Ruf has been in enterprise since 1939, transitioning from a Porsche modifier to a full-blown automotive producer. However even within the model’s 86-year historical past, we have by no means seen a Ruf mannequin as costly because the one which not too long ago crossed the public sale block.

At this 12 months’s Gooding & Firm public sale in Amelia Island, Florida, a 1989 Ruf CTR ‘Yellowbird’ bought for simply over $6 million, making it the priciest Ruf mannequin ever. It beat out the earlier most-expensive Yellowbird, which bought for a scant $1.08 million by comparability in 2018.

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The automobile in query is one among simply 29 examples ever constructed, and one among simply 9 completed within the manufacturing facility Blossom Yellow (or, Blutengelb) paint. That makes this a very uncommon instance. It options the light-weight Leichtbau bundle with aluminum physique panels and an aluminum roll cage. All advised, this specific automobile has pushed simply 1,056 miles since new.

Below the hood is a twin-turbocharged 3.4-liter air-cooled flat-six making 463 horsepower and 408 pound-feet of torque when new, paired to a six-speed guide transmission as a part of the Leichtbau bundle.

Picture by: Mike Maez | Gooding & Firm

Picture by: Mike Maez | Gooding & Firm

Ruf proprietor Alois Ruf was readily available to observe the record-breaking Yellowbird cross the block.

“The CTR Yellowbird was a major turning level for Ruf and for contemporary efficiency vehicles generally,” famous Ruf. “And it stays a testomony to the very essence of our model: an unrelenting dedication to engineering excellence, revolutionary technical design, and the best potential customary of automotive efficiency.”

The $6.0-million Yellowbird wasn’t the one automobile that the German automaker had at Amelia. Ruf additionally confirmed a few of its latest autos on the Amelia concours garden, together with two gorgeous SCR fashions and a BTR2, which was geared up with Ruf’s new 993 Precision LED lighting system for 993 911 fashions.

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