GUMPERT REBORN AS APOLLO, PROMISES A NEW CAR FOR GENEVA MOTOR SHOW

Germany’s Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur has been reborn as Apollo Automobil after the company filed for insolvency in 2012 and its remaining assets sold off to Chinese group Consolidated Ideal TeamVenture—the same group that recently bought the rights to Italy’s De Tomaso.

Gumpert, for the uninitiated, was the maker of some of the most extreme supercars on the planet, namely the Apollo range, though perhaps the cars proved too extreme as they never sold in significant numbers despite being able to outperform some of the best cars from established marques such as Ferrari [NYSE:RACE], Lamborghini and Porsche.

Apollo has now posted up a teaser image of something new it plans to unveil at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show this March. No other details have been released but there are rumors the car will be called an Arrow.Beyond the Apollo, Gumpert has shown two other cars—the Explosion sports car and Tornante supercar—though neither managed to make it to production. It’s possible the Arrow will be a variation of one of these.

Apollo is still led by Gumpert founder Roland Gumpert and is based near the German city of Altenburg. German heritage and engineering prowess will be core attributes of Apollo, with the colors of the German flag even featured in the new company’s logo.