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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzen View Post
    I think it is an amazingly sexy car...

    3 gorgeous things.. Love the Phantom's!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MattyT View Post
    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
    too bad Matty, I'm picturing myself going shopping in it on a saturday
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    Just watched the Top Gear review of it, hey bag it out big time for how it looks.

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Treza360 View Post
    Fashion is fleeting. Style is forever.
    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.
    Last edited by team_v; 17-11-2009 at 08:18 PM.

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