The conclusion: No way.īullitt Ride explains how he set up the problem:Īccording to Wikipedia a DeLorean will do 0-60mph in 8.8 seconds. In a math-heavy post about the problem, Bullitt Ride traces the DeLorean's paths over a map of the parking lot where the scene was shot back in the 1980s, and then calculated how fast the car could have been traveling based on what we know about its acceleration specs.
So wimpy, in fact, that a blogger at Jalopnik is questioning the event that sets the whole BTTF story in motion: Marty going 88 mph in the mall parking lot to go back in time in the first place. But in reality, the guts couldn't match the flashy exterior. With its gullwing doors and stainless steel skin, the DeLorean DMC-12 certainly looked the part of a hot sports car during its star turn in Back to the Future.
