Classic blueprint project

THE RISE and fall of the DeLorean gull-winged DMC-12 sports car is one of the great engineering soap operas of the 1980s. It had everything: from celebrities to drug busts, from wildly speculative investment with public money to a design that was destined to become a classic. Only 9,000 of the recognisable vehicles were ever made, and yet it became a movie icon ?? starring in the ´Back to the Future´ trilogy - and a product of a decade of innovative design and economic crisis.