To open, the Back to the Future movies are some of my favorite movies I've seen. That being said, the most iconic thing from that movie is the DeLorean. Of course they chose it because it was a current and sleek car at the time, but they made it all their own with some fairly simple design changes for the movie. Before I get to deep into it, here is the original car.
This car at the time, and now to a certain extent, still feels pretty futuristic. The gull wing doors are very unique and the stainless steel body is very sleek. However, this basic design definitely didn't look much like a time machine. I think that the biggest and most important design choice was the big exhaust wedges on the back of the car. This makes the car look like it's pushing out a lot of energy and makes it feel more powerful. They also changed the back window area of the car and added some sort of huge engine looking thing, once again, making the car feel so much more powerful than the original design. And of course, they added all of the wires that light up on the side of the car. Once you go inside you get the iconic flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible, and the interface that tells Doc and Marty where and when they are traveling to and from. I think that this was a very imaginative design for a time machine. I can't think of any improvements because it works as a homemade time machine. It feels like something that could actually be built by a mad scientist with enough money. If you started changing non-essential things like color and tires, etc, it would lose a lot of it's homemade charm. Anyway, I have always liked this design and felt that I should weigh in on it.
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