Not for the A27
We often spot camouflaged test cars on the track, but this is rarely the case as in the case of the KTM X-Bow GT-XR. This is where this street-legal racer feels right at home.
KTM, known for two-wheelers and the outlandish X-Bow, suddenly came up with a second car model in 2020: the X-Bow GTX. Although that car with its roof and extra length looks a bit more serious than the original X-Bow, the GTX is purely intended for track use. Don’t worry, because KTM is working on an apparently almost identical car that is allowed on the road. That KTM X-Bow GT-XR is doing its rounds here.
As KTM’s previous images revealed, the GT-XR’s rear wing is slightly smaller and more rounded than the racing version. In the design of the wheels, more attention has been paid to the aesthetics and, when drawing the nose, with the existence of number plates. The lack of a rear window is also compensated for by mounting a camera. Other than that, the KTM X-Bow GTX and the X-Bow GT-XR are apparently identical, and that’s enough. This is not a car that you use to zip to work every day at a business park along the A27, but a racer with which you can legally drive home after track business has been done. Doors of any significance even seem to be missing. Instead there is a real ‘dome’, which opens upwards. Looks cool and may help with stiffness, but it is of course not very practical.
KTM X-Bow GTX
There are no specifications yet, but the non-street-legal version has a 2.5-liter five-cylinder Audi with 530 hp in the rear. By the way, that car costs 230,000 euros, which in the case of the GT-XR is still a little bpm.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl