Reply With QuoteIt also happens to be the quickest road legal car around the top gear test track.
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No doubt you would have heard about and drooled over the not-too-well-known Gumpert Appollo.
It turns out that its just done a lap of Nurburgring in 7.11, compared to Nissan's claim of 7.26.
Just reading Motor magazine and what I wasnt aware is two things:
1/ the Gumpert uses a twin turbo 4.2L Audi V8, offering 515kW and 848Nm.
2/ company founder Roland Gumpert was the man who introduced Quattro to Audi's WRC program
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It also happens to be the quickest road legal car around the top gear test track.
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the blue one was at the GTI Internation this year in the uk....and was up for sale on Piston Heads sortly after.
lovely looking car IMO
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I think the Apollo is quite the ridiculous looking car and would point and laugh at anyone who dared take one onto city streets.
That said, if it rocked up to the track I would be on my knees in worship
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I think it is an amazingly sexy car...
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too bad Matty, I'm picturing myself going shopping in it on a saturdayI think the Apollo is quite the ridiculous looking car and would point and laugh at anyone who dared take one onto city streets.
That said, if it rocked up to the track I would be on my knees in worship
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Just watched the Top Gear review of it, hey bag it out big time for how it looks.
Function > Form any day
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Yeah I think it looks alright hey. I think they get confused often on Top Gear about style and fashion in exactly the same way people get confused about it in the clothing industry.
Fashion is fleeting. Style is forever.
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This is true, and what I was getting at this that the style of the gumpert is just far too race car for city streets. It is purely functional sure, but road cars are meant to look at least kind-of nice since all they'll ever do is 110kph, riiiight? ;P
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I never really liked the Appollo.
Sure it has a lot of power and is lightweight but it has no appeal.
It may beat the GTR around the ring but it has a V8 TT as opposed to a 6 Cyl TT.
It is also more of a race spec'd car than a GTR so it isn't really comparable.
As said previously, the GTR just has more visual appeal as a normal car.
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