When will we see the new Delorean?

As you can see below from Delorean Motor Company’s recent social media, they are hoping for 2021.

Four years ago, anticipating fast government action, the new DeLorean Motor Company announced it was bringing back the DMC-12. Government doesn't move fast. The first thing we'd do with a time-traveling DeLorean DMC-12—being careful to follow the rules of time travel—is revisit four years ago and nudge the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to finalize all the bureaucracy associated with the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act of 2015, which would allow the production of new DeLoreans.

In 2016, NHTSA was supposed to publish a final set of rules that would allow replica and kit-car makers such as DeLorean Motor Company (DMC)—same name, different outfit—to build replicas of treasured cars like the original DMC-12. Had that happened, 2017 would have welcomed the rebirth of the gull-winged, stainless-steel coupe made famous by Back to the Future with an updated version sold through a nationwide dealer network.

That still hasn't happened. NHTSA's rules are in regulatory purgatory, stuck somewhere between mostly finished and published. "They say, 'Any day now, any day now, any day now,'" DMC vice president James Espey said. It's a disheartening refrain in Humble, Texas, where DMC is based. Collectively, Espey says, low-volume manufacturers have spent millions on the project and still have no idea when they'll be able to hit the market.

Even if "when" turned out to be "now," Espey said it would take close to 18 months before the first new DMC-12 exited the factory gate.