Saw the car in the spring in Scottsdale Porsche car show and Todd was there. The one I saw was Audi powered and had a lift kit for the street which did not look comfortable enough for the street to me and was not big on the sound. Bet it was a hoot to drive though.

 

This is that same car, although EVOMS has a second Apollo right now. All of the Apollo's have the Audi 4.2, and this one has a 4 wheel KW hydraulic lift for clearing speed bumps. You're right about the sound. It sounds like something is there, but this is one of those unique cars that goes faster than it sounds!

 

Roman, will your R8 end up with the "same" engine as the Apollo??

 

It is a Gumpert-inspired build, with the motor assembly being right around the corner. It's very possible it will end up putting out meaningfully more HP, but the car weighs 1000 lbs more.

 

Actually, he (I forgot his name) mentioned that the race version has the new v10 motor in it as well.

 

Oh and I also wanted to add that I'm jealous of you guys getting to drive it. He would not even let me sit in it at ERTC last weekend .

 

Good catch, James. I was thinking of the street version


I am not familiar with all the specifics of their US tour and what they allowed and didn't allow. This was a very spontaneous pit stop for them on the way down to Sharkwerks from Seattle. I just happened to be an EVOMS project customer with keys to a racetrack on the way down, and it gave them an opportunity to relax and give it a little exercise.

Here is Jeff Gamroth of Rothsport about to mash on it. He came a couple of seconds off the track record for a car, and he said he was only going 6/10ths and with DOT tires.

 

better than ****

 

Nice shots Gigharbor, any video of someone lapping the car? Or even some video of the RSA getting schooled.

 

They say it produces so much downforce that you can drive it upside down on the ceiling through a tunnel. Have to try that one....who's first.

 

One thing we did see...this is pretty new pavement, and was just swept that morning. But every time it went down the front straight at full throttle, there was so much draft being created behind the car that it pulled dirt from the runoff area and created a long dirt plume behind the car as it sped by. There is serious aerodynamics going on with this car.

 

There was no camera on or in the Gumpert, but we did put one on the RSA. But the camera is up in Canada somewhere, so hopefully the video gets downloaded and sent to me so I can share. This car really is the Batmobile.

 

i don't think anyone took video - strictly because we're dumb.

the Forza team tried to make it down with a film crew but couldn't pull it together.

 

A downer that we don't have in-car video, but funny how things work out. A little bit of disorganization and spontaneity resulted in us being stuck with an orange spaceship to drive on the racetrack for 7 hours!

 

Sounds like a good test to let a bunch of Yah Hooo's drive the car for that amount of time.