How many gumpert apollos were made

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But Italian it was — at least partly. Intermeccanica of Italy produced the bodies, which were mounted to fresh Buick Skylark chassis. The engine was also from Buick, a 4. There was also an Apollo GT model with a 3. This car has neither engine. When Apollo had the cars shipped from Italy with the bodies, they were to go to Oakland for installation of their powertrain. They did — except for seven of them which were sold before they ever made it back to the Oakland shop. The owners took it upon themselves to finish the cars.

Five got Chevy engines, one got a Ford… and one disappeared. The man who bought this car took it to a shed in San Francisco to complete it, but then disappeared. The car was rediscovered in , when the current owner acquired it and completed it using the Chevy engine. Only 66 Apollo coupes were built and this is This is a rare car and it is quite nice, having only covered about 3, miles. The whole car weighs in at 1,kg, Apollo claims.

And thanks to a monumental 1,kg of claimed net downforce at mph, the Apollo IE can uses the same party trick as the old, defunct Gumpert. Yes, it could drive on the ceiling, theoretically. Funny how no-one ever steps up to test that, eh? Mr Choi tells TopGear. That explains why the IE has a relatively old-school powerplant…. Motive force comes from a mid-mounted 6. The V12 is naturally aspirated, and gets no electro-hybrid boost, unlike a certain Italian hypercar we could name which also has a 6.

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Thanks to a 9,rpm redline and lb ft, Apollo claims mph in 2. Healthy, but not outrageous in our twisted times. The material attention to detail everywhere is pretty nuts actually — very Pagani-like in the obsession with lacquered, symmetrical carbon and anodized metal components.

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