DeLorean objected to $191.8 million in claims.

Automotive entrepreneur John Z. DeLorean is asking a federal bankruptcy judge to drop the claims against his defunct DeLorean Motor Co., beginning a legal offensive against his critics. The claims were filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit by the British government, the French auto maker Renault and William Haddad, a former DeLorean Motor executive, an attorney for DeLorean said. DeLorean Motor went bankrupt in 1982 after producing sports cars for two years in Northern Ireland.