Introduction
Apollo is a German car manufacturing company. The company only manufactures sports cars. Apollo signifies achievement, excellence, and power. As of Apollo cars, the first attribution is high-performance followed by power and enhanced driving experience.
Logo Details
Logo designed by: Information not disclosed by the company
Meaning
The logo of Apollo represents the car’s sleek design, precision in engineering, dynamism, and speed. It also gives the look of a rim of the car.
Colors
Black, Grey/Silver
History of Apollo Logos
Apollo changed its logo 2 times in the following ways.
2004
This is the first logo of Apollo. It is a customized crest in rusty golden color with shiny red color fill. Inside at the top of the crest, “Gumpert” is designed in black color with all capitalized letters using customized Berlin Sans Fb font. In the shiny red part of the logo, there is a white griffin facing right.
The Gumpert is referred to Roland Gumpert. He was the founder of Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH – this is the company that made Apollo what it is today. Roland was an x-director of Audi Sports and was a genius engineer. He founded his company in 2004.
The griffin was included in the logo to portray dominance, agility, and speed. It also adds a spectrum of distinctiveness. A griffin made the Apollo logo very much memorable.
2016
This is the latest and current logo of Apollo. It is a silver metallic-looking crest with black color fill. It has a customized letter A designed in the center of the crest. Outside below the crest, the name of the company is designed in faded dull grey color with all smallcase letters using a customized Demora Bold Italic OTF (700) font.
Apollo: Company Overview
Apollo is also known as Apollo Automobil. It was previously known as Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur. It is a German sports car manufacturing company which was founded in 2004 by Roland Gumpert in Bavaria. It is headquartered in Denkendorf, Germany. Apollo cars won 4 World Rally Championship and 25 World Rally Championship rallies titles. Roland had a vision to produce sports/racing cars that were fast and legal on the streets. Roland Meyer the founder of Motoren Technik Mayer and Gumpert’s colleague asked him to build a prototype sports car.
This was the year of 2001, and Gumpert was the director of Audi – Audi approved his involvement in his project. This is how Apollo started in 2004 and was registered as GMG Sportwagenmanufaktur Altenburg GmbH. The first sports car was developed with the assistance of Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences and the Technical University of Munich. They assisted Gumpert with wind tunnel tests, computer simulation, and construction work. In October 2005, the Apollo car was manufactured on full-scale and different variants of the car were sold around the world.
Fact
Even though sports and racing cars seem like they must be heavy but Apollo car were built using carbon fiber, this allowed the cars to be light weighted which resulted in high-performance on track and road.
FAQs
Who designed the first logo of Apollo?
The first logo of Apollo was designed by Marco Vanetta
Who designed the latest Apollo logo?
The information regarding the designer of Apollo’s latest logo is not disclosed by the company. Usually in such cases, the company has an in-house graphic design team.
How to download Apollo logo in vector?
You can download Apollo logo vector variant from VectorSeek.
