Gumpert Tornante History

Unveiled at the March 2011 Geneva Motor Show, the Tornante was a collaboration between Gumpert and Milan's storied Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera. It shared the Apollo's chromoly spaceframe and 4.2-litre twin-turbo Audi V8 — tuned here to approximately 700 PS (515 kW) — but wore an entirely new open-top body in aluminium and composite panels, making it roughly 100 kg lighter than the closed Apollo.

Touring's brief was to give the Apollo platform a more usable touring character without sacrificing the supercar performance underneath: the Tornante offered 25 percent more interior volume and luggage space than the coupe, with gullwing-style doors and a boot lid, and a 0–100 km/h time of approximately 2.8 seconds. The design language was flowing and Italian in contrast to the angular Apollo, with a long hood and truncated tail that recalled classic Touring coachwork.

Despite being announced as a 2012 addition to Gumpert's range, the Tornante never entered series production. It remained a one-off design study/prototype, and the company's financial troubles — culminating in its August 2013 bankruptcy filing — meant no customer cars were ever built.