Jerry Wiegert, Enigmatic Creator of the Vector Supercar, Has Passed Away As good at promotion as he was at design and engineering, he fueled the dreams of fan boys around the world. Autoweek Jerry Wiegert only ever made a handful of Vectors, but that almost didn’t matter. And despite perpetual fundraising troubles, publicity overloads and at least one lawsuit against a car magazine – ahem, Autoweek – he did what no American car company had ever done, fueled the supercar dreams of a generation with a made-in-America patriotism that would beat Ferrari and Lamborghini at their own games. But first he had to make a supercar.