APOLLO INTENSA EMOZIONE : WHITEDRAGON

Limited to ten bespoke units priced at a tasty €2.3m a pop, the Apollo IE is a track-only, road-illegal supercar that’s here to launch Apollo into the boutique exotica scene. No longer affiliated with Roland Gumpert, the company’s been bought out and reimagined by Hong Kong businessman Norman Choi, and he’s created what he describes as a nostalgic GT1 racecar for the 21st century. You’re not looking at computer renderings here, by the way. Both the giant top-mounted wing and the car stuck to the other end do indeed exist, and make a quite terrifying noise.

Where the hideous old Gumpert Apollo cloaked a tubular steel chassis in slab-sided carbon panels, the slashed-up IE is all carbon fibre. Carbon tub, carbon crash boxes front and rear (the whole chassis weighs just 105kg) and carbon body panels on top, from the same supplier as Pagani. The whole car weighs in at 1,250kg, Apollo claims.

Once all ten, completely bespoke Apollo IEs are spoken for, the company intends to distill what it’s learned into a (slightly) cheaper, street-legal car, with the same enthusiast-pleasing, passion-before-performance philosophy. So, if you’ve never got on with the looks or noise of a Pagani Huayra, and Koenigseggs are a bit too fast for your liking, Apollo might have cornered a slice of the unobtanium market.