Ruf Automobile is one of the titans of the adjusting market. The company-produced docudrama “Ruf: Love at the Red Line” traces its 80-year history.
What ultimately became Ruf Automobile started out in 1939 as an ordinary garage in Pfaffenhausen, Germany, opened by Alois Ruf, Sr., His child Alois Ruf, Jr., would eventually expand the business right into a Porsche-tuning powerhouse thanks to one vehicle driver’s bad luck.
In the documentary, Ruf Jr. describes that one day in 1963 a Porsche 356 overtook his father’s bus and also crashed. His papa brought the driver to the medical facility and also repaired the automobile. This began Ruf, Jr.’s romance with Porsches and a constant service taking care of as well as keeping the cars.
1987 Ruf CTR ‘Yellowbird ‘Ruf started marketing its own modified Porsches in the late 1970s, in feedback to Porsche’s curtailing of the 911 lineup for the 928. Porsche wished to replace the 911 with the 928, and while that didn’t occur, this created a niche for Ruf’s tuned 911s.
Soon afterwards, Alois Ruf, Jr., began cooking up the vehicle that would gain Ruf Automobile lasting fame– the CTR Yellowbird. The task started in 1979 as the 945R, with strategies to make use of a 450-hp twin-turbo flat-6 derived from the engine used in the Porsche 935 race auto. The actual Yellowbird released in 1987 making use of a 911 Carrera 3.2 body shell as well as a 3.4-liter twin-turbo flat-6 making about 460 hp.
The Yellowbird became globe popular by winning a 1987 Road & & Track “World’s Fastest Cars” competitors, beating the similarity Ferrari and Lamborghini with a 211-mph full throttle. It’s only previous high-speed shakedown was a run on a German Autobahn heading to the examination. Alois Ruf, Jr., claimed.
In 1989, Ruf complied with that up with the video clip “Fascination on the Nürburgring,” once more starring the CTR. In-car video footage as well as some incredible drifts made this arguably the initial vehicle viral video, however in those pre-internet days it was distributed on VHS.
One more key element of the Ruf aura is the “Gran Turismo” video game collection. In 1998, manufacturer Kazunori Yamauchi located Ruf, Jr., at a Japanese resort to secure consent to utilize Ruf automobiles in the video games. Yamauchi stated he intended to include Ruf due to the brand’s brave status among auto fanatics.
Ruf slowly branched off to other Porsche versions, as well as even a Volkswagen van, before taking on the obstacle of developing a vehicle from square one. The 2017 Ruf CTR resembled the original Yellowbird, however with a bespoke carbon-fiber chassis bathtub as well as bodywork. Ruf has proceeded that style over the last few years with various other retro-looking cars, and restomods of a few of its 1990s designs.
Take a look at the complete video over for even more on the business’s history and also a look at just how the manufacturing facility tackles its job.