RUF Automobile
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Search complete. 11 mentions across 4 episodes found for "RUF Automobile".
Oct 20, 2026
The Gray Area of Restomods
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21:10ToddHOST
Like they take it off the line before it's finished and they hand it over to this company, Roof, and then Roof modifies it and adds their own components to it such that they get their own VIN.
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21:20ToddHOST
So it's actually manufactured by RUF, even though the underlying componentry started out as Porsche.
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21:25ToddHOST
And maybe that's no different than, you know, if you buy a Pagani, it's got an AMG engine in it, right? So just the baseline there.
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21:31ToddHOST
But RUF is required, and they operate in Germany.
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21:34ToddHOST
So now we have the TÜV.
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21:35ToddHOST
which is that regulating body that is extremely stringent, you know, more than the U.S. regulating bodies.
17 MINS LATER
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38:15ToddHOST
I mean, who would care about that in any way, shape, or form? There's nothing.
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38:18ToddHOST
You can't even see it, right? You open up the engine bay, and there's leather in there, and it's just going to get dirty, and it just seems dumb.
EP118: A week of new cars; Porsche's Mission S; Tesla BS; the Aixam Mega Track
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32:39Cormac SingletonHOST
You can see where the 911 lives within.
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32:42Dave HumphreysHOST
There's a little bit of, uh, RUF CTR in this, isn't there?
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32:47Cormac SingletonHOST
That's what I think Dan said.
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32:48Cormac SingletonHOST
It looks far more like a RUF or like 9FF-
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32:52Dave HumphreysHOST
Yeah, yeah, yes
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32:53Cormac SingletonHOST
... or, or, or tuner product-
Steve Calamusa & Adam Reminisce About Old Car Magazines
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22:10Steve CalamusaGUEST
It's, it's ama- and here's why, why it's amazing, 'cause when...
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22:13Steve CalamusaGUEST
I, I don't own a Singer, but I, I, you and I spoke about I own a Ruf car.
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22:17Adam CarollaHOST
Right.
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22:18Steve CalamusaGUEST
But, so, um, the fact that they started, like, in a very small garage, and now I think their place in Torrance is 100,000 square feet.
Classic Auto Mall - #262 Stewart Howden with guest Prescott Kelly, Porsche enthusiast and collector talking "Porsches by the numbers"
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27:47Stewart HowdenHOST
Yeah.
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27:47Stewart HowdenHOST
So, uh, thoughts on the, uh, modified cars, the RUF's, and the Singer's, and all that.
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27:52Stewart HowdenHOST
Is there a place for them? Obviously there is, because they're selling like crazy, but, and for g- stupid money, but-
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27:57Prescott KellyGUEST
Yeah, obviously you, you can't fight the market.
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27:59Stewart HowdenHOST
No.
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28:00Prescott KellyGUEST
And, you know, the market for those cars.
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28:02Prescott KellyGUEST
And, you know, RUF's always been around.
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28:04Prescott KellyGUEST
I mean-