers. Also, I\u2019m going to attempt to write this article without any Back to the Future jokes. The law only applies to \u201creplica\u201d vehicles, that is, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63064,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions\/63064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}