Hoovey689

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eBay Find of the Day: "America, #^$% Yeah!" Edition 1996 Vector M12 has its timing all wrong

The definition of insanity is said to be doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Based on that description almost every person that has ever tried to start a new sports car company must be absolutely certifiable, Certainly, some of the people that dealt with Vector creator Gerald Wiegert over the years would probably apply that label. Over the span of 35 years, Wiegert never really gave up his dream of building an American supercar, but over that time period, fewer than three dozen Vectors are said to have been completed. With that sort of scarcity, It's not often that you'll find two of them in the same place, but a car dealer in Ohio currently has a pair of M12s for sale, including the very first "production" model.

In the mid-1990s Wiegert lost control of Vector to the same Indonesian company that bought Lamborghini from Chrysler and later sold it to Audi. During that overlap period, Megatech moved the company to the same Green Cove Springs, Florida industrial park that more recently was reputed to be a staging ground for the UN invasion of America. Megatech took the earlier WX-3 design and wrapped it around what was essentially a modified Lamborghini Diablo powertrain rather than the previous Chevrolet small-block V8 derivative. In other words, the stars-and-stripes patriotism of this particular M12's paint scheme is sadly a bit late for the all-American cheerleading, more ironic than appropriate.

Only 14 M12s were reported to be delivered to customers over a four-year period. After selling Lamborghini to the Germans, the final M12 was refitted with a small-block meant to be offered as the SRV8, but Vector Motors finally imploded before any were sold.

Gallery Red, White and Blue Vector M12:
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/ebay-...r-m12/#3226924

Gallery Yellow Vector M12:
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/ebay-...r-m12/#3226965

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/03/e...n-1996-vector/

Stage3

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All that and it still commands $129k... Not bad.

Habious

Always loved that car but, Made-in-America or not...that "All-American" paint job is just ridiculous!

jaseman

And the futility continues: Vector Motors

PhilipMSPT

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I would have preferred it to have painted Mount Rushmore instead of the Statue of Liberty (because that was a French gift to the U.S)...

GS3Tek

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vector still looks good to this day

what about Washington crossing the river?
or Lincoln chopping down the cherry tree?

I8ABMR

when I was a kid that car was like a space vehicle. It looked so insane relative to the ferraris of back in the day. It even outlambo'd Lamborghini when it came to looks......back then

Jetfire

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the previous owner of the car?