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Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH is a German supercar manufacturing company headquartered in Altenburg. Roland Gumpert, the founder and owner of Gumpert, once held the position of director of Audi Sport.〔 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】format=PDF )〕 Under his management, Audi won a total of 25 World Rally Championship races and four World Rally Championship titles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gumpert Car )〕 ==History== In 2001, Roland Gumpert proposed a new generation sports car, one that would be race-ready yet also street-legal. After Gumpert returned to Germany from China at the end of 2001, Roland Meyer asked him to assist in building a prototype sports car. Audi approved Gumpert's involvement in this project on the condition that the new sports car would be a series product and not a prototype.〔(【引用サイトリンク】format=PDF )〕 The company was founded in 2004 under the name "GMG Sportwagenmanufaktur Altenburg GmbH". The technical guidelines were defined and the first designs of the car were drawn by Marco Vanetta. Upon Vanetta's completion of this process, the first 1:4 scale model of Gumpert's car was produced in 2002. Gumpert continued with the development of the Apollo, along with the Technical University of Munich and the Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences. They have assisted with the construction work, computer simulations, and wind tunnel tests. This research and development helped forming the blueprint for the first full scale model. Finally two prototype Apollos were constructed.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur - History )〕 The production of the Apollo started in October 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】format=PDF ) 〕 On July 27, 2008 an Apollo Sport was featured on the UK show ''Top Gear''. Richard Hammond and the Stig drove the Apollo Sport. With a lap time of 1.17.1, the Apollo Sport became the new leader on the Power Lap Board,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Top Gear - Power Laps )〕 0.2 seconds faster than the former lap leader, the Ascari A10. The Apollo was faster than Bugatti Veyron and Pagani Zonda around the ''Top Gear'' track. It was later beaten with a time of 01:16.8 by the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. In August 2013, the company filed for bankruptcy and went into liquidation after an anonymous backer pulled out of a deal that could have saved the company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gumpert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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