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What is it?

The KTM X-Bow is a roofless, windscreen-less, two seat mid-engined sports car designed for road and track, which drives it firmly into the virtual paddock occupied by the Ariel Atom, Lotus 2-Eleven and various Caterhams.

It looks like a mildly terrifying tropical insect. Much of it is carbonfibre, and it comes either in black, black and white or black and orange, the trademark colour scheme of its makers KTM.

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I have no doubt that it will be a truely devestating tool on track, but the lack of excitement concerns me, after all that is what you buy a track car for.

A step too far on the refinement or is it just over engineered?

that is a pretty steep price as well!