Will.I.AM invents the Delor.e.an!

[spikerS]

Fuck, I hurt from laughing so much. I pretty much agree with everything in these articles. Cool looking car, but dumb as fuck guy flogging it.

Will.I.Am’s Extremely Illegal DeLorean Impounded By Police
Oh, Will.I.Am. Part of us wishes your goal to launch your own car company would result in something awesome instead of something continuously hilarious. But only part of us.

First, you tried to pass off a DeLorean as a new car. Now the police have impounded said car because you drove it without license plates, registration, VIN numbers, or anything you'd actually need to drive a car on the street. This has been going on since at least May.

Parts of the IAMAUTO car, which is clearly just a DeLorean with a strange body on it, were registered only as recently as ten years ago. And those were just the identifiable parts. The rest of the car is unidentifiable.

Will.I.Am apparently told police he just wanted to feel what it was like to drive his concept car on the street, which would be endearing if he couldn't do that but just registering the damn thing like a DeLorean. Because it's a DeLorean.

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Why Is Will.I.Am Saying He Built A DeLorean?
Pretend mogul Will.i.am used The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night to show off his vision for a new car company, IAMAUTO, based around the vehicle above, which he claims is a custom design based on new Chrysler parts. It almost certainly isn't. In fact, it's a DeLorean. So why lie about it?
Leno opened his interview with a canned question about will.i.am. latest project, the IAMAUTO vehicle. The would-be Henry Ford then launched into an answer about his big investment.

I'm a big technology freak and geek and I invested my money in building my own vehicle because i want to bring jobs to the ghetto that I come from, so why not invest? Like I invested in making a demo to start the Black Eyed Peas, we did that, now I want to invest to have a car company in the neighborhood that I come from.

Will.i.am then goes on to explain exactly what his car is, which is where things get confusing.

I went to Chrysler and got a whole bunch of parts to where it's still certified as a legal vehicle on the streets. So I don't really mess with the airbag configurations or things like that. Kept the chassis and we create the shell, which is the body and the interior and the audio interface… it's sick, it's really fresh.

That's awfully specific and also awfully wrong given the picture of the IAMAUTO he shows looks a lot like one of his other cars.

Images from an episode of the West Coast Customs reality show captured by the DeLorean faithful over at DMCTalk shows the car is clearly a DeLorean DMC-12 built for the pop star.

We called around and sources familiar with the car say what's shown in those screencaps is clearly a DeLorean. Another reader had other images, which show the car in the process of getting its final bodywork done.

Further, a source tells us the car isn't even Chrysler-powered. Instead, it uses a GM LS3 E-Rod V8. Awesome, yes, but not a Chrysler-based product.

Of course, it is possible that will.i.am had the same design crafted on a Chrysler 300 (or similar) platform and it somehow ended up looking exactly like his custom RWD, mid-engined DeLorean.

More likely, Will.i.am just has zero clue as to what the fuck he's talking about.

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[BerserkerCatSplat]

Even if it wasn't a DeLorean, it'd still be fucking hideous.

[ekguy]

hilarious haha.

[lilmira]

Where is the love?

[Kona9]

He got retarded in there.

[Benny]

That car looks like shit.

[RickDaTuner]

West coast customs built it for him. He gave the idea and they did all the renderings and construction.

The corvette they did for him was actually really nice.

[THE GOVERNATOR]

its almost the exact same interview as on top gear uk, lol.

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[spikerS]

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[BerserkerCatSplat]

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Bwahahaha!

[mr2mike]

Originally posted by THE GOVERNATOR
its almost the exact same interview as on top gear uk, lol.

Yup. I was thinking the same thing. So does Jay Leno just rip off Clarkson's questions, or is William the only one ripping something off and calling it his own?

[GT4rally]

From the sound of it, the guy is so dumb that he doesn't realize how ridiculous his lie is.... I've met chicks that think the same way!

[mr2mike]

I think this is his first sketch of his IAMAUTO design.
After he fell and hit his head on the sink while trying to hang a clock.

[THE GOVERNATOR]

Originally posted by mr2mike


Yup. I was thinking the same thing. So does Jay Leno just rip off Clarkson's questions, or is William the only one ripping something off and calling it his own?

Dunno.. William though, He really believes that he is the Next Henry Ford..

The Corvette WCC Made Was Great. (keep in mind, it took time an many many man hours to make.) I don't think mass producing these cars would be such a fantastic idea..