**The Supercars that Never Made it to Production**

In this article, we'll take a look at some of the most fascinating supercars that never made it to production, despite their impressive specs and designs.

**1. The 1990 Vector W16T**

The Vector W16T was a brainchild of Hollywood Supercar tuner Claudo Zampoli and the father of disco music, Giovanni Georgio Maroder. This all-aluminum, hand-built body was penned by Mura Countach and Diablo designer Marcelo Gandini. The car featured a rear hatch, double popup headlights, and a whopping 10 lights to light up the road ahead.

The W16T was powered by a V16 engine, which was reportedly capable of producing 1,200 horsepower when cranked up to the max. With an estimated price of $280,000 in 1990s cash (around $10 billion today), this car was a real showstopper. Unfortunately, its production was plagued by glacial speeds due to the hand-built body, and only a handful of cars were made.

**2. The Vector W**

The Vector W was another poster child for supercar enthusiasts, with its sleek wedge shape introduced in 1972 and operational version, the W2, debuting in 1978. Journalists praised this car for its impressive performance, with some even claiming it could hit 218 mph.

However, production was delayed by a whopping 20 years, with only 17 cars made before the company went bankrupt in 1993. The Vector W's twin-turbo V8 engine produced an estimated 4.2 seconds to 60 mph and could pull a g in corners, despite its weight of 3,300 lbs.

**The Legacy**

Despite their troubled production histories, these supercars have left a lasting impact on the automotive world. They paved the way for future cars, and some even learned valuable lessons from their experiences.

We'd like to thank the National Motor Museum for allowing us to visit this incredible collection of cars, including the Vector W16T. If you're in Australia, be sure to follow Zach at @ZachJoob, Jeremiah Burton at @JeremiahBurton, and Donut Media at @donutmedia on social media.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is one of the most advanced supercars ever built stands under 3T tall it has no doors it's got a rear view camera GPS and it made almost 300 horsepower more than any super car at the time by all accounts this car was primed to be a huge success but it failed to ever make it to production and it was abandoned for almost 20 years there are a lot of supercars that didn't make it to production we wanted to know why was that well today we're about to find out we're headed down under to the National motor museum in Adelaide to check out why the 19 1969 Holden hurricane and some of the world's coolest supercars never made it to production this is a 1969 Holden hurricane yeah it had a mid-mounted 4.2 L Holden V8 that made over 260 horsepower which admittedly isn't anything to write home about today but this car wasn't built to be fast yeah it was built to be cool and to show the world hey this is the future of cars Holden was one of Australia's only car manufacturers and in the mid-60s they were in a bitter rivalry with Ford who were one of the only other manufacturers that actually made their cars in Australia Ford Australia had just released the Falcon which was almost an immediate success in the land down under and to counter Ford success Holden dropped the FB in 1961 which was an immediate flop by the time of its production the FB was already considered dated it had 50s inspired Tail Fins and a wraparound windscreen and dog leg a pillars so Holden was on the out and they needed something to get out front of their new rival so they tasked the design team to come up with something new something that would look into the future and this is what we got oh my God look at that paint this really speaks to my bass boat loveing heart I love it that is a big Sparkle look at the tack and speed up and how the whole dash comes up with the roof this wild also that Center piece right there second turn first turn first turn second turn that is part of the GPS hey if we get trapped and never get out we love you I feel like this thing's going to smash my legs in yeah best of luck watch your watch your Jerry's feeling trapped first of all my legs don't touch the pedals can you get them to be better than that or that's it oh you're touching the pedal yeah I'm already there but I my left leg is so jammed in here that I honestly can't like you couldn't drive I know you can't ship all right I'm done get me out of this thing Jas before we sat in this car I was like oh this is the coolest feature as soon as it came crushing down on me and my claustrophobia kicked in I was like this this is the dumbest thing I've ever get me out of this thing his next car was dawned the superar that was too dangerous to be sold the TVR CA speed 12 was TV's attempt at a Lon winning GT1 machine that would compete with cars like Mercedes CLK GTR the McLaren F1 GTR and the Porsche 911 GT1 some of the coolest cars of all time it was the UK's attempt at a Dodge Viper and because only one production car was needed for GT1 homologation automakers went absolutely nuts right part of the reason why it was so dangerous is because it had a 7.7 L V12 they basically took two inline sixes slapped them together the thing made over 1,000 horsepower yeah here it was so powerful it actually blew apart 1,000 horsepower rated Dino but this car wasn't just powerful it was also light as hell a Kevlar and fiberglass chassis weighed only 2200 lb which is almost 200 200 lb lighter than a Miata TV decided to build a road car out of the speed 12 in the early 2000s but they only Built three because after TVR owner and CEO Peter wheeler drove one home he immediately canned the project saying the car was simply unusable on the road and in his opinion it was too powerful which is a pretty crazy thing to say as the CEO of the company the CEO is like guys we got to I can't have all that blood on my hands so three Road versions were built in total two were just used as race bears and only one Factory built version remains on planet Earth oh and it sold this year for 750 $50,000 which is honestly not that bad I I mean a one of One race car yeah with a bit of a history to it a th000 horsepower yeah that could kill you yeah are you kidding me dude take my money we use today's sponsor keeps to prevent hair loss stimulate hair growth or just take care of the hair we have because we need it two out of three guys experience male pattern baldness by the time they're 35 that Indescribable feeling you get when clinically proven treatment are delivered right to your front door because you talk to keeps licensed medical providers from the comfort of your home dazzling results on the top of our heads a change you can feel hair growth feels good with a product like keeps our hairline feels like the best part of us and our follicles feel perfect and strong because with keeps they are hair loss stotal keeps for a special offer to get started go to keeps.com Donut Media or click the link in the description hey remember when we talked about that car being really light like 3 minutes ago but this car wasn't just powerful it was also light as hell yeah I remember y I got a car that's even lighter no you don't yeah it's the cabaro T1 this thing looks like a Formula 1 car well that's because it was built to look and drive like a Formula 1 car and be street legal at the same time which makes sense because the car was actually built and designed by a bunch of the guys who built the McLaren F1 M they probably know a thing or two yeah about a thing or two do weighing in at only 12200 lb that's half the weight of the Miata now holy smokes powered by 3.5 L Indie Car Source V8 that produced 575 horsepower giving it twice the power to weight ratio of a Bugatti veon ooh the kapara promised at 0 to 60 time of 2.5 seconds and three G's of cornering grip holy crap which all sounds fantastic but there were a couple of problems for one a journalist almost burned alive when his test car exploded into flames at 150 mph during testing yeah that's not good for anybody that's not good you don't want that when Top Gear reviewed it the floor fell out of the car fast and furious now danger to manifold yeah that sounds like it would proba suck yeah unfortunately the CEO kapar passed away and so did this project but you can actually still find some of them on the market today there was one for sale for about 200,000 quid well personally I'd feel a little safer owning this next car it's called the sard mc8 it's a Toyota MR2 based superar with a V8 that was built to compete in lont so if you're wondering about the name sard stands for Sigma Advanced racing development and they're a tuning company and racing team from Japan that specializes in Toyotas sard took a Toyota MR2 they stretched the wheelbase by replacing the entire rear half with a tube frame which housed a onez FV V8 they also slap two turbos on it oh yeah so it made over 600 horsepower in that little thing heck to be a handful but in a good way yeah and they only made one and even worse than that it was a terrible race car M so I guess it's fine they only made one but uh the best it ever did second to last now even though it looked cool the project was abandoned but that one road car disappeared for decades until just recently when they were spotted driving around in Japan really yeah how this car was even found or made street legal complete mystery so our next car is a 1969 to 1971 Merced mercedesbenz c111 it was so cool they turned into Hot Wheels even though it never made it into production the c111 was an engineering platform primarily and it was meant to Herald a new era of rotary powered benzes with a 1.8 L three rotor 280 horsepower mid engine wankle power plant now this car was the first fiberglass reinforced plastic body bins never used in production though for its inability to meet safety standards so they had that idea of fiberglass but they just didn't make it right yet and it was the first to use multi-link independent rear suspension and they still use that on a bunch of different Mercedes-Benz to this day hey it kind of looks like that yeah yeah it's got similar color Sim doors is cool though it seems like in the late 60s car manufacturers were like Hey we're going to build these test vehicles to figure out kind of where the engineering and technology is going to lead towards us in the future when it comes to production vehicles and they made decisions based off that Mercedes however they couldn't get the car to run efficiently or cleanly so they put rotaries to kaputs in 1971 if there are any doubts the fuel crisis of 1973 completely ended Mercedes interest in rotaries okay let's JY I bet you got another car I sure do I was just thinking of it it was the 1989 cetta v16t this is an interesting car so it had a transverse mounted V16 in 1989 it was an all aluminum 6 L 64 valve 8 cam sh shaft two pairs of four driven from the center of the block custom made V16 based off a pair of Lamborghini uraco P30 V8s and somehow it was made to fit transversely behind the driver in the cetta what yeah uh it was fuel injected supplied by a pair of Bosch kronic V8 injection systems so they're just kind of taking a bunch of V8 stuff and like double them down uh it made sort of an unimpressive 540 horsepower out of all those cylinders M and uh the but the 0 to 60 time was pretty good estimated right around 4 seconds so it must have been light uhhuh the v16t was the brainchild of Hollywood Supercar tuner claudo zampoli and the father of disco music Giovanni Georgio maroder and if you don't know who that is editor hook him up my name is joanni georgo but everybody calls me georgo producing the all aluminum handbuilt body penned by mura Countach and Diablo designer Marcelo gandini caused glacial or very slow production I mean a handbuilt body has got to take forever yeah okay it's got a rear hatch like this guy but check this out double popup headlights double double down popup headlights there's like 10 lights on so many lights on this car you got to see where you're going you're going that fast you you want four fog lights plus another fog light above it say less fam dude we'll light up the whole I wonder if it had a good sound system I don't know so well the father of disco was involved so it should have yeah probably had a record player in there so arguments over the slow slow process caused marer to leave the company as the first cars were finally rolling out to customers which is unfortunate uh cetta could never get us street legal status for the v16t thanks to our emissions and crash testing standards uh the hand built Supercar barely made money despite the $280,000 estimated price the 1990 market crash and Japanese bubble economy implosion financially sang cetta zampoli went bankrupt in the mid90s still cool yeah the next car one of my favorites is a 1991 Vector W these are like real poster cars you know growing up it was like yeah the vector now Vector initially introduced the vector wedge shape in 1972 now the operational version of the car the W2 was introduced in 1978 and a bunch of journalists who wrote for magazines drove this car and they praised it they're like hey this thing's pretty good now the W8 was supposed to be made in produced in the'80s but it took another 10 years for it to finally be made in the '90s so 20 years of production to get this car out and then the company went bankrupt oops the company went under in 1993 after only making 17 cars M what a bummer but of those 17 cars had some pretty cool features the deb8 was powered by twin turbo 6 L Aluminum V8 that reportedly got you up to 218 mph with a 06 60 of 4.2 seconds Vector claimed 1 1200 horsepower was achievable when they crank the Boost all the way up that's pretty mad although uh this car was a pretty good chunk of change more money it was $283,000 in 1990s cash that's like 10 billion today yeah it's a lot of De and despite it weighing 3,300 lb the thing could pull a g in the corners which is pretty cool all right yeah they're sweet angles stopper I don't know I kind of like this thing well yeah OT is really cool yeah now like a lot of other cars on this list had a ton of problems with it uh car and drivers test Vehicles they had three of them had a bunch of issues also they had a high-profile client by one of these Andre agasse ever heard of him he ended up suing the company because he had so many problems with his car bummer yeah all of that led to the company's demise and they shut down in 1993 after only making 17 cars it's a real shame some of these cars didn't get made into production that's a bummer at least there's some of them out there though um and a lot of the things that were learned on a lot of these cars have uh you know stuck around and made their way into other cars so for sure we got to thank the national motor museum for letting us come here see this cool car behind us see a bunch of uh cool cars around us come check these guys out if you're out here in adelay Australia follow Zach at Zack joob Follow Me at Jeremiah Burton follow us here at donut at donut media bye-bye byebyethis is one of the most advanced supercars ever built stands under 3T tall it has no doors it's got a rear view camera GPS and it made almost 300 horsepower more than any super car at the time by all accounts this car was primed to be a huge success but it failed to ever make it to production and it was abandoned for almost 20 years there are a lot of supercars that didn't make it to production we wanted to know why was that well today we're about to find out we're headed down under to the National motor museum in Adelaide to check out why the 19 1969 Holden hurricane and some of the world's coolest supercars never made it to production this is a 1969 Holden hurricane yeah it had a mid-mounted 4.2 L Holden V8 that made over 260 horsepower which admittedly isn't anything to write home about today but this car wasn't built to be fast yeah it was built to be cool and to show the world hey this is the future of cars Holden was one of Australia's only car manufacturers and in the mid-60s they were in a bitter rivalry with Ford who were one of the only other manufacturers that actually made their cars in Australia Ford Australia had just released the Falcon which was almost an immediate success in the land down under and to counter Ford success Holden dropped the FB in 1961 which was an immediate flop by the time of its production the FB was already considered dated it had 50s inspired Tail Fins and a wraparound windscreen and dog leg a pillars so Holden was on the out and they needed something to get out front of their new rival so they tasked the design team to come up with something new something that would look into the future and this is what we got oh my God look at that paint this really speaks to my bass boat loveing heart I love it that is a big Sparkle look at the tack and speed up and how the whole dash comes up with the roof this wild also that Center piece right there second turn first turn first turn second turn that is part of the GPS hey if we get trapped and never get out we love you I feel like this thing's going to smash my legs in yeah best of luck watch your watch your Jerry's feeling trapped first of all my legs don't touch the pedals can you get them to be better than that or that's it oh you're touching the pedal yeah I'm already there but I my left leg is so jammed in here that I honestly can't like you couldn't drive I know you can't ship all right I'm done get me out of this thing Jas before we sat in this car I was like oh this is the coolest feature as soon as it came crushing down on me and my claustrophobia kicked in I was like this this is the dumbest thing I've ever get me out of this thing his next car was dawned the superar that was too dangerous to be sold the TVR CA speed 12 was TV's attempt at a Lon winning GT1 machine that would compete with cars like Mercedes CLK GTR the McLaren F1 GTR and the Porsche 911 GT1 some of the coolest cars of all time it was the UK's attempt at a Dodge Viper and because only one production car was needed for GT1 homologation automakers went absolutely nuts right part of the reason why it was so dangerous is because it had a 7.7 L V12 they basically took two inline sixes slapped them together the thing made over 1,000 horsepower yeah here it was so powerful it actually blew apart 1,000 horsepower rated Dino but this car wasn't just powerful it was also light as hell a Kevlar and fiberglass chassis weighed only 2200 lb which is almost 200 200 lb lighter than a Miata TV decided to build a road car out of the speed 12 in the early 2000s but they only Built three because after TVR owner and CEO Peter wheeler drove one home he immediately canned the project saying the car was simply unusable on the road and in his opinion it was too powerful which is a pretty crazy thing to say as the CEO of the company the CEO is like guys we got to I can't have all that blood on my hands so three Road versions were built in total two were just used as race bears and only one Factory built version remains on planet Earth oh and it sold this year for 750 $50,000 which is honestly not that bad I I mean a one of One race car yeah with a bit of a history to it a th000 horsepower yeah that could kill you yeah are you kidding me dude take my money we use today's sponsor keeps to prevent hair loss stimulate hair growth or just take care of the hair we have because we need it two out of three guys experience male pattern baldness by the time they're 35 that Indescribable feeling you get when clinically proven treatment are delivered right to your front door because you talk to keeps licensed medical providers from the comfort of your home dazzling results on the top of our heads a change you can feel hair growth feels good with a product like keeps our hairline feels like the best part of us and our follicles feel perfect and strong because with keeps they are hair loss stotal keeps for a special offer to get started go to keeps.com Donut Media or click the link in the description hey remember when we talked about that car being really light like 3 minutes ago but this car wasn't just powerful it was also light as hell yeah I remember y I got a car that's even lighter no you don't yeah it's the cabaro T1 this thing looks like a Formula 1 car well that's because it was built to look and drive like a Formula 1 car and be street legal at the same time which makes sense because the car was actually built and designed by a bunch of the guys who built the McLaren F1 M they probably know a thing or two yeah about a thing or two do weighing in at only 12200 lb that's half the weight of the Miata now holy smokes powered by 3.5 L Indie Car Source V8 that produced 575 horsepower giving it twice the power to weight ratio of a Bugatti veon ooh the kapara promised at 0 to 60 time of 2.5 seconds and three G's of cornering grip holy crap which all sounds fantastic but there were a couple of problems for one a journalist almost burned alive when his test car exploded into flames at 150 mph during testing yeah that's not good for anybody that's not good you don't want that when Top Gear reviewed it the floor fell out of the car fast and furious now danger to manifold yeah that sounds like it would proba suck yeah unfortunately the CEO kapar passed away and so did this project but you can actually still find some of them on the market today there was one for sale for about 200,000 quid well personally I'd feel a little safer owning this next car it's called the sard mc8 it's a Toyota MR2 based superar with a V8 that was built to compete in lont so if you're wondering about the name sard stands for Sigma Advanced racing development and they're a tuning company and racing team from Japan that specializes in Toyotas sard took a Toyota MR2 they stretched the wheelbase by replacing the entire rear half with a tube frame which housed a onez FV V8 they also slap two turbos on it oh yeah so it made over 600 horsepower in that little thing heck to be a handful but in a good way yeah and they only made one and even worse than that it was a terrible race car M so I guess it's fine they only made one but uh the best it ever did second to last now even though it looked cool the project was abandoned but that one road car disappeared for decades until just recently when they were spotted driving around in Japan really yeah how this car was even found or made street legal complete mystery so our next car is a 1969 to 1971 Merced mercedesbenz c111 it was so cool they turned into Hot Wheels even though it never made it into production the c111 was an engineering platform primarily and it was meant to Herald a new era of rotary powered benzes with a 1.8 L three rotor 280 horsepower mid engine wankle power plant now this car was the first fiberglass reinforced plastic body bins never used in production though for its inability to meet safety standards so they had that idea of fiberglass but they just didn't make it right yet and it was the first to use multi-link independent rear suspension and they still use that on a bunch of different Mercedes-Benz to this day hey it kind of looks like that yeah yeah it's got similar color Sim doors is cool though it seems like in the late 60s car manufacturers were like Hey we're going to build these test vehicles to figure out kind of where the engineering and technology is going to lead towards us in the future when it comes to production vehicles and they made decisions based off that Mercedes however they couldn't get the car to run efficiently or cleanly so they put rotaries to kaputs in 1971 if there are any doubts the fuel crisis of 1973 completely ended Mercedes interest in rotaries okay let's JY I bet you got another car I sure do I was just thinking of it it was the 1989 cetta v16t this is an interesting car so it had a transverse mounted V16 in 1989 it was an all aluminum 6 L 64 valve 8 cam sh shaft two pairs of four driven from the center of the block custom made V16 based off a pair of Lamborghini uraco P30 V8s and somehow it was made to fit transversely behind the driver in the cetta what yeah uh it was fuel injected supplied by a pair of Bosch kronic V8 injection systems so they're just kind of taking a bunch of V8 stuff and like double them down uh it made sort of an unimpressive 540 horsepower out of all those cylinders M and uh the but the 0 to 60 time was pretty good estimated right around 4 seconds so it must have been light uhhuh the v16t was the brainchild of Hollywood Supercar tuner claudo zampoli and the father of disco music Giovanni Georgio maroder and if you don't know who that is editor hook him up my name is joanni georgo but everybody calls me georgo producing the all aluminum handbuilt body penned by mura Countach and Diablo designer Marcelo gandini caused glacial or very slow production I mean a handbuilt body has got to take forever yeah okay it's got a rear hatch like this guy but check this out double popup headlights double double down popup headlights there's like 10 lights on so many lights on this car you got to see where you're going you're going that fast you you want four fog lights plus another fog light above it say less fam dude we'll light up the whole I wonder if it had a good sound system I don't know so well the father of disco was involved so it should have yeah probably had a record player in there so arguments over the slow slow process caused marer to leave the company as the first cars were finally rolling out to customers which is unfortunate uh cetta could never get us street legal status for the v16t thanks to our emissions and crash testing standards uh the hand built Supercar barely made money despite the $280,000 estimated price the 1990 market crash and Japanese bubble economy implosion financially sang cetta zampoli went bankrupt in the mid90s still cool yeah the next car one of my favorites is a 1991 Vector W these are like real poster cars you know growing up it was like yeah the vector now Vector initially introduced the vector wedge shape in 1972 now the operational version of the car the W2 was introduced in 1978 and a bunch of journalists who wrote for magazines drove this car and they praised it they're like hey this thing's pretty good now the W8 was supposed to be made in produced in the'80s but it took another 10 years for it to finally be made in the '90s so 20 years of production to get this car out and then the company went bankrupt oops the company went under in 1993 after only making 17 cars M what a bummer but of those 17 cars had some pretty cool features the deb8 was powered by twin turbo 6 L Aluminum V8 that reportedly got you up to 218 mph with a 06 60 of 4.2 seconds Vector claimed 1 1200 horsepower was achievable when they crank the Boost all the way up that's pretty mad although uh this car was a pretty good chunk of change more money it was $283,000 in 1990s cash that's like 10 billion today yeah it's a lot of De and despite it weighing 3,300 lb the thing could pull a g in the corners which is pretty cool all right yeah they're sweet angles stopper I don't know I kind of like this thing well yeah OT is really cool yeah now like a lot of other cars on this list had a ton of problems with it uh car and drivers test Vehicles they had three of them had a bunch of issues also they had a high-profile client by one of these Andre agasse ever heard of him he ended up suing the company because he had so many problems with his car bummer yeah all of that led to the company's demise and they shut down in 1993 after only making 17 cars it's a real shame some of these cars didn't get made into production that's a bummer at least there's some of them out there though um and a lot of the things that were learned on a lot of these cars have uh you know stuck around and made their way into other cars so for sure we got to thank the national motor museum for letting us come here see this cool car behind us see a bunch of uh cool cars around us come check these guys out if you're out here in adelay Australia follow Zach at Zack joob Follow Me at Jeremiah Burton follow us here at donut at donut media bye-bye byebye