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With the carbon-fiber, rear-engine CTR Anniversary and SCR out there, RUF wants to do another mid-engine car.

RUF shocked the car world back in 2017 when it unveiled an all-carbon tribute to its most famous car, the CTR "Yellowbird." The one we declared the fastest car in the world in 1987, when it hit 211 mph in a top-speed shootout, crushing competition from tuners and well-established automakers alike. The most remarkable thing about the new CTR? Its carbon-fiber chassis. It's not a 911.

The carbon chassis will underpin all 50 planned examples of the CTR Anniversary—half have been delivered—and the new, naturally aspirated SCR. During Monterey Car Week, we had the chance to catch up with the Ruf family and sample the SCR. The company will likely build an open-top speedster previewed by the 993-based Bergmeister on this platform, and Alois Ruf wants to do a mid-engine car as well.

"He never runs out of projects in his head," says Estonia Ruf, wife of Alois and manager of the company's day-to-day operations. "You know, I think he has five different cars running around his head right now, which is amazing."

This mid-engine car would be a successor of sorts to the CTR3 (pictured above), which was based around the middle-section of the 987 Cayman. RUF's first attempt at building a car not based on a specific Porsche model, the CTR3's front was mostly 997 GT3 RS while the rear was tubular steel designed in conjunction with Multimatic. The new CTR realized RUF's dream of building a car from the ground up, and it's only natural that after making rear-engine, carbon-fiber cars, the company will go mid-engine.

As it's early days, we don't know exactly what RUF has in mind. We suspect it'll be very special though.