
Look! It’s a new 208mph German car with a naturally aspirated V12 engine!
Recognise the shape? You’ll remember the name: Apollo’s back with this EVO
This is the new Apollo EVO, and the reason its moniker is a little shouty is because it has a lot to shout about. Like its naturally aspirated 6.3-litre V12 and insectoid looks.
Speaking of which… look familiar? It’s apparently the successor to the not-at-all-clunkily-named Apollo Intensa Emozione, and arrives in a limited run of just ten cars, each one built specifically and exclusively for the racetrack. But of course.
To help ferry its exclusive clientele around said racetracks with utmost haste is an – that’s right! - evolution of the V12 that featured so robustly in the Intensa. In this EVO, its 6.3-litres develop 789bhp and 564lb ft.
And when bolted inside the EVO’s 1,300kg wasp-like flanks, it’s enough to propel it from 0-62mph in just 2.7s and on to a top speed of 208mph. Apollo calls such performance “blistering”. You’ll be… buzzing.
The EVO wears a tweaked version of the company’s carbon monocoque, carbon subframes front and back, and carbon crash structures. It’s 15 per cent stiffer and 10 per cent lighter than the bones of the Intensa, and gets a similarly wild bodyshape.
Yes, it’s inspired and shaped and defined by aerodynamic performance because of course it is, but it also appears to be inspired and shaped and defined by the Joel Schumacher-era Batman films.
So much is happening all at the same time! A roof scoop! Fins! Angles! Apollo trumpets the 3D-printed structures and exhaust, though has declined to reveal the interior. No doubt we’ll see it before the EVO meets its first owner next year.
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