Your Dream Car

[Tobie]

A DeLorean? I've heard that, despite everything Back to the Future said about it, it actually had horrible performance.

To quote TVTropes' "Alleged Car" page:

far from being the thinking man's supercar its creator envisioned it to be, the DMC-12's performance was quite lacklustre, due to it being the victim of a watering down campaign. It was originally meant to have a rear-mounted rotary engine but this was changed to a mid-mounted 2.8 litre V6 due to fuel consumption concerns, however the change in powerplant reduced performance (it was initialy figured to have 150kw of power, but the changes resulted in the car only making 110kw in 'dirty' euro trim, the US version was an even sorrier 95kw due to requirements for catalytic converters and other emissions controls) and had a knock-on effect on the cars' already less than perfect 35:65 front/rear weight distribution. In the end the DMC-12 was too slow and sluggish to convince anybody it was the real deal, and allegations that John DeLorean had taken to drug smuggling in order to pay the bills were the final nail in the DMC-12's coffin.

But, hey, at least it could be worse; it could be a Trabant.

Or any of those old Soviet cars. Steering that feels like it's set in cement and brakes that feel like cheese. At least some of them have fishing holes.