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RUF was the first company to reimagine Porsche sports cars and it all started back in 1939. What started as Auto Ruf service garage, eventually became the first manufacturer to repair and restore Porsche sports cars, and eventually build Porsche-inspired, high-performance automobiles, under the RUF brand. The Pfaffenhausen-based company still makes Porsche-inspired models, but everything is now made in-house. Moreover, RUF is also a manufacturer of performance parts for Porsche models like the 911 and 718. One of Porsche’s most desired models from the 21st century is the Carrera GT, and it didn’t take long for RUF to come up with its own, mid-engine variant of a Porsche-based model. The RUF CTR3 is what we got, and here’s why it is the best way to get the Porsche Carrera GT experience (and more) at a fraction of the price.

The host of the Alte Schule (old-school in German) YouTube channel, Karsten Arndt finds himself in the foothills of Bavaria, Germany with legendary two-time WRC champion and Porsche works test driver Walter Röhrl. The pair initially discuss the Porsche Carrera GT, a car that Röhrl helped develop. Walter touches upon some of the initial struggles during the Carrera GT’s conceptualization and how it took time for the car to perform well. He emphasizes the car’s unique features: a mid-engine V10 with 612 horsepower and no electronic aids, and the importance of skilled engineers like Roland Kussmaul.

The automotive world is buzzing with anticipation as two titans prepare to clash in the ultimate battle for supercar supremacy. In one corner, we have the all-new, rear mid-engined C8 Corvette ZR1, the most potent ’Vette ever to exist. With its twin-turbo 5.5-liter V8 roaring with over 1,000 horsepower, this American-made monster is already causing a stir in Europe, proving that you don’t need a hybrid powertrain to deliver 1,000+ horsepower.

The ’Surfari’ 928 is one of the more creative builds, that we’ve come across in a while. We say this because while Safari-style Porsche 911 are quite well known, we haven’t seen the 928 embrace that rugged jacked-up look. The Surfari was conceptualized by Tadeusz Elwart who lives on the Hel Peninsula - a narrow strip of land in between the Baltic Sea and the Bay of Puck, in Poland. From a young age, Tadeusz’s father instilled a love for cars in him, especially vintage air-cooled Porsches. This is where his idea for the Surfari was formed and eventually manifested into a heavily modified 928.

The world just got a whole lot louder and a whole lot faster. Chevy just ripped the curtain off the long-awaited and highly-anticipated C8 2025 Corvette ZR1, and it’s not messing around. Packing a colossal 1,064 horsepower from its 5.5-liter twin-turbocharged flat-plane crank V8, this is also the first-ever mid-engined ’Vette with a ZR1 badge. The ZR1 line of course goes back decades and is a model line with track-bred performance. While this isn’t going to be an apples-to-apples comparison, how does this pinnacle of American performance from General Motors, stack up against the Porsche 911? With 691 horsepower, the 991 GT2 RS was one of the fastest and most powerful 911s ever made. But today, the most rad 911 you can buy is the GT3 RS. Let’s find out.

For 2025, Porsche did something everybody was afraid of. Fans of the 911 were worried that electrifying the Porsche 911 would make it too complex and heavy, but what ended up happening is, Porsche schooled everyone on how to make a hybrid sports car that turned out to be quicker around the Nurburgring than a 992.1 Turbo S. That’s exactly what the 2025 Porsche 992.2 GTS achieved, so we can only expect the 992.2 Turbo S would be even more bonkers when it arrives.

Two of the fastest production cars in the world go head-to-head in the latest video from the Hamilton Collection YouTube channel. Steve Hamilton, who owns the collection and his team went to great lengths to organize an epic showdown between a Bugatti Chiron and Rimac Nevera. They also needed a location for this historic race and chose the Space Coast Testing Facility, in Florida. This 3.0-mile long, 100-meter-wide stretch of pavement was originally a runway for landing space shuttles.

The 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS is making a grand entrance, not just as a new model but as a technological trailblazer within the iconic 911 family. Its groundbreaking T-Hybrid system is set to become a mainstay in the upcoming 992 models, which is perfect because it all runs in the background, and you wouldn’t feel any difference apart from increased engine responsiveness.

Porsche purists are very particular about what you can and cannot do to a 911, especially if it is an air-cooled model. While this particular example of the German, rear-engine sports car is water-cooled, what the people at Street Bandito YouTube channel have done to it would, no doubt, irritate many Porsche enthusiasts. The Porsche 911 is considered, by many, to be the ultimate sports car that you can actually daily-drive, except maybe, the more track-focused variants like the GT3. Regardless, putting a V-8 engine, and an American one at that, into a 911’s tight engine bay is sacrilege in the eyes of the Porsche community. That said, there are certain scenarios where you could walk away with putting a pushrod V-8 engine in a Porsche 911, and this particular case comes pretty close to justifying the unusual engine swap.

Brooks Weisblat, owner of the Drag Times YouTube Channel owns some cool and fast cars. Some of these special cars in his garage include a Ferrari SF90, a McLaren 765LT Spider, and his most recent acquisition, his Guards Red Porsche Turbo S. He recently took on the legendary Tail of the Dragon mountain pass road in Tennessee, along with some of his friends. The Dragon, also known as Deals Gap, is an 11-mile world-famous stretch of road with 318 curves popular with riding and driving clubs across the world.

Bugatti has dropped its latest masterpiece, the Tourbillon, and it’s unlike anything we’ve seen from the French automaker before. This bad boy isn’t just another W16-powered behemoth, oh no. It’s a hybrid hypercar with a heart that’ll make even the most die-hard gearlhead weak in the knees.

California-based company, Singer Vehicle Design is a little over 10 years old and continues to impress with its unique take on classic Porsche 911s. The company has evolved greatly since its humble beginnings back in 2013 and now features a fully-fledged workshop with a meticulously organized, multi-step process, which focuses on painstakingly perfecting every detail of the reimagined 911s, down to the smallest thing. This near-psychotic obsession with attention to detail has resulted in what is considered the benchmark for a perfectly reimagined classic Porsche sports car. Singer focuses on quality over quantity, which is why every variant of the company’s reimagined Porsche 911 lineup is produced in limited quantities and costs as much as (or more than) a brand-new Porsche 911. Throughout the resto-modder’s decade of manufacturing Porsche 911s for purists, Singer has made only four different models, not counting the different body styles. Here’s how the Singer lineup looks today.