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UPDATE, 1/18/2021: Vector founder Gerald Wiegert has died at age 76, according to a Vector spokesman who gave the news first to our friends at Autoweek. We're bringing back this story from 2017 in ...
From the May 1991 issue of Car and Driver. 9:00 a.m. Monday, Wilmington, Califor­nia—We arrive at Vector headquarters, nestled in an industrial ghetto between the Los Angeles and Long Beach har ...
Opinion Opinion: the Vector W8 was a failure… but here’s why we still like it. America’s big dreamer was a speed freak, and 35 years on, still looks the absolute business ...
The Vector W8 is a supercar with record-breaking performance, but why was it also considered among the most expensive car failures in automotive history? If you haven't heard of American automaker ...
This car debuted at the 1992 Geneva Motor Show in silver paint. At the time it was a non-running show car. A year later it returned to Geneva with the twin-turbocharged 7.0-liter Rodeck V8 you see ...
The W8 was an improved version of the Vector W2, a fully functional concept car that Vector had produced. The W2 never entered production as Wiegert didn't have the funding, but it was in place by ...
In 1992, Weigart showed up at that year’s Geneva Salon in Switzerland to unveil a more dramatic, more potent successor to the W8, the upgraded Vector Avtech WX-3 Prototype. While the car on display ...