Plenty of people dream of creating their own supercar; however, few people actually turn that dream into a reality. Roland Gumpert did just that when he created the Gumpert Apollo sports car in the 2000s.
Gumpert went bankrupt in late 2013, but the company’s assets wound up in the hands of Ideal Team Ventures, which brought the dream back to life as Apollo Automobil. Gumpert continues to have a hand in the brand and its latest creation: the Apollo Arrow supercar.
The Apollo Arrow concept made its debut at the 2016 Geneva auto show. Apollo has announced that the Arrow will enter production, thanks to a partnership with Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, maker of the SCG 003, the brainchild of automotive enthusiast James Glickenhaus. Both the roadgoing Apollo Arrow S and a new track car, being developed under the name Titan, will use chassis technology borrowed from the SCG 003. Although specifics are not yet available, we expect Apollo to rely on SCG’s exotic carbon-fiber chassis to form the basis of the Arrow S and Titan.
Production will come courtesy of the Italian company Manifattura Automobili Torino (MAT). That’s no surprise, really, to those who have been closely following the SCG 003’s development, since MAT has been an essential partner in the creation of Glickenhaus’s supercar.
Like the Arrow concept, the Apollo Arrow S will use a twin-turbocharged V-8 engine. In the concept, the Audi-sourced engine displaced 4.0 liters and developed a total of 986 horsepower that it sent to the ground via a seven-speed sequential manual transmission. Meanwhile, the Titan track car will rely on a naturally aspirated V-12 engine.
Apollo did not give any indication of when the roadgoing Arrow S will see the light of day; however, the company stated plans to unveil the Titan next spring and run it at the 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
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