But after we completed a few passes for photos, the red engineering prototype ground to a halt, its three-speed GM transmission having decided to stop sending torque to the rear wheels. With a claimed 625 ponies from its twin-turbo 6.0-liter small-block V-8, the car indeed felt strong. The company trucked two W8 TwinTurbos, which is what Vector called the production version of the W2, to our photoshoot. ![]() But the ’80s passed without the car coming together.Īnd then, in early 1991, we got a call. Wiegert was a gifted designer who had drawn a remarkable shape, and his creation employed top-drawer components. The publicity that ensued made us Wiegert’s best friend, but we never got a test car. Arty shots on a dry lake bed helped make a car years away seem real. It started with a story in our December 1980 issue in which then associate editor Larry Griffin heaped praise on the car and its creator, Gerald Wiegert. ![]() C/D was guilty of helping to foster that image. Vector struggled to build a production car in the ’80s, but the W2 prototype enjoyed supercar mystique and street cred nonetheless. That’s the thing about vaporware-it’s all too easy to be seduced by a great-looking body and assurances that it works as advertised. ![]() The promises were big, the styling jaw-dropping, and a drivable production car elusive. From the December 2017 issue of Car and Driverīefore the word “vaporware” existed, there was the Vector.
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