<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Vector]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Vector]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/vector http://jalopnik.com/tag/vector <![CDATA[1999 Vector M12 for a Myth-Busting $139,900!]]> In technology they call it vaporware. In cryptozoology it's called a cryptid. But Nice Price or Crack Pipe is all about the cars, and that's why we call it... the Vector. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5376538&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Top Ten Best Wedge Car Designs Of The 60s, 70s and 80s]]> In car design, the wedge is something we can appreciate. Here's our list of the top ten most influential wedge-shaped designs of the 60s, 70s and 80s. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5103158&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[LA Auto Show: Vector WX-8 in the Flesh]]> When I stop and reflect about why I spend more time thinking about cars than I do, well, anything, one of the defining, transcendental moments has to be when I was around 12-years-old with my father at the LA Auto Show. In one hall they had the "other" makes including the Lamborghini LM002 and my absolute favorite, the Vector W2. And they were next to each other. And I was 12. And nothing in the entire world could have been any better. In any way. Well friends, fast forward two decades and here I am covering the 2007 LA Auto Show. While Lamborghini refuses to man up and give us a Murcielago-engined SUV, motherlovin' Vector is back with their WX-8. The life cycle completed, there is nothing more for me to do. Well... actually, there are a few people I'd like to punch in the mouth and I few women I'd to like to snuggle with, but I mean new Vector? Are we serious? Jump to read some glorious verbiage that had the Postfather in stitches.

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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=322958&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Blasting From the Past: Vector Avtech WX8]]> Somewhere at the Los Angeles auto show, while the world's automakers are splaying their latest show ponies under million-dollar lighting kits, a revival of sorts is quietly taking place. Car freaks of a certain age remember the trials and triumphs of Vector as they might the rise and fall of a forgotten Hollywood starlet. Once America's answer to the Lamborghini Countach, the Vector began life as a design study at the 1971 LA show, and blossomed after some fits and starts into a full-blown, if somewhat creaky, supercar by the 1990s. That car was the W12, powered by a V12 from the Lamborghini Diablo. Later on, founder and chief designer Gerald Wiegert lost control of the company to Lamborghini's then parent, and after some sputtering, the venture folded. Now, having regained the Vector assets, Wiegert's making good on recent threats to revive the marque with a new supercar. It's the Vector Avtech WX8, a prototype of which he showed off at the Pebble Beach Concours in 2006. Long story short, he's showing it at the LA show this week. Though the promises are familiar — a 750hp V8 and top speed of 260-270 mph (in Bonneville gearing, natch) — so is the boundless optimism. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=321943&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Would Dolph Drive?]]> Philosophy Week is... dead! Let's get back to the business of doing business around here. How many El Caminos does it take to screw in a light bulb? Ba-doon crash. Take my editor, please! As it happens, we now have a nice backlog of user submitted QOTDs. And this creamy number has risen to the top
Last week you had a question about Rocky's Jalpa. That got me thinking
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=288584&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jalopnik Poll: Noir Cars: Your Take?]]> Due to the rather tumultous affections of the last five women we've fallen for like a flaming lunchbag of well-overly-ripe okra dropped from 45,000 feet onto the Bonneville Salt Flats, we've developed a serious thing for Neko Case's music. It's what happens when punkers grow up, gain an appreciation for the rural and don't get all hokey and goth or go predictably, lamely redneck. It makes us think of Bukowski, Ellroy, Chinatown, Kundera, Kerouac, Thoreau, The Streets of San Francisco, Gruene, Texas and a number of escapades too personal and/or un-Gawkerly to go into. So instead, while walking the streets of Pedro tonight, we started wondering about noir cars. Like noir mo'fuggin cars. Vote and write in below. Also, why are we eating Fiery Haba ero Doritos at 1:30am? Oh, right. Women. Femme fatales, even. Now kick down, boys. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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