Apollo Arrow: Post-Gumpert hypercar launches at Geneva Motor Show
The prototype promises 986bhp, a 224mph top speed, and truly eye-catching looks
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Your support makes all the difference.Apollo used to be the name of a car made by Gumpert. But now it’s the new name for Gumpert itself (under new ownership, etc) and for a car to be called the Apollo Apollo would just be silly.
So here’s the Apollo Arrow. It’s just a prototype, and production is some way from being a certainty, but it’s just been shown at Geneva and its eye-catching looks (which were styled in Britain) come with an equally eye-catching set of numbers.
Numbers like 224. That’s how many miles you can cover in an hour aboard one of these, given the frankly unlikely combination of wealth and opportunity.
More relevant, and no less impressive, is a projected 0-62 time of 2.9 seconds. That’s seen to by a mid-mounted 4.0-litre Audi V8, which Apollo intends to offer with a variety of power outputs – including, at the top of the tree, 986bhp and 737lb ft.
Even with a big engine on board, though, the Arrow is predicted to weigh less than 1.3 tonnes. Its spaceframe chassis and carbon fibre body help keep this number as low as possible; they’re carried over from the old Gumpert car, though the Arrow aims to be a lot more user-friendly than what was a very uncompromising original.
It’ll even be big enough for tall people to sit in, which has got to be a good thing. And with 10cm lower sills, they’ll be able to get in and out too.
As if to confirm that the Arrow is a real, road-going proposal, it’s being engineered for air-con and even sat-nav. The prototype seen at Geneva was built in Germany, and the company’s founder Roland Gumpert is still part of the action.
As for the kind of action we all want to know about, that’s still some way in the future. When it’ll go on sale, and for how much, are answers we’ll get in due course. For now, the main question is whether it’ll happen at all.
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