The Vector W8 Twin Turbo is easily the most striking car to come out of the '80s. There isn't anything that screams '80s as much as the W8. The styling looks like something straight out of Blade ...

The Vector W8 promised to slice the Earth in half. It was fast, it was wild, and it was American. advertisement. TopSpeed. This Is One Of The Craziest Cars Ever Made. Story by Peter Corn ...

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 ...

The company trucked two W8 TwinTurbos, which is what Vector called the production version of the W2, to our photoshoot. With a claimed 625 ponies from its twin-turbo 6.0-liter small-block V-8, ...

Vector had hyped the W8 for over a decade and originally stated a retail price of $225k. That rose to $450k by the time the first example was on its way, which, adjusted for inflation, is over a ...

Sure, the W8 undoubtedly cost a lot of money to build, but it seems like Vector was already struggling with financing its business. According company accountants, Vector founder Jerry Wiegert did ...

What if, indeed. Many may remember Vector as the American company that attempted to build a world-class supercar but couldn't quite get its act together. The W8 was its final product that actually ...

The W8 is powered by an aluminum 6.0-liter V-8 that, as the car's name states, has twin turbochargers. The transverse mid-mounted engine was estimated to make 625 hp and 630 lb-ft of torque in a ...

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 ...

Here’s something we can file under “extremely tragic”: People don’t talk about the Vector W8 nearly as much as they should. And when they do talk about the early 1990s supercar, they don ...

The First Vector W8 Supercar Ever Built Is up for Grabs Only 17 production examples were built between 1990 and 1993. Published on June 10, 2024. By Bryan Hood. Bryan Hood ...