The Vector W8 Is the Craziest Supercar Ever Made
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The Vector W8 is the craziest supercar in history. Today I'm reviewing the Vector W8 to show you why it's so insane, and I'm going to show you all the quirks and features of the crazy Vector W8.
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Imagine driving this through Miami at night, in 1989..
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..
Sadly, Vectors creator, Jerry Wiegert passed away yesterday (January 15th 2021). Rest in peace sir. You did things by your own rules!
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
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.
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.
Lamborghini: "Countach is the most 80's car, period" Vector: "Hold my cocaine..."
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 also have a factory boost button in my Yaris, it's just called as AC off.
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
If any car needed to be Red, it's this one. What a lovely piece of art
I think yellow would add to its uniqueness.
@@ravenx0x033no no no. But black 😍
White in honor of the cocaine that designed the car.🎉
I wish they would still build cars like this. An absolute gem!
4.2 seconds 0-60, with an automatic, was insane. It also had, if I remember correctly, a 2.42:1 final drive.
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?
The airbags go off and CD’s fly at the passenger like frisbees of death.
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 .
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.
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
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.
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 love the visible Alan key bolts that hold everything in place on the dashboard. Wish other cars had this functional styling.
This is the very first ACTUAL review of a Vector I’ve ever seen.
@@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.
That screen is actually cool, and I don’t even mean “for the time the car was made”.
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.
What the hell? That’s actually so friggin cool. I want one.
Lol good luck only 20 made and how many got totalled?
I'm a military aircraft mechanic and i can verify that those circuit breakers in the cabin are identical to the ones we still use in military aircraft today, as are those AC vents, the compass, and the fuel cap/door
Vector: “Uh we don’t have any money for those engines but do you want one of these weird ass cars instead?” Lamborghini: “Yes”
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
This car honestly looks like it's straight out of cyberpunk
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
This one, Lotec Sirius, Lister Storm, Saleen S7... There were so many unusual rare supercars when I was young.
I know about Vector. And I'm from Romania. Mainly, because the car was in a chewing gum pictures collection, of Turkish origin, called "Turbo". Somewhere in 80's. I think this is well known in all Eastern Europe. I mean, it was so outrageus, it got a place there, among some 59 cars.
This car got more features than a brand new 2019 Toyota Corolla
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.
I feel like the hardest part of Doug DeMuro’s job at this point is coming up with titles unique from previous ones
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 way those wipers work is glorious. You can tell they knew that people wouldn’t be driving this in the rain.
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!
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.
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.
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
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. 😃
Doug had me dying after describing the transmission choice. Doug- Im not kidding 😅😅😅
I absolutely loved this video from beginning to end. You did a great job!! 🍻 🍻
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!
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.
"Do you know what speed you were doing" *"No officer but I felt like I was F***ing flying"*
240.
"Mach under 1"
Fresh Prince ikr😂
The vector w8 is 1 of my favorite car to play in gt2
Lucky. I want it in The Crew 2.
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.
"What's your Vector, Victor?" "We've got clearance, Clarance" "Roger, Roger"
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 Lamborghini Countach is the wildest car ever made Vector: hold my absinthe!
The 80's...hold my Cocaine.
@@beauchamphuberville1355 hold my crack
KeenCrafting yawn, got a better joke?
@@fucuszullanti7877 I know you liked mine
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.
It's perfect. It came out when I was in high school and never thought any less of it. I even have a Road & Track featuring it I bought in 1987.
“The 1980s, the decade of excess.” That just about sums up this 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. (:
I don't think anyone would have cared if the video hit 1 hour, not for this car.
That's for sure. This is the Tops of Any Exotic car Ever Built.. For it paved the way for Future Insane cars.
view count milking by splitting up the videos
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?
Agreed
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?
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.
Wow! What a master piece. A big thank you to the owner for sharing. And dude you presented and covered the details of the car well. Too bad more cars are not made like this. It's all about pleasing the masses for an affordable price
"Blows cold, blows well" - Doug 2019
That screen is genuinely cooler than anything else I've ever seen in a car before or since.
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 got to meet Jerry and sit in his very own, personal gloss black V8... many years ago but this video brings that memory racing back to life. Crazy times. Crazy car!
Doug is the only person that I would watch a 38 minute video on a car from. He makes a entertaining I love his style.
The seats are Recaro seats, and those are the Classic series of their seats.
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.
This looks like something a cartoon villain would drive.
@Mr. Poopybutthole are you really laughing your ass off?
@@jaydottt_transitfanner yes
nah the evil villain would drive a hongqui
@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
Pause at 10:12. There's your villain right there.
One of my favorite cars ever. I remember when it was first released and saw the pictures for the first time and fell in love with it. Never got to see one in person tho.
Doug thanks for this amazing review! This car is awesome!!!!
Doug: Maybe there is an airbag in there? Plot twist: Its a parachute.
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!
30 years on, and that dash is still cool AF!
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!
As a teenager in the early to mid 90s I worked at a hotrod shop/ speed shop in Kingston NY called AUTOMOTION, (hi Mr Duffy) and I had privilege to see, sit, ride in lots of crazy cars of the time, we put wheels and tires on a vector, had it in our shop over a weekend actually and I gotta say I was shocked how similar the interior was to a Camaro or Corvette of the same time. They most definitely shared A LOT with the GM sports cars
Great to see! I can recall the Vector promotion when I was a teenager. A awesome car in those days! Greetings from NL.
When everyone else had Ferraris and Lamborghini posters on their walls this was the big poster I had . Vector W8
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 🤦♂️
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.
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 love the styling of the vector w8, the interior looks amazing and the screen is awesome definitely way ahead of its time and the reason for the gear selected being on the left of the driver is because that is where the throttle controls are in a fighter jet so it's intensity and part of the styling same reason why the seats are close together
This and the Tesla Truck look like they're straight out of a game
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
Damn. That must of felt like a fighter jet cockpit back in the day. Especially on coke.
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
Totally forgot this car, I do remember it now and it was some sort of "top trumps car in the 80's". Looking at it now, I'm in love... this is just the most awesome car... I want one :-)
I remember stumbling across the shop where it was made. I was surprised a car like that came from a shop where it was. LOL Love the video. I had seen a couple but never got to see the interior just hear about it.
Cyberpunk 2077: "come Vector W8, we have been waiting for your arrival."
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
The “Classic” font could be because the seats looks like Recaro Classic seats. Wich could be the reason.
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.
Very rare . I have watched the whole video ❤️👍 well done. Thanks for the kind owner to share it with us ❤️
Doug while reviewing the Vector: "Why do I hear synthwave music?"
_[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.
"What should we name it?" "Vector?wait.." "There we go!"
Ali-M 750 smart
🤦♂️
Ali-M 750 Tiny organism that transmits a pathogen from reservoir to host... What do you drive yourself, you did that yourself?
I had a huge poster of a Vector just like this one on my wall when I was a teen. Brings back so many memories!
That was my dream car when I was in grade school. It was everything awesome about the 80’s. I remember seeing in at the Chicago auto show. First super car I ever touched. Interior was like a spaceship. Just awesome in every way
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".
Heh, yeah he uses a lot of extra words doesn't he?
KZhead money i think
"This is the accelerator pedal, I bet you don't have that in your car"
it consumes time, i hate it
That's why i watch his videos at 2x speed
Doug, the only KZheadr that's always dressed for hiking/gardening emergencies
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
I remember watching the vector saga and anticipating this car for so many years and it never came to fruition
I love that super car! I would love to see a new version of it with updated military style controls. it also would be sweet to see it with a center mounted jet fighter control as the shifter with a electronic activated clutch on the trigger to shift, it would give single leg amputees the ability to drive a manual transmission again. As the late great Chris Farley would say “that would be awesome“.
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
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
That gear lever looks just like a throttle in some aeroplanes, fits the jet design perfectly.
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
Bro that screen looks very cool! I always loved using this car in Gran Turismo 2 but I never knew it had that jet plane screen inside it!
I love that they used the TPI intake runners and just changed the plenum. Those small blocks are bullet proof.
Looks like someone tried drawing a Lamborghini Countach from memory.
:)
It looks like someone built a real car based on a knock off "Lamborghini Countach" in an early 90's video game that didn't want to pay the rights for the actual Lambo
😭🤣🤣🤣
Both cars are inspired by alfa romeo carabo
LOLLLL this brought me back memories of elementary school of me doing the same thing. And your comment is pretty accurate
When you drove it, i hope the people who saw it realized that they would never see another one of these cars again in their entire life time
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
This brings me back to gran Turismo 2 on the PS1, when I was a kid this car was my first high priced car purchase and it was amazing.
I had a poster of this car on my wall when I was growing up. Love it
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.
The rear end looks like Wesley Snipes glasses in Demolition Man
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?
Doug's been covering some real ones since i've last been on this channel. BRAVISSIMO!!!
I like your english, very easy to understand for me. Thank you from Italy.
Looks like how the 80's thought future cars would look like.
It still looks kinda futuristic, or what I’d like futuristic cars to look like (unfortunately it seems Tesla interior design is the future)
@@justadummy8076 no thats just what we think, just like thats what they thought in the 80s. Whats to come? Who knows..
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.
Yeah, I love that Cyberpunk aesthetic. I wish more cars followed in the vector’s foot steps.
Correction how the cars of the future should look like.
It’s like a DeLorean and a Countach had a love child 😳
No this this john connor and the Tesla truck is Kyle reese
Mixed with a countach
B-RI you mean a countache and a Delorian
B-RI this is just a fucked up looking countach 😂
but better
Sooo cool. I remember when the car was in the magazines. It was a space shuttle compared to any other supercar. Awesome !!!!!
i just watch the vector company story and came back to watch this review i didnt understand when i saw the review first , now i know how special this video is
33:37 That is the most ungraceful windshield wiper actuation I've ever seen!!
Maybe it worked 25 years ago, lol
Did the top wiper even touch the glass when moving?
It's not like this car will ever be moved if there is any moisture in the air.
I never saw this car before. Although I swear, I was drawing incredibly similar car design back in the '90 when I was kid. Wtf now in all seriousness, this car looks way ahead of its time, I love it. I love the design, I love fighter jet similarities and everything unusual on it and in it. Imagine Vector but with today's tech, it would be an absolute marvel.
I sat in one of these when i was 14. It rolled up in my dads driveway it was like a fighter jet landing in our front yard. The guy who owned it was one of the original investors and he got paid with a car instead of a return of cash...not bad looking back.
My favourite holidays: 3: Halloween 2: Christmas 1: Dougcember
And festivus
Anton S. Tomac nice Seinfeld reference
Toyotathon
Doug: This is the rarest car I've ever reviewed Mini Clubvan: Am I a joke to you
he never says that, he says that this is ONE of the rarest that he ever reviewed
50 Clubvans vs 20 W8s
tested* but okay eee
50 Clubvan in the US (plenty in Europe) against 20 Vector in the world !
Well, i've seen 3 Clubvans this morning while going to work, but i have yet to see a Vector W8
I sat in one of these at Laguna Seca back in the 80's. It was amazing.
Never heard of this car before but this is amazing!!! The entry process looks similar in difficulty to a C4 corvette XD
A car more 80s than this is probably impossible.
Marc P. Delorean?
@@studiomtn Not for me.
Fiero
K.I.T.T.
you obviously have never heard of the Holden HSV VL SS Group A.....
"Air conditioner blows cold, blows well." Then turns the temperature to 69. Good job Doug.
You could say, "Good (blow) job.".
Doug stole Kevin's move from The Office. Tee hee! It should be noted that's a lovely digital aircon unit from a New Yorker. Ah, the ol' Chrysler/Lambo days. Good times!
@@danielr5157 that's what the whole point of my comment is
@@egold2071 My grandfather bought a New Yorker and I loved riding inside when I was a kid back then! They felt so luxurious! 😁
@@Northanteus Pfft you know it! I'll always remember when my Dad and I first looked at a Chrysler LHS. The moment we got in, and both noticed how the 'theatre' interior lights slowly dimmed instead of just cutting off like a normal car, we were sold. I would sit in the cushy back seat and do my homework sometimes, while the car was in the garage.
Wow, I've never seen a Vector before. It's stunning!
There was one at the Malibu car show a lit while back. Same place had the Maserati Super car as well. That crazy one that you drove around Santa Monica. To bad the car show got shut down. Leno would always bring something cool as well. Cars there that you'll never see anywhere else. 👀 cool video. I remember the Vector for the LA car show, from when I was a kid. Never saw another one till the one in Malibu.
That display refreshes faster than those in most modern cars. I like that.
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?
Doug: "Man its getting hot in here, lemme open the windows" Owner from the Living room: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
Reading this in Kevin Malone’s voice when Dwight adds walnuts to the brownies