Ruf uses some 911 components to build the CTR3, but coupe is 11 inches longer for room to move the engine to a mid-mounted position.
For years Porsche was signed to an exclusivity agreement with EA, and all other racing games featured Alois Ruf’s fantastic creations as a replacement. That means there’s a whole generation that grew up with SCRs, CTRs and RTurbos on the mind instead of 911s.
The Porsche specialist tuner and builder started out life more than 80 years ago as an independent Porsche workshop but shot to fame in the 1980s when it delivered the untamable CTR Yellowbird, a turbocharged monster based on the Porsche 911.
Continuing the Ruf tradition of enhancing Porsche automobiles, the CTR3 shares the body style and engine type with the contemporaneous Porsche 987 Cayman and Porsche 997.1 Turbo. For the first time it features a Ruf-designed body built on a dedicated platform engineered in conjunction with Canadian supplier Multimatic ( the same company responsible for the production of Ford’s Le Mans GT racer) and is particularly styled to reflect the visual feel of vintage Le Mans race cars of the 1950s and 1960s. Ruf adopted the Porsche Cayman’s mid-engine layout for the new car, rather than the traditional rear-engine layout of the previous CTR models (CTR and CTR2).
The interior features leather-wrapped carbon fiber seats, a three-spoke steering wheel, Stone Grey carpets, Grey Alcantara trim, a six-disc CD changer, a TPMS interface, and an extended navigation module.
The Ruf CTR3 is powered by a 3,746 cc (3.7 L) twin-turbocharged flat-six engine producing a maximum power output of 691 bhp (701 PS; 515 kW) at 7,600 rpm and 889 N⋅m (656 lb⋅ft) of torque at 4,000 rpm.[7] The cylinder block and heads are made of aluminum alloy with a bore and stroke of 102 mm × 76.4 mm (4.02 by 3.01 inches), and the engine utilizes a dual overhead camshaft valvetrain. The engine has a compression ratio of 9.2:1 and is controlled by a Bosch Motronic ECU.
Just 31 examples of the CTR3 were ever built.
The CTR3 has a frame constructed from aluminum and zinc-dipped steel for the front and passenger sections of the car. The rear frame around the engine is a space frame constructed from billet aluminum by Multimatic that Ruf calls ‘the Birdcage’. The body panels are made from a kevlar-carbon composite, and the car weighs 1,400 kg (3,086 lb) in total.
