It was a striking supercar remembered for its visceral, white-knuckle driving experience ... This is the story of the RUF CTR, better known as the Yellowbird. This article focuses on the RUF ...

Unlike its predecessor, the modern CTR was not based on an actual Porsche body-in-white chassis. Instead, RUF developed the custom monocoque chassis and body from scratch using an abundance of ...

The CTR began life as a white G-body 911 shell. In the Ruf shop in Pfaffenhausen, West Germany, Alois Ruf Jr. and his band of Deutsche Oompa-­Loompas built the car with so much original vision ...

Some 911s aren't even technically Porsches. For example, the car that looks like a 911 you see here is actually called the Ruf CTR and is better known by its nickname, the Yellowbird. Before we ...

One for newer water-cooled engines like the current CTR and SCR models have and another for the older air-cooled motors. The dyno units are painted in Ruf's classic green and white, and the walls ...

(Black and white, goggles around his neck ... And then there’s the Ruf CTR. Or rather, the CTR, CTR001, the prototype. Thirty years ago, in a tiny garage in Germany, a man named Alois Ruf ...

The CTR Anniversary model isn’t just a tuner 911, either. Earlier RUFs were made from 911 bodies in white purchased directly from the factory in Stuttgart then built out to exacting RUF ...

A pristine 1989 RUF CTR “Yellowbird” has made history at Gooding & Company’s Amelia Island Auctions, selling for an astounding $6,055,000 USD. This sale marks a new record for the legendary ...

Hanna Yamamoto for Gooding & Company, LLC. An incredibly rare and highly sought-after 1989 Ruf CTR "Yellowbird" just became the most expensive Ruf ever to be sold at auction in history.

Original Ruf CTR Yellowbird with 31,174 km expected to sell for $4.5–$5.5 million. There are thought to be just 13 Ruf CTR Yellowbirds like this in the United States. The original 4.3-liter twin ...

It is VIN 1—as in, the first production CTR ever made, circa 1989. The CTR began life as a white G-body 911 shell. In the Ruf shop in Pfaffenhausen, West Germany, Alois Ruf Jr. and his band of ...