The new engine makes over 1,000 hp with no hybrid help at all. A six-speed manual, also built in-house, backs the new motor. Tanner Foust drives the CTR3 prototype up Goodwood this weekend. 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. Read: Porsche Never Built A Mid-Engined 911, But Ruf Came Close Making its debut at this week’s Goodwood Festival of Speed is the company’s 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. 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’s 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 without the need for hybrid assistance. Bolted to the new 4.8-liter engine is a six-speed manual, another piece built in-house by the German brand. Ruf The prototype being tested by RUF has been stretched by 3.93 inches (100 mm) over a standard CTR3 to accommodate the new engine. Visually, there’s 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. The supercar’s bodywork is largely shared with the CTR3 Evo 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. Ruf “There are moments in a company’s history that define the future,” said company founder Alois Ruf. “For RUF, the Boxer 8is one of those moments. A boxer-eight has never been part of our story, or anyone else’s 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.” The company has yet to announce when the boxer-eight will premiere in a new production vehicle. Ruf