Curious about the time when a tennis superstar ventured into the fast lane with one of America's most ambitious supercars?

But as we know all too well, it often ends in melancholy. Take the Vector W8 for instance. Conceived by the late Gerald Wiegert, an American engineer who created the now-defunct Vector brand in ...

In the end, Wiegert succeeded. Sort of. He claimed his Vector W8 could run flat out at 242 mph - the fastest of any production car at the time. And still ridiculously fast today. But on closer ...

The Vector's W8 structure attained the highest test results of any automotive structure tested by the DOT laboratory, and was the only auto structure ever to pass front and rear destructive tests ...