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Gumpert Gives Us a Glimpse at the new Tornante Supercar

You may not have heard of the Gumpert Apollo, rare as it is, but it happens to be one of the most devastatingly fast cars on the market. That bit is owed largely to the fact that it's barely more civilized than a race car. But in an effort to attract more customers, the company founded by Audi's former racing chief is launching a new supercar called the Tornante at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show.

We brought you an initial report on the Gumpert Tornante a couple of weeks ago, but the manufacturer has now released the image you see above and some preliminary details on the vehicle. The Tornante will get the same 4.2-liter twin-turbo Audi V8 as the Apollo, but in a more luxurious package and more attractive bodywork designed by by Milanese coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera.

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Gumpert Tortante by Touring Superleggera coming to Geneva

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You may not have heard of Gumpert. The niche German automaker produces the Apollo,a very rare supercar possessed of much speed but not quite as much style. And so Gumpert has commissioned Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera to create a new, more beautiful design for them.

The result is called the Gumpert Tortante, and it will be unveiled at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show in March. We don't know what it will look like, but Gumpert has revealed that it is a mid-engined V8 "fast tourer" with composite body panels on a carbon fiber monocoque spaceframe chassis. We'll just have to wait until March to find out more.

Gallery: Geneva 2010: Gumpert Apollo S

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Luxist Drives the Ferocious and Near-Mythological Gumpert Apollo

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Now this here is a fascinating little creature, a compound of contradictions. It goes by the unlikely name of the Gumpert Apollo, named first forRoland Gumpert, practically the father of Audi's Quattro system yet his creation is rear-wheel-drive only. The second name is for both the Greek god who had nothing to do with speed or handling prowess, and a space mission whose only intersection with cars was a lunar rover. The Gumpert Apollo's badge, however, depicts a Griffin, a creature with the body of a lion and head and wings of an eagle, which is an Indian or Central Asian creation that has essentially no connection to Apollo.

Nevertheless, these ostensible discrepancies live together beautifully in the compact body of the Gumpert Apollo: Roland Gumpert's aim was racing and two driven wheels are all that are allowed in most categories. Apollo might not have been the god of driving, but he did count victory among his oversight portfolio, something the Apollo car is quite familiar with. The Apollo space missions did represent, at the time, the ultimate in proven high-technology. And the Griffin, as a mix of the kings of beasts and birds, represents mastery of land and air. We got to drive it, and we have never found anything like it anywhere else on the planet. The words we found to describe it are these: Hoe. Lee. Cow.

Gallery: Luxist Drives the Gumpert Apollo

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2010 Geneva Motor Show: The Supercars

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A car show just wouldn't be a car show if we didn't catch a glimpse at some of the most exotic, unobtainable and superlative supercars ever to grace black tarmac. And the Geneva Motor Show never disappoints.

Surrounded by countries producing the finest precision performance machines this side of the Space Shuttle, the Geneva show plays common ground to such notables as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti and Koenigsegg, to name just a few. This year they all came to the city by the lake to display their latest innovations. Follow the jump to read and view what they had in store for us.

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