Apollo Finally Delivers Its Gumpert Successor, And It's Wearing a Beach Theme

Hypercar promises are easy to make and notoriously hard to keep, especially when a brand builds in the single digits rather than hundreds. Apollo knows this better than most. The Evo debuted back in late 2021, and it's only now, at Goodwood Festival of Speed, that the first production-spec car has actually rolled out in front of customers.

That car is called the Caribbean Dragon, and it arrives roughly two decades after the wild Gumpert Apollo that started this lineage. Only ten Evos will ever be built, positioning it as a successor to the equally limited Apollo IE, and arguably an even more theatrical one.

The paintwork alone tells you how much effort Apollo poured into this build. A pearlescent white finish with a Diamond Dust texture took over 1,000 hours to apply, meant to evoke sun-bleached sand. Splashes of Ocean Blue paint and tinted blue carbon fiber - visible on the sculpted engine cover, sections of the hood, the front wheel arches, and the roof scoop - are there to mimic Caribbean waters, tying the whole exterior theme together.

Step inside and the beach concept continues. Blue carbon lines the interior of the carbon-fiber tub, while 3D-printed aluminum trim with a raw metallic look covers the center console and dash structure. The steering wheel is machined from a solid aluminum billet before being wrapped in leather with blue carbon inlays, and the harness-equipped seats are finished in a matching white-and-blue leather combo.

Underneath the showpiece styling sits the same heart found in every Evo: a 6.3-liter naturally aspirated V12 sourced from Ferrari, then stripped down and rebuilt by motorsport specialists at HWA AG. The result is 800 horsepower and 765 Nm of torque sent through a six-speed sequential transmission to the rear wheels only.

That setup is enough to push the Caribbean Dragon to 62 mph in just 2.7 seconds, with a top speed of 208 mph. Given how few of these will exist and how much customization goes into each one, expect every future Evo owner to push Apollo toward an equally personal, and equally slow-to-arrive, build of their own.