Ruf debuts new flat-eight engine at Goodwood

Ruf 在古德伍德速度节发布全新水平对置八缸发动机

Ruf has come quite a long way from its roots as a tuner of Porsches. The German company (no doubt familiar to those of us in the PlayStation generation as Gran Turismo 2‘s workaround because someone else owned the video game rights to the real 911) has evolved past that stage and now builds cars of its own design. And today at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England, it fired up a brand-new engine for the first time in public.

Ruf 已经从最初的保时捷改装厂发展壮大。对于我们这些“PlayStation 一代”的玩家来说，这家德国公司并不陌生（在《GT赛车2》中，由于保时捷的版权被其他厂商持有，Ruf 成了玩家驾驶 911 的替代选择）。如今，Ruf 已经超越了改装阶段，开始制造自主设计的车型。今天，在英国古德伍德速度节（Goodwood Festival of Speed）上，他们首次公开点火启动了一款全新的发动机。

In fact, the German authorities have considered Ruf a distinct manufacturer (as opposed to a tuner) for some time—the BTR in 1983 was the first to carry a Ruf vehicle identification number rather than the one that Porsche originally stamped on the chassis. Then in 2007, it revealed the CTR3. The Porsche DNA was clear, but the CTR3 was mid-engined, unlike the rear-engined 911, and featured a frame chassis developed by Ruf together with Multimatic.

事实上，德国官方早已将 Ruf 视为一家独立的汽车制造商，而非单纯的改装厂。1983 年推出的 BTR 是首款拥有 Ruf 车辆识别码（VIN）而非保时捷原始底盘编号的车型。随后在 2007 年，他们发布了 CTR3。虽然该车保留了明显的保时捷基因，但与后置发动机的 911 不同，CTR3 采用了中置发动机布局，并配备了由 Ruf 与 Multimatic 共同开发的框架式底盘。

More recently, it has been building its own all-carbon monocoque chassis for cars like the SCR and Rodeo, which otherwise look like 964-era Porsche 911s. Those still use horizontally opposed six-cylinder engines, but for its next generation of cars, it seems Ruf wanted something a little different.

最近，他们还为 SCR 和 Rodeo 等车型打造了全碳纤维单体壳底盘，尽管这些车的外观看起来仍像 964 时代的保时捷 911。这些车型目前仍搭载水平对置六缸发动机，但对于下一代车型，Ruf 似乎想要寻求一些不同的突破。

The new engine is called the B8, and it’s fitted to a lengthened CTR3 mule called the “Erprober” (German for tester), which will carry the engine up the hill at Goodwood (driven by one of the nicest guys in racing, Tanner Faust). Full technical specs on the new engine are not available yet, and unfortunately Ars isn’t at Goodwood to follow up, but we do know the 4.8 L engine generates more than 1,000 hp (745 kW) and 737 lb-ft (1,000 Nm).

这款新发动机被命名为 B8，它被安装在一台加长的 CTR3 测试车（代号“Erprober”，德语意为“测试者”）上，并将由赛车界最友善的车手之一 Tanner Faust 驾驶，在古德伍德的爬山赛中亮相。目前该发动机的完整技术参数尚未公布，遗憾的是 Ars 团队未能亲临古德伍德进行后续报道，但我们已知这款 4.8 升发动机的输出功率超过 1,000 马力（745 kW），峰值扭矩达到 737 磅-英尺（1,000 Nm）。