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The Apollo Arrow is Gumpert's glorious resurrection

2016-03-02
hello guys welcome to the Geneva Motor Show 2016 I'm standing here with yak appeal of ski who is from Apollo and they're showing off their brand new part they just debuted here in Geneva is the Apollo era and yeah cool a key was to start off by telling us about the photo and where the company came so the company origin was founded by Rome Gumpert which is the guy responsible for the Quattro a groupie rally at Audi so our T brands wouldn't be what it is now without Roland Gumpert and so he has amazing history with engineering and after he finished his career at Audi he wasn't himself and so he will that crazy sports car and so some when they won the car whenever the new company started it totally destroyed the Nurburgring times it was all the fastest and still is one of the oldest and fastest cars at Nurburgring and at the Top Gear top you track which is a few all generations generations of tires really not up to date and it's still in top tens of also with the new model I believe we're gonna we're gonna be at the top of the list again so tell us what makes the Aero special apart from its looks which are obviously really aggressive and beautiful and everything else the RO is special it's a it's really when people say it's a is a is a race car for the road this really is a race before it's a steel frame but it's highly highly engineered very stiff frame we using the newest v8 technology a twin charge 1000 horsepower 1000 Newton meters of torque and it is a very very light car we are aiming for 1.2 or 1.3 tonne for the production car so I think we're going to destroy all the times around so that's important you said aiming for and this is your concept car and just looking around it you have all these fins and accents and everything else it just looks like one of those concept cars that will look very different once it actually makes it on the road but you feel differently about that yes yes we know that it looks very concept carriage but when we were designing the the the model here and we really have production in mind so so all the surfaces have sense they're very aerodynamically efficient and we didn't try to pretend that it's a concept car we have very realistic and homologation ready lights we have very real door handle we didn't use any kind of concept car gimmicks so it looks extreme but it's actually a we're really going from confidence and ultimately it's going to be made out of carbon fiber yes yes and there's something in fancy with the exhaust system yes the the full body will become a fiber and also the safety cell for the passenger compartment that's gonna be all for all carbon all German made and the engineers we have a design that we were very lucky because the engine technology was called hot v so the exhaust is at the top of the engine and which gives us design is very cool place to position the exhaust which is at the top of the rear of the car and so it really looks like an f-22 fighter jet and how does it sound I think is going to sound pretty brutal it's a it's going to be a deeper and more kind of aggressive sound than than maybe the Italian competition it's going to be a movie American v8 ramble about a twin-turbocharged just hyper loud and also because the exhaust is so short because of the mid-engine we can have top exhaust is going to be a fingertip moment the loudest things out there so the arrow is supposed to be a racecar for the road essentially but we already have quite a few of them you see if you new debuts here at Geneva Lamborghini and all the other guys hanging over there near Bugatti how do you distinguish yourselves from them some very clever engineering solutions that most of the companies don't talk about like suspension geometry that's not really something you put in the brochure but it really counts and I think because of that we can still hold the amazing times at Nurburgring and Top Gear topic trucks and also the stiffness of the chassis it is really it is really race ready yeah you can get it easily or straight away if I homologated for the high top race classes which most of the other car supercars can do straightaway they have to do modifications to the car to get the homologated for for race classes so that's then that case we are very very unique so the era's plan for 2017 how much do you think it will cost I think it will be definitely cheaper than the current hypercars probably below a million year old okay that's really a we will what we're doing our best to be as cost-effective very good well that's it from the polar arrow here at the Geneva Motor Show 2016 stay tuned to the verge calm and youtube.com slash Virg
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