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 ...

That car was the Vector W8. If you’ve never heard of it, you’re not alone. The Vector W8 promised to slice the Earth in half. It was fast, it was wild, and it was American. It was also a failure.

The Vector W8 Twin Turbo Was The World's Most Powerful Car In The '80s 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 ...

But the ’80s passed without the car coming together. And then, in early 1991, we got a call. The company trucked two W8 TwinTurbos, which is what Vector called the production version of the W2 ...

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 ...

More Archive Supercar Content The Time We Tested a Vector W8 12 Quickest Cars of the 1990s That cash infusion and a later one in­flated what had been Wiegert's shoe­string operation into a ...

The W8 Twin Turbo was the brainchild of Gerald Wiegert. At the beginning of the 1970s, the inventor and businessman announced plans to build a high-performance sports car called the Vector ...

Naysayers need only visit the final assembly area, where the two cars we photographed were being prepped for shipment to their new owners in Switzerland (the first production Vector W8 Twin-Turbo ...

cars that want to rewrite history, backed by a wide-eyed, charismatic CEO brimming with optimism. But as we know all too well, it often ends in melancholy. Take the Vector W8 for instance.

When the Vector W8 reached the market in 1989 ... nothing to be sniffed at back then - nor is it today. The W8 was an advanced car for its time, using a carbon Kevlar body panels that were ...

Today, it’s worth seven figures. The two cars line up to race from a standing start and the results aren’t even close. Whether or not that Vector W8 is actually making full power is unknown ...