One-of-Four Ruf CTR 2 Sport AWD Is Headed to Auction
Broad Arrow Auctions will offer an all-wheel-drive 1998 RUF CTR 2 Sport during its Monterey Jet Center 2025 sale. It's one of four built.
One-of-Four Ruf CTR 2 Sport AWD Is Headed to Auction
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One of the rarest air-cooled Porsche 911s of the 1990s will soon cross the Broad Arrow auction block as part of its Monterey Jet Center sale: A 1998 Ruf CTR 2 Sport. It is one of 14 built, one of four ordered with all-wheel drive, and it benefits from a documented history and low mileage.

Ruf unveiled the CTR 2 in 1995 as a follow-up to the CTR, famously nicknamed Yellowbird. The CTR set the bar for performance sky-high: With a top speed of 211 mph, it was the fastest car in the world. For context, Ferrari quoted a top speed of 201 mph for the F40, and the rally-bred Porsche 959 was capable of hitting 197. Then again, Ruf wasn’t your average tuner shop; the changes it made to the CTR were done with meticulous care and thoughtful engineering. The CTR 2 had a lot to live up to, then.

Based on the final evolution of the air-cooled 911, the 993, the CTR 2 was powered by a twin-turbocharged, 3.6-liter flat-six engine rated at 520 horsepower and 505 pound-feet of torque. It took 3.6 seconds to reach 60 mph from a stop, a figure that’s still impressive by modern standards, and it boasted a top speed of 217 mph. It came with rear-wheel drive and a six-speed manual transmission, and buyers could order all-wheel drive (a first for Ruf) at an extra cost. Notably, the system allowed the driver to manually adjust the torque split between the front and rear axles.

Ruf also went to significant lengths to make the CTR 2 lighter than the 993. The list of standard features included carbon-ceramic brakes, then a rarity in the realm of production cars, composite bumpers, and a composite hood. And yet, the CTR 2 offered a luxurious interior.

The CTR 2 was widely celebrated as an improvement over the CTR. Mission accomplished, then? Well, Ruf saw room for improvement, and the company released a more hardcore evolution of the car called CTR 2 Sport with a 580-horsepower engine, punched-out wheel arches that cleared space for wider tires and even bigger brakes, and comprehensive suspension changes to hone the car for track use. The Sport model showed what it was capable of by taking second overall in the 1997 Pikes Peak hill climb.

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Assigned chassis number W09BC0360WPR06007, Broad Arrow’s 1998 CTR 2 Sport was ordered new by Frank Beddor, who ticked the “all-wheel-drive” box on the list of options. It’s an American-market car that was originally finished in non-metallic black with a black interior. In 2007, New Jersey-based Richard Gundeck bought this CTR 2 Sport from the Beddor family and sent it back to Ruf’s headquarters in Germany, where the shop repaired cosmetic damage sustained during shipping and performed several modifications, replacing the black interior with one entirely in green, and installing Bilstein PSS10 coilovers. The car returned to the United States, where it changed hands twice.

This CTR 2 Sport has crossed the Atlantic twice, yet its odometer displays merely 16,679 miles (that’s an annual average of approximately 620 miles). It still features the green interior installed at the Ruf factory during Gundeck’s ownership, it’s still finished in non-metallic black, and Broad Arrow notes it received a full service from Ruf North America in July 2025.

If this Ruf CTR 2 Sport is the 993 you’ve been dreaming of, head over to Monterey, California, on August 14, 2025. Don’t expect to score a bargain, though: Broad Arrow predicts that this Ruf will sell for anywhere between $3 million and $3.5 million, or more than most new hypercars. On one hand, that’s a huge amount of money for an air-cooled 911. On the other hand, this Ruf isn’t any air-cooled 911. Even better, the CTR 2 Sport is rarer than most new hypercars: Ruf built 29 CTR 2s, including 14 Sport models. Just four of those had all-wheel-drive. Put another way, you’re far more likely to spot a Ferrari F80 (799 units planned) in the wild.

What’s perhaps even more telling is that this exact CTR 2 Sport sold for $736,500 in August 2019. Even at $3.5 million, however, this CTR 2 Sport would still be considerably more affordable than the original CTR: The record for that model is over $6 million.

 

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