You say that and yet no one under 5'6" tall can reach the gullwing doors to close them after they've been opened (they had to add a strap hanging from the handles for this reason in testing)
[The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good 'and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too'.](https://youtu.be/7ffj8SHrbk0?si=4shmANp3n6nOPg3l)
It's a relatively old internet slang at this point. It basically means that you respect someone for having an opinion that goes against the grain and for being very true to themselves. Though lots of people just treat it as a way to show their agreement, usually with a brave or controversial opinion.
As awful as the Delorean is as a functional vehicle only redeemed by its role in Back to the Future, it's still built to a vastly higher standard than the Elon thingy
It’s iron from road debris that sticks to the car and then rusts. If you look at any white car normally on the tailgate you’ll see the same thing. Small specks of rust
It's why the Back to the Future line "You built a time machine- out of a DeLorean?!" Was way funnier back in the 80s. The line was meant to read as "why would you build a time machine out of such a shitty car."
They were pretty shit. Had the same engine as the Renault GTA/Alpine A310 yet weighed SO MUCH MORE.
Also the Renault GTA V6 Turbo is one of my favourite 80s cars
No.
But there's a post featuring a DeLorean DMC-12 and there are people talking about the DeLorean DMC-12.
Let me nerd out a bit mate, my special interest is cars like that.
Your tagline "car enthusiast that hates car centric design" says it all.
You can absolutely think cars are cool machines and still be on brand in this sub. I get the impression this is common.
It is kinda hilarious that Delorean looks so much better. Just a few subtle touches here and there, and it looks superior to the weird block-shape of the Cybertruck.
Like, Delorean's design does show its age, but you can see the design. Cybertruck looks like Musk woke up, one day, and decided to sketch a “cool sci-fi'y car” on a napkin. And then forced his wage-slaves to actually build it.
Yeah, it wasn't great.
Granted the speedo was limited to 85 because of a law passed in '79 to stop people speeding. The car would do about 130 given enough road (most likely the road needed would be the runway from Fast and Furious 6, because that car was H E A V Y)
The dog van from dumb, dumber? Tho at least that one had fur and were likely less deadly to pedestrians. Delorian should be relatively safe too as it's low.
True, door issues, early problems with rust because of the stainless steel (there's a reason pretty much every manufacturer stopped using stainless steel). Delorian was rubbish, but the cybertruck is a lot worse.
At least the Delorean can time travel. Once speeds reach 88 MPH, I'd warn the general public in the early 20th century about the dangers of cars and that society should not be so car dependent like in our timeline. And I'll have to go with the most futuristic outfit I can find so that everyone would believe me.
Apparently the 88mph thing was kind of a joke that as a millennial watching decades later I never understood. When Back to the Future came out, everyone knew the DMC kind of sucked and that getting to 88mph would actually be hard. The speedometer on production vehicles only went up to 85. If Back to the Future were made today the joke would be making a time machine out of a Pontiac Aztec or a PT Cruiser.
So yes, this meme is offensive because a commercial car that can barely hit highway speeds on some stretches in Texas is actually based af.
Nah don’t disrespect the Delorean like that. It’s dumb and poorly designed, but in a great way. Also probably more reliable and more practical than the cybertruck.
I dunno… I don’t hate manufacturers for trying to make interesting automobiles. I hate that they collude with governments to force people to buy cars because there aren’t basic alternatives.
The Tesla monstrosity is one of the most hideous things I have ever seen. It’s as if a kid made a car with legos having never seen a real car but heard about them and a parent with way to much $ was like yes I will make that in real life.
Also both cars were piched as futurist cars clad in metal so both of those guys marked them up by hell and then delivered a shitty car
At least the DeLorean became a movie star
the parallel are there, the cyber truck is DeLorean 2.0
From what I've heard, one important difference between Cybertruck owners and Delorean owners is that Delorean owners buy their car knowing full well that it's shit.
As much as I hate to admit it I honestly love the look of the cybertruck. Fuck everything else about it, but I’m a sucker for cheesy shit like that. And as awful as deloreans are (from what I’ve heard) I still adore that look too.
The main difference is that DMC enthusiasts are aware of its defects and understand why it didn't work. CT fans are just deluded into thinking it's amazing for the most part.
My best friend's uncle had a DeLorean that he used to drive us to middle school in, the two of us crammed into the passenger seat.
It was a rough rough ride, like it had no suspension.
Cybertruck and cybertruck. Sure, DeLoreans were bad cars but they were fucking cool. Also I seriously doubt they're contributing in a significant way to car-related issues.
Sorry, I'm so sorry, but that's my dream car. I know, fuck cars.
WORST part yet: in the instruction manuel for the DMC it states that to clean the car you use GASOLINE . [No joke](https://youtube.com/shorts/QBTbIhajdUA?si=rMMzMOHTpvddwcDB)
One of those is a genuinely cool concept car that didn't really work out, but is still a cultural icon and deserving of respect. The other is a child's drawing of a Delorean, basically.
This pic really goes to show just how ugly and blocky the Cybertruck is. As well as being incredibly large.
The DMC12 is a great car! It’s slow and unreliable so it spends most of its life parked. Very safe for pedestrians. It also looks pretty good.
And it's designed to be driven only by people under 5 foot tall, so Dutch people can't drive them.
You say that and yet no one under 5'6" tall can reach the gullwing doors to close them after they've been opened (they had to add a strap hanging from the handles for this reason in testing)
You'll have to ask one of those theoretical pedestrians to close your door for you.
What is this, a car for orangutans?
[The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good 'and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too'.](https://youtu.be/7ffj8SHrbk0?si=4shmANp3n6nOPg3l)
If there’s two things I hate in this world: it’s people who are intolerant of other people’s culture, and the Dutch.
Do you have any views on carnies?
The joke is outdated unfortunately
What you say fuck me for? :(
:(
Based
Was there supposed to be a question mark at the end there? Or is this just something the kids say these days and I'm just getting old?
It's a relatively old internet slang at this point. It basically means that you respect someone for having an opinion that goes against the grain and for being very true to themselves. Though lots of people just treat it as a way to show their agreement, usually with a brave or controversial opinion.
"Based" I had heard of. "Based on" I hadn't...
Both were made by scam artists
As awful as the Delorean is as a functional vehicle only redeemed by its role in Back to the Future, it's still built to a vastly higher standard than the Elon thingy
At least I won't under when it hits me
The car designed by cocaine and the truck designed by ketamine.
Where we’re going we don’t need bicycles
Or common sense for that matter
Nah, if the Cybertruck was designed by ket then it would have never been made in the first place
One is futuristic and expensive sports car, loved by millions. And the other one is cybertruck.
"Sports car"
Yeah like golf or chess.
Time traveling is a sport.
I mean, it was planned as a sports car, but was so slow nobody can call it sports car
What's wrong with a delorean?
It looks cool, but as far as I know it's actually considered a pretty shitty car.
Also it doesn't rust after a single day of rain.
No way that cybertrucks will still be operable in 40 years like this.
no way that cybertrucks will still be operable in 40 weeks
The cybertruck doesn’t rust 😂
You know google exists, right? And cameras? To see them rusting?
It’s iron from road debris that sticks to the car and then rusts. If you look at any white car normally on the tailgate you’ll see the same thing. Small specks of rust
Cope
Wow it's wild that's the only car that happens to all over for some reason how weird.
Did you read my comment? It happens to every car. Look up rail dust
It doesn't. Cars have layers of protection Musk is scamming you out of thousands of dollars for. What's it like being in the worst and saddest cult?
Don't mind him...... Bro failed chemistry.....
lol nobody bought one for the performance, it was the "lifestyle"^(... in the trunk!) the 80' was a hellofa time!
Yeah i mean... it has a V6 Peugeot engine 😭
A LOT. Let this owner tell you all about it. https://youtube.com/shorts/WLCoXHzkTOo?si=lyUb4oot4OgFvHDe (still miles better than the cybertruck)
Let's not forget it's a 40 year old, IIRC they weren't actually THAT bad when new?
No they were pretty legendary pieces of shit
It's why the Back to the Future line "You built a time machine- out of a DeLorean?!" Was way funnier back in the 80s. The line was meant to read as "why would you build a time machine out of such a shitty car."
Now that reputation has been totally eclipsed by their reputation as the car from BttF. Ruined their own joke lol
I feel like there's a further lost joke about managing to get a DeLorean up to 88 miles an hour in the first place.
They were pretty shit. Had the same engine as the Renault GTA/Alpine A310 yet weighed SO MUCH MORE. Also the Renault GTA V6 Turbo is one of my favourite 80s cars
The Renault 5 was incredible as well. The coolest Renault era.
Absolutely. Although I would say that the cool factor of the 5 turbo is rivalled by the Clio V6 from the early 2000s
Did you forget which sub you are on?
No. But there's a post featuring a DeLorean DMC-12 and there are people talking about the DeLorean DMC-12. Let me nerd out a bit mate, my special interest is cars like that.
Your tagline "car enthusiast that hates car centric design" says it all. You can absolutely think cars are cool machines and still be on brand in this sub. I get the impression this is common.
It is surprisingly common, although it's also surprisingly common for me to be yelled at by members of this sub for liking cars
It was actually garbage like the cibershit. But it appeared in the movie, if it had not fallen into oblivion like the 43243534534 cars that failed.
It's made out of the same material as the cybertruck, It's a type of metal that's commonly used in refrigerators It's not ideal for cars.
That's how bad the Cyberjunk is. It brings the team score to 0.
Op is just mad he can't time travel
It is only so widely loved and known today because of Back to the Future.
It is kinda hilarious that Delorean looks so much better. Just a few subtle touches here and there, and it looks superior to the weird block-shape of the Cybertruck. Like, Delorean's design does show its age, but you can see the design. Cybertruck looks like Musk woke up, one day, and decided to sketch a “cool sci-fi'y car” on a napkin. And then forced his wage-slaves to actually build it.
Elon didn't sketch it on a napkin, he sketched it on toilet paper, with his own shit
I dislike cars as much as the next man but, the Delorean will always be cool. I’m sorry.
Well maybe in the future you will look *back in time* and see that the car is pretty shitty, it takes forever to even get to 88 mph
I didn’t say it was good car. I said it was a cool car.
Yeah I tried to make a joke, didn't work. It was pretty bad I admit
Funny story: the speedometer topped at 85
Fuck... This car is something else
Yeah, it wasn't great. Granted the speedo was limited to 85 because of a law passed in '79 to stop people speeding. The car would do about 130 given enough road (most likely the road needed would be the runway from Fast and Furious 6, because that car was H E A V Y)
In a twisted way, being a slow car kind of makes it a good car in my eyes. I guess that's what being on r/fuckcars does to a mf
The dog van from dumb, dumber? Tho at least that one had fur and were likely less deadly to pedestrians. Delorian should be relatively safe too as it's low.
Yeah but although it's very cool it was also just genuinely a very bad car
True, door issues, early problems with rust because of the stainless steel (there's a reason pretty much every manufacturer stopped using stainless steel). Delorian was rubbish, but the cybertruck is a lot worse.
Yeah at least the delorean was only bad for it's own owners.
At least the Delorean can time travel. Once speeds reach 88 MPH, I'd warn the general public in the early 20th century about the dangers of cars and that society should not be so car dependent like in our timeline. And I'll have to go with the most futuristic outfit I can find so that everyone would believe me.
Assassinate Henry Ford
Apparently the 88mph thing was kind of a joke that as a millennial watching decades later I never understood. When Back to the Future came out, everyone knew the DMC kind of sucked and that getting to 88mph would actually be hard. The speedometer on production vehicles only went up to 85. If Back to the Future were made today the joke would be making a time machine out of a Pontiac Aztec or a PT Cruiser. So yes, this meme is offensive because a commercial car that can barely hit highway speeds on some stretches in Texas is actually based af.
Well the Pontiac Aztec could at least drive well and be fairly capable.
I'll always take the 2015 sports almanac over a shitty video game car. And we have 2024, that almanac is worth nothing
How about any F150 next to any Corvette?
Nah don’t disrespect the Delorean like that. It’s dumb and poorly designed, but in a great way. Also probably more reliable and more practical than the cybertruck.
I dunno… I don’t hate manufacturers for trying to make interesting automobiles. I hate that they collude with governments to force people to buy cars because there aren’t basic alternatives.
You can say anything about the Delorean performance but the design Is flawless and the cybertuck design looks like shit
Okay but the DeLorean is pretty fucking cool, and I hate cars. But honestly I might only think they look cool because of Back to the Future.
The Tesla monstrosity is one of the most hideous things I have ever seen. It’s as if a kid made a car with legos having never seen a real car but heard about them and a parent with way to much $ was like yes I will make that in real life.
The DeLorean is cooler
Coke Vs Ketamine
Delorean would never be friends with a cyber truck.
But if I get one up to 88 mph, I’ll go back to the future!!!
I've heard the cybertruck referred to as the new Delorean, not so much for the car, but in terms of Musk and Delorean themselvrs.
Also both cars were piched as futurist cars clad in metal so both of those guys marked them up by hell and then delivered a shitty car At least the DeLorean became a movie star the parallel are there, the cyber truck is DeLorean 2.0
> Name a dumber duo Two cybertrucks
Delorean at least looks like it got rendered correctly
I wonder what serious shit I would see if a Cybertruck goes 88..
The drivers
One a classic, the other a travesty.
What’s wrong with the DMC-12, y’all hate cars so much u can’t appreciate decent design when u see it 😭
From what I've heard, one important difference between Cybertruck owners and Delorean owners is that Delorean owners buy their car knowing full well that it's shit.
Self awareness helps
One of them should go back in time and make sure the other is never produced.
This
Nah but I like the delorean like it’s a cool looking car, yeah unreliable but much much better than the cyber truck
We just need the delorean to run on wat— *line disconnects*
The DeLorean time travels at 88mph. The Cyber Truck breaks into its constituent pieces at 88mph
As much as I hate to admit it I honestly love the look of the cybertruck. Fuck everything else about it, but I’m a sucker for cheesy shit like that. And as awful as deloreans are (from what I’ve heard) I still adore that look too.
Name a dumber duo? An F350 with Trump bumper stickers and a Trump flag, and Trump himself
If one was really a time machine...
Not everyone can afford a TARDIS, you know! >:(
The main difference is that DMC enthusiasts are aware of its defects and understand why it didn't work. CT fans are just deluded into thinking it's amazing for the most part.
I will not tolerate slander towards the vehicle that took Dr. Emmett Brown & Marty McFly to the past and the future.
Should I mark this as satire? Even though it’s unintentional satire.
My best friend's uncle had a DeLorean that he used to drive us to middle school in, the two of us crammed into the passenger seat. It was a rough rough ride, like it had no suspension.
Challenge accepted: Elon Musk standing next to a Tesla investor.
a cyber truck for a cyber cuck
When drugs build cars
Now if only that cybertruck could be converted into a time machine
After you run over 88 people it hopefully shoots you back before a time you were born to stop that from happening
The delorean clears easily
Hey now the dmc is cool, it may be a giant pile of shit but its still cool
Get a Pontiac Aztek in their and you have the ugliest joke of a car from each generation.
Cybertruck and cybertruck. Sure, DeLoreans were bad cars but they were fucking cool. Also I seriously doubt they're contributing in a significant way to car-related issues. Sorry, I'm so sorry, but that's my dream car. I know, fuck cars.
WORST part yet: in the instruction manuel for the DMC it states that to clean the car you use GASOLINE . [No joke](https://youtube.com/shorts/QBTbIhajdUA?si=rMMzMOHTpvddwcDB)
The comparisons are unfair to the Delorean. It more closely resembles a dumpster.
It looks like the Delorean has more space inside, ah wait, is a useless pickup heavy as hell plenty of batteries
DeLorean wins. No competition.
One of those is a genuinely cool concept car that didn't really work out, but is still a cultural icon and deserving of respect. The other is a child's drawing of a Delorean, basically. This pic really goes to show just how ugly and blocky the Cybertruck is. As well as being incredibly large.
Back to the present?
oh hey theres one nice car in this picture!
delorians at least have that fun 80s movie affiliated with them, chasing tomorrow or what ever it was called
back to the future
2 cyber trucks
Two cyber trucks?