09 December 2008, 10:01 AM
KTM, one of the newest car manufacturers in Europe, celebrated triple honours at the TopGear.com 2008 awards last night.The stunning ‘Ready to Race’ KTM X-Bow is Top Gear’s ‘Sports Car of the Year’, while KTM’s CEO Stefan Pierer, and X-Bow Chief Chassis Engineer, Loris Bicocchi, are both recognised among Top Gear’s ‘Men of the Year’.
Made in Austria, the KTM X-Bow (pronounced crossbow) is a minimalist two-seater mid-engined sports car - featuring a state-of-the-art carbon fibre monocoque - that delivers a pu
14 November 2008, 11:02 AM
KTM has been recognised by a panel of motorsport experts for the development of a track-only version of its X-Bow sportscar: the KTM X-Bow ‘Race’. The Austrian company was presented with the ‘Vehicle Development of the Year’ Award at the Professional Motorsport World EXPO in Cologne on 11 November.The X-Bow ‘Race’ was developed in parallel with the road-legal car, the Austrian motorcycle manufacturer’s first four-wheeled offering. Much of the development work was carried out during its dominance of the inaugural
05 February 2007, 02:19 PM
In time with the launch of X-Bow’s media website. KTM shows the first images of a scale model. This model was built for design purposes, has a scale of 1:2,5 and corresponds in almost every detail with the final car.
The scale was not selected randomly – it’s the best size to fit into the windtunnel of Dallara, KTM’s Italian developement partner for the X-Bow project.
Another scale model has already spent some 100 hours inside this windtunnel, mainly to adjust the airflow of the cooling sy
