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John Zachary DeLorean ( / dəˈlɔːriən / də-LOR-ee-ən; January 6, 1925 [1] – March 19, 2005) was an American engineer, inventor, and executive in the U.S. automobile industry. He is widely known as founder of the DeLorean Motor Company, as well as for his work at General Motors. [2]
Jan 23, 2023 · DeLorean died from complications of a stroke, at the age of 80. At the time, Forbes reports, he had been living in a one-room apartment with his fourth wife. Today, his children continue to be torn about their father's checkered legacy.
May 26, 2004 · Engineer, father of the Pontiac GTO and of his own failed sports car, John DeLorean is dead. After the Detroit native joined Packard as an engineer in 1952, he quickly...
Oct 19, 2017 · Its inventor and namesake, John Z. DeLorean had a dream to create something totally new in the competitive world of car design. This is his story: General Motors. Before he started his own...
Jun 17, 2019 · How John DeLorean’s Sensational Fall From Grace Affected His Family. Cristina Ferrare, TV host and ex-wife of DeLorean, revisits her past in light of Framing John DeLorean —a documentary she...
Jan 21, 2016 · In October of 1982, DeLorean closed —and John DeLorean was arrested and charged with trying to save his company by selling cocaine. He was found not guilty—he had been entrapped, the jury...
Mar 20, 2005 · John DeLorean, the flamboyant automobile industrialist whose dream of running his own car company dissolved into bankruptcy, died Saturday evening at Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J.. He was...
Apr 17, 2019 · Charismatic former GM executive John Z DeLorean was the mastermind behind the car, and the British Government were famously the funder, wanting to bring jobs and investment to a city that was...
Mar 20, 2005 · John DeLorean, who died over the weekend at age 80 following a stroke, was never afraid of a little hyperbole. He was larger than life, and he knew it.
Feb 5, 2016 · John DeLorean died in 2005 after suffering a stroke. The legal battles connected with the original DeLorean Motor Company bankruptcy dogged him well into the 1990: he declared bankruptcy in 1999 and was forced to sell his 434 acre estate in March 2000.
