RUF with number P911 (Porsche 911)

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Have seen a pic at morning with two RUF´s.
One RGT and the older RUF CTR 87.
Can´t find this pic anymore.

I´m wondering, why the RUF CTR 87 has the german number "MN-P911" like Porsche. All other RUF´s has only RUF on there numbers.

You can also see it at this car-pic:
 

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If I remember correctly, PD went to some guy having that car to make photos and sound recordings. I guess it is their way to say "thank you" for his cooperation, as I suppose it is his number plate.
 
the Interceptor
... as I suppose it is his number plate.
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Probably you don't notice it anymore, being a German, but in Germany almost every 911 has the number 911 on his licence plate. Seems like a tradition. :)
 
Buggy Boy
Probably you don't notice it anymore, being a German, but in Germany almost every 911 has the number 911 on his licence plate. Seems like a tradition. :)
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Actually only very few 911s I see have "911" on their number plate, cause most of them are being driven by some fat, old wifes of men not knowing what to spend their money on. :yuck:

Sorry, but most a lot of the 911s driven in Germany are not in the hands of drivers that deserve the car. It is misused as a status symbol for being rich.👎 :grumpy:
 
the Interceptor
Actually only very few 911s I see have "911" on their number plate, cause most of them are being driven by some fat, old wifes of men not knowing what to spend their money on. :yuck:

Sorry, but most a lot of the 911s driven in Germany are not in the hands of drivers that deserve the car. It is misused as a status symbol for being rich.👎 :grumpy:
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That's how it is everywhere, especially here in the US, very few people that actually own such cars as porsches
and ferraris use them for driving pleasure, hell alot of times they don't get driven, when i look on ebay and see a ferrari F40 with only a couple thousand miles on the odo, it pisses me off. i even saw one on there once with i think 400 miles. These cars were meant to be driven not sit in a garage and collect dust. Then there is the amount of money you pay for it, you better drive the damned thing into the ground, i know i would.
 
Superhero Wally
That's how it is everywhere, very few people that actually own such cars as porsches
and ferraris use them for driving pleasure, hell alot of times they don't get driven, when i look on ebay and see a ferrari F40 with only a couple thousand miles on the odo, it pisses me off. i even saw one on there once with i think 400 miles. These cars were meant to be driven not sit in a garage and collect dust. Then there is the amount of money you pay for it, you better drive the damned thing into the ground, i know i would.
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I hate people who only buy cars for the status 🤬

You get that with private collectors buying priceless works of art and hiding them away, so the public don't get to see their beauty. The same is done with expensive cars. So many kids will never hear a Ferrari F40 fly past them on the motorway.

It's total madness.

Jamie
 
the Interceptor
The rally cars from Toyota had a German number plate in GT3 already.
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That's because the Toyota rallyteam was based in Köln, Germany = the cars where registered there.
Same place that's now the headquarter of the ToyotaF1 team.

Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) is Toyota's European-based motorsports centre. From its headquarters in Cologne, Germany, TMG operated Toyota's World Rally Championship programmes (winning seven WRC titles) and, in 1998 & 1999 competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race, achieving 2nd place in '99.
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Does anyone happen to know the plate number on THE Yellowbird? The one Stefan Roser whipped around the 'Ring in the "Faszination" video? That was clearly the inspiration for including this car in the game... that could be where the number came from as well.
 
That is the RUF "yellowbird". The car that gave RUF it's repuatation (well the one everyone remembers..other highlights were the BTR & CTR2). The number plate on the front is the same one that the real car carried in all of it's famous "laps" (i.e. Stephan's 'Ring laps).

This is a "milestone" car. A car alot of people know and admire. It is also a REAL car. I think there was only one CTR ever made (though I am not sure). I do know that the CTR you see in videos/pictures is always the same. So the one you see in videos is this car. Unlike the other RUFs in the game which are just "models" RUF makes, thus the generic make number plate (in PD tradition). This one is a real car with it's real number plate. Just like how some of the famous lemans and race cars in GT4 have all their known markings on them. Consider this like a race car. it is real and has it's "markings".


Jedi2016
Does anyone happen to know the plate number on THE Yellowbird? The one Stefan Roser whipped around the 'Ring in the "Faszination" video? That was clearly the inspiration for including this car in the game... that could be where the number came from as well.
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See above and below.

EDIT: I just noticed that you can't buy the CTR...you have to win it....ugggh!
 

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German car plates, additional information: :-)

The owner of the car lives in Mindelheim (Unterallgäu). That´s southern Germany. The first letter/s (at least one letter like B for Berlin, max. three) of the plate tells you what town the car is from. MN stands for Mindelheim (don´t ask me what the N is standing for). Each town with more than 20.000 inhabitants can have it´s own identification code. Then there is a gap followed by one or two more letters like the P in the case. One letter means "owner lives in town", two letters means "owner lives in the surrounding area of the town, on the land". At last there is a number between 1 an 9999. You can take any letter/s following the town identification code and any number you want as long as it is still free.

The coolest plate I have seen was in Bitterfeld (BIT). BIT CH 69 :-) Of course it´s not as cool as in America.
 
RouWa
German car plates, additional information: :-)

The owner of the car lives in Mindelheim (Unterallgäu). That´s southern Germany. The first letter/s (at least one letter like B for Berlin, max. three) of the plate tells you what town the car is from. MN stands for Mindelheim (don´t ask me what the N is standing for). Each town with more than 20.000 inhabitants can have it´s own identification code. Then there is a gap followed by one or two more letters like the P in the case. One letter means "owner lives in town", two letters means "owner lives in the surrounding area of the town, on the land". At last there is a number between 1 an 9999. You can take any letter/s following the town identification code and any number you want as long as it is still free.

The coolest plate I have seen was in Bitterfeld (BIT). BIT CH 69 :-) Of course it´s not as cool as in America.
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I knew there was a reaosn for the "MN P", Euro number plates are a mystery to me. Our american ones are boring by comparisson. Thanks for the info.
 
Jedi2016
Very true... I don't even know what my license number is.. just a random jumble of letters and numbers that mean absolutely nothing.
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I know my plate, but it is just random numbers and letters, 6 of them. Do they mean anything? Anyone ehre know about US plates and if the numbers or orders mean anything? Or is it just all completely random? unless of course you buy your own word for your plate.

I saw "miarulez" over the weekend. On a convertable baby blue VW beetle, top up though due to the weather. I pulled along side of "Mia" in the left lane and yes she did rule...hahaha, damn cute she was.....so her plate had a meaning, hahaha. Only downside(s) was her plate was from NJ, she was at least 10 years younger than me (not that bad, she was pushing 20) and my wife was sititng next to me - between me and "Mia"...though even she had to admit Mia did rule. haha
 

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