The RUF CTR3, launched in 2007, is RUF's first bespoke ground-up supercar and its only mid-engine road car. The chassis was developed with Multimatic and combines a 997-derived front section with a billet-aluminium 'Birdcage' rear space frame — an approach that decouples the CTR3 mechanically from any Porsche production shell.
Power comes from a twin-turbocharged flat-six producing 701 PS / 691 bhp in standard specification, driving the rear wheels through a six-speed sequential gearbox (a seven-speed DCT was optional on Clubsport). The CTR3 Clubsport of 2012 raised output to 777 PS, and the 2023 CTR3 Evo added 800 PS / 789 bhp. Kerb weight is approximately 1,377 kg. Approximately 30 standard cars and seven Clubsport cars are understood to have been built, plus the later Evo run.
The CTR3 is genuinely distinct from the 911-based CTR and CTR2: not a modified Porsche but a bespoke Pfaffenhausen-developed platform with a specific engine-development lineage that RUF shared with the Lykan HyperSport programme.
The CTR3 is the pivot on which RUF moved from tuner-manufacturer of 911-based cars to bespoke mid-engine supercar builder. It is the first RUF built on its own chassis rather than a Porsche shell, and it re-set the ceiling for what RUF could sell alongside the 911-based CTR / CTR2 lineage. Small production and a genuinely distinct mechanical proposition support its long-term position within modern RUF collecting.
