Tremendous sports activities automobiles are an thrilling and extremely emotional world of their very own. Solely racing automobiles can provide you much more goosebumps. With the XGT, ABT Sportsline combines the 2 worlds into a complete murals: born as a thoroughbred GT2 car, the DTM racing group and car tuner created essentially the most unique car that has ever left the ABT manufacturing facility in Kempten in a two-year, extraordinarily complicated growth course of. With 640 hp at 1,400 kg, a restricted version of 99 models, and the merely breathtaking look of a racing machine, the road-legal racer is aimed toward sporty drivers and motorsport fanatics. This uniqueness offers the XGT a particular attraction that can even delight collectors.

As a standard racing group, ABT Sportsline has contested greater than 300 races within the DTM since 2000, achieved dozens of particular person victories and over 250 podium finishes, and is at the moment essentially the most profitable lively DTM group. The very best conditions for an formidable undertaking just like the XGT. However it’s greater than only a undertaking: “It was the problem itself that spurred us on to develop this distinctive full car. The XGT is the quintessence of our heritage,” Hans-Jürgen Abt proudly explains. As a result of it was not straightforward to get the GT2 racing automotive on the street – the motorsport necessities and street site visitors are too far aside.

“Two extremely intensive years have handed from the concept to completion,” says ABT Sportsline Managing Director Thomas Biermaier, who got here up with the concept for the XGT along with Ernst Christian Scherer, Managing Director of Scherer Sport, after an thrilling and profitable race. Biermaier and Scherer had been harboring the dream of tackling such a undertaking for a while. Now issues had been getting severe: “Our engineers and mechanics had some powerful challenges to beat.”

With round 40 particular person approvals, the months-long approval course of went past the scope of typical car growth. The spotlight: visually, the road-going model differs solely marginally from the Audi R8 LMS GT2 racing automotive. The XGT shouldn’t be an excellent sports activities automotive with a racing look, it’s a road-legal racing automotive. Now 99 rolling chassis are ready to be hand-built into one-offs in keeping with buyer specs.

Anybody who has at all times dreamed of sitting behind the wheel of an actual racing automotive will get their cash’s value within the ABT XGT. As a result of the XGT is steered with a steering wheel specifically made for the racing model. The technical modifications within the areas of thermal administration, software program and the extremely complicated car diagnostics system have been rigorously carried out to protect the character of the racing automotive. For on a regular basis usability, the fuelling system from the sequence was built-in, the instrument cluster was modified for civilian use, and the handbrake, central locking, and even a reversing digital camera and immobilizer had been added.

The management panel was tailored to street use and controls the electrically adjustable exterior mirrors, air-con, and indicators. On the identical time, the particular exhaust system together with aftertreatment parts needed to fulfil the KBA’s emission specs. After all, the main target was additionally on security: a whole XGT car was used within the demanding facet and entrance crash checks and all KBA specs relating to brakes and noise ranges had been met in in depth checks.

Along with the in depth street checks, there was one other maxim within the growth of the ABT XGT: as a lot racetrack feeling as potential. To this finish, the XGT accomplished hundreds of kilometers on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, the Sachsenring, and the Hockenheimring to search out the right setup. Along with DTM driver Kelvin van der Linde, DTM driver and Scherer model ambassador Ricardo Feller – each of whom can even be racing for ABT in 2024 – ABT Motorsport Director Martin Tomczyk and racing driver and Scherer model ambassador Frank Stippler had been additionally used as growth drivers.

Their unsurprising conclusion: “The street dealing with, steering habits and acceleration can’t be in contrast with any street automotive”. Due to the dual-adjustable suspension with modified springs, formidable drivers have the chance to search out their good setup for each racetrack.

Scherer Sport is the unique distributor and repair supplier for the XGT. This cooperation relies on a long-standing partnership and a shared ardour for motorsport, which is why it was solely pure to deliver this distinctive undertaking to the street collectively. Prospects can select from 4 completely different shade ideas; particular person options and variants are potential because of the handcrafted implementation. The worth of the ABT XGT begins at 598,000 euros incl. VAT.

Anybody who needs to see the distinctive ABT XGT within the flesh: In Mainz, about 20 minutes from Frankfurt Airport, the ABT showroom of Scherer Sport will open its doorways on November 23. Along with the Star XGT, different ABT particular fashions will likely be on show there. Moreover, the XGT will, in fact, even be showcased at ABT Sportsline in Kempten.