Gumpert Apollo

In 2000 Roland Gumpert proposed a new generation sports activities automobile. one of the first worries of this vehicle turned into that it became a road-legal car which could be ready for the racetrack. He lower back to Germany on the quit of 2001, after more than three years in China in which he become the top of sales and advertising, chargeable for the improvement of the provider community of the Audi-VW joint enterprise. simply after he returned to Germany, vehicle designer Roland Mayer requested him if he might assist him in building a prototype supercar. Audi authorised Gumpert's involvement on this assignment, at the situation that, in the event that they did in the end broaden a brand new supercar, it'd now not be a prototype, however a sequence product.

The organisation, positioned in Altenburg, Germany, changed into based in 2004 below the name GMG Sportwagenmanufaktur Altenburg GmbH. The technical recommendations have been defined and the first designs of the auto were drawn with the aid of Marco Vanetta. Upon Vanetta's of completion of this method, the first 1:4 scale version of Gumpert's car turned into produced in 2001.

Gumpert persisted with the improvement of the Apollo, at the side of the Technical university of Munich and the Ingolstadt university of implemented Sciences. they have assisted with the constructional paintings, pc simulations, and wind tunnel assessments. This research and development helped forming the blueprint for the first 1:1 scale model. ultimately,  prototype Apollos were built. manufacturing of the Apollo started out in October 2005.

Motorsport

HHF Hybrid concept car

for the duration of April 2005 the Apollo made its racing debut in the Divinol Cup. This Apollo became pushed via Belgian race driving force Ruben Maes; he finished 1/3 on the Hockenheimring race music. three years later Gumpert announced that they might enter a hybrid version of the Apollo within the 2008 24 Hours Nürburgring, pushed by 2004 winner Dirk Müller and ex-components One racer Heinz-Harald Frentzen. 3 months surpassed between the primary discussions and the finished hybrid Apollo. The Apollo became driven in the 24 Hours Nürburgring in may also 2008. The hybrid Apollo can supply as much as 519 ps (382 kW; 512 hp), powered with a 3.three litre V8 dual-turbo engine coupled with a a hundred kW (136 ps; 134 hp) electric motor. the auto has the capacity to recharge the battery below braking.

On July 27, 2008 an Apollo sport became featured on the United Kingdom display top tools. Richard Hammond and The Stig drove the Apollo sport.[5] With a lap time of one:17.1, the Apollo game became for some time the fastest at the 'power Lap Board', however has been beaten by means of the Bugatti Veyron notable sport, and five different cars given that then.

design[edit]

The Apollo is a 1,100 kg (2,four hundred lb) to one,2 hundred kg (2,six hundred lb) (depending on alternatives), street-legal racing vehicle. it's far a mid-engined, rear wheel force -seater built on a tubular chromoly frame, with fiberglass or elective carbon fiber frame panels. Gumpert claim the design of the Apollo is optimized in order that the car ought to power upside-down in a tunnel if pushed at sufficiently excessive speeds (over a hundred ninety mph), however this has not been examined.

Salon international de l'car - Geneva

Engine

The Gumpert Apollo used the Leipzig-Altenburg Airport as a test track.

The Apollo makes use of a 4163 cc bi-faster intercooled version of the Audi V8 engine. The 90° V8 has a closed-deck mild steel crankcase with dry sump lubrication. The light steel cylinder heads have 5 valves in line with cylinder, 4 overhead camshafts, VarioCam Direct variable valve timing at the intakes, and hydraulic valve clearance compensation. The double-flow exhaust system has four oxygen sensors to screen the gasoline mixture, and a 3-way catalytic converter. cutting-edge controls encompass an on-board diagnostic system, 8-coil digital ignition, sequential multipoint gas injection, and an digital (force via cord) accelerator machine.

There are three engine kinds available:

Base model - about 650 playstation  (478 kW; 641 bhp)

recreation model - about seven-hundred ps (515 kW; 690 bhp)

Race model - approximately 800 playstation  (588 kW; 789 bhp)

velocity evaluation (650HP):

top velocity is 360.four km/h (223.9 mph)

0-a hundred km/h (62 mph) reached in three.1 seconds

zero-2 hundred km/h (120 mph) in 9.1 seconds.

Dimensions

period: 4,460 mm (176 in)

Width: 1,998 mm (seventy eight.7 in)

peak: 1,114 mm (43.nine in)

Wheel Base: 2,700 mm (110 in)

Weight

shrink Weight: underneath 1,200 kg (2,600 lb)

overall Allowed Weight: 1,500 kg (three,300 lb)