Then Frère invited me to ride with him in the yellow RUf Twin-Turbo, nicknamed the “Yellow Bird” by Richard Baron, the art director at our R&T Specials division. R&T Archives I’d ridden ...

It wore a Ruf badge and Ruf VIN, because the German government had certified him as a manufacturer. Someone at Ehra-Lessien thought the CTR looked like a yellow bird, flitting across the horizon ...

Many years later, I rediscovered Ruf in the infamous Faszination video on YouTube, and that original 1987 CTR, known as Yellow Bird, has been an object of obsession for me and many other car ...

and no Ruf car can match the legendary status of the 1987 CTR “Yellow Bird,” a souped up 911 that wiped the floor with pedigreed supercars back in its day. At the 2017 Geneva Motor Show ...

It was the photographers on a shoot for America’s Road & Track magazine who gave the CTR its nickname, because of how its bright-yellow paintwork gleamed even on a dull, German day. The shoot ...

That made it rare even among the just 29 CTRs Ruf built from scratch because only nine of them were painted in Blutengelb (Blossom Yellow ... practically new. This bird had been caged almost ...

The original Ruf CTR Yellow Bird has gained mythical status in the petrolhead community, not just because of that Nurburgring video but also because it gained the title of the world’s fastest ...

Many would consider that, alongside the offerings from Singer, the RUF CTR Yellow Bird is the most desirable non-Porsche 911 in existence, and one is headed to auction later this month.

Ruf Automobile, internationally famous. That car, of which only 29 were built, went on to sell many more virtual copies through Sony’s PlayStation. The popularity of the CTR “Yellow Bird ...

Today's video is a classic, the famous 1987 Ruf CTR 01 "Yellow Bird" hot-lapping the even more-famous Nurburgring. Were you one of those kids who taught themselves to identify cars at night by ...

The RUF CTR Yellow Bird, which was launched in Geneva View gallery - 11 images Porsche geeks from the late 1980s will have fond memories of the RUF CTR Yellow Bird.