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It’s a bit late and it’s not street-legal, but enthusiasts can finally get their hands on the KTM X-Bow in the U.S.

The wild-looking KTM X-Bow will hit the streets in the U.S. in 2017. 

The already hardcore KTM X-Bow is going to a new level with the Black Edition. 

Austrain motorcycle maker KTM and German racing team Reiter Engineering are working on an all-new sports car will be competing in the U.S.

Two of the world’s high-performance sports car experts are developing a new race car.

There are automakers and then there are automakers. There are the Chevrolets and Toyotas of the world that offer huge model ranges and sell thousands upon thousands of vehicles each year and then there are specialty boutique brands.

As if the KTM X-Bow isn’t exciting enough, Audi will now share its 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine currently powering the TT RS to power an even crazier version of the open-wheel car.

KTM has thoroughly improved the X-Bow with its new GT model – beyond just adding some glass and doors to the street-legal race car.

Last June, KTM hinted that it would be adding doors, windows and a windshield to its X-Bow in time for the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. The Austrian-based company kept its promise, revealing the X-Bow GT ahead of its official unveiling early next month.

Perhaps in preparation for its U.S. market debut, KTM will be adding doors and a windshield to its X-Bow model.

When there’s snow and ice, there’s always time to have some fun. Out in Heteren, a village in Gelderland, Netherlands, a trio of KTM creations took to the snow and ice to have a little “playtime” as they called it.

Accompanied by a motorcycle and ATV, this KTM X-Bow took to the ice as if in its second home. For those that are unaware, the X-Bow is an ultra-lightweight sports car by Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM and is powered by a 2.0L turbocharged, four-cylinder Audi powerplant. Horsepower ranges from 237-hp to 300-hp depending on the year the X-Bow was manufactured.

Now this is exactly what cars like the X-Bow were made for – fun.

Check out the video after the break.

Austrian-based KTM, best known for producing motorcycles (not to mention the lightweight X-Bow racer), has teamed up with the Austrian Institute of Technology to create an electric vehicle called the E3W.

KTM has expanded their X-Bow line of models by adding the newly released X-Bow R alongside their current X-Bow Clubsport and X-Bow Street models. KTM describes the X-Bow R as a result of “further development” of their sports car, outfitting it with an Audi-sourced 2.0L TFSI power plant that pushes out 300-hp and 295 ft-lbs of torque – a drastic increase from the X-Bow’s 237-hp.

Trade in your Ariel Atom and sell-off the Lotus 2-Eleven because you’re going to need to put together some serious funny money to pick up the latest track special: the KTM X-Bow.

The KTM X-Bow, perhaps the only car more bonkers than the Ariel Atom, will finally be coming to the United States, and like other formerly forbidden fruit, a bit of trickery is required to get the car legally imported.