2008 KTM X-Bow

they raced this with the KTM 990 SM in a very wet track haha

1/4mile in 12.19 according to best motoring 2010-08

big Hockenheim improvment thanks to Toyo R888 tires..this month sportauto supertest car

It is coming to the US and will be street legal and around $70000.

I know CaterHams are street legal in the uS, not sure how many states though, so this should be too, but i hope they bring it over there.

I've read 2 different magazine articles and one said the car can be bought in the US (but isn't street legal) and the other said the car can't be bought in the US.

It will probably be avail. in the US, eventually.

Is there a US price on this?

Do they sell this in America?

Any guess on what this can do on the Top Gear Track??

Why are you all knit-picking everything on this car? The car is competent on several tracks and places well unless the track is wet. It would make sense that a car that is this light would suffer tremendously due to a wet track. And yes bozos, 1700 pounds is light for a car (lighter than almost every leMans racecar)

@minimac93
The time on Nordschleife is so slow because it was wet during the test....the porsche 997 turbo was also tested on this day and made a 8.23min. The tester claimed that the x-bow could have been 30sec faster. But it would not get a time under 8.20min because the nordschleife has some fast passages and the aerodynamics of the x-bow causes bad top speed and therefore a slow laptime.

is this called the X-Bow or the CrossBow?? cause i have herd both!

Why is the Nordschleife time so slow...?

why is it so expensive? because its Austrian..lol and just look at the thing, its craaaazy. i think its £50,000 or $60,000, but considering how much fun this baby is to drive, (so i here), the price doesnt seem so bad..

The Question is why is it so expensive...

Well no, it is not slow. ;-)

I was talking about weight when compared to cars like ariel atom, caterham r500 or perhaps radical sr3/4/8...

IMHO it is kind of heavy when compared to those cars (atom, r500 etc). And because it's heavier than those cars, it is also slower.

And since I thought KTM were competing on the same segment of the market as ariel/caterham/radical, it is "slow" and "heavy" relative to its competition...

slow?
At Hockenheim short it is faster as 2-11, at Nürburgring it is faster as similar powerfull Ariel Atom2. Patrick Simon claimed the handling brilliant... compared to the Elise SC which simple sucked because of wrong tires and shitty tranny

some times weight wont effect the performance as much if there equipped with certain options, for example, nissan gtr and bentley gt speed 3.2 and 3.9 and most cars with this weight and power are alot faster, for example the lotus exige s 240 3.8 ta 60 and 9.6 ta 100, anddd 12.4 in th 1/4, so i dunno maybe this car just sucks?

I don't think this is a car you could call "slow"

isn't it slow _because_ it is heavy?

the question isnt why is it so heavy, its why is it so slow?? look at thos performance stats, the Lotus Elise SC does the 1/4 in 13 flat and that around 400 lbs heavyer. but i bet this thing is really fun to drive:)

even lotus 2-eleven is lighter...

Why is it so heavy?
Allmost all similar type of cars are lighter: ariel atom, caterham csr/r500, westfield xtr, all the radicals etc...

the Luk driving Center laptime was driven on normal street tires no street legal semi slicks, the suspension setup was the basic factory setup. The X-Bow has a fully adjustable suspension and ride high, with proper track specific setup the car would have laped faster according to Patrik Simon the testdriver