Ruf Automobile is among the giants of the tuning market. The company-produced docudrama “Ruf: Love at the Red Line” traces its 80-year background.
What at some point ended up being Ruf Automobile started out in 1939 as an average garage in Pfaffenhausen, Germany, opened by Alois Ruf, Sr., His kid Alois Ruf, Jr., would eventually expand business into a Porsche-tuning giant many thanks to one chauffeur’s misfortune.
In the documentary, Ruf Jr. describes that day in 1963 a Porsche 356 overtook his father’s bus as well as collapsed. His daddy brought the chauffeur to the health center as well as repaired the cars and truck. This started Ruf, Jr.’s relationship with Porsches as well as a consistent business fixing and also maintaining the sports cars.
1987 Ruf CTR ‘Yellowbird ‘Ruf began selling its very own modified Porsches in the late 1970s, in reaction to Porsche’s cutting of the 911 lineup for the 928. Porsche intended to change the 911 with the 928, and also while that didn’t take place, this created a niche for Ruf’s tuned 911s.
Quickly after that, Alois Ruf, Jr., started preparing the cars and truck that would gain Ruf Automobile lasting popularity– the CTR Yellowbird. The project begun in 1979 as the 945R, with plans to utilize a 450-hp twin-turbo flat-6 stemmed from the engine made use of in the Porsche 935 race car. The real Yellowbird introduced in 1987 using a 911 Carrera 3.2 body covering and also a 3.4-liter twin-turbo flat-6 making about 460 hp.
The Yellowbird became globe renowned by winning a 1987 Road & & Track “World’s Fastest Cars” competitors, defeating the similarity Ferrari and Lamborghini with a 211-mph full throttle. It’s just previous high-speed shakedown was an operate on a German Autobahn en route to the test. Alois Ruf, Jr., stated.
In 1989, Ruf adhered to that up with the video “Fascination on the Nürburgring,” once again starring the CTR. In-car footage and also some magnificent drifts made this perhaps the initial automobile viral video, however in those pre-internet days it was distributed on VHS.
One more crucial element of the Ruf mystique is the “Gran Turismo” computer game collection. In 1998, producer Kazunori Yamauchi tracked down Ruf, Jr., at a Japanese resort to protect consent to utilize Ruf autos in the games. Yamauchi said he wished to consist of Ruf due to the brand’s heroic condition among vehicle enthusiasts.
Ruf slowly branched off to various other Porsche models, and also even a Volkswagen van, prior to handling the obstacle of building an auto from square one. The 2017 Ruf CTR resembled the original Yellowbird, but with a bespoke carbon-fiber chassis bathtub as well as bodywork. Ruf has proceeded that style recently with various other retro-looking cars and trucks, and also restomods of a few of its 1990s versions.
Take a look at the complete video over for more on the business’s history as well as a take a look at exactly how the manufacturing facility sets about its work.