The supercar world has always run on audacity — bold claims, dramatic styling, and performance numbers that seem to defy physics. But there is a long and humbling history of cars that promised the moon on a spec sheet and then buckled under the scrutiny of an independent stopwatch. Few stories illustrate that gap between ambition and reality more vividly than the Vector W8, an American exotic that claimed a 242 mph top speed at a time when nothing on earth was supposed to go that fast — and then struggled to complete a single uninterrupted test run.
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