Founded way back in 1939, and rising to fame in the 1980s with its high-performance Porsche-based CTR "Yellowbird" Ruf has been building gorgeous and fast machines for decades. While much of what the company has built is based on Porsche chassis, for decades it stripped everything down to its component parts and engineered every single piece to …
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Marc Philipp Gemballa’s Marsien pays homage to Porsche’s Dakar history
The original Gemballa may be the most famous Porsche tuner in the world (Ruf is not a tuner, remember), and is universally best known for gaudy and over-the-top Porsche-based creations. Wild bodykits and huge horsepower are de rigueur for the company, and even with the tragic murder of founder Uwe Gemballa a decade ago, the company continues to …
Continue to the full articleExcellent Ruf Exhibit Open Now At The Petersen Museum
In partnership with our favorite aircooled Porsche show Luftgekuhlt, Los Angeles, California's best automotive museum The Petersen has launched a new exhibit to celebrate the greatest Porsche-based supercar manufacturer in the world. Ruf was founded in 1939, and spent decades building and rebuilding some of the greatest sports cars in history. It …
Continue to the full articleRUF’s BTR2 Requires Some Respect
In 1993, production of the BTR2 began. As the second production car in RUF's lineup, it took its name from the G-body-based BTR unveiled a decade earlier. Due to a classic configuration draped in modern skin, the BTR2 was an odd product; something which straddled the fence that separates the crazy seventies and the tech-heavy nineties. The BTR …
Continue to the full articleIf You Hand Over Your Porsche 964 And $425,000, RUF Will Build You An RCT Evo
If you'd like a trip back to simpler times when a Porsche 911 Turbo was still a frightening thing that skipped, danced, and deployed its power in a brutal fashion, but would like that feral character hardened and sharpened by modern tech, you're in luck. RUF Automobile might've made its name with their wildly modified 930s, but the successive …
Continue to the full articleFive RUF Models You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
Known for blending outrageously powerful motors with understated exteriors, RUF Automobile GmbH has made quite a name for itself. But beyond the tire-smoking Yellowbirds, there are a few vehicles which, while possibly not headline material in themselves, help constitute an interesting, varied stable from a company capable of producing more than …
Continue to the full articleThe History Of Ruf As Told By Ruf
For eighty years the Ruf family has been wrenching on and improving the best sports cars to come out of Zuffenhausen. It all started with a small repair shop in Pfaffenhausen, and became a household name by building the fastest car in the world at one point. The company has continued to build some incredible machines, including their own …
Continue to the full articleThe RUF Rodeo is a Carbon Fiber Take on the Safari 911
Since registering as a manufacturer in the late 1970s the creations of Alois Ruf have avoided, at a legal level, being Porsche 911s. Though they may look like 911s, often sound quite like 911s, are made of 911 parts, and probably even smell like 911s the pfolks from Pfeffenhausen are distinct from those in Stuttgart. Since launching their carbon …
Continue to the full articleDrag Battle of the Titans: Ruf CTR3 Vs. GT2 RS
It's interesting to see how far the game has progressed in the last decade. Back in 2008, the small batch of Ruf CTR3s was regarded as having one of the wildest makeups in the world of supercars. Shoehorn a custom flat-six engine in the back of a hybrid chassis utilizing 997 Turbo and 987 Cayman bits, stick in a sequential gearbox for good measure, …
Continue to the full articleThe Ruf CTR Blends The Old With The New
Read the following figures out aloud: 2,750 pounds, a 710-horsepower engine, a carbon monocoque, and pushrod suspension. Those stats alone don't suggest something with the silhouette of a vintage 911, do they? In the case of the RUF CTR Anniversary, an astounding amount of modern tech is utilized to modernize the experience of its hot-blooded …
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