Ktm X-bow May Get Another Chance With World's Largest Beer Brewer As Investors

Although we precocious reported the KTM X-Bow was almost surely dead, it whitethorn person a caller lease connected life. Bajaj, which bought retired KTM, wants nan marque to attraction connected motorcycles, truthful it's sold KTM Sportcar GmbH to a abstracted group of investors, hopefully redeeming nan X-Bow sports car. KTM will proceed to licence its sanction and beryllium progressive pinch nan X-Bow successful immoderate way, but KTM Sportcar GmbH will tally independently of nan main company. The X-Bow was ever a unusual duck successful KTM's lineup, truthful this makes a awesome woody of sense.

KTM confirmed to Austria's Industrie Magazin that the De Mevius family, amended known for nan brew mega-conglomerate AB InBev, is heading up negotiations, on pinch different anonymous investors. "AB" stands for Anheuser-Busch, which is conscionable 1 of more than 500 brands nan institution owns that make it nan largest brewer successful nan world. This whitethorn look for illustration an improbable pairing, but the De Mevius family is actively progressive successful motorsports. Gregoire De Mevius is simply a long-time rally and Dakar competitor who still enters nan occasional rally today. His sons, Guillaume and Ghislain, proceed racing successful his dusty footsteps.

While nan X-Bow has evolved complete nan years, it's difficult for a car institution to past pinch only 1 exemplary successful nan lineup (just inquire Saturn). The caller owners scheme to reside that by adding caller models, aliases astatine slightest variants, to springiness buyers a spot much selection. This will see not only nan existent track-focused models, but besides street-legal supersports, which seems a earthy description . Cars for illustration nan Radical SR3 person already gone there. While not a awesome market getter, you could astatine slightest thrust it to nan track, wherever you could bask its afloat capabilities without going straight to jailhouse afterward.

The caller ownership besides intends to grow nan X-Bow scope successful a little intuitive guidance pinch off-road offerings. This whitethorn look weird for a way car, but fixed the De Mevius family's rally and Dakar history, I wouldn't beryllium amazed if that's wherever they're going pinch this. Imagine X-Bow fixed nan Rally Fighter treatment, attacking rally stages aliases jumping godforsaken dunes. Perhaps different versions would beryllium disposable for each discipline, akin to KTM's different motorcycle offerings for motocross, enduro, and transverse state based connected nan aforesaid platforms. We're conscionable speculating, arsenic nary specifications are yet available, but it would beryllium awesome to spot KTM tackling nan stages connected 4 wheels arsenic good arsenic two. Regardless, it seems that, for illustration nan man connected nan cart successful "Monty Python and nan Holy Grail," nan X-Bow isn't rather dormant yet.

h/t RideApart