From the Archive: Amid overheating and transmission problems, the long-awaited W8 shows flashes of brilliance.
We arrive at Vector headquarters, nestled in an industrial ghetto between the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors. Jerry Wiegert has lured us with the promise of an exclusive first crack at testing his audacious supercar, which has been the subject of great intrigue and speculationThe decade since then has been long and hard for Wiegert, who, like Ferruccio Lamborghini in the early sixties, decided to take on the established supercar order.
He scored a financial victory in November 1988, when a public stock offering in the newly reconstituted Vector Aeromotive Corporation raised $6 million. Wiegert's company got $4.9 million and the remainder went to his underwriter, Blinder, Robinson & Company, which has since filed for bankruptcy.
David Kostka, Vector's vice president for engineering, shows us the gray and red engineering prototypes that we are to test as we wait for the truck he has ordered to haul the cars up to our designated testing sites.—We unload the Vectors in the San Gabriel Mountains. Although the W8's styling is about fifteen years old, the car is still an ocular magnet.
Inside, the Vector has the blocky, hand-tailored, somewhat homemade look indigenous to most limited-production cars, but the fashion theme is jet-fighter cockpit. There's a computerized instrument display on which the driver can choose one of four information displays.
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