What is the significance of 88 miles per hour?

The fact it needs to reach 88 MpH may be an indication that the DeLorean is souped up, or that time travel is impossible. Or even just it needs to be turned up to 11 to get time travel.

What speed did the DeLorean have to reach?

88 miles per hour
In the Back to the Future franchise, the DeLorean time machine is a time travel device made by retrofitting a DMC DeLorean vehicle with a flux capacitor. The car requires 1.21 gigawatts of power and needs to travel 88 miles per hour (142 km/h) to initiate time travel.

Who said if my calculations are correct?

“If my calculations are correct” was the Catchphrase of the inventor Newton Gimmick in The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin. Used often by the titular character in Jimmy Neutron. Hanna-Barbera’s Secret Squirrel uses this phrase when trying to catch a bomb launched from a submarine in the episode “Sub Swiper”.

Are deloreans fast?

Performance. DMC’s comparison literature noted that the DeLorean could achieve 0–60 miles per hour (0–97 km/h) in 8.8 seconds when equipped with a manual transmission, but other sources indicate an acceleration time of 9.5 seconds.

How fast did the car have to go in Back to the Future?

1. It wasn’t that fast. The speedometer on a production DeLorean’s dashboard only went up to 85 mph. But if you know your BTTF trivia, in order to the travel in time, the car had to be driving at 88 mph, which was, in fact, impossible!