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Ruf Just Brought Back the Flat-Eight Engine With a Clean Sheet Design Making 1 32%
By Caleb Jacobs52%
7/9/2026, 2:53:39 PM
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Ruf is one of those performance car companies that does very little wrong, if anything .
Most folks know the brand for its Yellowbird: a Porsche 911-based, twin-turbo sliding machine that hit 211 miles per hour in 1987.
It certainly didn’t stop there, though, as Ruf is still building wickedly powerful machines with P-Car influence.
Its latest is actually an engine—a boosted, 4.8-liter flat-eight making more than 1,000 horsepower and 737 lb-feet of torque–and it’s debuting at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
The horizontally opposed power plant finds its home for now in a CTR3 prototype body that’s been stretched 3.9 inches.
Ruf plans to stuff it in a production car later on, though it’s unclear what shape said car will take.
All I know is that this test mule looks sick, especially in that black-and-yellow livery.
And it has a six-speed manual!
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Ruf has yet to reveal many details about the B8 engine, as it’s called, only divulging that it was designed and developed in-house.
As far as I can tell, there’s never been a production car with a flat-eight; only Porsche motorsport specials in the 1960s.
That would make it pretty tough to copy anyone else’s homework, I assume.
There’s a special event at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this week where bystanders can hear the engine fire for the first time.
(We even got a save-the-date invite.)
The B8 Prototype will run up the famed Goodwood hillclimb twice a day from Friday, July 10, through Sunday, July 12.
And who better to drive it than beloved race pilot and Top Gear alum, Tanner Foust?
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I’ll be on the lookout for more deets, and you can bet I’ll update this blog with the flat-eight’s exhaust note when it gets posted online.
(Update: It’s here!
Fast forward to 4:09 if it doesn’t start there automatically.)
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