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DeLorean Time Machine

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DeLorean Time Machine

The flux-capacitor-equipped DMC-12 from Back to the Future/Pop Culture

The time-traveling DeLorean from Back to the Future is a modified 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 equipped with a flux capacitor and a Mr. Fusion home energy reactor. The base car is 4.27 m long, 1.86 m wide, and features distinctive gull-wing doors. With Doc Brown's modifications including the time circuits, flux capacitor, and nuclear/fusion reactor, the vehicle must reach exactly 88 miles per hour (141.6 km/h) to activate temporal displacement.

Measurements

Length4.27 m
299 millionthsStrait of Gibraltar widths
1.15Kayaks
2.5 quadrillionProton diameters

Standard DMC-12 body

Width1.86 m
6.2Celery stalks
19.6Chess kings
7.44Wrench lengths

Including side panels

Height1.14 m
23.8 millionthsBahrain lengths
211 trillionCarbon nuclei
228 millioniPhone transistors

Low stainless steel body

Curb weight1,233 kg
19.9 billionEyelashes
13.7Home safes
107,217AAA batteries

Base DMC-12 weight

Door height (open)2 m
1.38Broomstick lengths
7.49Dinner plates

Gull-wing doors fully raised

Time travel activation speed39.3 m/s
2 thousandthsMeteorites
3.4 millionBamboo growths
1.1 tenths9mm bullets

88 mph required for temporal displacement

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