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    Vector WX3 1992

    The Avtech WX-3 is a prototype sports car engineered, developed and manufactured by Vector Motors of Wilmington, California in 1992. Conceived by Vector Motors founder and chief designer Gerald Wiegert as a successor to the W8. Production plans for the WX-3 included a range of three engine configurations ranging from 600 hp (447 kW) up to 1200 hp (895 kW) from a proprietary 7.0L DOHC V8 engine. Originally painted silver, the WX-3 coupé prototype was later re-painted teal by Wiegert to match the teal-blue and purple logo of his Aquajet jet-ski company. The teal-blue coupé and purple roadster are featured as promotional vehicles on the Aquajet website. The single finished prototype is powered by the same twin-turbocharged V8 engine as the W8, with an improved flow dual plenum and throttle-body intake tract rather than the Chevrolet Corvette-based system used on the W8 production cars. At high boost levels the engine was capable of a power output of 1,200 hp (895 kW). The WX-3 prototypes used a three-across seating arrangement that was an option on W8 export models although Vector stated that a production model would have used more conventional bucket seats.
    Wiegert had also planned a roadster version of the WX-3, named the WX-3R; both vehicles shared mechanical components from the W8. Like the model it was based on, the WX-3R did not pass the prototype stage. Both versions were shown at the 1993 Geneva Auto Show.

    Wiegert planned for the WX-3 to enter production in the 1990s, but after a hostile takeover initiated by Megatech, Wiegert was fired from his own company. The car was never produced and later removed from future plans of the company when Wiegert initiated lawsuits and copyrighted the designs, preventing Megatech from building and selling the car without his approval.

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    General Information
    Curb Weight: 3571 lbs
    Layout: Mid-Engine/RWD
    Transmission: 3-Speed Automatic

    Engine
    Type: Twin-Turbo V8
    Displacement: 7000 cc
    Horsepower: 1000 bhp @ 5800 rpm
    Torque: 701 lb-ft @ 4900 rpm
    Redline: ---- rpm

    Performance
    0-60 mph: 3.3 sec
    0-100 mph: --.- sec
    Quarter Mile: --.- sec @ --- mph
    Skidpad: .--g
    Top Speed: est 250 mph
    Braking, 60-0 mph: --- ft
    Slalom Speed: --- mph

    Source: unknown

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    Prius is in Eutopia as we speak from this thread.
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    thats prius on the far left with the cool haircut

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    1000 hp and a 3 speed auto??!

    ummmm wth?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotterik
    thats prius on the far left with the cool haircut

    and the guy right next to him is Gerald Wiegert

    no. really. it is.


    BTW you are right, MclareN just made my day.
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    I think that car is horrible it loks like a post apocaliptic trans am taken out from mad max and lets not forget the 3 gear automatic transmission just makes it worst
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    This car is like a teenage fantasy come into reality. Too bad it's not widely produced.

    Did I just say that? This thing would kill so many teens at the wheel. Wait, I said that first thing for a reason.
    Can't touch this! bawnawnawnaw, nawnaw, nawnaw.

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    Truely respectable automobiles exclude those initiating a full front-wheel-drive configuration (with the exception of the Mini Cooper, of course).

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    those rear wheels must be bloody enormous! check out the deep dish

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    Performance
    0-100 mph: --.- sec

    Top Speed: est 250 mph

    thats because they all blew up before they passed 70mph
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    OGM taht thnig os guly lkei ¿¿¿FTW n0b0 m'i diyng s1ht

    *hhhuuuuuugggghhhhhh - dies*

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prius

    BTW you are right, MclareN just made my day.
    by doing what?

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    IMO this car is a piece of s**t
    "The thunder of 1001bhp would send a sonic boom through his carbon fibre shell, crack it in half and leave a wet puddle on the fancy leather seat."

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    The Vector W3X Avtech - Built by inbred hillbillies, for inbred hillbillies

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    No, hillbillies don't have the type of metalworking needed for this up in their tree-huts. I'd say a 4 year old with a pencil, a drug addict on 3 drugs at the same time, a redneck drunk off racoon's brain fluid, and 5 nicotine-deranged squirrel's made this car.

    I mean.....what else is f*cked up enough to make something like that?!
    "I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring" - Richard Feynman, last recorded words.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotterik
    by doing what?
    posting pics of one of the greatist cars ever made
    I have found a new love in the form of a tristar.

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