Tour18

The car is about $190,000. It is Orange, pure Oragne. The roll cage is hidden. The rear wing is removeable...

Mr. C4

Over the top color coding of the interior for my taste, love the RUF orange color though.

nmex

Is it me or the Exhaust manifolds look Stock?? On the Ruf Web page they mention new exhaust and tips but that's it .??? Makes me wonder if a full Europipe system is worth it??

Dale Gribble

rofl..the plaque says 49 state legal...which one is left out? prolly california with the bug up the **** MTO

Sloth

Greeat pix, thanks for sharing.

4 Kurves

Yup, gotta be Kallyfornia! But good news is that it looks as if our Governor is about to Terminate the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Not that would help make up for the past but CARB is just another example of a regulatory agency gone wild. Not that I'm against clean air... within reason.

Tour18

The certification was brought up during the presentation. This is a Ruf VIN automobile. Not a Porsche. Alois said that they would be required to go through the entire certification twice (one federal, one California) and it wasn't worth it considering how few RGT RS would be produced...

Moogle

yep carb is another BS agency.

i can't believe cars need special certification to be sold in california,

porsches destined for california need to have a special option/code i'm sure it doesnt add power, lets just leave it at that.

Adrian

The first RUF RGT-RS was sold to a Californian. Dr Joe I know him as. The pictures I have seen of this RS show it still to be wearing German registration (from the town of Mindelheim).
This of course does not confirm anything but seeing as the car was delivered in April 2004 and in August 2004 at Monterey it is still wearing MN plates which certainly suggests there might be a problem in getting a CA plate.
https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...2&page=1&pp=15
Ciao,
Adrian

Dale Gribble

please address him with his proper title. He prefers either the Governator or Fruher of California

Larry Herman

Personally I don't know about a car like that. It does look pretty, but it is so over the top. I can't imagine that it will be anything but serious garage queen. After all, what if you took it to a track event. You'd better be the fastest SOB there, or you will be branded a serious POSER. I think that I'll stick to my "econo" GT3

Adrian

I have just received this answer from somebody in the know,
Ciao,
Adrian.

The California emissions paperwork has not been complied with or figured out and California requires RUF to do a 50,000 mile "test" as part of the application process. RUF have only done a 2000 mile test.

TT Surgeon

I love Ruf cars, but you gotta have b%lls and the power to back it up to drive an orange car!

AeroGT3RedWing

yep carb is another BS agency.

i can't believe cars need special certification to be sold in california,

Take a nice, deep, carcinogenic breath in los angeles. Or, better yet, try and see the horizon.
Then it will be at least less hard to believe.

Moogle

it isn't THAT extreme