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We feel your pain. Your KTM X-Bow, with its 240bhp and 0-60mph time of 3.9 seconds, is far too slow. You keep getting embarrassed at traffic light drag races by, er, Murcielagos. And Ferrari 599s.
Fear not. Help is at hand. KTM has announced an upgrade to its skeletal carbon-fibre car, boosting power of the 2.0-litre Audi-sourced turbo engine by a full 60bhp to a nice round 300bhp. Torque is up from 228lb ft to 295lb ft.
All of which means a power-to-weight ratio of 380bhp per tonne, and a 0-60mph time of 3.5 seconds.
We've already had a good drive in the uprated X-Bow (check out the September issue of Top Gear magazine, out on August 12), and we can report it's all good: far more muscular and torquey than the 240bhp - which, let's be honest, was hardly slow.
In short, it's now a hugely, hugely fast thing, with the sort of acceleration that threatens to drag your face right the way up over the top of your head, never to return.
KTM will retro-fit the upgrade to any existing X-Bow for just over £5,000. If you've got a X-Bow, you don't really have a choice, do you?
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Kirbdawg commented on this article
at 01:32 pm on 24 July 2009
Good stuff. Can you hear the engine with these mods though so you can shift gear by listening to the revs? Or do you need a hosepipe going from the engine into your helmet?
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veyronguy commented on this article
at 01:57 pm on 24 July 2009
i saw a x bow in surrey
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Wotski commented on this article
at 03:37 pm on 24 July 2009
Ugly as sin from the side (both Stig and the X-Bow).
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ecosse8 commented on this article
at 04:00 pm on 24 July 2009
Its lovely, you've got no taste..
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BMWZ4M commented on this article
at 06:16 pm on 24 July 2009
Some say... that Stig cannot show his face to us because all the ladies in the world would have their eyes melted...
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