DeLorean: What Happened to £77 Million?

John DeLorean had already made a name for himself at General Motors before he walked away to build a car of his own. He had the reputation, the ambition, and a very different idea of what a sports car could be. What he needed was the money and a place to build it. He found both in Northern Ireland, where the British government saw the project as a chance to bring badly needed jobs to an area struggling with unemployment and the Troubles. But the dream did not go according to plan. By 1982, the DeLorean company in Northern Ireland had entered receivership and production had stopped. By then, the British government had provided approximately £77 million in assistance to the project. That number is central to the story. But the £77 million was not simply money stolen or money that disappeared. It was government support committed to a company that ultimately failed. And then the story became even more complicated. As the company unraveled, John DeLorean became the subject of two major criminal cases in the United States. He was acquitted both times. So what really happened to the money? Why did the British government take such a huge gamble on DeLorean? And how did a project that once promised thousands of jobs end up collapsing so dramatically? This documentary follows the story from the beginning — the dream, the money, the factory, the failures, the trials, and the questions that still remain. The popular story is simple. The real story isn't.