 Capable of accelerating from in under 3.5 seconds and achieving a top speed in excess of - actual recorded top speed was - in 1995 the CTR2 was the fastest production sports car in the world; it outperformed Ferrari's F50 (204 mph), Jaguar's XJ220 (213 mph), and performing on par with Nissan's R390 GT1 (220 mph).The McLaren F1 was the only other production car at the time that broke the CTR2's record, by clocking a top speed of 241 mph in 1998, which then made the Ruf CTR2 the 2nd fastest production car of the decade.To prove his new car's ability, in 1997, Alois Ruf entered two special wide-body 'CTR2 Yellowbird' prototype 'Sport' versions, code-named 'CTR2sport' with in the 1997 Pikes Peak Hillclimb race.