RUF, a firm that specializes in making your Porsche go very too fast, has decided to ditch Porsche’s platforms and start from the ground up. The result is breathtaking:
The drastic, aggressive body style gives a good indication of the what has been updated under the hood as well. Autoblog.com reports that the CTR3 is powered by a twin-turbo 3.8L flat six pushing out 700bhp and 656 ft-lbs of torque. 0-100 kph (thats 0-62 mph for us yanks) comes at 3.2 seconds. If you find an open runway, you can attempt to verify the reported top speed of 233 MPH.
Most exciting, however, is the low weight of this machine. The CTR3 tips the scale at only 3086 lbs. Thats still quite a bit heavier than my Miata at 2300 lbs, or an Elise at just under 2000 lbs, but consirably less than many of the other supercars in this class. I am a staunch advocate of lightweight vehicles, so the CTR3 please me greatly in that regard. Its low weight should help it to be a formidable vehicle, both on and off of the track.
Rumors had circulated around the web that the CTR3 was based off of a Porsche Cayman, but RUF has since confirmed that it only borrowed the rear tail lights. The rest is all RUF.
Price, to me, is moot, since I won’t be able to afford one any time soon (though for all of you big spenders, plan on reaching deep into those pockets for €300,000.000). Nonetheless, the CTR3 definitely has a place on my list of “cars to buy before I die.”
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on April 23, 2007 at 1:47 pm hal wrote:
While I’m sure this will be hella expensive, I think you might have an extra digit in there.
Is it truly 300 million Euro? That would be what, about 500 million dollars? There are very few people with that sort of net worth, let alone enough beyond that to dump it on a car…
I would imagine more like 300 thousand Euro.
hal
on April 24, 2007 at 8:28 am Noah wrote:
While you are right that I have an extra digit in there, it does still say 300 thousand Euro. That second mark is period, not a comma, so we are just looking at cents after that.
I just happen to be so precise that I always count my money to the thousands of the dollar, or, in this case, euro.
Unfortunately, even with the price reduction from 300 million Euro to only 300 thousand Euro, I think it will stall take me a couple of years before I can drive one home…