It’s the economy. The cry of every car maker in the world, but it’s come to KTM as a bit of a blow. They were optimistically reckoning on selling 1,000 KTM X-Bows a year, but it looks like that guesstimate was way wide of the target. To date, they’ve only sold 420, and have 80 […]

One thing the bonkers KTM X-Bow isn’t short of is power. But that hasn’t stopped ABT Sportsline from producing a performance pack for the X-Bow, which KTM has endorsed. ABT Sportsline has plenty of experience with VW lumps, having worked on the X-Bow’s 2.0 litre VW turbocharged lump before. This power upgrade takes the standard […]

The quite astonishing KTM X-Bow has been something of a sensation. Offering supercar performance (and supercar plus performance in reality) it is the only real alternative in the 4-wheeled-motorcycle market to the Ariel Atom. Originally planned as just a 500 a year production model by the Austrian Motor Cycle specialists, that number has been doubled […]