Video: RUF Turbo R (993) crashes hard with 997

Posted on 05-01-2015 at 22:29 by dizono – 33 Comments”

Two turbos, 500 hp and a pretty staartlastig character. It makes the rare RUF Turbo R is not very easy to handle, something the photos above, unfortunately, painfully obvious.

Let’s start with the good news: with the occupants of the involved cars is the good. Physically then, because there will reassure a few people quite a bit of work, with the owner of the Turbo R front. Not so crazy about, we look at the photos before that are made on the Porsche meeting where the fateful ride was part of, then there is a very nice RUF Turbo R was lost.

Total loss or repair? Well, the most valuable part -the engine – is of course in the back and 993’s rise is still in value, but the car has such a blast that there’s a lot of love and especially money required to get this burgundy Elfer back on the road. Steve, the owner, writes on the Rennlist forum that his Arena red RUF from ’96 is probably no more to restore is and is broken from the crash. Too many details he doesn’t want to be lost, but the bend seemed to be according to him quite bland but it turned out to suddenly be a lot sharper. Looks like a typical gevalletje error of judgement.

The water-cooled Elfer, there seems to be better in that regard to get out, there is little visible damage to be seen. In a video that a following Porsche-driver made, it is just not the accident itself, but the situation, in particular the significant damage. There are suddenly a lot of nice Porsche’s kaput today…