Perhaps few of you know that Ruf Automobile – popularly known as Ruf – was founded in 1939 in Germany and initially only offered vehicle maintenance and repair. Experiments with new vehicle models did not begin until the late 1940s, and it was not until 1955 that the first Ruf-branded product was released on the German market. However, it was not a car but a tourist bus, which received positive feedback from customers and Ruf decided to expand his business and set up a separate owner bus company.
This was the very beginning of a company known today as one of the leading aftermarket tuning companies when it comes to Porsche models. germany Papule has a new 50-minute documentary telling the story of Ruf and how he rose to fame with the Ruf CTR, which was the fastest production vehicle in the world when it debuted in 1987. But before the Yellowbird Don’t make Ruf famous, the company had several other successful attempts at making fast Porsches.
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It all started in 1977 when Ruf’s first complete Porsche model was completed, featuring a modified 3.3 liter engine. The following year, the Ruf 911 SCR debuted as the company’s first non-turbo model, fitted with a naturally aspirated 3.2-liter engine. As mentioned, however, Ruf went from being popular in Germany to worldwide recognition in 1987 with the Ruf CTR.
In the year of its release, the CTR recorded a top speed of 211 miles per hour (339 kilometers per hour), making it the fastest production car in the world for its time. A year later an even higher speed of 213 mph (342 km/h) was achieved and Ruf released a video of the car lapping around the Nurburgring, which quickly became popular around the world. Images from this video are also featured in Papule‘s documentary, attached at the top of this page.
More recently, Ruf unveiled the SCR at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. Looking a lot like the classic 964-generation Porsche 911, it had an all-carbon fiber monocoque chassis and body. A heavily modified 4.0-liter naturally aspirated engine with 503 horsepower (375 kilowatts) and 347 pound-feet (470 Newton-meters) was under the hood, giving the SCR a top speed of 199 mph (320 km/h). ).
