Keep in mind Vector? The obscure hypercar producer was based in 1971, and constructed its first automobile, the W2, in 1978. It could go on to supply automobiles just like the W8, the M12, and the WX-8 prototype all the way in which till 2008. There was an try at a revival within the late 2010s, nevertheless it was unsuccessful. The corporate folded for good.
However we will nonetheless look again on Vector with fondness. I stumbled throughout what seems to be Vector’s official YouTube channel. The channel known as “VectorWX,” it solely has 228 subscribers—really, make that 229—and eight movies uploaded. And the final add was 16 years in the past.
However boy oh boy are these movies wonderful.
Each two-to-five-minute clip is a time machine again into the late Nineteen Eighties and early Nineties. They usually’re all in 240p high quality, after all. There’s one video merely titled, “TouchIt,” that begins with 25 seconds of MC Hammer’s U Cannot Contact This over footage of Vectors. Actor Perry King and Leeza Gibbons from Leisure Tonight are driving the vehicles, for some purpose; Gibbons calls the drive a “sexual expertise.”
Most likely not fallacious.
The cleverly titled “Vector W2 pt2” video is an particularly good one. It is simply 2 minutes and 11 seconds of Vector W2 driving footage with the chika chika tune—Oh Yeah (Yello tune)—from 1985 within the background. Nothing extra, nothing much less. It is excellent.
The entire Vector movies have the identical basic vibe and use a variety of the identical tacky ‘80s and ‘90s songs. However they’re stunning in their very own approach.
The final video Vector uploaded was a hilariously unhealthy promo for the corporate’s then-new WX8 prototype. The clip is 5 minutes and 41 seconds lengthy, for some purpose. All the video reveals a WX8 prototype driving slowly via residential streets, with a filter over the digital camera that makes the automobile barely seen. The precise driving footage ends at about 5 minutes…. After which there’s simply 41 seconds of a black display.
Vector actually was one in every of a sort.
