KTM

Austrian company KTM has revealed the latest version of its X-Bow GT4 racer, designed to deliver lower running costs to amateur motorsport participants. Although it looks similar to the car it replaces, there are a number of meaningful improvements lurking under its angular skin.

The KTM X-Bow GT is headed to next week's Geneva motor show offering fans the most practical version of the hardcore street-legal go-kart to date. The ‘Grand Tourer’ badge may be a bit of a stretch, but the addition of a windscreen and side windows promises to make the X-Bow GT more liveable and better suited to long drives and inclement weather than any KTM before it.

Looking a bit like a mechanical wasp lurking in the Eifel mountains, the guys at KTM have taken the 2008 KTM X-Bow and given it some more venom to go with its sting. This is what it looks like. The original X-BOW was generally regarded as a fairly serious track weapon, but some professional drivers noted that it was a bit 'soft' in the world of open-top, bees-in-your-mouth, road registered track cars.