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What we compareApolloABT
Country in archiveGermanyGermany
Founded20041991
FounderRoland GumpertAbt family
HeadquartersDenkendorf, Germany, GermanyKempten im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany
Name originThe brand name Apollo comes from the Gumpert Apollo, the car developed by Roland Gumpert. The sources used here do not explain why the name was chosen, so no meaning is claimed. After the 2016 purchase, the company itself took the name Apollo Automobil.ABT is the surname of the Abt family of Kempten im Allgäu. The family business goes back to 1896, when Johann Baptist Abt's blacksmith and horseshoeing tradition began, and Abt Sportsline GmbH was founded in 1991.
Selected modelsGumpert Apollo, Apollo Arrow, Intensa Emozione, Project EVOAudi A4 DTM, Audi R8 LMS GT3, Abt R8 GTR
Earliest archived brand logo2016—
Latest archived logo20161990s
Archived logo assets11

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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