{"id":688,"date":"2016-02-29T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=688"},"modified":"2016-08-18T01:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T01:06:12","slug":"delorean-dmc-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/delorean-dmc-12\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLorean DMC-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DMC-12 has cemented itself as one of the most iconic vehicle designs of all time, despite being the only product of the ill-fated Delorean Motor Company as established by former GM prodigy John Z. Delorean. <a href=\"http:\/\/designtel.co\/category\/designers\/giorgetto-giugiaro\/\">Giugiaro<\/a>, who had already established a beautiful repertoire of wedge-shaped vehicles &#8211; such as the Volkswagen-Porsche Tapiro and the Lotus Esprit &#8211; absorbed the best elements into the DMC-12\u2019s design &#8211; arriving at a slick, angular, stainless-steel clad and famously gull-wing accessed body. The marketing campaign implored the public to \u2018Live the Dream\u2019 and the DMC-12 certainly offered Italian flair, a visionary future and a new dimension to the American sports car market &#8211; only to be immortalised not by production numbers (which fell shy of 10 000) but filmically through the Zemericks-directed Back to the Future trilogy (1985-90).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giorgetto Giugiaro\/Italdesign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18,8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}