80 Years Of RUF

Alois Ruf, creater of Auto RUF first got into Porsches when he saw a Porsche 356 crash on the highway and he rushed to the divers aid, he ended up keeping the wrecked Porsche in his garage while the injured driver was in the hospital recovering. Ruf ended up buying the wrecked Porsche from the drivers insurance as the car was written off. He was fascinated by the Porsche and soon Auto RUF became the go-to Porsche repair shop in southern Germany.

After Alois Snr's death his son Alois Jr took over the shop and kept the legacy of being the go-to place for Porsches, however he also started focusing on performance and Motorsport. Alouis Jr decided that he was going to build a 911 in a way that would give him better performance, it took him three years and in 1978 he unveiled the SCR. It was based on a 3 liter naturally aspirated Porsche 911 SC but achieved the same performance as the much faster Porsche 930. He achieved this by boring out the engine to 3.2 liters, updated the fuel injection and added a dry sump as well as some other performance parts. This allowed the SCR to push our 214 hp, 34 more than the original 911 SC. The SCR also got a LSD, updated body work and removed any unnecessary creature comforts making the SCR more driving focused.

 RUF became so well known for the quality of work that they did that Porsche was okay with sending them brand new chassis form the factory. In 1983 RUF introduced the BTR, this was the first RUF to be manufactured with its own VIN meaning that RUF was no longer just a repair and modification shop but a car manufacturer. To make the BTR they took Porsche 930 parts form the factory and improved them to get the 3.4 liter 369 hp car to reach 60mph in just 4.3 seconds. The BTR was the first production car to break the 300kmh barrier making it faster than the Lamborghini Countach and the Ferrari Testarossa.

 In 1987 the Porsche 959 and Ferrari F40 were on the scene so RUF had to make a new car to compete and so they made the CTR known as the Yellowbird. The CTR had a 3.2 liter turbo had 493 hp and did 0-60mph in under 4 seconds, it reached a top speed of 340 kmh, faster than all the other rivals at Porcshe, Mercedes, Ferrari and the like. RUF went on to make the BTR 2 and the CTR 2 in the 90's improving them both, even giving the CTR 2 all wheel drive and twin turbos. The only car to beat the CRT2's top speed in the 90's was the McLaren F1. RUF entered 2 widebody variants of the CTR2's into hill climb racers where they kept achieving podium finishes.

 In the year 2000 Porsche signed en exclusivity contract with EA Games, this meant that games that weren't developed by EA couldn't use Porsche in their games, however due to RUF being a manufacturer, even though their cars where based on Porsches, they could be used in games, such as Grand Turismo and Forza. over the years RUF continued to make cars and in 2010 RUF made the RGT-8 which featured the first engine designed and made by RUF themselves, this engine was a 4.5 liter V8 that made 550hp. 

In 2007 RUF made the CTR 3 with a whopping 691 horsepower and featured a design that hearkened back to the Le Mans cars of old. A club-sport edition of the CTR3 was made in 2012 and it gained a further 86 hp bringing the total up to 777 hp and tops out at an insane 380 kmh.

In 2017 RUF developed a carbon chassis for future models, including some cars that will resemble the Porsches and RUF of old.