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A super-lightweight sports car with a tuned two-litre production engine promising motorbike-style thrills? Sound familiar?
This is the KTM X-Bow, Austria's rival to the Ariel Atom, which will debut as a full-scale prototype at Geneva.
Just like the Atom, it borrows a two-litre flat-four engine from a production car - in this case Audi's FSI - and tunes it to within an inch of its life.
KTM insiders say that even the entry-level X-Bow will pack 220bhp, while the top-of-the-range edition could produce 300bhp.
With a kerb weight of just 700kg, that's a power-to-weight ratio of 428bhp per tonne. Wow.
The X-Bow was initially envisaged as a joint project between KTM and Audi, but the German giant dropped out when KTM refused to fit the X-Bow with weight-adding safety equipment.
That's why there's no windscreen on the X-Bow. But fear not - crash helmets will come supplied, and there's even cabin stowage space for them.
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at 08:21 am on 28 September 2010
To the best of my knowledge, the 2.0 TFSi is an in-line four, not a flat four?
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