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1,000hp, six-speed manual, zero hybrid — RUF just built the boxer-eight engine Porsche never dared put in a road car.

The B8: 4.8-litre twin-turbo flat-eight, 1,000+ hp and 1,000 Nm, in a stretched CTR3 mule called 'Erprober', driven by Tanner Foust up Goodwood twice daily. No production car confirmed yet. Rennlist thread consensus: 'most exciting thing to come out of Goodwood in years' — the dissenting voices just want to know when the actual road car arrives.

Porsche campaigned flat-eights in the 904/8, 907 and 908 through the early 1970s, then retired the layout as too wide and too awkward to package in any road car. RUF, the fiercely independent Bavarian firm, looked at that history and decided to write a new chapter. The B8 — Boxer 8 — is a bespoke 4.8-litre twin-turbocharged horizontally-opposed eight-cylinder producing over 1,000hp and 1,000Nm with zero electrification. Critically, it drives through RUF's own six-speed manual gearbox. The development prototype is a CTR3 stretched 100mm to swallow the engine, nicknamed Erprober (German: tester), wearing a Blossom Yellow livery riffing on the legendary 1987 Yellowbird CTR with flowing figure-eight graphics designed by Aloisa Ruf. Tanner Foust ran it up the Goodwood hill twice daily from Friday through Sunday. Alois Ruf said: 'A boxer-eight has never been part of our story, or anyone else's in this form, so we decided to write a new chapter in automotive history.' No production car or timeline has been confirmed — the Erprober is purely a powertrain testbed. But this is RUF: when they build a test mule this complete and run it at Goodwood, a production car is coming. At this output, with a proper manual and air-cooled heritage, the waiting list will not be short.

The first customer Apollo EVO just debuted at Goodwood — NA V12, 800hp, 1,000 hours of paint, and ten cars total. It costs what a house costs.

Caribbean Dragon: 6.3-litre NA V12, 800hp, 1,300kg, 0-100 in 2.7sec, 335kph top speed; carbon monocoque 15% stiffer and 10% lighter than the Intensa Emozione. Over 75 carbon elements, eight-layer Diamond Dust paint finish taking 1,000+ hours to apply. Reddit r/supercars split between 'this looks like a Transformer' and 'the most insane thing at Goodwood' — neither characterisation is wrong.

Apollo Automobil — the reborn Gumpert out of Germany, marking 20 years since the original Apollo deliveries began in 2006 — brought its production EVO hypercar to Goodwood in first customer specification. The Caribbean Dragon is car one of ten planned examples, each individually specified with no two identical. The naturally aspirated 6.3-litre V12 produces 800hp at the rear wheels through a six-speed sequential gearbox. The full carbon monocoque weighs 165kg and is 15% stiffer and 10% lighter than the IE unit it replaces. A 3D-printed weld-free titanium Dragon Skin exhaust system is a manufacturing first. Outside, 75 individual carbon fibre elements are covered in Diamond Dust white paint over eight hand-applied layers, with deep blue carbon accents; the paintwork alone accounts for 1,000-plus hours of work. No official price has been disclosed, but the original IE sold for approximately €2.7M — the EVO is expected to exceed €3M per car. With a Ferrari V12 screaming in an open-cockpit track car this architecturally extreme, and only ten units ever to exist, the word underpriced may still apply.

Maserati dropped a GranTurismo-based GT4 race car at Goodwood — minus 400kg, RWD only, and the clearest sign yet that the Trident means business again.

Project GT4 uses the GranTurismo architecture, sheds 400kg versus the road car, rear-wheel drive only, targeting international GT4 racing from 2028 to sit below the GT2 Stradale programme. Debuted at Goodwood alongside the MCXtrema and GT2 Stradale. Motor-talk.de reaction: cautiously optimistic — 'finally Maserati doing something interesting again' is the consensus, which after years of product uncertainty is not a small thing.

Maserati Corse arrived at Goodwood FoS 2026 with its most complete motorsport line-up in years: the MCXtrema track-only car, the GT2 Stradale road-legal racer, and now the Project GT4 unveiled in the Supercar Paddock. The GT4 sits at the accessible entry point of the customer racing pyramid and is built on the GranTurismo architecture — the same platform underpinning the car that still draws the most favourable reviews in the current Maserati range. Shedding 400kg and adopting rear-wheel drive only, it targets international GT4 championships from 2028, giving privateer teams a Trident option in what is already a well-populated and competitive class. The Nettuno twin-turbo V6 was developed with direct technical input from Ferrari's F1 programme, giving the GT4 a credible power unit. For a brand that has spent too many years announcing future models that arrived late or not at all, the sight of three concrete race products running up the Goodwood hill in one weekend is meaningful. Whether customer deliveries hit 2028 on schedule will be the real test — but the hardware on show at Goodwood looked genuine, not a concept exercise.