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Bugatti and Koenisegg Beware, The Apollo IE is Coming

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Flip this into… 2 likes Leave a comment Share on New life gets breathed  into Gumpert Between 2005 and 2012, a German supercar manufacturer called  Gumpert  built what is likely the most divisive of supercars, the Apollo. While its performance credentials were better than most track-based thoroughbreds, the looks were anything but desirable thanks to a focus on downforce and downforce alone. Styling, apparently, was never part of the picture and the end result was a supercar that resembled a piece of cleaved beef (see for yourself in the gallery below). Now, the company is back, it’s dropped the unappealing Gumpert name, and says it will introduce a better-looking hypercar called the Apollo Intensa Emozione (IE). Little is known about the upcoming IE hypercar other than what is shown in the short 40-second teaser below. From what we can discern, the IE will look at least as extreme as recent hypercar entries like the  Aston Martin Valk...