Remember Vectors? They were big, wedge-shaped supercars from the late Eighties that seemed to exist only in posters on bedroom walls, rather than on the road.
Vector disappeared at some point in the Nineties but now it's back with a new car – the WX8.
It might looks a bit like an old Camaro, but the ‘Vector Avtech WX-8 Hyper-Performance Road Vehicle (HPRV)’, to give it its full name, promises to be quite a bit of kit.
Gerald Wiegert, chairman and founder of Vector Motors Corporation, said the car will be capable of a Veyron-busting 275+ mph top speed and 0-60 mph is 2.5 seconds.
It appears there will be two engines available, both 7 litre V8's, 750bhp supercharged and 600 bhp normally aspirated.
There are 19” racing wheels with 15-inch diameter competition brake rotors with six-piston callipers.
The body is made from carbon fibre, but, as with Vectors of the past, the interior promises to be the best bit.
There is a jet aircraft type instrumentation panel machined from billet aluminium, featuring military specification F- 22 Raptor switches, warning lights and ‘reconfigurable electroluminescent 4 mode display panel, spacecraft circuit breakers, audible alarms and warning lights incorporating heads up display interface option’.
The WX8 is expected in 2008 in very limited numbers, and prices are yet to be confirmed.
Vector is modest about the car's capabilities.
‘The Vector WX8 represents more horse power, more torque, more features, more substance and superior man/machine environmental comfort than any other supercar ever offered,’ reads a press release.
‘The WX8 is user friendly, easy to maintain and service.
‘This “aerospace engineered” machine establishes a new paradigm in the high-end performance vehicle category.’
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