The Vector W8 Is the Craziest Supercar Ever Made

This is a W-8 Vector and it is simply the

craziest

supercar

ever

made

. It's a bold statement because there are a lot of crazy

supercar

s out there, but this one wins the

craziest

of all time. Today I'm going to review the w8

vector

and explain why I borrowed this

vector

from a viewer here in New Jersey, which is no easy task because Vector only

made

about 20 of these during the production of this car from the late 80's to early 90s. Now, despite its rarity, most car enthusiasts know about The Vector is mainly due to its absolutely ridiculous styling, which I truly believe is the craziest styling of any car I have

ever

come across. production in the entire history of the automotive industry, but the insanity of this car's styling is only part of the insanity of this car.

The w8 used a six-liter V8 that was a modified version of the Chevy Corvettes V8 of that era, but was then twin-turbocharged to produce 625 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque for reference. The Lamborghini Countach of this era only made around 450 horsepower. Now, interestingly, Vector paired this monster engine with a spectacular three-speed automatic transmission from General Motors that had also been used in motor homes and recreational vehicles in the 1970s. I'm not kidding, then there was the company itself. Vector wasn't supposed to be a car company. but more of an aero engine company because founder jerry weigert wanted the car to be a kind of fusion of car and jet plane and i don't just mean that in terms of styling there's more to it than that, you'll see what i mean in A Within a few minutes, Weight also wanted Vector to be a kind of American supercar, America's answer to Ferrari and Lamborghini, but Vector always struggled to be a viable company, as an example the M12 that was built after this, the successor of the W8 used a Lamborghini V12, but Vector.

It had trouble paying Lamborghini for the engines and so at one point Vector offered one of these to Lamborghini as payment for the M12 engines, which Lamborghini accepted. There was also a hostile attempted takeover of Vector by a company in Indonesia, which Jerry Weigart successfully sued to stop. happening, but back to the w8, now at the time this car came out, Vector said it would do 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and could reach a top speed of 240 miles per hour, but magazine tests at the time said that 0 to 62 is more like 4.2 seconds and the top speed was probably between 210 and 220 miles per hour, still an incredible figure and would have made it the fastest production car in the world at the time it was within reach. the sale, but no one tried it now.

When this car was magazine tested 30 years ago it cost around 285k which translates to around 600k in today's money and yes Vector only made 20 of these for the entire world making it one of the strangest cars I have ever tested and today I will first review it, take you on a tour of the w8 and show you all its mini quirks and features, then take it out on the road and drive it. and then i will give it a great score and for more of my thoughts on the w8 click the link below to visit autotrader.com oversteer where i have also put together a list of some other crazy sports cars from the 80s that are currently They are listed for sale on autotrader, okay, I'm going to start with the quirks and features of the vector w8 by getting into it and that means starting with the key.

I love this because take a look at the key, it's just a general motors key from the 80's. Vector w8 used a modified General Motors engine so it makes sense that it would share a key with GM vehicles but I love it This is basically the same blank key you would have for a Chevy Cavalier or Buick Skylark from this era if you have a Vector W8. and you need to get a copy of the key directly from Home Depot, they will do it for you there for about three dollars and then you can get into one of the 20 supercars, but anyway, once you have your w8 vector unlocked, the next step is to get in, which is actually a little complicated because you walk up to the door handle and you see two small strips and there is nowhere to insert your hand properly, it turns out that you put your hand on the bottom of the two strips and then you pull up. the top of the true strips is like a normal door handle and when you do that the door opens and you have this cool scissor door, like you need to make more of a statement by stopping somewhere than the style of this car already I was doing the next step before I got inside this car.

I want to discuss another interesting thing and that would be the door latch. This car doesn't have a typical door latch like most cars, instead it has this piece of metal like it has a cylinder inside and the door is supposed to line up with that piece to close and stay closed now after 30 years , you would think these things would get twisted and there would be a problem lining up the door, but it's really not a problem at all, you go to close it and it lines up and closes smoothly on that little metal cylinder. You can do it over and over again and it lines up perfectly every time at least in this vector now, next it's time to go up to the vector and that's actually quite a difficult task because of this enormously wide door threshold.

I'll show you how I go in first, if you can, stick your ass all the way in and then move. one leg and then the other ah and then you're fine so now I'm inside the w8 vector and it's time to go over the madness of this interior and I want to start with an explanation of why the door threshold is so wide and that's It's because the gear lever is there, that's right, you have the gear lever between the driver's seat and the driver's door, a feat I'm not sure is repeated in many other cars, now you can see it parked there and As I mentioned, the Vector uses General Motors' old three-speed automatic hydraulic transmission and is operated the same way you have to pull up on the shift lever to engage each gear, park in reverse and neutral, pull the lever that goes back and you check them all, that's how you start this car.

Honestly, the owner of this car told me that the transmission is heavily modified from the standard General Motors three-speed hydraulics, but nonetheless, the fact that it relies on that in Everything is pretty crazy, almost as crazy as have the transmission lever between the driver's seat and the driver's door, but the door sill is not wide only because of the gear lever, which is not the only thing mounted there, another element there is the mirror controls itself , this car has power mirrors and the controls are again mounted to the left of the driver's seat, between the driver's seat and the door sill.

Now the mirrors on this car are absolutely crazy, they are basically glued to the bottom of the windows. this aerodynamic shape and they look crazy, especially from inside the car, but you can see pretty good from them and if you want to move them you use this control and yes, they still work. You can move the power mirrors in a vector using this. little control next to your seat goes up and down like the power mirrors in any other car, they just have a slightly different location now another contributing factor in that wide door sill are the power window switches which are also mounted between The driver's door and driver's seat now power window switches look like standard general motor power window switches, but they control some really crazy windows.

Take a look at these windows the way it apparently works is if you press the button to open the power window then this little middle piece on the window actually automatically retracts back to open it doesn't go down it pulls back now the reason why I'm not showing you this this is the only thing the owner of the car told me not to touch, he said everything else is fair game, but he is very worried that they will break and obviously there will never be any windows again half crazy replacement vector energy. If you look closely at these windows you can see the little seal that surrounds the middle power part that opens and you can also see this little conduit that goes into the window that obviously contains the wires that open it.

Now there is another interesting element on the left, between the driver's seat and the door. It has the ashtray and the lighter. You can open it and that's how you light your cigarette and where you put your ashes in the vector you also have a handbrake here, but it's not just a normal handbrake, it's very strange because it looks like a pretty normal handbrake until it bends to adapt. The space that this parking brake has to fit is half normal in the trunk area and then half tilted at a 45 degree angle in the handle area, which is very strange, but that's what they had to do to be able to park.

You brake there and that's how it works, but the craziest thing between the driver's seat and the driver's door are these little buttons mounted above the gear selector that say one, two, three, and four. I always wondered what those gears are, but it only has three speeds, so why are there four buttons? I never understood well. Turns out they control the screen. Ah yes, the screen. There's a screen to the left of the steering wheel that apparently was legitimately taken from a fighter jet. It was the exact same screen used on whatever fighter jet was happening at the time or at least that's what Jerry Weigert, who created Vector, says.

Now this screen is controlled with these four little buttons above the gear lever and they all open up a different type of screen and yeah. this vector, the screen still works wonderfully, so let's go over this now. You can see at the bottom it describes what each screen does and screen number one, if you press the number one button, that would be the main screen that shows the typical main important items. for example on the left you have the gear you are currently in p-r-n-d-l and yes this works in real time as you move the gear selector it moves correspondingly on this screen to let you know if you are in park, reverse, neutral gear .

It's really impressive to see it on an old school screen like this, now also on that number one screen or the main screen, it shows you your current fuel level, it also shows you your current speed and yes, again, this updates on real time while driving. Throughout you can see that it lets you know how fast you're going and updates how fast you're going. This is the speedometer in the vector. This is how it works on this main screen number one while driving with the same deal with rpm again. It updates in real time as you drive, accelerate, slow down, rpm change and gear are displayed on this screen.

Now this screen also shows a couple more pieces of information, specifically the current odometer reading and also the current time. Now go to the screen. number two pressing these two little buttons above the gear lever and this is the performance screen and it shows several different functions of the car for example engine temperature, oil pressure and several other different elements of the car that you might want see in a performance setting for writing. It lets you know how all of your vehicle's systems are working now. It's interesting that if you press button number three, which is also a performance screen, it shows a couple of things about the transmission, like the transmission temperature, it also shows the battery voltage again, always updated in real time so you know. exactly what's going on with your vector on that screen and finally, if you press button number four, a screen appears, that vector called your chassis screen, although that's a pretty optimistic description because what it actually shows is like this profile image side of its vector. and then it lets you know if anything is open, like the engine cover, cargo area cover, or door, and yes, again it updates in real time.

You can see if I close the door and then it shows on the screen that the door has been closed and again if I open the door it shows on the screen that the door has been opened, updating the screen in real time which is one of the more interesting things to see and then I'll talk about opening things and specifically opening the door in the vector, here's how to do it. you do it you go up to the door panel and there is a little latch you pull it and then you push it up and the door will do the rest and that's how you open the scissor door from inside the w8 vector and the next moment is to move on to the rest of the interior and all the other vectors in the cabin madness and I want to start with a sort of overview, as I mentioned before.

They call it vector aeromotive and it was trying to look like it. a planecombat and a car at the same time and that's why the interior looks like a cockpit, you have buttons in the style of an airplane, you would have that screen that I already showed you and if you just take a general look at this interior, you will see We will see the influence of the design of the airplanes in this interior, especially the airplanes from the 1980s, and that is very true. If we start looking at all the buttons and switches, we'll start over to the left of everything that has the light controls. controls for the headlights, parking lights, fog lights, all the headlight controls are there, instead of just being on a little dial, each one has its own individual button, which I guess helps with the plane being seen .

You also have a button there marked int and that's for interior lights, press that and yes, the interior lights still turn on at least in this vector to allow you to read a map or whatever while driving or typing in your vector. You also have the hazard lights switch underneath that you can press that and that will turn on the hazard lights and now you'll move on to the second row of buttons and dials here two stand out especially one says panel and there's a little brt and dim dial that It's the brightness of the panel and you move it up or down and it instantly dims or brightens your entire cabin like the instrument panel here and obviously it works pretty well now you also have brt and dim screen and I guess it was a brightness dial for the screen but Unlike the panel dial, the display dial doesn't seem to work at all, you move it up or down, nothing happens, the screen maintains the same brightness level.

Now the buttons I really like in this row are the cruise control buttons first. It's impressive that this car has cruise control, no other exotic sports car of this era did, but the vector was ahead of its time in some impressive ways and cruise control was one of them, but the buttons are ridiculous instead of a very simple little turn signal. original control or on the steering wheel, you had four square buttons, one said enable, then activated down, activated and inhibited. enabling turned it on, inhibit turned it off, but instead of saying on or off, enable and inhibit again, I guess to feel like a fighter. airplane with the language used on those buttons now, you then move past that row of buttons and you have the buttons and dials that you see below the fighter jet style screen, one of them says hud bright dim and off for a head up display front, the only problem is This car didn't have a head-up display, I think Vector was hoping they would add one later and it obviously never came to fruition, but that dial is here even though it apparently controls absolutely nothing now on the side of the heads-up display dial you have. a dial labeled boost and you can see minimum and maximum and you can adjust it, you have adjustable boost from the factory on this car and one of the big selling points of the vector at the time was the fact that it used a fairly large engine that wasn't very stressed unlike the ferrari f40 with its small turbo v8 and several other supercars at the time, so they actually allowed you to increase boost depending on how fast you wanted to go because the idea was that it probably wouldn't.

It won't damage this big engine and its internal components, that's pretty impressive. You won't see that on a lot of cars now, next to the boost dial, you can see there's another little panel of buttons here, turns out they're not actually buttons. these are warning lights, you can see that you're low on coolant, you've got the brake warning light fan low on oil, anything to let you know if something's wrong with your vector driving experience, now, next to that small warning light panel, you have a really unusual one. an engine hour, this indicator shows how many hours the engine has been running, it has an odometer like I showed you on the screen, but it also has an hour indicator, like an airplane again, trying to remember that this was an aeromotor company in instead of In an automotive company, you don't see too many engine hour gauges on cars.

Now, next to the engine hour gauge, you have this little panel to the left of the steering wheel that has a bunch of different buttons, this turns out to be it. It's actually like fuse panel circuits and if something trips you're supposed to press it and then that will reset it, so for example if the audio circuit trips you can press audio which will reset it and it will make your stereo work again. Again, I think this may also be some sort of aircraft derivative very unusual to see in a car, but that's what it was intended to be used for now.

Next, we need to cover the steering wheel. There are some interesting elements here. To the left you have two levers that come out of the steering wheel, one is the tilt stock, you pull it and then you can move the steering wheel up or down for greater comfort. Now the other butt coming out of the steering column is pretty standard, this is your turn signal. stock and also controls the windshield wipers, nothing particularly unusual here, except for the fact that this is just a normal old general motor stock, again taken from some normal general motors vehicle from the 80s and placed on one of the most popular supercars. exclusive, very rare now.

Then we move on to the steering wheel and I love this steering wheel because it looks like a bumper car steering wheel that you would see at an amusement park. It's kind of like a normal rim, but then in the middle it's padded like you would. do at an amusement park to keep a 10 year old from getting hurt, they're driving around in bumper cars, I think that's funny, now there's an interesting thing about this wheel, on that little bank of warning lights there's a warning light. airbag, it was too. there is an airbag in this steering wheel which would be awesome, no other exotic car had that and very few other cars had that in 1990, but this car might have an airbag, it might not be hard to find information on that sort of thing , maybe they just put that light there I thought they'd have an airbag later, but anyway, an unusual steering wheel is now on the right side of the steering wheel, apparently there used to be some material sticking out here for the horn, but I guess it broke. off, you also have the ignition and again, this is a normal general motor ignition switch from this era, which isn't surprising given the key, but it's fun to see that for the registration wheel you also have a compass, which is a Bit unusual, especially to see a compass like this instead of a digital display like modern cars have, but again, this is the airplane thing, once again in this interior, I'm just trying to demonstrate how the vector was focused. .

Now, next to the compass, you have the stereo, which is actually kind of impressive, obviously. There are plenty of buttons here, but it's just a regular Sony head unit. The impressive thing is that it is for a CD changer. Most cars in 1990 did not have CD players. This thing had a 10-disc CD changer and that change of city was over. on the passenger side of the dash, you could just load CDs right there instead of going to the trunk like many cars of this era. Now the downside of course was that there was no passenger airbag, instead you had entertainment and music, which I guess was a trade off people were making when this car came out.

Now, below the stereo head unit and controls, you can see that there is a small area for the climate controls. This car has air conditioning on this little panel with buttons that allows you to adjust the air conditioning and I will say it is surprisingly good, it blows cold, it blows good, good air conditioning, especially for an exotic car of this era. Now, if you turn on the air conditioning, it blows through four separate vents that are a bit small. one on the driver's side, one pillar, there's two in the middle, next to the climate controls, and then there's another one on the passenger side, eight pillars, they're these little vents, but you can move them around these small circles and position the air. wherever you want and you can change the climate controls using this little climate control panel and that's how the air conditioning and heat come out in the vector.

Now speaking of the climate controls and climate vent on the passenger side, let's discuss some of the other interesting ones. What happens on the passenger side of the vector is the fact that the passenger had his own ashtray and lighter, so in this little car in this little cabin there were two ashtrays and two lighters so that the driver and the passenger didn't have I have to share that it was a different time and next let's talk about the seats in this car, which are quite interesting in themselves. First of all, they are pretty well bolstered seats.

In fact, I find them surprisingly comfortable. This was an American supercar built for Americans are quite a bit bigger than maybe the Italian ones from the 80's and that's clear with the seats, they're not too grippy nor too small, they're relatively comfortable now the seats have some interesting controls, they're mounted in the middle of this panel which, for example, for some reason says classic in italics maybe that was the company that made the seat controls either way it looks very out of place oh you want to change the seat oh go down to classic and so on is how you can do it now this little classic panel has several different controls, one of which is to turn on the heated seats.

This car has heated seats for the driver and passenger, which would have been very advanced for a supercar, but this car also has five other buttons and switches on this small panel, one of the switches moves. the back of the seat you automatically press the switch and the seat goes forward and back depending on how you press another one is the lumbar support again you press that little switch and the lumbar will inflate to give you more support or you press it in the other direction and it will deflate and finally you have these three black square buttons.

They are initially unlabeled. I thought it was the seat memory, but that is not the case. If you push them, it likes the little things, maybe it changes the bolsters or the backrest or something like that a little bit, but it has little effects on the seating position itself. Now, one interesting thing is that these seats are manual fore and aft, so despite all these power controls and the fact that they are heated, you still had to pull a lever and throw your weight around. If you really wanted to move the seats forward or back for some reason, they were made cheaper in that particular area.

Now, another interesting element in this interior is the fact that there is no center console or center divider between the driver and passenger seats. an open cockpit type of area, the strangest thing that comes out of this is the fact that the driver and passenger share a foot area, there is only one and that means the passenger has access to the pedals on the driver's side , so if the passenger places their foot in the wrong place, they could accidentally step on the accelerator pedal or even the brake if they go far enough. It's very, very unusual, you never see that, but that's how it is in the vector and another interesting element in the vector would be the seat belts. the car uses General Motors seat belts, not a big surprise, but the General Motors seat belt buckle in this area said that GM in the vector couldn't have that, so they put this little square instead red above the GM logo, I bet if Peeling it back, it would say gm on this seat belt, but instead of putting that red square there, it gives it the appearance of a traditional seat belt eject button.

Now another interesting element in this interior, the fact that there is no center console means there is no center console storage. But this car has a glove box, which is surprising for exotic cars of this era. Interestingly, it's quite large and two other interesting elements this time on the roof, one is the fact that, as you can see, it has a large glass sliding roof. It's a pop up sunroof panel, there's no cover for it so they let you roast in the sun if you wanted to drive this, luckily as I mentioned there's very good air conditioning but all the vectors came this way with the pop.

On the outside panel of the sunroof you also have an old interior rear view mirror, although if you look at it you can see that the visibility is not that good, the rear window is very small and you can't see much behind it, but you do have a mirror. Now, if you're wondering why the rearward visibility was so bad, the answer is because it looks like this is the design of the back of this car and it's truly the craziest thing you'll ever see if you stand behind one of these . In traffic you will really wonder if you are looking at a spaceship that has just landed, you have allthese horizontal lines that cross the rear of the car as if only a car from the 80s could have the rear window completely contained within these first three. lines and then you have these horizontal lines in the engine compartment on the spoiler and then there's another set of horizontal lines in the rear over the taillights.

Now you can see when the car is on, this is where the brake lights are located. they're around these little horizontal lines on the back and when you turn on the turn signals on this car you can see the brake lights become the turn signals on the back here's this car with the hazard lights on and you can clearly see the brake lights have become the rear turn signals, they are not a separate turn signal unit at the rear, but this is an overview of the rear of the vector w8 with these amazing horizontal lines on the rear, but before we continue from the rear of the vector, there are a couple of other interesting things I want to mention, one of which is here, you have this rear grille and mounted on it are the words twin turbo does not say vector It doesn't say w8 just twin turbo and it's not centered. in a panel in the center, but the twin turbo is a little to the side for some unusual reason.

Now below you have the reversing lights, these little white lights on either side obviously come on when the car is in reverse and those are the reversing lights on the vector w8 probably what I like the most here apart from the crazy and the general style, is the license plate, which was clearly an afterthought, they obviously designed this car and then someone said, you know, you have to put a license plate here and they're like, oh shit, some plate is stuck in the corner next to the exhaust, it's ridiculous to stick it there, which clearly indicates that it was not part of the original design process for this car.

Now next we move on to the side of the w8 there are quite a few interesting items worth mentioning here I want to start by opening things up back here there are two latches located on the driver's side door jamb you can see there is one on the top and another at the bottom. little keyhole, you can close both if you want now, if you pull the bottom of the two latches that opens the engine cover, you pull it and then the cover opens automatically, which is actually quite good because then you don't have to do it. go back there and unhook anything while it's hot and running if there's a problem and if you look here you can see the engine as I mentioned, a general motors v8 modified to six liters and with two turbochargers and you can see how they've glued it here, this is something very impressive, although not as exotic as some of the other exotic car engines of this era, the ferrari testerosa, the lamborghini countach, obviously because it was not designed by the italians with a glorious v12, however this is not a sight you can see. you get very often the eight cylinder engine from the vector now the other latch here opens the trunk there is actually a small cargo area behind the engine compartment you pull this latch and that opens the cargo area you open it and you can see well by calling it A cargo area is generous, it's very wide and very small, but you can put things in there if you want, like for example, two baseball bats, maybe three golf clubs, a ski.

Now I want to move on to other interesting items on the side of the vector that I mentioned earlier that on the rear there is no badge except the twin turbo badge. Funnily enough it's the same on the front, this car doesn't have any badge on the nose so you know what it is, unlike basically every other car the only real badge on the outside of this car is under the doors, it has this huge badge that says vector w8 twin turbo, it's absolutely huge, I guess it makes up for the fact that there are no other emblems anywhere else on the car, you get one on the driver's side. and one on the passenger side, this is just one of the coolest car badges in the industry.

I would love to take it down and stick it on my wall. I think it's cool and someone should put it back into production, but It's strange for a car that took a long time to get to market, a lot of hard work on the part of the company that made it, to have no other badges anywhere else and then move on to a couple of other interesting things on the One side of the car is the fuel door, which works in an unusual way. You pull out this little tab and then turn it counterclockwise to open the fuel door.

You can also turn it clockwise to close the fuel door and Of course there is a keyhole so you can close it to prevent people from stealing fuel from your vector and the most interesting thing to me about the fuel doors is the fact that which on the bottom says "Bleach Gallons" and I assume the manufacturer of whatever. the fuel door was on I was supposed to write how many US gallons this vehicle could take. The vector, of course, didn't do that, so it's still blank now. The other interesting thing on the exterior of this car is the wheels and they are interesting.

Because this car has wheels and yet here is another set of wheels in the owner's garage there is a reason for this when the owner of this car bought it it had the standard original wheels and on the back it had a 315 width for a 16 inch wheel and no one made that size. The owner of this car contacted the original chief engineer of this car 30 years ago and that guy made it a new set of wheels, except now they were 18 inches and then it was possible. find a new tire to stick on your vector, so these aren't the original wheels, but they look basically identical in style to the original wheels, they're just two inches bigger, so you could put a modern regular tire on it and personally rational.

I just like the fact that the original chief engineer of this car is still around and if you call him he will make you a new set of vector wheels, although presumably they aren't cheap and will then move further down the side of the car. In the vector here you can see a couple more interesting elements. Now you can see the mirrors from the outside and you can see how they were integrated into the aerodynamics of the car. Often the mirrors are glued there and screwed on with anything but. It almost looks like they were meant to be part of the design from day one and speaking of the window, now you can easily see from this angle how crazy the windows are on this car.

Not only do you have this cool window that opens up. with the power window button, but you can also see that the windows curve in the middle, you have one plane and then they turn and go in a different direction out the door. This is a really unusual window design and I wouldn't want to do it. You'll be responsible for breaking one of these windows because I suspect you'll never find a replacement. Next we advance in the vector and from this angle you can see one of its craziest details. I'm talking about the windshield wipers and the fact. that there are three, this car has one windshield, two seats, three wipers, you have two on the side of the A pillar and one in the middle, absolutely ridiculous, you won't see this on any other car and if you've ever wanted it. to find out how well the three wipers work on the vector, here you go, now, next we move to the front of the vector and from your angle you can see how crazy this car looks from the front, how flat, low and wide .

This particular outlook is really cool to see this on a car, but I'll cover the styling in a little more depth shortly. What I want to talk about here on the front are two more interesting quirks of the Vector, starting now with the headlights. You can see that in this position they are closed, many cars of this era had pop-up headlights, but not the vector. Instead, you turn on the headlights with that button on the inside and then the covers open. Take a look at that again. I can see the covers go down to the body of the car and then the lights come on and that's how the pop up headlights work in the vector now obviously if you turn off the headlights the opposite happens the lights go off and then the covers go back on. go up and return to this position where they cover the headlights for a more aerodynamic look.

Now another interesting element on the front of the vector is this panel here that is unusually flimsy. Alright, to open this panel, there's a little lever that you pull the driver's foot all the way down and then it opens up to this point, then there's a little latch that you pull here and then you can open this, but as you can see, it's strangely flimsy. when I open it. It feels like it could explode at any second, it's a very unusual thing because obviously this car was designed for high speeds, you expect everything to be completely stuck in place but this panel is certainly no flimsier than you think now on the front . here you have two things you have a fan which obviously a lot of exotic cars cool and you have another storage compartment which is actually pretty good most exotic cars that have a rear storage compartment well we've gone far enough and they don't.

Don't bother trying to integrate one into the front, but Vector did and this is actually a fairly deep additional storage compartment for added practicality. Now, once you've put your stuff in here, you can close this flimsy panel once more, secure it in place and then you're all set and there's another interesting element worth mentioning at the outset related to lighting. I already showed you the headlights, but you might be wondering where exactly the turn signals are since you clearly can't see them from your angle. The answer is that they are. Below here, most of the front of the car is integrated into what I assume would be the bumper, that's where you have the turn signals that you can see with the hazard lights on.

Probably not the most visible turn signals in the world, but hey, at least. has them and then another interesting vector element that would be right here this label on the driver's door jam this is the label that says that this vehicle meets all applicable federal motor vehicle standards, basically the label that says that this car is certified for sale in For the public, it must have been a crazy celebration at Vector when the government told them they could put this sticker on this car, it's a big deal and frankly I think Vector did a fantastic job with the whole thing. that mix of car and fighter plane. up because for our last quirk and feature of the vector we have to talk about its design and I think this car looks crazier next to a normal car.

This is a boring, average mid-size luxury crossover, the kind you see in massive numbers on. streets of wherever you live and this is the vector. Now the vector looks crazy enough on its own, but when you put it next to a car that is rational, you realize how crazy it looks. The Lamborghini Countach is a crazy looking car. Vector is clearly crazier. and here's the thing, no matter what angle you put this comparison from the vector it always looks like it's from a completely different planet the countach the devil are crazy but they still look like cars this thing just doesn't it?

It's otherworldly and driving it looks like a low flying plane, an alien spaceship, something totally crazy and those are the quirks and characteristics of the vector w-8, but I have to stop there, this car is so crazy that this video has been published. Almost 40 minutes, which I found is realistically the limit of what people are willing to watch and click on YouTube, but I didn't want to cut anything out. I drove the Vector W8 and I will show you my driving experience. Doug's score tomorrow on my second channel, plus Doug Demuro, and when that video goes live, I'll link to it in the description below this video so you can see it there.