GENEVA MOTOR SHOW: Apollo readying “fastest road car on the planet”
New tease from revived car-maker appears to show even faster, more extreme version of Gumpert Apollo about to be revealedNewly named car-maker Apollo, which rose out of the ashes of bankrupt Gumpert, says it will reveal nothing less than the “fastest car on the planet” at the Geneva motor show.
The teaser pic posted over the weekend appears to be the unmistakable wheel-arch from the original Gumpert Apollo.
Originally, it was the thought the German car-maker’s rescuers, who rebranded the firm ‘Apollo’, might pick up where the former bankrupt Gumpert left off by pushing ahead with production of the 2011 Tonante concept.
However, it now seems there’s life left in the old Apollo hypercar which, incidentally, set lap records at both the Nurburgring and Top Gear’s test track during its lifetime.
Now set to be renamed the Apollo Arrow, the refreshed hypercar could come with upwards of 550kW and an all-new aero kit to help it bag boasting rights to the world’s fastest car.
Not that the old car was exactly what you’d call slow.
Weighing in at just 1200kg, the old Audi-sourced twin-turbo 478kW/850Nm 4.2-litre V8 could hurl it to 100km/h in less than three seconds and on top 200km/h in just 8.9 seconds.
Its 360km/h top speed is still pretty respectable too, but with a new Bugatti Chiron on the way, it’s not known how the born again hypercar-maker plans to reclaim its crown.
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