Unfortunately, the MCV CH4 never made it to production because of several issues. MCVs sponsors had dropped out and stopped funding the concept car, the Ministry of Finance had made it difficult for investors to invest in MCV and worse of all it was the beginning of the dot com age and everybody was investing in the World Wide Web, nobody wanted to invest in a startup supercar company. The wanted to invest in the future.

“Nobody wanted to invest in hard assets, they wanted to put it in webpages” – Bob Waddell’s statement as paraphrased by Nicholas Maronese of Autofocus.ca

Additionally, Bob Waddell’s (Founder of MCV) wife had been diagnosed with cancer around the same time as MCVs downfall. This led Bob Waddell to shut down MCV