Gumpert Apollo Sport: Great pictures!

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Gumpert Apollo Sport: Great pictures!

We found a great picture gallery of the Gumpert Apollo Sport. Nice!

"It has always been a dream of mine," Roland Gumpert declares on his website, "to have a car that has so much downforce, such aerodynamic efficiency that you could drive on the roof of a tunnel at high speed--and this car can." We have to believe him, because Gumpert is the ex-competitions chief of Audi's Quattro division, and helped lead the four rings to the victories that got the Coupe Quattro banned from competition. The Gumpert Apollo uses a 4.2-liter V-8 sourced from the bossman's old company, but two massive turbochargers help it breathe a bit better in this application. The engine's 650 hp and 627 lb-ft of torque are routed through an F1-style sequential six-speed, and the 2420-pound supercar will hit sixty mph in three seconds and 124 mph in just under six more. But it's not all about pure power; the engine has been tuned for strong low-range torque for "connoisseurs who don't necessarily connect driving enjoyment with maximum motor performance and ultimate acceleration," says Gumpert.