Use of the term spread beyond the computer industry. "Newsweek" magazine's Allan Sloan described the manipulation of stocks by Yahoo! and Amazon.com as "financial vaporware" in 1997. "Popular Science" magazine uses a scale ranging from "vaporware" to "bet on it" to describe release dates of new consumer electronics. Car manufacturer General Motors' plans to develop and sell an electric car were called vaporware by an advocacy group in 2008 and "Car and Driver" magazine retroactively described the Vector W8 supercar as vaporware in 2017.