DMC
DeLorean Motor Company
Industry: Automotive
Founded: 24 October 1975 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Dunmurry, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Founder: John DeLorean
Defunct: 26 October 1982
Products: DeLorean cars
Type: Privately held company
Industry: Automotive
Founded: 12 May 1995 Humble, Texas, U.S.
Founder: Stephen Wynne
Products: DeLorean cars
Website: www.delorean.com
The DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) was an American automobile manufacturer formed by automobile industry executive John DeLorean in 1975. It is remembered for the one model it produced—the stainless steel DeLorean sports car featuring gull-wing doors—and for its brief and turbulent history, ending in receivership and bankruptcy in 1982.
The DeLorean was memorably featured in the Back to the Future movie trilogy (1985, 1989, and 1990).
In 1995, Liverpool-born mechanic Stephen Wynne founded the current DeLorean Motor Company located in Humble, Texas, and shortly thereafter acquired the remaining parts inventory and the stylized "DMC" logo trademark of DeLorean Motor Company.