Yahoo Autos Apollo Is Back With a Car Developed by Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus
Less than a decade after former Audi Sport director Roland Gumpert started his namesake sports car company, it had to file for bankruptcy, putting an end to the bonkers Apollo. Three years (and a few concepts) later, Hong Kong investors came to the rescue, relaunching the brand simply as Apollo with the 1000-horsepower Arrow concept. Now, there's a bit more news. The very good sort.
The Apollo Arrow is headed for production. It will be developed by Manifattura Automobili Torino, the engineering company behind Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus. And since MAT builds the SCG 003 Competizione, the track-focused CS and the road-going Stradale, Apollo's new car will utilize carbon fiber chassis technology developed for Jim Glickenhaus's bespoke supercar. Therefore, the FIA-spec racing version of the Apollo, codenamed "Titan," will pack an N/A V12 from a yet-undisclosed manufacturer, while the road-going Arrow comes with SCG's roughly 750 horsepower 4.4 liter twin-turbo V8, based on the latest tech Germany can offer.
The latter will debut at the Geneva Motor Show next March alongside the SCG 003 Stradale, while you'll have to wait until the Goodwood Festival of Speed to hear the Apollo Titan roar.
The fact that Jim Glickenhaus has surrounded himself with pros from Ferrari, Pininfarina and various motorsport teams is certainly paying off. The SCG 003C completed two Nürburgring 24s and achieves better and better results after each VLN/DMV GTC race. This partnership with Apollo will bring economies of scale to the engineering powerhouse that is MAT in Italy. After all, it's not cheap to build unique hypercars, let alone to race them.
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