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Old 01-27-2005, 04:47 PM   #7
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Re: New Ruf Porsche 997

Yes, Ruf bare-backs off everything Porsche. Some of the chassis came from Porsche with VINs, some without. In the US Ruf used all of Porsche's OBD II data as their own. The relationship with POrsche isn't as tight as it used to be with P family members now gone. I reviewed the submited EPA data. Here's how it works: a company like Ruf or JK or G&k FOIA's the OEM's engine cert packages from EPA (which costs the OEM $32,000.00 per engine group) and then submit the data as their own. Only in America!


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Originally Posted by Tetsuo
I'm not a big fan of Ruf. Sure Ruf is qualified to be considered as a manufacture by German transformation officials but despite that fact Ruf lacks the same build quality of a Porsche-built 911. And unlike Porsche, Ruf does not have the same budget to commit to all-condition testing that Porsche commits to. Even though the car look is a Ruf-built 997, Ruf currently does not own the M97 engine, which means it is using the same 996-GT1 engine.
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