KTM X-Bow and its US partner Carbon Yard have opened reservations for the X-Bow GT-XA, a road-focused version of the carbon-monocoque track car engineered for American buyers, with 30 numbered production allocations offered for the first year. Reservations require a fully refundable $50,000 deposit under a written reservation agreement.
US pricing is anticipated at $490,000 and under, but final figures and full technical data have not been announced. The GT-XA is not yet approved for US street use, and first customer deliveries are targeted for 2027, subject to that approval.
What the GT-XA changes for American buyers
The GT-XA is planned as a US-market evolution of the X-Bow concept, built in Graz, Austria, and commissioned one at a time. American specification calls for a suspension package with adjustable compression and rebound damping, a front-axle lift system for driveways and garages, and added equipment for everyday use including tire-pressure monitoring and bespoke interior trims.
That equipment list matters because the X-Bow has always been a minimal, track-first machine. A front-axle lift and adjustable dampers are the kind of hardware that turns a car you trailer to a circuit into one you can plausibly drive to it. The catch is that none of it counts until the car is street-legal, and that approval is still pending.
Factory 600 lifts the GT-XR to 592 hp
Alongside the US news, KTM has introduced the Factory 600 upgrade package for the GT-XR, reworking the Audi-sourced 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine with an uprated intake manifold, a new turbocharger and a larger intercooler. Together these lift output by about 92 horsepower over the regular GT-XR, taking the total to 592 hp.
An Evo aerodynamic kit adds a sharper front splitter, canards ahead of the front wheels and new louvres cut into the fender wings to manage airflow at speed. Every X-Bow now gets a 7.0-inch infotainment screen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and the rear-view setup gains traditional folding side mirrors alongside the camera-based system, with the focus still on keeping weight low.
KTM has not published torque or weight figures for the GT-XA, and those numbers have not been announced. The same applies to full technical data for the American car, which the company says is still to come.
New ownership, new backing
KTM Sportcar GmbH, the unit behind the X-Bow, is now wholly owned by an investor consortium led by rally driver Guillaume de Mévius, whose family are long-time shareholders in Anheuser-Busch InBev. The new ownership group says the acquisition is meant to give the X-Bow range a stable, dedicated home to grow, separate from KTM's motorcycle business.
That separation is the quiet story behind the spec sheet. A low-volume carbon-monocoque car maker needs patient capital more than it needs volume, and a dedicated owner with its own balance sheet is better placed to fund a US homologation push than a division competing for investment inside a larger group. The Factory 600 package and the GT-XA reservation book are the first visible results of that structure.
What is still unknown
Beyond pricing and technical data, KTM has not said when US street-legal approval might be granted, nor what the final production schedule looks like beyond the 30 first-year allocations. The reservation deposit is refundable, which limits the financial risk for buyers while approval is outstanding.
For anyone considering a reservation, the practical question is timing: a 2027 delivery target is explicitly conditional on approval, so the deposit holds a place in a queue rather than a confirmed build slot.
