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Written by Ollie Kew
The Apollo Intensa Emozione is one of the more sensational-looking vehicles revealed in 2017. There"s new military hardware that looks less angry than this. The designer is a Batman fan (can you tell?). The company chairman told Top Gear he wants to build a new hypercar empty of hybrid batteries and electric motors, and free of turbochargers. Self-driving autonomous functions? That"s really not the Apollo way. This is supposed to be a Nineties GT1-racar-inspired, ten-off slice of carbon fibre fantasy.At the car"s reveal, Apollo boss Norman Choi announced the intention was to build 10 Intensa Emoziones at a cost of around 2m each exclusively for track use, much like the Aston Martin Vulcan or Ferrari FXXK. The lessons learned (and money earned) would then be poured into a street legal, slightly less extreme vehicle.Thing is, the sort of folks who buy 2m hypercars aren"t often told what they can and can"t have. They don"t even have to ask. And so, Apollo is taking the first steps towards making the IE a road-legal car. That"s a 769bhp, naturally aspirated V12-powered road car built to LMP racing standards and claiming to generate more mass in downforce (1,350kg) than it actually weighs (1,250kg) on the street. Our collective mind boggles, indeed.
Date written: 20 Dec 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 10325
The Apollo Intensa Emozione is one of the more sensational-looking vehicles revealed in 2017. There"s new military hardware that looks less angry than this. The designer is a Batman fan (can you tell?). The company chairman told Top Gear he wants to build a new hypercar empty of hybrid batteries and electric motors, and free of turbochargers. Self-driving autonomous functions? That"s really not the Apollo way. This is supposed to be a Nineties GT1-racar-inspired, ten-off slice of carbon fibre fantasy.At the car"s reveal, Apollo boss Norman Choi announced the intention was to build 10 Intensa Emoziones at a cost of around 2m each exclusively for track use, much like the Aston Martin Vulcan or Ferrari FXXK. The lessons learned (and money earned) would then be poured into a street legal, slightly less extreme vehicle.Thing is, the sort of folks who buy 2m hypercars aren"t often told what they can and can"t have. They don"t even have to ask. And so, Apollo is taking the first steps towards making the IE a road-legal car. That"s a 769bhp, naturally aspirated V12-powered road car built to LMP racing standards and claiming to generate more mass in downforce (1,350kg) than it actually weighs (1,250kg) on the street. Our collective mind boggles, indeed.
Date written: 20 Dec 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 10325
