{"id":51435,"date":"2026-07-09T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/51435\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:22:11","slug":"porsche-never-put-an-8-cylinder-boxer-in-a-road-car-ruf-just-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/51435\/","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Never Put An 8-Cylinder Boxer In A Road Car. RUF Just Did"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Porsche kept its flat-eight engines on the race track, but RUF just built one bound for a future road-going supercar\n <\/p>\n

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The new engine makes over 1,000 hp with no hybrid help at all.<\/p>\n

A six-speed manual, also built in-house, backs the new motor.<\/p>\n

Tanner Foust drives the CTR3 prototype up Goodwood this weekend.<\/p>\n

With emissions rules tightening year after year and so many manufacturers pledging their futures to hybrid and battery-electric power, it has grown increasingly rare to see an automaker roll out a genuinely new engine, never mind a high-performance one. RUF has done just that, and the result is an engine with no direct rival on the road.<\/p>\n

Read: Porsche Never Built A Mid-Engined 911, But Ruf Came Close<\/a><\/p>\n

Making its debut at this week\u2019s Goodwood Festival of Speed<\/a> is the company\u2019s new B8, a 4.8-liter twin-turbocharged eight-cylinder boxer destined for a future model. For now it lives in the body of a modified CTR3 prototype, which marries a reworked Porsche 911 front structure to a bespoke Multimatic tubular steel rear chassis, and it will run up the hill all weekend in the hands of race driver and former Top Gear USA host Tanner Foust.<\/p>\n


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Very few car manufacturers have ever experimented with flat-eight or boxer-eight engines, let alone offered them in a production car. Porsche is perhaps most famous for its flat-eight engines, but they were used exclusively in race cars and never in a road car. RUF\u2019s eight-cylinder has been developed to produce over 1,000 hp and 738 lb-ft (1,000 Nm) of torque, giving it power to rival that of a Lamborghini Revuelto<\/a> without the need for hybrid assistance.<\/p>\n

Bolted to the new 4.8-liter engine is a six-speed manual, another piece built in-house by the German brand.<\/p>\n


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The prototype being tested by RUF<\/a> has been stretched by 3.93 inches (100 mm) over a standard CTR3 to accommodate the new engine. Visually, there\u2019s not much to distinguish this prototype from customer-spec CTR3 models, though it does have a custom black-and-yellow livery inspired by the legendary CTR Yellowbird<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The supercar\u2019s bodywork is largely shared with the CTR3 Evo<\/a> that RUF revealed three years ago, powered by a 3.8-liter twin-turbo flat-six. It carries the same engine cover, bumpers, and tailpipes, and it looks every bit as exotic as a car packing a boxer-eight ought to.<\/p>\n


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\u201cThere are moments in a company\u2019s history that define the future,\u201d said company founder Alois Ruf. \u201cFor RUF, the Boxer 8is one of those moments. A boxer-eight has never been part of our story, or anyone else\u2019s in this form, so we decided to write a new chapter in automotive history. We look forward to letting the engine speak for itself at Goodwood.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company has yet to announce when the boxer-eight will premiere in a new production vehicle.<\/p>\n

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