The Delorean DMC-12 came about when John DeLorean saw the Porsche Tapiro concept by Giugaro at the 1970 Turin auto show

And chatted up Fiat about buying Ferrari Dino 246 V6s to help Ferrari hit homologation.

He had wanted an NSU/Citroen Wankel rotary but NSU did worse with rotaries than Mazda ever did and then the French got involved and it was a catastrophe. Fiat dicked DeLorean around almost (but not quite) as much as they did Ford, having learned they could do that. Then Citroen dicked him around because he'd proven himself gullible. In the end he landed a wretched Peugeot V6, kinda like how Saab built several hundred thousand 95s, 96s and Sonnetts with surplus Ford tractor engines. Giugaro, meanwhile, took what had been a futuristic vision of the Porsche 914 and turned it into a futuristic vision of a Chevette. the Bricklin SV-1 is a piece of shit but at least it's a badly-skinned AMC Javelin, rather than ten years of value engineering assembled in Northern Ireland at the height of The Troubles.

What I love is they gave it to Colin Chapman to fix. "Hmm... I have a 2-liter mid-engined wedge-shaped car that I'm going bankrupt making and you'd like me to make yours better than mine? For money? I WILL GET RIGHT ON THAT MATE"