New RUF

Apparently there's a new RUF with a claimed 0-60 of 3.2 secs and 600+hp. If anyone knows anything more about this or has any pics, please post them.

thought of looking up the ruf website??

the website is http://www.ruf-automobile.de/

Apparently there's a new RUF with a claimed 0-60 of 3.2 secs and 600+hp. If anyone knows anything more about this or has any pics, please post them.and also i think it's called the RUF RGT RS and it's a modified stock Porsche 911(996) GT3 RS.

Yeah I checked the RUF website but they don't even have info ont eh RTurbo Sport, the most recent is the RTurbo. Thanks for the name though, I had only heard the basic idea of it. I'll look elsewhere for info.

The Sport package is an option for the Rturbo, widebody with some suspension goodies and wider tires, that's why it's not listed as a model.

I have a feeling you are refering to the upcoming R40.

At the recent 40th anniversary celebration of Ruf Automobile GmbH, held in Austria, Alois Ruf gave guests a first glimpse of the mid-engined sports car that the company will launch next summer.

The prototype R40 did two laps of the Salzburgring with racer-now-journalist Paul Frere at the wheel. Ruf says many details will change between now and production, but the company is keen to scotch speculation that the R40 is based on a Boxster because it's mid-engined. In fact, the bespoke chassis is designed in-house, married to a lightweight bodyshell and powered by a modified 911 Turbo motor with over 600bhp. Ruf declined to discuss numbers or performance figures, but if you consider that the 911 Turbo-based Ruf R Turbo was officially clocked at 218mph at Nardo last October, the R40 is potentially even faster.

Ruf believes there's a gap in the market between the 911 Turbo and the Carrera GT. The R40 aims to combine supercar presence with the driveability of a 911 Turbo.

Ruf is registered as a manufacturer by the German Transport Authority and has 25 years' experience in building cars from bare shells. Despite the top speed records his modified Porsches have set over the years, Alois Ruf has always said he would build his own car one day. That day has now arrived.

Ruf R40 photo (http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/picture_library/dir_24/car_portal_pic_12263.jpg?4586)

The R40 isn't actually a Porsche it's just a RUF production with Porsche parts, kinda like how Lotus makes it's cars.

Very well said, Tetsuo!

And for the record, the RGT RS is naturally aspirated, and makes somewhere in the 400hp range, as I recall. An absolutely superb car in every measure of the word. If it is somehow possible to improve upon the GT3 RS, Ruf has done it.

Thanks Cbass. I wonder when the MKII RGT will be released.

Nice car by the way Cbass.