I met Gerry very early on in his Vector development and the car NEVER met anyone's expectation. The first time he gave me a ride in it, we got back to his garage in Venice (CA) and he asked me what I thought (as I stood in a pool of antifreeze spewing out of his engine bay).
I visited Weigert's plant in Wilmington later one where a buch of pissed off Indonesian investors locked his butt out of it to prevent anymore $$$ bleeding from the company bank account. Only a few idiots in the US were daft enough to buy these cars and they were nothing more than an oddity. Weigert can still be seen running around Southern California in his overpriced twin turbo turds.
I don't see Weigert doing anything but scamming more people out of their money... so hold onto your wallets. If he gets you, maybe he can pay you back in water ski chairs.
Let the buyer beware...
Brad
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Return of the Vector Supercar? Could happen...
click above image to view additional high-res photos of the Vector V8 Biturbo concept
Who doesn't remember Vector Supercars and the original aerospace-inspired Vector domestic supercar? What about the W2, the W8, WX-3 and the swan song of the M12? Besides the Corvette, the Vector at most times during the '80s and early '90s was the only exotic car on the world market that was born and bred in the good old U.S. of A. Hardly any were ever sold and they remain rare pieces of our domestic auto history, but rumor that original Vector founder Gerald Wiegert is working on a new supercar have been hanging around the past few years. Whether or not that's true, we found these concept renderings of a Vector V8 Biturbo concept on a Romanian auto site and just had to share. They show off the angularity of the original Vectors in a thoroughly modern form, complete with scissor doors that feature the Vector's trademark below-the-beltline ancillary side windows. Who knows how much power this twin-turbo V8 makes or any other details about the rendered concept, but the fact these frames were even produced should tell Wiegert that there's definitely pent up interest for a Vector revival. If any one knows the artist who produced these renderings, drop us a line in the comments as we'd love to give credit where credit's due.
[Source: Automarket.ro]
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