KTM X-Bow GT-XR fascinates the eye with its appearance and tears at its price

If you are looking for a car that almost erases the separators between the race cars and that driving on public roads, the Austrian company KTM has an amazing option ... in its form and performance ... and its price as well.

Several KTM is known as a motorcycle maker, but rather is one of the best -selling motorbike signs, and its production is widely margin than BMW and Diezati bicycles. However, "KTM" aspires to further expansion, especially in the shadow of the Pierer Mobility AG groups, also the owner of Husqvarna and the Indian Bajaj Auto group known for the bicycle industry as well.

With the above, KTM prepared a new car bearing the name X-Bow GT-XR, bearing the banner against cars such as Bac Mono R, Radical Rapture and Dallara Stradale, amazed the viewers with its hostile form and similar roof in the aircraft mechanism for the aircraft, and amazes those who want to tear it The eye is 284,900 euros - about 282,000 USD.

Some say that X-Bow GT-XR is the first KTM cars made to travel on public roads, but that is not true, there is the X-Bow origin which was revealed in 2008 and used an Audi-made engine.

A powerful engine with five cylinders and light weight

The new car comes with an Audi -made engine, which is installed in the center of the car and consists of five consecutive cylinders of 2.5 liters and equipped with a turbocharged compressor, produces the capacity of 493 hp (500 hp metric, 368 kW) at 6350 rpm, while its torque reaches 581 Nm At 5,550 rpm. All in a mono carbon fiber structure with a rear tubular steel frame means that the weight of the car is approximately 1250 kg!

The engine is linked to a dual -aid automatic gearbox with seven DQ500 ratios, such as those used in some Audi models and the Volkswagen group as a whole, and the determination is transmitted from there with a limited differential gear slip into the two back wheels.

With this, the X-Bow GT-XR stems from stability for a speed of 100 km/h in just 3.4 seconds, and from it to a top speed of 280 km/h.

Other than the above, there are eight lightweight pistons, cabinet tablets - carbon ceramics that are touched for a better effective effectiveness, a suspension system from the German ZF SACHS company, and wheels of the Italian manufacturer Oz Racing measuring 19 inches in the front and 20 inches in The back.

KTM says it has tried to include specifications that facilitate daily life in the car, as there is an electric -supported orientation system, air conditioner, bluetooth, clear side cameras, glove box and a 160 liter download space (in the image above) as well as a large 96 -liter fuel tank. The seats are fixed in their place by virtue of being part of the design of the monochromatic, and to find the right driving position for your length you can adjust after your feet box.

End, it is noteworthy that the letters KTM are an abbreviation of Kraftfahrzeug Trukenpolz Matightfen (the first word Kraftfahrzeug means cars and the second TRUNKENPOLZ is the name of the founder, and the third Mattighofen is the name of the city located in Austria).

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