The Future Ends Here

John DeLorean has died at the age of eighty. For those of you who have no clue who I'm talking about, this is the guy who designed the car that Christopher Lloyd turned into a time machine in the classic Back to the Future films.

One of the things I found most interesting about the article was in this paragraph.

Although he was a rising if unconventional executive at GM, and was believed by many to be destined for its presidency, he quit in 1973 to launch the DeLorean Motor Car Co. in Northern Ireland.

So the guy leaves detroit and starts a car company in Northern Ireland? I'd be interested to know more about that decision.