The Vector W8 Is the Craziest Supercar Ever Made 

merry christmas and use autotrader.com and borrow and steal vehicles from cnc motors cuz they’re kinda annoying

oof

Thanks papa doug

Merry Christmas

Merry Chrysler

Lol

I always say to myself: "Divert all power to the main thrusters" when i press that...

Custom Johnny Official I do the same, I always close with “Engage!”

And no other passengers. That was the boost in my 96 Accent.

Oof

TOCZICK ...looking for blow.

😥😥😥

@@MustafarRecRoom Haha, those were different times..

@@MustafarRecRoom That's about as accurate as it gets lol.

@Nitro Boy Exactly, i wish i was able to experience something like it, always been a fan of those kinds of settings and atmospheres..

There weren't any W2s around? They made nearly as many of those as W8s and they had been around for about a decade prior, just couldn't get them past the prototype phase. I had a poster of a W2 on my wall for much of the 80s and many an automotive journalist had written about it.

What?! I'm heartbroken. The Vector was and still is my favorite supercar. RIP Mr. Wiegert. Please say hello to Mr. Ferrari when you meet him...

RIP Jerry Weigert you made a hell of a car!!! And on that note I want to clarify something. The reason Weigert used a.Corvette V8 because at the time the in house engine (V12) was not ready and customers who preordered were getting close to suing Vector. So the decision was made to use a low cost, high potential output V8 which any gear head knows that a Corvette engine is a gold standard for power. As for the 3 speed Hydramatic. There is nothing wrong with this transmission setup as it can handle the enormous power and torque of the V8. What the content creator didn't tell you was that the 3 speed Turbo Hydromatic has been used in MANY muscle and sports cars. One famous one is the Ferrari 365 GT4 2+2 and the Ferrari 400i. Both used the 3 speed auto for their entire run. And now many features the Vector has are now standard issue in the automotive industry. So Weigert can rest knowing he created a car ahead of its time and many exotics follow the basic design Weigert used in the Vector.

Jerry was super cool! I'm sad to hear that! I hate that we lost touch 🥲We went riding one day in his convertible Vector which was crazy because I could see over the actual metal frame of the front windshield. We went out to eat and then back to his boat, where we drank some crazy rum he had in a crystal bottle and talked about a new car he wanted to build. Hell, I may have the drawings laying around somewhere!

Rip. I loved his company

Woah, he died the day before my birthday

I think you got your Italians mixed up.

@@dotancohen Oh shit, I totally did, god damn😂

Delorean... both

Your not too far off, both Vector and Delorean had founders that turned into con men to keep the company afloat. Autoweek did a big expose on Vector when Vector was still in business.

Not going to lie, this made me laugh out loud.... alone.....

I think yellow would add to its uniqueness.

@@ravenx0x033no no no. But black 😍

White in honor of the cocaine that designed the car.🎉

Road & Track claimed in their testing that first gear could go to 70 mph.

Didn't it have like a modified GM 3 or 4 speed?

@@GlennC789 Did you watch the video until the end?

Glenn Carpenter : This is part one. He is going to link Part 2 shortly (watch until the end).

@@ThomasFerrugia Yeah, it's not like his Enzo and Saleen reviews, where he couldn't even drive the cars.

Glenn Carpenter kindly unsubscribe if you’re not gonna actually watch Doug’s hard work . I scanned it haha . Get out

Glenn Carpenter : Doug drove it, scored it, snd it’s all coming soon.

K ris dougs the type of guy to crash the vector to see if it has an air bag

Because they die like real men.

Doug's the type of guy to crash a Vector so it will eject his vintage Air Supply CD which got stuck while doing a Target run

Slice their neck with a Fugees CD and stick Lauren Hill with the coroners bill.

You got it wrong, the forces in front collision (activated airbag), makes things fly forward toward impact .

They were here in Florida, too. Green Cove Springs.

holy hell their factory is wilmington? i use to live very close to wilmington in the south bay That cities a gang haven

@@Masssshysteria : Wild to know how close you were, huh? Their address was 330 N. Marine Ave. Now it’s just a nondescript white building mostly blocked by a fence. On Vector Motors Wikipedia page though, you can see what the facade looked like back in the 80s, and even see Jerry Wiegart’s original Vector W-2. My dad took me to the maritime union hall one time when he knew Jerry’s car was parked in front of the Vector "factory." He told me about a time before he knew about Vector Motors, when he had been driving from L.A. to Vegas. He was in the desert lcruising at 65 mph (which he thought was a pretty good clip) in his early 70s Citroen DS, when in his words "A UFO passed me on the street going so fast it felt like I wasn’t moving at all." He stopped at the next gas station, and saw Jerry’s silver W-2 parked there, but said even then it looked more like a fighter jet without wings than it did a car. He talked with Jerry for a bit and that’s when he found out how close Vector was to the maritime union hall. After I saw that silver Vector, I became obsessed, and went to every annual Los Angeles car convention so I could see the Vector. Almost 40 years later and I still have the various single sheet brochures they handed out at the auto shows.

I wonder if it would sell today. Still looks as cool as when I got the poster of it 30 years ago!

@@davebenedict7986 well maybe to a smaller demographic, but I'm sure they'd be flying off the lot of they still made it with maybe some updated tech. They probably go for millions nowadays

Yeah, I could just envision myself driving this thing while pumping "Dream Machine" by Lazerhawk.. Lol

Pure 1980s

I've always thought it was one of the most cyberpunk looking cars

Lol good luck only 20 made and how many got totalled?

Kaliper now this is dlc I’ll pay for

Don't you mean "the car you saw on cyberpunk looks like it was inspired by this one"? I would say so...

Yeah, its aesthetic is incredible

Good looking seats look like Corvette C4 seats.

Recaro N-joy

@@studio-flash wouldn't surprise me if Recaro made the Corvette seats as they make many manufacturers seats.

Bradshaw Mountain Man best bit of the car

@@GuinessOriginal I'd actually say the engine is as it's actually a nascar engine. If I recall correctly, it's an all aluminum block with steel sleeves, etc.

Definitely Unique. Check out the Aston Martin Lagonda. Doug does a video of it. But it has old "Atari-like" tv screens in it. Wild. Another odd and unique vehicle full of quirks. Worth a look.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's an amber plasma display panel. (PDP) basically a monochrome, much older version of the plasma display televisions that were all the rage during the 2000's, now superseded by OLED and various LCD/LED types... These amber plasma panels were used on some early portable computers in the 80's...

2006 Infiniti g35 coupe

The 1986 Buick Riviera had a TOUCH screen with more statistics, including fan speed and interior temperature.

It looks like its from a 80's concept car

I agree with you. Definitely the era of excess in the USA. (:

This thing is ugly af. Maybe it's just me?

David Campbell You’re correct on the looks. Gotta give the man credit for attempting to create a super car in America though. (:

Serby funny you say that, this car was in a movie called “the rising sun” with Wesley snipes

@@atiredblue Really?

what seems to be your boggle?

vaxt I agree,I guess because I love airplanes

The "tape" style interface is awesome

I'd want that screen above most modern "trendy" screens we see today, that all just look like an iOS integration from a first generation iPhone. This car and its screen is timeless classic and cool

I heard it's from M1 Abrams tank

It reminds me of tron for whatever reason.

Lucky. I want it in The Crew 2.

Me neither! Only when Doug mentioned it.

@@virgilio123 same lol

Air vents also from or mimics those on planes. Too bad they didn't add landing lights.

And the whole engine bay is full of aviation bits.

I wonder if the guy had the speedo recalibrated after going from 16 to 18 inch wheels.. It looks Better with those 18's

MrBOB39 you know the tires are the same size right ?

It might be easier to 3D print and assemble one than to have a chance to drive an original.

amen brother

You literally have a better chance of winning the Powerball 10 times in a row than ever being able to drive one of these. LOL But if you ever do, major props.

Must've

It was the 80's to 90's so probably New Coke

And quaaludes, don't forget the ludes.

Jaja

Dustin Platt I cannot imagine driving this in the 80s, fresh off a couple lines, would’ve felt otherworldly

The NEW Toyota TITAN is thee TOP TITILATING truck to TOUCHDOWN And TRANSCEND today's tumultuous truck TRENDS. All Doug needs is barely comprehendible alliteration and he will be FINE.

Yooo fr

When does, or has that happened?? Ever..?

Dude the kid is a natural car kid stop hating on DeMuro.

I agree. Hahahahahaha! 😜

The 80's...hold my Cocaine.

@@beauchamphuberville1355 hold my crack

KeenCrafting yawn, got a better joke?

@@fucuszullanti7877 I know you liked mine

I don’t know what t say. I’ve never been this early. Long live Doug Demuro!

@@ned8249 this early for what, what did you do this early? You do Coke too, long live?

That’s not saying much lol, corollas aren’t known for having many features

Compare the price also, please.

@@805NAVE well it is still a sedan from 2019. a lot of stuffs are mandatory.

Yeah forreal. I wish someone would take the jet concept back and run with it.

And still looks better than some of blingy interiors seen on today's supercars. Take Pagani for example: their interiors were probably designed by pimps!

Metal and prob bent with a torch right on the line but I agree

You literally just described American car engineering

No one thought to just make it shorter?

@@yeahitskimmel yeah you can even kinda see where the material got scrunched up from the bend!

Justice Warrior agreed aside from the fact American engineers basically revolutionized the auto industry in every single aspect conceivable not to mention just about every bit of technology over the last 150 years. 😃

_[nerdgasm alert]_ said synthwave must be made using VECTOR synthesis only...one Korg Wavestation comin' up :o)

MrZebub wth is that

@@brandonwright6578 futuristic electronic music for driving.

I think it's funny that he refers to this car as the company name, where most cars he refers to by the model name.

Same. I even sent for the VHS marketing tape. My letter sounded like I was a rich 40 year old looking to trade in my Ferrari ...but I was 13.

not like the other boys

my brother had a poster of this car and thats how i know it .. i was 4-5 years old

I use to play gran turismo 2 and they had Vector in the game !

Real deal futuristic flight influenced automobile this car is too fire 🤦‍♂️

THANK YOU. NEVER GO IN DRY BOYS. ALWAYS MAKE IT WET.

@Jack Jonas them late 80s and early 90s way of solving things.

Thats how you know it was designed by GM.

If you look closely on the background, you can see that it's actually the video that is lagging. Take a closer look, I'm sure they work fine, but somehow his camera went a bit crazy or he made a mistake when editing.

@Jack Jonas Requirement of being a road legal vehicle. They would never have considered someone actually driving their vector in the rain.

I want it implanted on my chest.. like a tattoo, but not.

I remember first seeing this car in a TV program in Australia called Towards 2000. (as in the year of futuristic whatever). It was followed up by another program called Beyond 2000. The car was rated at running at a speed of 400 km/h. It was a true super car back then. Perhaps it still is today.

@@ricchatrc Its a kit car built on standard GM sedan (Corvette or trans AM with a modified V8 engine) .

@@amuxpatch2798 back then it was being sold like it was a Lamborghini alternative....

Looks like a modern Chinese supercar.

240.

"Mach under 1"

Fresh Prince ikr😂

All of the screens look very aero focused as well which is really cool, especially the rolling speedo and tach, looks similar to glass cockpit airspeed and altitude gauges of today.

Oh, and I just saw there is an hours gauge too just like a plane!

When GM and Lockheed Martin have a baby

And the fuses and compass!! Wow, I want this thing!

Even Saab didn't go this far and they build actual fighter jets too :D

That's what an aircraft digital display will do! The military had it but the other automakers still can't get it!

I'll admit, that's really advanced for the time. Even in today's standards that's really good.

It looks so cool too. I love the aircraft inspired graphics.

Time?

It´s from an M1A2 Abrams tank. No joke. I read this in an article abou the Vector in the german Auto Bild Classic.

That's just one of his insane quirks and features....crazy.

Dbn Poldermans hey now...he wears it pretty good!!

Still better than those tight skinny jeans every moron is wearing these days

Seat eject chute

Looks like the pad boxers use to train

Car: *has an accident* Also car: ejecto Seato cuz!!! *Ejects my already broken corps to softly (not softly) land on unsuspecting bystander's lawn*

I don't know for sure in this instance, but I remember the early days of air bags stuffed into big, ol', fat, ugly, steering wheels. This one looks like it fits the bill.

Ejecto seato cuz!

Clark W 😂

Mhmm

I swear that's the reasoning behind the shared footwell as well

😂😂

Haha

Douggies research was up to his normal, shit standards. The seats ARE Recaro Classics.

@Re Dacted Yet here you both are, watching a 40 minute video by him...

Very surprised Doug hasn't encountered Recaro Classics before... His point does stand though- I've always thought it odd that 'Classic' was displayed so prominently once installed. Adding 'Recaro' would've made more sense.

@@goofyleo3869 The seats were the first thing I noticed when he showed the interior.

Exactly the Recaro seats in this car were not that uncommon and in fact the Mitsubishi Starion had very similar seats in it also made by Recaro. And I believe they were the same production year cars.

Except for a genuine Testarossa convertible. ;-)

screams 80's Synth Wave

First thing that entered my mind when I saw it :p

A.G.M if they still have it, that was a good deal.

This offer was very savvy to propose to the executive suite of an Italian sports car company, they couldn't resist a garrish, triangular car, with absolutely stupid horsepower. Porsche would've told them to go to hell.

Lamborghini: "All your assets are belong to us"

@@davecrupel2817 Ha! That was good lol the remix is fun lmao

@Robert I don’t think it does but I rather have a model X over it

there was an option to have a retractable mirror inside the glove box ;p

Does the glovebox have little baggies of cocaine?

@@abizitgill4310 the factory only included an 8 ball in the glove box and two Acapulco shirts. Out of 20 vectors, none have the OEM cocaine, but more than one has aftermarket replacements.

Those rhymes were rich, Ritchie. But I don't want to be your bully, Billy I just want to be in your club, Billy Club. (Was I just repeating, Pete?)

Lol. Awesome reference!

@@jojob6703 Oh, that was from Airplane, was it not? I didn't ever watch that movie in english if that's the case. XD

@@EddieOtool 😂

That would be great if he had license plates that said Victor.

The Tesla truck looks like a it's from a game from the Nintendo 64 with extra low graphics

@@thebiggestmac4202 it belongs to starfox

Maxwell Hopkins intel pentium rendered truck

Maxwell Hopkins thats the whole point of its design to look like a pixel car .

When you select a bunch of random parts

Ha! I got a poster of it.... somewhere....

Formula one, built to win on the original NES, had a W2 in it....these car were the craziest things I'd ever seen.👍🤙✌️

I wonder if this was the exact car that you saw as a kid!

This was my dream car as a kid as well. I have an old magazine with a full story on it from back then too...

lol

yeah Brother = ditto.

I'm literally like 11 years old and I'm a memer but I literally don't know what cyberpunk 2077 is who are you and who do you work for and what is cyberpunk 2077

@@jaydottt_transitfanner it's a game that just came out.

@@jaydottt_transitfanner google is your best friend

@@jaydottt_transitfanner lmao "I'm a memer"

@@jaydottt_transitfanner Ur funny

Cody or they see it from time to time when the owner takes it out for a drive, perhaps once in a while.

@@sliknik1025 ahaha my thoughts exactly

Just Watch it here lol

Unless they see the owner driving it

@@zairmorningstarmusic true LOL

Same. Something lost in young people nowadays.

Awesome

@@thefrugaljeeper4054 now they have posters of BTS.

Had a vector poster and the alpine Lamborghini posters

it just screams "I wanna be a real jet fighter when I grow up!"

Screen is probably from an F-16

@@richardbutton1179 F-15, when Weigert was at an air show he got to sit in the cockpit of one.

@@michaelforansich8090 I bet that was awesome. I sat in a Harrier a few years back

@@richardbutton1179 Its not from a 16. The MFDs in the 16 are more square and this one also looks a bit larger than the ones found in an F-16. But so many of the other parts look exactly like they came out of a 16 or at least a 4th gen airframe.