Strap on your Nike Air Mags and start blasting Huey Lewis because today, October 21st, is Back to the Future Day. It’s the day when noted rock n’ roll ‘80s teen Marty McFly travels into the future year of 2015 in Back to the Future II. What’s a better way to celebrate than renting a DeLorean DMC-12 and cruising around…
Eighty-eight miles per hour. That’s how fast Doc Brown’s DeLorean had to go for us to “see some serious shit.” And that shit, at least in this reality, seems to be a speeding ticket.
The Back to the Future trilogy is generally considered fun and awesome and grand and good for kids and adults, and that’s fine, but what if it’s actually an incredibly complicated storytelling device employing elements from ancient Greek rhetoric? That’s what the Lockhard Theory postulates.
It seems that when Yahoo got rid of its Yahoo! Autos section, they really went all out and made sure nobody they had on staff knew shit about cars, ever ever again. Maybe they had to perform lobotomies to be sure. That’s really the only explanation for this article, which talks about how Apple is going to buy McLaren,…
There’s nothing wrong with building a car for a specific, niche market, especially if that market has money to burn. Sbarro, for example, has the wealthy falconer market all wrapped up. This heavily customized Volkswagen Microbus, though, is targeting a market I wasn’t aware existed: wealthy Back to the Future fans…
Given that 88 mph is 141 KMH, it’s really no surprise that Doc Brown and the legendary time-traveling DeLorean were “pulled over” by Japanese traffic police in a Skyline GT-R in a traffic safety demonstration put on by the Yokohama Toyota dealer network.
Any jamoke can Photoshop some technobaubles onto a silver car and call it good, but it takes a real genius to build a Back to the Future-style time machine in real life and race it. That’s what these 24 Hours of LeMons competitors did with their fantastic hoopties. Behold: the best time machines in racing.
It’s likely you’re getting sick of all the Back to the Future-related content today, but I promise you that this one is a little different, since the chunk of electronics added to a DeLorean is real and actually works. Even better, it really does make this 2015 feel like an imagined future 2015, and most importantly,…
Hey, check out that four-by-four! (Get it? Get it??? That’s the line Marty McFly, the star of the Back to the Future, those movies about the car, says when he sees a Toyota truck that’s just staggeringly beautiful, in the movie.) Anyways, it was such a great truck that Toyota decided to make another one, this time…
If you go to Ford’s website today and then try to build-and-price a Focus or a Fiesta, you’ll notice that Ford is offering an pretty significant upgrade: an integrated Flux Capacitor system for time travel. Adding a whole other dimension of travel to a car is a hell of an upgrade, but the power requirements are steep…
Toyota is milking all the marketing they can out of Back To The Future right now, including making a fake ad for the dealership in the movie. Corny, but cute, and oh my god is that a black 2016 Tacoma with KC lights and a roll bar!?
Griff Tannen’s hover-converted BMW 633 CSi was actually a non-running 1976 model the film crew purchased for about 400 bucks from Germany. Today, she stays in first gear around Connecticut.
The current 6 Series is good and all, but does it hover? No, it doesn’t hover. Disappointing.
The DeLorean was known for a lot of things. Speed was not one of them. Underpowered even by early 1980s standards, it was a bizarre choice for a time machine that needed to hit 88 MPH to cross the temporal barrier. But could Doc Brown’s car even go that fast in the Twin, er, Lone Pine Mall parking lot like it does in…
Remember the guy who made that amazing poster of all those famous movie cars? He has a clean-line, fun style and a great eye for the character of a car? Right, him. Scott Park. Anyway, he's now made a poster of the first 88 cars you see in the BTTF series, and it's fantastic.
I enjoy fan fiction. It allows the viewer to craft their own version of a story that has long since concluded. Here we have a look at a re-imagining of what could have been if Doc Brown sold some of his plutonium at higher market prices and bought himself something a bit faster than the original Delorean. Yes, please.
Imagination - it's the thing that's gets extruded from children with every Best Of Honey Boo Boo marathon. It's also the thing that allows a person to come up with absolutely mind-blowing artwork, like this impossibly detailed image of a menacing Back To The Future time machine, restyled as a DeTomaso Pantera.
Look, McLaren, if you’re going to build a time machine, the key is to make it out of stainless steel. Bare stainless. And put some effort into it, eh? Some gadgets and baubles? Otherwise, it just looks like a plain silver 650S yoinked from Park Place’s back lot.
Your son loves DeLoreans. You, his mom, knows this. The world's best DeLorean show is in Ohio. Problem: You live in Russia. What do you do? You go to Ohio, introduce your son to Doc Brown, and reinforce your title as Russia's best mom.
Luckily, the Tesla Model S won't need a nuclear reaction to reach 88 mph.
