did hire Barrie Wills, who'd been the supplier manager for the Reliant Rialto, as managing director when DeLorean was setting up its Northern Ireland operation. Power comes from an 850-cc three-cylinder engine that gets the car up to 100 miles per hour.Ĭornwall Live writes that Ty used "original DeLorean plans from 1981." We've read quite a bit of hearsay about the DeLorean-Reliant connection, but we can't find any evidence that DeLorean planned a three-wheeler. The Rialto's been fitted with brushed aluminum panels, remote-controlled gullwing doors, an approximation of the original DeLorean's interior, and a flux capacitor. The Rialto was the successor to the Reliant Robin, produced from 1982 to 1998. That doesn't explain why Ty got the idea about two years ago to turn a three-wheeled Reliant Rialto into the Rialto's best impersonation of the DMC-12, but he did. Ty hasn't provided proof of this, but says he will soon. when the elder DeLorean was in Northern Ireland in 1981 to work on setting up operations there, and the birds and the bees did what they do. And because this English DeLorean is based on a Reliant Rialto, it has only three wheels, which is just the beginning of the surprises.Īs Cornwall Live reported, Ty DeLorean claims to be the son of John Z. Instead, a man named Ty DeLorean has arrived with a car he calls the DeLorean DMC-21 from the opposite direction, Cornwall, England. For about five years now we've been looking for a new DeLorean DMC-12 to emerge from the setting sun over New DeLorean Company headquarters in Hope, Texas.