• @[email protected]
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    1710 days ago

    Mostly because it had a garbage engine. The one they used in the movies was modified with a much better engine.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      79 days ago

      The fact that the real Delorean couldn’t do 88 miles per hour was part of the joke.

      • @[email protected]
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        49 days ago

        Yeah, the reason why they chose 55 mph in the movie is that was the max speed of the car (if i remember right)

        Also the way the doors opened were pretty inconvenient

        • @[email protected]
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          79 days ago

          The flux capacitor is activated when it reaches 88mph. They had to add a digital speedometer because the Delorian’s only went to 85.

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            9 days ago

            That was typical of cars made (for US market) in the early to mid 80s… Can’t remember for sure if it was part of the whole national 55mph speed limit, but I’d bet it was.