DeLorean’s new concepts are an off-roader that won’t exist and a two-door estate we hope will

Want to know the biggest problem with EVs? Well, just ask the internet – you’ll get a hundred different answers, with differing levels of apoplexy depending on who’s delivering the answer. Over our side of things, however, it’s that there just doesn’t seem to be enough electric estate cars.

We have to admit that we weren’t expecting DeLorean to step forward and fill that niche. But here we are, looking at a wagoned version of the Alpha V coupe. That should mean similar figures to those promised by the coupe – 300 miles of range, nought to 60 in less than three seconds and a 155mph top speed – just with the added benefit of being able to fit a pram in the back.

If you know your motoring parlance, you’ll know that an estate version of a coupe is called a shooting brake. As such, DeLorean calls it the Alpha V Plasmatail. Because. Hm.

Just out of curiosity, we looked up ‘plasmatail’ and found... well, quite a lot of fishing lures. But we’re guessing DeLorean’s thinking more celestially, referring to the tail comets leave behind as photons and solar winds strip their surface. Still not entirely sure how that applies to being able to lug around a little more stuff, so we’ll park that for now and move on to the second new concept on display at DeLorean’s corner of Pebble Beach: the Omega X.

While the Plasmatail is a sensible addition to the 2+2 coupe that DeLorean says will go on sale in 2024, the Omega X is apparently supposed to “reimagine the future of mobility”. We can confirm that phrase has now been used by every car, motorbike, scooter, bicycle, drone and wheelchair company at least once.

If just the look of Omega X didn’t immediately give the game away, a second season of Firefly has more chance of coming to fruition. The bumf says it’s DeLorean’s ‘interpretation of 2040’, which looks like it’s going to involve a lot of high-speed off-road driving. Oh what a lovely day, et cetera.

Want to know the biggest problem with concepts? Well, just ask us: they always seem like they’re trying to reinvent the wheel, rather than what powers it.