The downtrodden economy has squashed several high-performance vehicle programs, with the latest news indicating that one more performance vehicle program could be on the verge of extinction. Austria’s KTM has reportedly suspended production of its X-Bow track-day hero.
The KTM X-Bow is one of the most extreme performance vehicles on the planet – thanks to its feather-light curb weight and a turbocharged 2.0L engine – but the global economic downturn has slowed sales to a trickle. With supply of the X-Bow now far outstripped demand, KTM has reportedly decided to halt production.
KTM originally planned to produce about 1,000 units of the X-Bow per year, but the company’s Graz, Austria factory has on produced 500 examples to date. Even more worrisome, KTM has only sold 80 of those 500 units.
No official word on when production will resume, but X-Bows aren’t expected to begin rolling down the assembly line until January 2010 at the earliest.
