Help...

[angelboy52]

My friend said that the RUF's in GT3 are Porsche's, just different names. I dunno, they do look alike... But I'm just wondering... :confuse Thanks

 

[Klostrophobic]

No. Rufs are Rufs. Ruf takes a Porsche and modifies it completely. It isn't a Porsche, it's a Ruf.

 

[Dave A]

RUF take old Porsche bodies which they buy, they use thier own chassis, but the usual flat 6 Porsche enigines, the car isn't a tuned Porsche it's a different car altogether.

 

[anthonysinatra]

Originally posted by live4speed
RUF take old Porsche bodies which they buy, they use thier own chassis, but the usual flat 6 Porsche enigines, the car isn't a tuned Porsche it's a different car altogether.

its called a boxer engine

 

[bengee]

or a flat six or a horizontal opposed six or a boxer six... www.flat-6.com is a porsche site... so yeah...

 

[anthonysinatra]

Originally posted by bengee
or a flat six or a horizontal opposed six or a boxer six... www.flat-6.com is a porsche site... so yeah...

SMART-ASS!

 

[angelboy52]

Oh, Thanks anyways. Gonna tell him he's got a wild imagination. Heh-heh-heh...

 

[Boost Lee]

Tell him I have a peg leg while your at it.

 

[DoomsDayDevice4]

why didnt they have just regular porsche cars in gt3?

 

[Jay]

licence probs

 

[Der Alta]

Porsche has given an exclusive license to another company. PD can't/won't pay Porsche enough money to obtain that license.

Alois Ruf originally started out making performance enhancements for Porsches. After a while, he was modifying them to the point where the German government considered him an independent manufacturer. In the United states, you can't register a Ruf as a Porsche.

While they share many characteristics, they are not the same vehicle.

AO

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by live4speed
RUF take old Porsche bodies which they buy, they use thier own chassis, but the usual flat 6 Porsche enigines, the car isn't a tuned Porsche it's a different car altogether.

I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. The body is the chassis in just about any car made since the 1970s. Almost nothing except trucks are made with body-on-frame construction since then; cars since then are unibodies.

It is a fine line. Ruf starts with Porsche "bodies-in-white", meaning the basic shell of the car, and they use Porsche drivetrains, and some suspension parts. These are all modified to varying degrees or replaced by Ruf parts. They also use unmodified Porsche parts like headlights, taillights, and interior components, etc. The cars are not fabricated by Ruf.

So they are fundamentally Porsches, but as Der Alta says, modified to the extent that they can be considered different cars.

 

[Jay]

Originally posted by neon_duke
I'm not quite sure what you're saying here. The body is the chassis in just about any car made since the 1970s

true, most new cars use a sub frame construction now
but people still seem to call them chassis

 

[Driftster]

"Flat 6" sounds so hill billy mustang driven rednecky....say Horizontally Opposed or Boxer

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by VIPERGTSR01
true, most new cars use a sub frame construction now
but people still seem to call them chassis

Agreed, and that's correct - "chassis" is the right term for any part of the car that's not the engine or transmission. The guy above was talking about them as if the body and chassis were different things, and in a modern car they are the same thing.