"Hey, lets bring back a car that was a flop when it was originally built and had an owner that was implicated in drug smuggling to try and finance it out of its hole except this time lets put an electrically driven system in it that nobody can work on except the few dealerships that will exist."
This has to be somebody with Mattress Mack type money and nothing to do with it. Without that movie nobody would even remember that car today. There was 1 in the little town where I grew up and it stayed in the DeLorean shop more than their own garage.