KTM X -BOW can get another chance with the world’s largest beer brewer as investors – Jalopnik

Although we recently reported that the KTM X-Bow was almost certainly dead, it can have a new lease of life. Bajaj, who bought KTM, wants the brand to concentrate on motorcycles, so it has sold KTM Sportcar GmbH to a separate group of investors, hopefully saving the X-bow sports car. KTM will continue to licens his name and somehow be involved in the X-Bow, but KTM Sportcar GmbH will run independently of the main company. The X-Bow was always a strange duck in the KTM setup, so this is very logical.

KTM attached to Austria Industry Magazine That the De Mevius family, better known for its beer MEGA-CONGLOMATE AB InBev, leads negotiations, together with other anonymous investors. “Ab” stands for Anheuser-Busch, that’s just one of More than 500 brands The company has it that makes the largest brewer in the world. This may seem like an unlikely combination, but the De Mevius family is actively involved in Motorsport. Gregory Van Mevius is an old rally and Dakar competitor that today still enters a rally now and then. His sons, Guillaume And GhislainKeep racing in his dusty footsteps.

Although the X-Bow has evolved over the years, it is difficult for a car company to survive with only one model in the line-up (just ask Saturnus). The new owners are planning to tackle that by adding new models, or at least variants, to give buyers a little more selection. This not only includes the current track-oriented models, but also on street-legal supersports, which seems like a natural expansion. Cars such as the radical SR3 are already there. Although you are not a great grocery gefter, you could at least drive it to the track, where you could enjoy the full possibilities without going directly to prison.

The new property also plans to expand the X-Bow range in a less intuitive direction with off-road offers. This may seem strange for a track car, but given the history of the Mevius family and the history of Dakar, it would not surprise me if that is where they go with this. Imagine X-bow, given the rally hunter treatment, the attack of rally phases or jumping desert dunes. Perhaps different versions would be available for every discipline, similar to the different motorcycle offer from KTM for Motocross, Enduro and Cross Country based on the same platforms. We simply speculate because there are no details available yet, but it would be great to see that KTM tackles the stages on four wheels and two. Anyway, it seems that, just like the man on the cart in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the X-Bow Is not completely dead yet.

H/T Rideapart