RUF CTR Yellowbird promotional video with Stefan Roser. This car (1 of 29) was built in 1987 and is a narrow body Porsche 911 with a twin turbo 3.4 liter motor. The car weighed 2579 lbs, put out 469 horsepower and 408 lbs of torque, 0-100 in 7.3 sec. and was clocked at 211 mph back in 1987.
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What is it that brings us back here? What drives us to go faster, push harder and brake later? Just to lap the Nordschleife in under 7 minutes….
What was the actual time?
Matt and Thaddeus go on a 700 mile road trip to Las Vegas to judge the GT Awards at SEMA… in a half-million dollar Lamborghini Aventador.
Two cars, almost equivalent in power, the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 and he RUF CTR-3, both in the 700hp mark go head-to-head on the strip. The Aventador’s AWD system evidently helps it off the line in the damp conditions before the lighter weight of the CTR3 kicks in and pulls it up to speed.