KTM to build bonkers X-Bow GT2 road car

KTM is set to expand the X-Bow range with a road-legal version of the GT2 racer it designed for customer racing series around the world.

Details are scarce, but we know the road car will be closely related to the racing version that is based on a Dallara carbon-fibre tub shared with the regular X-Bow – if you can even call the X-Bow ‘regular’.

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Currently, the X-Bow GT2 employs a jet-fighter canopy that lifts forwards and features opening side-windows. Newly released testing photos of this road-going GT2 show it on street-style rims and fitted with the same entry hatch on either side.

Power-wise, it should inherit the GT2's Audi turbo 2.5-litre inline five-cylinder. Mounted amidships, it supplies 447kW/720Nm to the rear wheels. GT2 drivers select gears through a six-speed sequential Hollinger transmission and steering-wheel mounted paddle shifters.

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At a dry weight of only 1048 kilograms, the X-Bow GT2 boasts a power-to-weight ratio of 420kW per tonne. For reference, a Ferrari 812 Superfast can only manage 345kW per tonne.

With so much performance available, KTM will be focusing on taming the X-Bow GT2 for street use depending on what market it’ll be homologated for and their road rules.

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Whatever KTM comes up with for the road GT2, it won’t be cheap. The GT2 was priced at €294,000 (AU$465,800) at launch, while the less-powerful GTX version homologated for lower-rung racing series was set at €230,000 (AU$364,449).

We’ve reached out to Simply Sports Cars to hear if a road-registered X-Bow GT2 is a possibility for Australia. Worldwide deliveries are reported to begin in 2023.