Ktm X-Bow: Concept, Design, Production and Development of the Road-Homologated Cars

About Anne Christina ReckThillainathan Path Pathmanathan

Dr Pathmanathan was born in Malaysia where his interest in cars was kindled at the age of eight by the sight of the Lamborghini Marzal concept car at a Motor Show. Path boarded at Cheltenham College obtained a degree in Physiology from the University of London and then his medical degree from Pembroke College University of Cambridge. He trained as an eye surgeon in London Southampton and Liverpool before doing a subspeciality fellowship in glaucoma at the University of Toronto. He has been a Consultant Eye Surgeon since 1999. His interest in Lamborghini cars has never waned and his primary interest is in the mid-engined wedge-shaped spaceframe-chassised Lamborghini supercars with their south-north orientated Bizzarrini engines and their genuinely vertical-opening guillotine doors. He feels immensely privileged to have joint temporary custodianship of KTM X-BOW R Chassis 0642 which only presented itself after a wait of ten years. His long-standing fascination with the X-BOW lies in the similarities and close associations that this radical road-racer shares with its current Lamborghini stablemates: Countach Chassis 12399 a Rosso Siviglia 88 1/2 5000 QV and Murciélago Chassis 1564 an Arancio Atlas 2005 Roadster.