{"id":517403,"date":"2026-07-09T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/517403\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:44:09","slug":"rufs-next-performance-car-will-have-1000-hp-heres-our-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/517403\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruf’s Next Performance Car Will Have 1,000 HP. Here’s Our First Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruf Automobile is starting to develop its next generation of performance cars. \u00a0
\nIt is using a development prototype to validate the new technologies that will power future Ruf models.
\nThe car has a twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter flat-eight engine making over 1,000 horsepower.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 50 years since Ruf Automobile launched its first tuned Porsche. Since then, the company has achieved legendary status thanks to the Ruf CTR Yellowbird and countless other bespoke creations. And the company has no plans of slowing down. \u00a0<\/p>\n

At this year\u2019s Goodwood Festival of Speed<\/a>, Ruf will publicly demonstrate the development prototype for its next generation of performance cars. It\u2019s called the B8 Erprober, a lengthened CTR3 test vehicle designed to validate the new technologies that will power future Ruf models. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Ruf<\/p>\n

Ruf B8 ‘Erprober’ Prototype<\/p>\n

Photo by: Ruf<\/p>\n

The car features Ruf\u2019s all-new eight-cylinder B8 boxer engine. It’s a twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter flat-eight engine that will produce over 1,000 horsepower and over 738 pound-feet of torque. It will also pair with a six-speed manual transmission. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The car will make a total of six runs at the festival, with race car driver Tanner Faust<\/a> behind the wheel. It\u2019s wearing a special livery, designed by Aloisa Ruf in collaboration with Optima Batteries, that pays tribute to the CRT Yellowbird<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The Future Of Ruf \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Ruf<\/p>\n

Ruf B8 ‘Erprober’ Prototype Engine<\/p>\n

Photo by: Ruf<\/p>\n

Ruf built its reputation modifying existing Porsche<\/a> vehicles, but now the company builds original cars from the ground up. The CTR Anniversary had an all-new chassis with new bones\u2014axles, suspension, subframe, and more. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Ruf\u2019s future automobiles will continue to be bespoke vehicles that bridge the gap between something old and something modern. Expect future Ruf vehicles to continue to utilize the 911<\/a> for design inspiration, which Alois Ruf Jr. told us last year is \u201cgood forever.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear when we will see a production version of Ruf\u2019s next-gen vehicle, but we shouldn\u2019t have to wait long if the company is already developing it. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"Ruf<\/p>\n

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\n Source: Ruf <\/p>\n

Motor1\u2019s Take:\u00a0This is Ruf’s future, and if it is starting with over 1,000 hp, we are expecting some truly spectacular cars. Ruf’s more powerful model right now is the CTR3 Evo at 800 hp, which isn’t available with a manual transmission.<\/p>\n

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– The Motor1.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruf Automobile is starting to develop its next generation of performance cars. \u00a0 It is using a development…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74556,61463,256920,74555,105360,206,111,43,139,69,5908,22126,42823,256919,199358,256918,256917,73060,256921,145],"class_list":["post-517403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-b2c","tag-flagship","tag-goodwood-festival-of-speed","tag-high-performance","tag-long-distance","tag-luxury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-official","tag-petrol","tag-porsche","tag-porsche-ctr3","tag-racing-oriented","tag-ruf","tag-ruf-b8-erprober","tag-supercar","tag-tanner-faust","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}