RE: Geneva 2012: Gumpert Apollo Enraged and R

[RichTBiscuit]

It's been designed to go fast, and the looks are simply a by product of this.

I doubt much 'design' was involved, and it looks all the better for it.

If you dont understand this, the car is probably not for you....

[Luca Brasi]

EDLT said:

Because it is an obscenely fast, road legal race car.

62mph from rest in 2.9 seconds, 125mph in 8.7 seconds and top out at 205mph. Stupidly fast but nothing an Aventador or an F12 can't do. If I were able to spend that kind of money on a car it might as well look good.

[mikEsprit]

The Enraged is parked next to the Radical in the embarrassingly-named car garage.

I do like the different colored stripes, though.

[jon-]

Luca Brasi said:

EDLT said:

Because it is an obscenely fast, road legal race car.

62mph from rest in 2.9 seconds, 125mph in 8.7 seconds and top out at 205mph. Stupidly fast but nothing an Aventador or an F12 can't do. If I were able to spend that kind of money on a car it might as well look good.

It generates downforce worth noting. High speed direction change it will kill the F12, and should show the Aventador how to do it.

[Baryonyx]

I love the Apollo (it's one of my favourite supercars) but I prefer the standard model in blue, cheers!

[Mastodon2]

Luca Brasi said:

62mph from rest in 2.9 seconds, 125mph in 8.7 seconds and top out at 205mph. Stupidly fast but nothing an Aventador or an F12 can't do. If I were able to spend that kind of money on a car it might as well look good.

Will either of those cars be as raw and race-car like as the Apollo though? If you arrive in Casino Square in an F12, you will look like a millionaire playboy. If you arrive in an Apollo, you will look like you've just come from Le Mans.

[Civpilot]

Dave Hedgehog said:

omg so much want!!!

I cant wait for the Gumpert "did you spill my pint" or the Gumpert "stitch this"

I think those two are not scheduled to launch until after the Gumpert "Iron my shirt bh" and the much anticipated stripped out model, the Gumpert "fk you"

[Riggers]

Civpilot said:

I think those two are not scheduled to launch until after the Gumpert "Iron my shirt bh" and the much anticipated stripped out model, the Gumpert "fk you"

But surely the R's pretty stripped out already???

[tommy vercetti]

Remember when the Gumpert Apollo came on Top Gear, still like it and the figures sounds mental, but the names a bit 'gay'

[cjm]

No news of the Gumpert Tornante that was about last year?

[Tonto]

Heard that there is a de-tuned version of the Enraged on the way, called the Apollo Slightly Miffed.

[EDLT]

jon- said:

Luca Brasi said:

EDLT said:

Because it is an obscenely fast, road legal race car.

62mph from rest in 2.9 seconds, 125mph in 8.7 seconds and top out at 205mph. Stupidly fast but nothing an Aventador or an F12 can't do. If I were able to spend that kind of money on a car it might as well look good.

It generates downforce worth noting. High speed direction change it will kill the F12, and should show the Aventador how to do it.

Enough downforce that it could run upside down, iirc. Which is why it looks the way it does, form following function.

[Ferosferio]

Hideous yet utterly fantastic.

Oh, and those are some of the worst DRLs I've ever seen.

[HoonyPoony]

It doesnt look that bad. Compared to most new cars (yes yes i know its a supercar but there arent many new cars at all that look any particular kind of good), its a stunner.

And the amount of fun to be had in one has gotta be in the many manys'.

We had a weedy little R.E teacher at school called mr gumpert. Quite obviously he had the piss taken out of him each day.

[Vilhelm]

Tonto said:

Heard that there is a de-tuned version of the Enraged on the way, called the Apollo Slightly Miffed.

It'll have a low-power 'everyday' mode called 'marginally displeased'.

[paul_k]

Nutter car. You need real balls to drive one of these fast at the track.

3 of these were at the ring car park last year.
After 2 laps one of them was written off big time.

[PascalBuyens]

cjm said:

No news of the Gumpert Tornante that was about last year?

Looks a bit dull compared to the Apollo, no?

[Gorbyrev]

OK - I know we have a supercar spotted thread but:
Apollo Mission: all very well having a number plate on the "enraged" but has anyone actually snapped one of these on the Queen's highway? Pics would be appreciated.

[soad]

Ferosferio said:

Hideous yet utterly fantastic.

Oh, and those are some of the worst DRLs I've ever seen.

Agreed.

[hornet]

Tonto said:

Heard that there is a de-tuned version of the Enraged on the way, called the Apollo Slightly Miffed.

Or maybe the Apollo Strongly Worded Letter?