Glickenhaus to build Apollo
Ex-Gumpert supercar to be built in Italy by an AmericanThe start up and the stillborn have joined forces to keep the supercar dream alive for Apollo.
Fresh-faced American-Italian supercar company Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus will build the Apollo supercar in a deal struck after Hong Kong investment group Ideal Team Ventures rescued Gumpert Sportwagen Manufaktur.
The move is another step in the new life of the supercar company founded a decade ago by ex Audi Sport boss Roland Gumpert and driven to bankruptcy nearly four years ago.
It showed the 1000 horsepower Apollo Arrow concept car this year, and it’s this car that will be pieced together by SCG’s Italian-based engineering outfit, Manifattura Automobili Torino (MAT).
The same outfit that builds the Competizione and Stradale versions of the SCG 003, MAT will build the carbon-fibre Apollo in both road (S) and race (Titan) versions.
The road versions will be based around a 4.4-litre, twin-turbo V8 from an undisclosed German supplier (which sounds suspiciously like the capacity and layout of the BMW M5), but will use a naturally aspirated V12 in its competition variant.
The road version will debut at next March’s Geneva Motor Show while the FIA-homologated Apollo Titan race version will debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in June.
SCG’s own road car, the SCG003 S will also debut at the Geneva Motor Show.
“I’m really excited to be working on this project with Apollo. The Arrow is a thing of beauty and we can definitely bring a lot of technical know how to the table from our successful experience of competing on the toughest races in motorsport,” SCG owner James Glickenhaus said.
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