When it was brand new, the price for a DeLorean DMC-12 was pegged at $25,000. That sounds like a bargain, right? Well, in today's money, after adjusting for inflation, that figure calculates out to around $65,000. That's about what you'd pay for a modern Corvette. The DeLorean wasn't cheap, of course. But you could argue it wasn't astronomically high, either. Unfortunately, a toxic combination of poor build quality, lack of tire-smoking performance, and teetering U.S. economy all made life for the DeLorean Motor Company next to impossible. After bursting onto the scene in 1981, this sports car of the future was already a distant memory by 1983. That is, until a certain film franchise arrived and forever rewrote DeLorean's history.