Apollo
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Apollo's first EV will be a roadster due in early 2024.
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Apollo previews new hypercar and electric coupe
Hypercar marque Apollo is expanding into the rapidly growing EV segment.
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Apollo Intensa Emozione limited to 10 units, and 3 of them are coming to North America
The Apollo IE costs more than $2.7 million and all build slots are gone.
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De Tomaso makes return with stunning P72 supercar
The same people behind the Apollo Intensa Emozione V-12 supercar is working on a revival of De Tomaso.
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Apollo IE enters production, starts deliveries this summer
Apollo, the supercar startup born from the ashes of Gumpert, is finally ready to build its first car: the Intensa Emozione. The company announced Tuesday that it has partnered with HWA to build the supercar and also detailed some major changes since 2017's reveal. We previously reported the company...
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$2.71M Apollo IE sold out, looks even crazier as track car
Some boutique supercar companies make a name for themselves but fizzle out after a few years. A handful of those come back only to suffer the same fate once again. Apollo is a company reborn after the death of former carmaker Gumpert. With the Intensa Emozione hypercar, it appears the company might...
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Apollo is the latest player on the hypercar scene. Reborn from past supercar glory, its Intensa Emozione, or IE, is meant to be a return to a time when supercars were truly intimidating machines. A lot of that stems from the use of a 6.3-liter V-12 engine that produces 788 horsepower and revs to more than 9,000 rpm. But as Alex Goy from Carfection/Jalopnik found out, Apollo is ready to unleash even more power and fury if the customer so desires. As you can see in the accompanying video, Ryan Berris, general manager of manufacturing for Apollo, says the company has done a feasibility study...
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Apollo says hypercars too capable, too diluted
Ryan Berris is the General Manager of Apollo Automobil, and he thinks today's super and hyper cars are a bit on the tame side. Speaking at an event where his company's Intenza Emozione made its static debut, Berris added, "cars now are becoming almost too capable, it dilutes the driving...
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Apollo calls on Mercedes motorsport partner HWA to hone IE supercar
Apollo is a Chinese-backed supercar startup born out of the ashes of Gumpert, which ran into financial troubles in 2012. The company's first product is the Intensa Emozione, a track-focused supercar with a screaming V-12 and a hyper-aggressive design that makes a Lamborghini look mild in...
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Watch an Apollo Intensa Emozione do burnouts on the streets of Hong Kong
Apollo's utterly mad supercar, the Intensa Emozione, was recently filmed on the streets of Hong Kong where the driver decided a few quick burnouts were in order. It's also one of the few times we've heard the supercar running, and the closest we've gotten to hear the throttle mashed to the floor...
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The Apollo Intensa Emozione sounds amazing even at part throttle
The world is nearly ready to welcome another low-volume high-performance road rocket. This one comes to us from Apollo. It's called the Intensa Emozione, which is Italian for "intense emotion," a name entirely fitting as you'll soon discover in this video taken during a recent track day. You'll...
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V-12-powered Apollo Intensa Emozione supercar revealed
Supercar startup Apollo has finally unveiled its Intensa Emozione, the name being Italian for “intense emotion.” The car was presented late on Tuesday at a special event in Italy where Apollo confirmed that just 10 examples will be sold, each at a price approaching $2.71 million. Apollo...
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Apollo is just a day out from the reveal of its track-focused supercar, the Intensa Emozione, and to build the excitement the Chinese-backed, Italian-based firm has revealed the car’s monocoque chassis. The chassis is made entirely from carbon fiber and looks good enough to sit in an art installation as a piece of sculpture. Sadly, it will be mostly concealed within the skin of the new IE. Also visible are the exhaust pipes from the car’s mid-mounted V-12 engine, which flow into 3-pipe set of exhaust tips. Peak output of the car should be close to 800 horsepower. The choice of...
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Apollo IE is the Intensa Emozione
Remember the Arrow supercar unveiled by Apollo at the 2016 Geneva auto show? Well, the company is working on an even more extreme version designed for the race track, and it’s just received a name. The car will be called the Apollo Intensa Emozione, and we should be seeing it soon. Potential...
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Apollo and Roland Gumpert part ways
Apollo Automobil, the Chinese-backed, Italian-based supercar company born out of the remains of Germany’s Gumpert, announced on Friday it has cut ties with Roland Gumpert. The former Audi executive is the founder and namesake of Gumpert and started working for Apollo after it bought the...
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Apollo partners with Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus for Arrow supercar
Chinese-backed supercar startup Apollo, formed from the bankrupt remains of Gumpert, unveiled its first model at the 2016 Geneva auto show, a 986-horsepower mid-engine spaceship called the Arrow. To handle the development and production, Apollo has turned to Manifattura Automobili Torino, the...
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Apollo N debuts at 2016 Geneva Motor Show
Alongside the striking Arrow supercar on Apollo’s stand at this week’s 2016 Geneva Motor Show was another, somewhat more familiar model. The car is the N, essentially an updated version of the former Gumpert Apollo. The latter N symbolizes the Nürburgring, the race track Apollo...
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Apollo arrives in Geneva with 986-hp Arrow supercar
Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur at one point was the maker of the fastest road car in the world. The car was the Apollo Sport, which in 2009 set the fastest lap time for a production car at the Nürburgring. Even today the time of 7:11.57 remains one of the fastest set at the Green Hell...
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There was a time when the fastest car in production came from a little-known German firm with the unusual name Gumpert. The car, labeled the Apollo Sport (shown below), managed to lap Germany’s Nürburgring in a time of 7:11.57, a time it achieved all the way back in 2009 and still considered one of the fastest laps at the track for a production car. What made the effort all the more impressive is that the time was achieved using a car with only rear-wheel drive. Nevertheless, Gumpert went bankrupt three years later and its assets sold off to Chinese group Consolidated Ideal...
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Gumpert Reborn As Apollo, Promises New Car For Geneva Motor Show
Germany’s Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur has been reborn as Apollo Automobil after the company filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and its remaining assets sold off to Chinese group Consolidated Ideal TeamVenture—the same group that recently bought the rights to Italy’s De Tomaso. Apollo...
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