Gumpert

Historically, one of the criticisms leveled at Turn 10 Studios’ Forza Motorsport franchise has been that it didn’t give much love to the more obscure boutique automakers of the world relative to the big dogs. That’s been rectified with the downloadable Forza Motorsport 3 car pack for the month of May, which features 10 rare, unusual, and oh by the way, scorching fast supercars.

Two of the ten cars – the Devon GTX and the Spada Codatronca TS – are polarizingly-styled coachbuilt specials based on ground-pounding American sports cars (the Dodge Viper and Chevrolet Corvette, respectively). The remaining eight are built from the ground up: the stylish Spyker C8 Laviolette LM85; the wild child Gumpert Apollo S; the twin-turbo and tail-happy Rossion Q1; the BMW M5-powered, neo-Austin-Healey Weismann GT MF5; the thunder from Down Under Joss JT1; the sleek American Mosler MT900S; the pigmy LMP1 racer Radical SR8; and the all-American Veyron-stomper, the SSC Ultimate Aero. How do these monsters look and sound in action? Make like any of these cars at the Nürburgring’s Pflanzgarten corner and jump!

The Gumpert Apollo Speed Concept first burst on the scene at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. Since then everything has been mums the word. However, a photographer recently caught this new supercar running around Nurburgring in racing guise.

Roland Gumpert is a man on a mission. And that mission is extreme horsepower, exceptional handling and ridiculously aggressive aesthetics. The guys over at Top Gear can appreciate this passion as the Gumpert Apollo provided the fastest lap time of any car they have ever tested. The upcoming Gumpert Apollo Speed should be even more impressive. We'll have to wait until the Geneva Motor Show in March for the official unveiling and be happy with the recently released teaser image. Expectations have been set that the car will be able to perform 0 to 62 in 3 seconds flat and be capable of a top speed of 224 mph.