Re: I just drove the RUF rt12 today...
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RC said:
Yep, customer service is great.Alois Ruf actually insisted that we watch a video regarding the development/building of the CTR3. It was already very late but he was still there with us, incl. his team. For Germany, this was pretty impressive. We wanted to leave but we couldn't...
If aftersales service is as good as that too, I can highly recommend them.
I can only second that. RUF does have excellent employees indeed. Not just knowledgeable guys but true Porsche enthusiasts! No wonder can they build such great products.
RC already mentioned that the RUF team took care of us until about 7pm. Another hint to their service and work attitude: even after 6pm workers were still present and working on cars in the factory. I consider this even more remarkable as today is a bank holiday in Germany and it is not quite unusual in many mid-sized companies that staff takes an early leave on the afternoon preceding a bank holiday...
In summary, our impressions can, indeed, only support a very positive feeling regarding RUF's service culture and customer orientation.
In addition to RC's comments above I have put down some of my impressions of the RT12. Please excuse me if some of them are redundant following RC's excellent write-up above:
- The most impressive aspect of the car (RC mentioned it already): it feels like stock - only much, much faster. Excellent build quality, excellent setup of gear-box, steering, engine, throttle response etc. etc. Like a OEM product from Zuffenhausen.
- The engine power is simply incredible. Just to mention a comparison: a 599GTB (with a similar hp output) feels rather slow compared to the RT12 (based on figures it actually is slow indeed). The RT12 does not have a strong "pull" like 996TTS or 997TT. The car, as soon as boost has build up, literally "jumps" forward - at any speed!!! Unbelievable
- While the 997TT feels very smooth, refined and comfortable the RT12 is much more the traditional kind of sports car: interior noise is pretty loud (including some unfavorable resonances as RC stated above), the steering feels less filigree than in case of the 997TT etc....
- In other words: the car feels like every Porsche for true enthusiasts should feel like
- At the same time you can use this car as your daily driver as the exhaust note is reasonably quiet, shifting comfort is excellent (the short shifter could not be improved further, if you ask me...), the clutch is just perfect, the engine can be driven at low revs without any problems (traffic jams, inner city driving etc.). You can use this car to drive down-town to your grocers and you can also use it to drive from Munich to Hamburg at incredible speeds
- The "heavier" feel of the car reveals that the AWD system is based on the 996TT (which is good news as we know by now...). Power distribution is very predictable, the car feels absolutely safe and reliable under all conditions.
- The test car had steel brakes which do work perfectly (which is no wonder given the size of the disks...); however, I prefer the PCCB system which is available as an option. Only PCCB has this impressive brake pedal response which I do like quite a lot.
- The suspension setup of the test car was excellent and still on the comfortable side; as the suspension can be fine-tuned to customer needs and expectations you have full flexibility as to changing the setup later.
- RC mentioned the warranty already. I consider the willingness to extent the warranty even beyond 2 years and 50.000km the best proof for RUF's excellent product reliability. (BTW: the former test car did more than 60.000km of hard test driving kms without any major technical issues...).
- As RC mentioned, the test car was equipped with Conti SC2 tires. My guess would be that the Michelin PS2 (which will be available for high-speed cars soon) might improve the agility of the handling further: the test car felt a bit tardy in the first instant of changing directions.
- Looks are great. The car looks quite slender, very discrete. I like the exterior and interior very much
- One last point: did I mention that the acceleration is comparable to no other car I have driven before
I think I have The RT12 is an incredible achievement
The CGT is a fantastic car but like it or not, it isn't as fast as Porsche wants to make us believe it is. Just a friendly sidenote: one of our editors owns a Carrera GT, so we're not trying to make the CGT look bad.
, it was 35c tempreture , it had a nonstop test drives , just changing tyres stop , its what i`ve expected from RUF . the driver Marco was a very pro driver and realy a nice guy .
, if there is a compare it will be in the streigh line , i think and my feeling says that the CGT is faster from zero little bit until it shifts to 6th gear .. at that day , in the 1/4 mile the RT12s time was 11.6 ... not realy fast 
... my brothers turbo S with 580 hp kit did it last year in 11.5 ... and im much faster than him in my CGT .
