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Debuting at The Quail this week alongside the well-known (however new to the USA) RUF SCR, the Bergmeister turns the wick up on RUF’s time-tested system of encapsulating fashionable chassis and powertrain engineering inside a traditional 911 physique. Impressed by the Porsche 906, the 909 Bergspyder and the 718 RS 60 Spyder hillclimb vehicles, RUF’s newest construct is stripped and strapped, packing a 450-horsepower 3.6-liter flat-six producing 442 pound-feet of torque and shoehorned into the tiny rear engine bay.
“Once we started constructing our personal cars in 1974, it was all for the fun of the drive,” mentioned proprietor Alois Ruf. “We’re honored to be featured at The Quail and to rejoice the fervour for driving with our buddies. Bergmeister embodies essentially the most elemental driving expertise, whereas the SCR highlights the newest expertise choices from our staff in Pfaffenhausen.”
“The Bergmeister all-carbon skinned roadster combines the perfect of traditional design and fashionable engineering in a bundle able to grasp each highway and observe. True to RUF’s heritage, the pursuit of the proper driving expertise has by no means been extra visceral,” RUF’s announcement mentioned.
Not like the SCR, which makes use of the newest of Porsche’s 4.0-liter flat sixes (the identical supplied within the GT3), the Bergmeister makes do with the turbocharged mill lifted out of Porsche’s extra “mundane” (as if there’s such a factor) 911s, boasting a tune that falls in between that of the S and GTS fashions. The outside is a full carbon pores and skin and the cabin is track-spec minimalism; the Alcantara lining the inside is one among its few nods to creature consolation.
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