The Vector W8 Is the Craziest Supercar Ever Made

[@DougDeMuro]

Merry DougCember from the Vector W8!

[@Ahxmde]

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

[@nadiakster]

oof

[@fouzan7417]

Thanks papa doug

[@tj55749]

Merry Christmas

[@aidanmatta154]

Merry Chrysler

[@cookedit]

Sadly, Vectors creator, Jerry Wiegert passed away yesterday (January 15th 2021). Rest in peace sir. You did things by your own rules!

[@largol33t1]

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...

[@deathstrike]

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.

[@donvirgo]

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!

[@itisannona]

Rip. I loved his company

[@angeleeadams4692]

Woah, he died the day before my birthday

[@ricsi21]

I also have a factory boost button in my Yaris, it's just called as AC off.

[@flusteredweasel7483]

Lol

[@customjohnny]

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

[@doalwa]

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

[@juanzingarello4005]

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

[@getchasome6230]

Oof

[@zeerah]

Imagine driving this through Miami at night, in 1989..

[@MustafarRecRoom]

TOCZICK ...looking for blow.

[@caga34]

😥😥😥

[@zeerah]

@@MustafarRecRoom Haha, those were different times..

[@shawnsiya4132]

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

[@zeerah]

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

[@TNolan-d5x]

Doug, thanks for the trip down memory lane! Vector was a customer of mine back in late 1989, early 1990. I was able to walk right into their fabricating area from the street and spoke to a supervisor. No security, just a few guys working on their projects. I sold them a hand brake for bending small sheet metal parts and some punches. I had no idea what I was walking into, I just figured I could sell them something for sheet metal fabrication as I worked for Kennedy Machinery in Anaheim and we specialized in everything for forming sheet metal. I only saw parts of the car, there wasn't a completed unit at that time. What an experience, a story I still tell to this day and almost everyone I tell it to has no idea what I'm talking about....lol.

[@brandall101]

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.

[@GarethWonfor]

Considering how outlandish it is, the design has actually aged very well I think. Looks better now than it did in the 80s! - SynthWave on wheels.

[@davebenedict7986]

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

[@vesper1538]

@@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

[@rsuriyop]

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

[@Sam_artsy80]

Pure 1980s

[@ochiamu]

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

[@ninja_tony]

That screen is genuinely cooler than anything else I've ever seen in a car before or since.

[@FellowshipOfTheAviatorZ]

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.

[@HPPalmtopTube]

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...

[@suwoobalin2592]

2006 Infiniti g35 coupe

[@ibibleflop]

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

[@kestassiaurukas3585]

It looks like its from a 80's concept car

[@Sizifus]

Lamborghini: "Countach is the most 80's car, period" Vector: "Hold my cocaine..."

[@dotancohen]

I think you got your Italians mixed up.

[@Sizifus]

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

[@luckyred1818]

Delorean... both

[@markdonaldson5834]

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.

[@grawgnak9479]

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

[@RoberinoEldorado]

I wish they would still build cars like this. An absolute gem!

[@Jairjax]

I just wish they would TRY to make unique dashes again. Stylized dashes with themes, or even the super cool 80s "futuristic" dashes were so cool. Now they are all hideous.

[@gordocarbo]

@@Jairjax Agree. Cant stand the big screens displays or a giant monitor like Tesla And people think celphones are a distraction...

[@ThomasFerrugia]

This is the very first ACTUAL review of a Vector I’ve ever seen.

[@ultraguy8771]

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

[@ThomasFerrugia]

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

[@ultraguy8771]

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

[@hamiltonsol]

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

[@ThomasFerrugia]

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

[@dylancoulter2782]

I feel like the hardest part of Doug DeMuro’s job at this point is coming up with titles unique from previous ones

[@RicardoRodriguez-qb8kn]

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.

[@Carlocabreera]

Yooo fr

[@MartinAston00]

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

[@caremotor86]

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

[@osamabinladen824]

I agree. Hahahahahaha! 😜

[@redram5150]

The airbags go off and CD’s fly at the passenger like frisbees of death.

[@franklatin2411]

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

[@wino0000006]

Because they die like real men.

[@ibelieveicansoar]

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

[@ChrisBrideauMedia]

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

[@gregorizi]

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

[@MGRracing]

I love the visible Alan key bolts that hold everything in place on the dashboard. Wish other cars had this functional styling.

[@gordocarbo]

Gms in Irocs or C4s were fake plastic. Bitchin car so sad it never went further

[@samborez8089]

@@gordocarbo Yeah,Pontiac used the fake allen screws too, People tried to take them out to put in a radio, of for other reasons. They never got even one out! LOL!

[@LAlberoNero]

I can hear synthwave music just by looking at it. One of my top favorite cars.

[@Juggernaut40KDM]

This was my favorite car as a kid. Absolutely blew me away the first time I saw it. This is the first time I've ever seen the interior, and I'm a kid in awe all over again. I had no clue only 20 were ever made.

[@bentaugur2129]

yeah Brother = ditto.

[@thatninjarider6439]

I fuel airplanes for a job. I've seen that exact fuel cap on a pilatus pc12 turboprop aircraft

[@animalmother5287]

You deluded blind fool

[@chair5728]

Val Colmer what did he say?

[@yuuurawizzard]

stfu, that's not a real job.

[@T1Oracle]

What's your blood lead levels?

[@ChristopherFehrenbacher]

It's common in most GA aircraft.

[@supremefantastic]

This one, Lotec Sirius, Lister Storm, Saleen S7... There were so many unusual rare supercars when I was young.

[@macbrown99]

Avionics Technician here, those things on the "fuse panel" are Klixon circuit breakers. They are extremely handy as you can not only push the breaker back in if it happens to pop, but you can manually pull the circuit breakers if you want to pull power from a specific piece of equipment. Great for diagnostic/maintenance/emergency power shedding purposes. Very surprised to see them alongside a Hobbs meter front and center in a production road vehicle. The wet compass, air vents and fuel cap are also absolutely aircraft parts. Very cool stuff.

[@paullacey2999]

Founder of Vector has passed on.Thank You for an amazing car.

[@wesley7753]

😢

[@TheMattboudreau]

What was his name

[@paullacey2999]

@@TheMattboudreau Jerry Wiegert I believe.The company was Vector Aeromotive.

[@Smokey420Greenleaf]

amazing? the thing looks like a pile of horse shit LOL

[@jaytater2165]

@Eddy Jin he ain’t search it up

[@FOH3663]

Of note that's not mentioned; The left-hand door sill mounted gear selector mimics a jet fighter throttle control ... in both location and general shape.

[@noc8076]

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

[@biggsdarklighter4586]

And the whole engine bay is full of aviation bits.

[@blitzwing870]

The way those wipers work is glorious. You can tell they knew that people wouldn’t be driving this in the rain.

[@MrWinterblade]

Doug you made my day. When I was about 7 I had a book with all the cars in the world at the time, and there was the Vector. Without internet and without any other information about this car, I had only a single low quality photo and a brief specs description to fire my imagination. The book claimed a top speed of 400km/h, something unbelievable for the nineties. Thanks Doug!

[@budja1501]

@Jasper Percabeth that's about 217 mph- an absolutely bonkers top speed for a car of that time

[@crazymiloyko6621]

Unbelievable for the nineties? Look up jun-blitz 300zx.

[@Madmetalmaniac42069]

@@budja1501 I’m shocked we haven’t heard of any crazy crashes with one or anything like that. Usually with vehicles like this, someone famous, or at least very rich, will get it and raise some hell and something will go wrong. You heard a lot about things like that with the early Vipers.

[@skipintroux4444]

I wonder if I had the same book as I recall the exact experience, just this single image and couple of details of it amongst all the other cars. Completely memorable.

[@benjaminhawthorne1969]

The fastest I ever drove was in my 1988 Mazda RX-7, in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska, where I could see from horizon to horizon that I had the entire highway to myself. I worked the tranny up to fifth gear, then pushed the pedal to the floor I was mostly looking out the windshield only glancing at the Speedo as I climbed past 120 and hit 121 mph! It was ridiculously fast, but the RX-7's "sport suspension" kept everything quiet and stable. Unless I was on a racetrack, I do not want to drive faster than that. 😮

[@beamlarochelle5001]

If any car needed to be Red, it's this one. What a lovely piece of art

[@ravenx0x033]

I think yellow would add to its uniqueness.

[@moses7049]

@@ravenx0x033no no no. But black 😍

[@aaron62877]

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

[@needfoolthings]

Charcoal gray. The sharp horizontal lines work best in greyscale or outright black.

[@ryanr5534]

First one I saw was in a magazine when I was a little kid in the late 90s. It was yellow; and looked spectacular in yellow. (I'm not really a yellow car guy lol)

[@berni8k]

There is way more aircraft themed stuff than is even mentioned: - The dials on the display are very aircraft style. Especially the speedtape style speedometer - The vents are the same style as used in aircraft - The panels are mounted in the same hex screw modular rack style as equipment in aircraft cockpits - Interior door latch lever mimics the motion of opening latches used on aircraft canopies. - Fuse panel is exactly the kind used in aircraft. They are circuit breakers that can be manually pulled to trip or pushed to reset - Fuel cap is the exact kind of cap that is used on aircraft - Text on all panels is very aircraft style

[@GiordanDiodato]

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

[@richardbutton1179]

Screen is probably from an F-16

[@michaelforansich8090]

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

[@richardbutton1179]

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

[@class1xgames599]

@@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.

[@matthuck378]

The Vector trunk is for a sniper rifle. It's also still the most cyberpunk car ever.

[@CrzyMav]

In the early 90’s I worked on two of these cars. I worked at a shop called RPS Automotive (Rick’s Porsche Service), very popular shop. We received all the customers from a place called Beverly Hills Sports Cars, that was located on Santa Monica Blvd. we pretty much were Bosch certified Mechanics and knew nothing about all the cars that came from Beverly Hills Sports cars. It was one of the most amazing times of my life...I worked on Vectors,Ferraris, Lambos,Maserati etc. I remember one of our mechanics, his name was John, went crazy when we took over these cars cause we were Porsche,Mercedes, and BMW mechanics. But I will say it was an awesome experience.man I miss that shop...

[@motorbreath-4172]

Sounds like a fun job

[@Hawthorne-Studios]

Was John running about like a headless chicken? :D

[@dennisvanaerde1393]

The great 90's 😊

[@CrzyMav]

It was an amazing job. And yes John did run around like a chicken with his head cut off…Now I work as a Plant Operator and make way more money that I’ve ever made in my life but U would give all that up to work at a shop again. That’s how much I enjoyed working on cars. My best experience was meeting Jerry Garcia, from the Great Full Dead before his passing. And also meeting David Crosby, (Crosby,steels Nash and Young) and Jerry Beckley, (Group America). They were fun times for sure.

[@dennisvanaerde1393]

@@CrzyMav Oh, you're a electrical engineer. Explains why they brought their Vectors to you. And back then meeting pop stars, wow. Yeah, fun times for sure. Thanks :)

[@southendparaquest]

30 years on, and that dash is still cool AF!

[@Min4Mass]

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

[@largol33t1]

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!

[@jblox1990]

The styling of its bodywork, especially viewed from that rear 3/4 angle, is straight 100% Blade Runner status.

[@kristianthekhan]

I remember looking at this craft when I was about 1st grade. I am born in Bulgaria and we had this chewing gums called Turbo. Vector W8 was N110 and it was one of my favourite vehicles. Still it looks to me at present as a UFO...I simply LOVE it and would love to own one of them :o) Thanks Doug!

[@vaxt]

That screen is actually cool, and I don’t even mean “for the time the car was made”.

[@chicoh22a]

vaxt I agree,I guess because I love airplanes

[@csours]

The "tape" style interface is awesome

[@Real_MisterSir]

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

[@bigfutus]

I heard it's from M1 Abrams tank

[@stuchly1]

It reminds me of tron for whatever reason.

[@billyclub9733]

"What's your Vector, Victor?" "We've got clearance, Clarance" "Roger, Roger"

[@EddieOtool]

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?)

[@jojob6703]

Lol. Awesome reference!

[@EddieOtool]

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

[@billyclub9733]

@@EddieOtool 😂

[@sprintmademe]

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

[@Richardparistalks]

I built the body and did the paint on that car. That is my own color Red, "Rosso Ricardo". I actually painted and fit them all. It was a fun time.

[@Richardparistalks]

@Love Conqueror still looking good for a 28 year old paint job. ;)

[@Richardparistalks]

@Love Conqueror hahahahaha! The color in actuality is a far more blue red than an orange, and more fiery red than Ferrari Corso Rosso or Chiaro.

[@AaaaBbbb-iq6cz]

good job 👍

[@ShawnPrince]

U sound like this guy I met in a holding cell.... First thing he said when I walked in was "ooouu! Look at them Jordans he got on, yall know I designed them?" lol

[@Richardparistalks]

@@ShawnPrince I’m not in prison and you could always ask Jerry. :) I did all the vector W8’s.

[@ThatSpecificIndividual]

A car with an MFD like this is absolutely insane.

[@IacobucciB]

Those 18” OEM wheels look incredible on that car. The entire car is just a monument to 1980s excess. I hope to drive one before I die.

[@MrBOB39]

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

[@dezertrat0]

MrBOB39 you know the tires are the same size right ?

[@tzeichi]

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

[@soldieroftafari]

amen brother

[@venom5809]

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.

[@turbati]

This was my dream car as a kid. Glad I finally got to see more than a poster. Thanks for a dream lived vicariously.

[@Scottdvz]

That's exactly how I feel! I only ever saw it in Motor Trend back high school.

[@sylent6]

Same here. This was my 80s cyberpunk dream!

[@karlsmith2570]

Same here It sucks that they only made 20 of these cars

[@jerrell1169]

Karl Smith Stuff like this makes me wish I could build my dream car, too bad casting a whole car chassis and fitting it to another car would cost a ton and take a while.

[@karlsmith2570]

@@jerrell1169 agreed, I would've loved to own one of these myself also

[@dbnpoldermans4120]

Doug, the only KZbinr that's always dressed for hiking/gardening emergencies

[@jeffreyfrancett8985]

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

[@xm1193]

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

[@BarileoBarilei]

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

[@Tilemason1]

I got s ride in the prototype at the Long Beach grand prix 78, one of my good friends R.I.P. Clayton Jacobson inventor of the Jet Ski had something to do with the Vector project and i got a ride in the twin turbo small block Chevy powered monster putting out 1500bhp still can feel the whiplash. Just the world wasn't ready for the Vector W2🤔

[@Tilemason1]

See the prototype I got a ride in was fully pumped up to 1500hp and I'll say the 3.9sec was absolutely real for the prototype.

[@bryanwoody8634]

As a helicopter pilot, I am pleasantly surprised at how many ‘aircraft’ specific systems they incorporated into this car. From the circuit breakers, gas cap, panels and information systems…Vector did an incredible job in merging the two industries. I even giggled when is saw the compass; in an aircraft, that specific ‘compass’ is a backup to your primary direction indicators. Very cool. Thanks Doug.

[@paulburkey2]

altimeter would have been a nice touch

[@thejackbox]

even has a hobbs meter lol

[@benjaminhawthorne1969]

Thank you for that information, Sir! I was wondering what devices were "from the aviation industry." I am a licensed Flight Simulator private pilot and I do not see anything out of the Cessna 172 or 182 planes that I fly. Keep the shiny side up! 😉

[@stephenlamley541]

Cool information kudos

[@paultrigger3798]

that is probably my favorite screen in a car ever, and it's 30-years old

[@antreaskonstantinou8585]

"It's cool but not full points because its not as good as bmw idrive system"

[@kap1526]

Tesla has a better one

[@TG_humaN]

I hate your pfp. There will be a forever hair on my screen

[@markiangooley]

Reminds me of the orange neon screen used for some PLATO learning computers...

[@DoNE021]

@@TG_humaN at first i taught it was a scratch on my screen. hehehe

[@mikemcchesney2555]

The "fighter jet" the screen came from was an F15 Eagle (IIRC). Several years ago, I met the owner of chassis# 17 in Laguna Beach, Ca. It was (at the time), the last known chassis still on the road. The owner was a member of the Bahranian Royal Family. He was shocked that somebody recognized the car. It was silver. Super nice guy, and the car was amazing. Needless to say I have a ton of pics. I have been in love with this car since it was being sold new. Used to have a poster of it in my bedroom (right next to the poster of Farrah Fawcett LOL).

[@hvymtal8566]

The screen itself coming from a fighter jet is probably bunk, but the way information is presented is very similar to American fighter jets of the era. Same with the black, square, otherwise featureless pushbuttons with orange back lighting, and the caution lights as well as how the panel is fixed in place. And those fuses next to the wheel look like they actually _are_ from an American fighter of that era. Definitely all gives off F-16 and F-15 vibes for sure.

[@almightyIrie]

@@hvymtal8566 yea speed- and rpm tapes surely replicate some Air Force jets' speed- and altitude tapes, but the screen itself surely wasn't built into any of those jets. At least not like that, might as well been used as a panel for a UFCP (or whatever these things are called in Eagles and Vipers, i only "fly" virtual Navy Hornets) of sort, with some shrouding in front of and some pushbuttons next to it, albeit i'd doubt that as well. That compass in the Vector though, loving it.

[@MrLou345]

I've seen one that's always parked on Rodeo Drive, in L.A.. It's silver and looks out of this world.

[@ElArmaSecreta7_PR]

Thats wild, as an aircraft mechanic there are things i never thought I’d see in a car lol. Especially those circuit breakers, they are literally the same

[@steverood]

Aircraft mechanic here too. I thought the same thing when I saw the breakers. They've been using those for decades.

[@Darkane1990]

Then i recommend you the Spyker C8 Spyder. My all time favourite car interior.

[@arnevandemaele7445]

Not a mechanic, but a flight attendant. And indeed, they’re the same, but do you guys just push them back in place, bc we’re not supposed to do that

[@colinmanley7349]

yeah it's awesome, i work as a linemen at a local airport while im doing my lessons and its so funny seeing all these things that i see everyday

[@jacobrippey4937]

Experimental flight test parts guy here: Did anyone else notice that even the fuel cap looks aerospace grade?

[@MichaelSplanefromMaine]

My bedroom was full of Vector posters growing up. This is so fun to watch.

[@thefrugaljeeper4054]

Same. Something lost in young people nowadays.

[@ryanjofre]

Awesome

[@Pepe-dq2ib]

@@thefrugaljeeper4054 now they have posters of BTS.

[@jaimealvarezmd7245]

Had a vector poster and the alpine Lamborghini posters

[@a-a-ron4870]

I like how he over explains the controls and all the buttons. "Here we have the hazard lights and if you press that button, the hazard lights turn on".

[@therealbahamut]

Heh, yeah he uses a lot of extra words doesn't he?

[@rocker10039]

KZbin money i think

[@IsraelDixon]

"This is the accelerator pedal, I bet you don't have that in your car"

[@azyinc]

it consumes time, i hate it

[@shedman7306]

That's why i watch his videos at 2x speed

[@JackHagar]

I saw one of these in white a few weeks ago in pacific palisades California, I didn’t even know what I was looking at until I saw this video

[@bradshawmountainman4473]

The seats are Recaro seats, and those are the Classic series of their seats.

[@studio-flash]

Good looking seats look like Corvette C4 seats.

[@joaquinfranco9012]

Recaro N-joy

[@bradshawmountainman4473]

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

[@StoutProper]

Bradshaw Mountain Man best bit of the car

[@bradshawmountainman4473]

@@StoutProper 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.

[@alanwatts8239]

This looks like something a cartoon villain would drive.

[@jaydottt_transitfanner]

@Mr. Poopybutthole are you really laughing your ass off?

[@killermaxomus136]

@@jaydottt_transitfanner yes

[@vladimirlenin5637]

nah the evil villain would drive a hongqui

[@jaydottt_transitfanner]

@Mr. Poopybutthole people just say that even though they're not laughing just to like compliment the comment it I'm not saying it's bad but I was just asking

[@RealNameNeverUsed]

Pause at 10:12. There's your villain right there.

[@stevee8318]

The parking brake looks like someone took a straight piece of plastic and just pulled on it until it bent enough to fit into the space

[@Onewheelordeal]

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

[@justicewarrior9187]

You literally just described American car engineering

[@jdmitchell6995]

No one thought to just make it shorter?

[@jabelsjabels]

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

[@jerometaylor2019]

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. 😃

[@Omnihil777]

While other boys had a Lamborghini poster or Porsche on their walls, I had a black Vector on the wall of my room, dreaming of beeing batman in it. Yeah.

[@janprazakjr]

The “Classic” font could be because the seats looks like Recaro Classic seats. Wich could be the reason.

[@goofyleo3869]

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

[@Kappafied]

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

[@JeremyWorkGoogle]

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.

[@frankie9259]

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

[@babayega_]

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.

[@shawnhall2755]

As an artist, I got to say that it's one of the coolest looking cars, beauty isn't in the eye of the beholder. It's in the angles. 30 years ago, over 200 mph, red, american made. Whats not to love.

[@AJ-jy6lb]

Saw one in Vegas at SEMA convention about 1992-93. Thought it was a Lambo, at first,...then got a closer look. Saw it from the front at night, guy was moving it to the trailer under the building,...then got a glimpse of the sides and back, and realized was a Vector, but might have been a WX-3? I dunno,..great looking/performing anyways.

[@sideswiped6874]

as Art it's for sure not as beautiful as the 64 Chevy Cheetah

[@mfslyphantom8811]

What’s not to love? For me, and there are many other items as well, for the amount of money they wanted for this you would think that the climate controls wouldn’t be the unreliable crap from a mid eighties Chrysler K car, the same type that used to go to defrost anytime you would push the gas down halfway or more. Not to clever.

[@Sunnyislive25498]

I agree brother.

[@maxbrazil3712]

You must be a starving artist if you think this comic book joke is cool.

[@Enucentro]

That gear lever looks just like a throttle in some aeroplanes, fits the jet design perfectly.

[@joshstump3905]

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.

[@joshstump3905]

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

[@tori9365]

When GM and Lockheed Martin have a baby

[@joshstump3905]

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

[@esaedvik]

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

[@Bravo-5-K9]

The throttle controls on a fighter jet are similar to the shifter and are on the left. This was the driving factor that drove Vector to design the car with the shifter on the left as well as many of the other push button controls. The push in breakers are also taken from a fighter jet.

[@GM-rs1rj]

I was waiting 38 minutes for him to take it out on a drive..

[@waserdert6259]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4HcfWmarspki5I it's on his other channel

[@AYouTubeChannelwithNoName]

38 minutes and 45 seconds to be exact

[@Vladislav_M4]

Me too...

[@danijuggernaut]

Me too.

[@dominicbothur7574]

A KZbin Channel with no name ***38 minutes and 44 seconds

[@DustinPlatt]

We sure liked straight lines in the 80s Just like our coke came in

[@ccorsaro73]

Maybe that's why it was a Vector 🤷‍♂️

[@allcapsboy9139]

NOW THEY'RE ALL GAY

[@crazycrawford]

I mean I just feel like if someone put a curvy line of cocaine out that it would go up just as fast. It just would take longer to make.

[@justadummy8076]

Crazy Crawford also you’d have to trace it as you snorted it

[@castortroy2031]

Well damn i thought coke came in bags jarz or cans🤷🏾‍♂️

[@dvran]

The rear end looks like Wesley Snipes glasses in Demolition Man

[@atiredblue]

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

[@osamabinladen824]

@@atiredblue Really?

[@DetectiveLobotomy]

what seems to be your boggle?

[@Silversurfer-v6x]

The guy had a clear vision of what he wanted to do and achieved a slick unique design, pity it didn't go into general production, looks like a cool car, 😊 m

[@a.g.m8790]

Vector: “Uh we don’t have any money for those engines but do you want one of these weird ass cars instead?” Lamborghini: “Yes”

[@soupfork2105]

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

[@calska140]

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.

[@davecrupel2817]

Lamborghini: "All your assets are belong to us"

[@djstatyk1540]

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

[@cam34figgaaay]

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

[@colinmartin9797]

The screen is genuinely the coolest thing in any car ever. Give me that over any goddamn infotainment system on earth. Screw you Tesla, give me 1980's fighter jet screens.

[@xm1193]

Colin Martin absolutely. That’s what I was thinking. Fuse panel too. Way cool.

[@Louis-mt7cg]

Ya i wanna see this in a modern supercar. Except maybe like put it on the windshield in front of the driver like the new age fighter hets

[@ryanshannon7703]

I really don't see why this isn't possible. The res on the new screens are so high they would basically just be wasting the extra pixels with such a simple line-art overlay. What would be sweet is an altimeter, too. But, for sure have to have the scrolling style speedometer/tach. That screen is just boss.

[@thomasashley3211]

Button 4 reminds me of Airwolf!

[@maxxgraphix]

@@Louis-mt7cgThe 2001 Pontiac Bonniville SSEi has a hud display on the windshield. I had one and it had so many buttons you thought it was a plane cockpit. Sadly, it was a typical POS GM product that never ran right.

[@claudiuspulcher2440]

holy crap that aviator screen is awesome, even in 2019

[@getchasome6230]

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

[@ricchatrc]

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.

[@amuxpatch2798]

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

[@ricchatrc]

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

[@shifty2755]

Looks like a modern Chinese supercar.

[@motopilot74]

The compartment in the front is where you store a couple of keys of coke😂. Remember its the 80s

[@RolandSchlosser]

"Blows cold, blows well" - Doug 2019

[@DustinPlatt]

Damn. That must of felt like a fighter jet cockpit back in the day. Especially on coke.

[@beastabuelos6421]

Must've

[@broodo1]

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

[@jackiejohnston202]

And quaaludes, don't forget the ludes.

[@anthonyhernandez3536]

Jaja

[@roddydykes7053]

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

[@mathewgodfrey1517]

Looks like how the 80's thought future cars would look like.

[@justadummy8076]

It still looks kinda futuristic, or what I’d like futuristic cars to look like (unfortunately it seems Tesla interior design is the future)

[@gerardorodruiguez5928]

@@justadummy8076 no thats just what we think, just like thats what they thought in the 80s. Whats to come? Who knows..

[@bradcogan8588]

I wish. I love the retro futuristic designs of mid engined cars in the '70s and '80s. Vector W8, Lancia Stratos, Toyota MR2, Honda NSX, pretty much any '80s Ferrari. Many '80s cars still look futuristic to me and I think we've mostly lost that. Cars these days don't seem to age well at all. After 10 years they just look outdated. New cars are built not for style but for fashion. Fashions don't last but style lasts forever.

[@CertifiedFella]

Yeah, I love that Cyberpunk aesthetic. I wish more cars followed in the vector’s foot steps.

[@burntchickennugget191]

Correction how the cars of the future should look like.

[@deagt3388]

In the Italian tire factory (Pirelli or Dunlop, I'm not sure) you can make the tire you want yourself or order it. Tell your friend! Greetings from Serbia ;-)

[@Falconasi]

Hey Doug, this was interesting as I worked on the original Vector in the 70's in Venice CA.

[@aliviar9711]

Falconasi did it look the same as this one?

[@Falconasi]

@@aliviar9711 No the first one was a little different and it was push to get ready for a showing.

[@aliviar9711]

Falconasi very cool!

[@bathtub1171]

were they ever shells?

[@Falconasi]

@@bathtub1171 none that I seen when he started showing it you change colors so it looks like you have more cars.

[@bigmikeg84]

I don't think anyone would have cared if the video hit 1 hour, not for this car.

[@MrBOB39]

That's for sure. This is the Tops of Any Exotic car Ever Built.. For it paved the way for Future Insane cars.

[@htpchtpc4140]

view count milking by splitting up the videos

[@triple7marc]

HTPC HTPC Oh come on, Doug doesn’t do that. This is the first video he’s ever done it with; he didn’t even do it with the McLaren F1. Or both of the Koenigseggs he reviewed. Or both of the Bugattis he reviewed. There’s a reason he did it, plus why else would he put the second video on his second channel, which is much smaller than this one, if he was only doing it for money?

[@AmericasAnimals]

Agreed

[@sethchandler2539]

HTPC HTPC or he literally said why he’s splitting it up if you didn’t watch... btw have you heard of something called respect?

[@macgyverade]

One of the sickest cars of all time! Whoever maintained this car definitely is living in the 80s daily 😎

[@PayNoTaxes0GetNoVote]

With 10,300 miles, virtually no maintenance has been necessary.

[@jbrownjetmech-4783]

The best part about this car is that it has obviously been driven and at the same time it is slick and everything works. Salute.

[@mr.m12345]

The amount of commercials on KZbin is too damn high!

[@kandyman8603]

Thats what ad/pop-up blockers are for. Things are a miracle. Havent watched a commercial since i downloaded one. I could deal with the occasional commercials before that allowed you to skip after 5 sec but now they have just gotten OBSCENE!! I totally understand people need the Ad revenue to make these videos and im all for people getting paid for their work. Yet there is a line and some "content creators" can get a bit greedy crossing that line putting in too many ads.......

[@flavorflakes9811]

I skip over them. I miss parts of the video but I don’t have to watch them

[@cvtt3194]

uBlock origin. You're welcome.

[@PrimericanIdol]

They should just ban them all.

[@privateghost2262]

@@stayphun6188 my man, a man of culture i see.

[@Level2DigitalCreations]

This is the most 80's Outrun style car I've ever seen

[@totophi]

Except for a genuine Testarossa convertible. ;-)

[@joedesalvo3316]

screams 80's Synth Wave

[@Tom.J.O]

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

[@nybotor]

“The 1980s, the decade of excess.” That just about sums up this car.

[@WarriorsPhoto]

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

[@davidcampbell4174]

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

[@WarriorsPhoto]

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

[@DanaMyersK6JQ]

Only Vector I ever saw... was in La Jolla in mid-80s, driven by Jerry Weigert, and we talked for a few minutes. Just a good Friday night there.

[@jsa274]

It’s amazing that aviation style computer still works - without knowing what maintenance it has required in its life. It also gives exactly the kind of information desperately lacking in modern cars: engine fluid temperatures and pressures, battery, transmission health, so far ahead of its time. It still looks fantastic to me.

[@atomictrix]

Your brain cells on crack.

[@enigmaPL]

33:27 Doug: If you ever wanted to see how these wipers operate, here you go! Wipers: Smashing into eachother at different intervals. Ahh classic!

[@scarfyslap]

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

[@samlung2724]

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

[@aszbzpszbz9786]

Thats how you know it was designed by GM.

[@Eksamen0774]

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.

[@scythelord]

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

[@penguinking99zero]

This and the Tesla Truck look like they're straight out of a game

[@thebiggestmac4202]

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

[@themoviebay]

@@thebiggestmac4202 it belongs to starfox

[@sunnylive85]

Maxwell Hopkins intel pentium rendered truck

[@martinv8681]

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

[@boreragnarok2549]

When you select a bunch of random parts

[@425superRocket]

I had two framed posters on my bedroom wall when this car came out. The Vector and of course, the Lamborghini Countach.

[@MetalWarrior223]

This car honestly looks like it's straight out of cyberpunk

[@xidropkillzx3246]

Kaliper now this is dlc I’ll pay for

[@Gatitasecsii]

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

[@smothdude]

Yeah, its aesthetic is incredible

[@habdman]

That jet screen is the coolest thing i've seen this day

[@EvanRath]

Cyberpunk 2077: "come Vector W8, we have been waiting for your arrival."

[@jaydottt_transitfanner]

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

[@Terminator-di7qw]

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

[@PepeLePewPew]

@@jaydottt_transitfanner google is your best friend

[@carper1220]

@@jaydottt_transitfanner lmao "I'm a memer"

[@bigsmoke6482]

@@jaydottt_transitfanner Ur funny

[@brandall101]

Despite having low production numbers, Vector was a titan of the 80s. Lots of ink in sports car mags was dedicated to the W2 which served as the prototype for a freaking 10 years or so. I had a poster of one on my wall for years and quite a few children of that era would point to it as the coolest car in the world.

[@ollilehtonen6764]

That's gotta be the coolest car i've ever seen.

[@godlyobject6509]

I know the owner watched this. I just want to say thank you. Thank you for preserving this incredible machine. Thank you for allowing it to be driven. Thank you for being mad enough to own one. Thank you.

[@kubagora5309]

no problem kid

[@godlyobject6509]

@@kubagora5309 Again, thanks.

[@Leo-mu8kn]

Bro chill it's a car lol

[@RacerJT613]

When everyone else had Ferraris and Lamborghini posters on their walls this was the big poster I had . Vector W8

[@johnj.baranski6553]

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.

[@Ashkanman]

not like the other boys

[@velko2433]

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

[@kbfan2424]

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

[@dvyngl4453]

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

[@jugger18]

I remember the negative publicity when tennis star Andre Agassi returned his after it lit on fire when the carpeting combusted from the exhaust temps

[@thecman26]

The Lamborghini Countach is the wildest car ever made Vector: hold my absinthe!

[@beauchamphuberville1355]

The 80's...hold my Cocaine.

[@dominator35000]

@@beauchamphuberville1355 hold my crack

[@fucuszullanti7877]

KeenCrafting yawn, got a better joke?

[@dominator35000]

@@fucuszullanti7877 I know you liked mine

[@angusmatheson8906]

Lolno mate. Try hard. U mean cocaine, the yayo, white lightning, blow, snow white, white lines, etc etc. Dude absinthe was cool twice: in the 1910s, and the 2000s.

[@GalaxySilver00]

Doug: Maybe there is an airbag in there? Plot twist: Its a parachute.

[@kareemelsadek]

Seat eject chute

[@redram5150]

Looks like the pad boxers use to train

[@Gringorican]

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

[@jgreenjeans]

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.

[@projectedclarity1256]

Ejecto seato cuz!

[@dovaskostasgr]

The vector w8 is 1 of my favorite car to play in gt2

[@BlitzenBugatti]

Lucky. I want it in The Crew 2.

[@Cardriv]

Grand Turismo 2 and crew 2 are my fav memories game

[@1oGuCntB]

That car drove like poo in gt2. Still owned one.

[@LateDude96]

This car was ahead of its time with those features.

[@toddfpacker6793]

Doug: "Man its getting hot in here, lemme open the windows" Owner from the Living room: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

[@Ryannjrb]

Reading this in Kevin Malone’s voice when Dwight adds walnuts to the brownies

[@Drivewithshary]

This car got more features than a brand new 2019 Toyota Corolla

[@ned8249]

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

[@lucasrem]

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

[@805NAVE]

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

[@Viktorian3d]

Compare the price also, please.

[@basementbronze]

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

[@darrinbunston5932]

Going through the one through four screens for each button I started feeling like I was on Price is Right and couldn't wait to see what was behind the door lol

[@anonanonymous5579]

Imagine this thing having normal 6-speed with all that power

[@DN-ds1pk]

When Doug said it had a 3-speed auto, I was just thinking "I'd put in a manual from a ZR1 or something". And I don't mean "If I would've been the engineer at Vector 30 years ago" but "If I would be able to afford one now". I'm not even kidding. I'd also just ditch the window motors, glue on a knob, make them manual like in a racecar & than roll up at the nearest drive thru just because.

[@ATruePrince]

"Do you know what speed you were doing" *"No officer but I felt like I was F***ing flying"*

[@peggyfranzen6159]

240.

[@Winglessflight97]

"Mach under 1"

[@carl-stevensinkler7894]

Fresh Prince ikr😂

[@______IV]

I live a few miles from Vector’s old ”factory" in Wilmington, CA. My dad was merchant marine, and the MM&P hall was a block away from Vector, and Jerry Wiegert’s silver Vector was usually parked out front. To 10-14 y.o. me, that thing looked like an alien craft. It still does actually.

[@JoeVinson]

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

[@Masssshysteria]

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

[@______IV]

@@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.

[@gordocarbo]

Loved it when I first laid eyes on one. Never forgot it and shocked to see a GM mill thought that was super cool. This car was rediculous quick and impressive top speed. Only thing as fast would be Lingenfelters sledgehammer

[@______IV]

@ : The Sledgehammer! Wow, now that takes me back. I worked in a bookstore in 1991, and we had a book titled something like "World’s Most Powerful Cars." It had both the Vector and the Sledgehammer in it. It also had the more standard super cars of the day, but it was chock full of one-offs too. With my amazing salary of $4.25 an hour back then, i couldn’t afford to buy books even with my 10% discount. I’m bummed that tome never made it into my collection.

[@Syzygy77]

A W8 drove through my neighborhood when I was a child. It was awesome!

[@joshuagonzales210]

I remember how difficult this thing was to drive on Grand Turismo lol

[@therulesaredifferent8280]

Holy shit dude... I've been there. What a throw back.

[@joshuagonzales210]

They had both the W8 and W16 on there if I recall lol

[@sivalon1]

Joshua Gonzales You recall correctly. I’ll just say here that three things immediately made themselves apparent when I finally bought this car in GT2: the fact it was an automatic; the fact that the turbo whine sounded like God was sucking air through a straw; and the fact that the Ford GT 40 which was the bane of my existence in a Venturi Atlantique Biturbo was now a rapidly-fading dot in my rear-view mirror. It was only a video game, but my god. What. A. Machine.

[@jasonmaiden5026]

I dominated that game with the W8!

[@DarkDemonXR]

Ahhhhh I was searching for this comment XD Vector and Venturi were two brands I would love to see again in GT or at least any other racing game, I dont care if its asseto, PjCr, forza or whatever

[@fastindy]

That display refreshes faster than those in most modern cars. I like that.

[@josephw2905]

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

[@ethant.presland7438]

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

[@evantimm6053]

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

[@FachriHDVlog]

Time?

[@Tantrum777]

When I was a kid I thought this car was the coolest thing ever I went to an auto show and they had one there. I bought a t-shirt with a Vector on it, I still have that t-shirt lol

[@michaelmoronez5980]

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

[@marco77ar]

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

[@BillSwearingen]

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

[@almostserious75]

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...

[@octave1]

lol

[@rhettcorbett3346]

Had a poster on my wall back in the day with a Black Vector W8 on it. Wonder how many driveable W8s are still around today in 2023 ? RIP Jerry Weigert.