Yes, because you know in my job, if someone were to call me and suggest that I take a kickback or look the other way over a known engineering defect, I might just 'play along' for yucks. This casts a lot of stuff in a whole new
light. John DeLorean wasn't actually trying to sell cocaine to undercover cops - it was all just a big joke! Those White House tapes of Nixon? Of COURSE he knew...