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GERMAN CRAFTSMANSHIP: RUF CTR Anniversary - More exclusive than Porsche | WELT Documentary

Mar 11, 2024
with pure unbridled power it hurtles onto the asphalt but the yellow supercar is not a Porsche, it is a roof our car has the performance of a hypercar the latest flagship of the CTR

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hull is built completely by hand there are no robots or lines assembly in Germany's most

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automaker location, not many can do this, those who work here are among the best in the industry and build one of the most powerful mass-produced vehicles in the world, everything here is pushed to the limit and Beyond that, you have to be able to do it right if the engine can't handle it, it's not good enough 80 years of sports car manufacturing on the limit 1987 Nurburgring Nord Schleifer the infamous green hell and the birthplace of a sports car Legend the CTR helmet Due to its yellow shell nicknamed simply Yellow Bird according to the American automotive press of the time, in this lavishly filmed promotional event the 469 horsepower, 1,222 kilogram lightweight supercar took the crown of the world's fastest production vehicle. .
german craftsmanship ruf ctr anniversary   more exclusive than porsche welt documentary
Pilot Stefan Oza accelerates the supercar to a maximum speed of 342 kilometers per hour without wearing it. However, dressed casually in jeans, polo and loafers, the video of this record lap is viewed hundreds of thousands of times around the world. and remains the stuff of Legends to this day,

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than 30 years later, the sports car has lost none. Its appeal lies in the Porsche 3.6-liter air-cooled six-cylinder engine with two turbochargers. In 2017, the hull marked the

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of the yellow bird with a completely remodeled successor to the legendary CTR with a sticker price of 850,000 euros. The CTR anniversary isn't exactly a bargain and this is where Faffenhausen, in southern Germany, is built.
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The Algoy Roof-based company has a long tradition of hand-crafting vehicles dating back to 1974. More than 1,800 hours are dedicated to each unique example, superlative

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and attention to detail is a matter of pride as specialists build a We average only 30 cars a year and the waiting lists are long. The third generation of the Hoof family now also works in the company. Saint Marcel and his daughter, Aloisa, head of the company, Eloise Hoof, special places. It is important that your developments offer your pure driving experience as much as possible. It's an analog vehicle, meaning there are no significant driving aids.
german craftsmanship ruf ctr anniversary   more exclusive than porsche welt documentary
The only thing we have on the new car is ABS, which didn't exist yet back then, of course skids like this are still possible. However, hard data shows what the Anniversary CTR is capable of. The water-cooled 3.6-liter twin-turbo Flat 6 engine produces at least 710 horsepower, catapulting the 1,250-kilogram lightweight supercar from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in just 3.5 seconds and the speedometer needle no No You stop climbing until you exceed 360 kilometers per hour for the base price of 850,000 euros. Buyers get a stripped-down, no-frills racing machine. No radio, no navigation system, no heated seats. Every gram is saved for the sake of driving performance.
german craftsmanship ruf ctr anniversary   more exclusive than porsche welt documentary
It has to feel like you are directly connected to it, the car and the driver have to become one. I imagine it is similar for horses and riders that a good jockey feels connected to his horse and so it must be the result is an uncompromising riding machine. which is unique in its class, in addition to the powerful engine, a key contribution is made by the rigorous adherence to the lightweight but stable monocoque design principle, as well as motorsports-inspired front and rear ends. An ultra-rigid monocoque made of carbon and steel forms the When assembling these passenger safety cells, mechanics take great care not to damage or scratch the precision carbon.
It wouldn't harm the stability of the high-performance material, but the pattern of the carbon fibers draws attention. Obviously, it is important that we protect. all because, as you can see, it has a beautiful pattern, the carbon, and it should stay that way. You can think of it like a car paint job, if you make a scratch on it you can't get it back out, it's amazing, dozens of holes are machined into the carbon monocoque, a total of 54 studs will be screwed in here which will then They will hold the sports car's frame together even at top speeds above 350 kilometers per hour.
Threaded bolts are extremely stable. Custom fabrications whose strength was precisely calculated in advance by the hull developers Bolts are precisely tightened using a torque wrench in Faffenhausen Assembly work that would be performed by armies of robots in large-scale production operations is diligently done by hand expert outside the front welded steel space frame The end is held in place with just 16 bolts. The men have to fit the individual pieces together perfectly so that the structure can withstand the extreme forces generated while driving. We were on the small team that knows what is at stake. Every task is performed with routine precision.
They tighten bolt after bolt, the team then mounts the roll cage onto the carbon monocoque. The supporting structure of the sports car is slowly being put together. The body is supported mainly by this internal skeleton. The ultra-lightweight outer shell provides additional rigidity and stability. that is attached to the steel frame for the rear is designed to be especially robust this is where the 710 horsepower engine will later sit and push the entire weight of the CTR onto the asphalt with its 880 Nm of torque two mechanical transported effortlessly. The CTR's lightweight, 12-kilogram carbon skin is placed on the chassis and secured in just a few seconds.
The bare frame transforms into a CTR with its distinctive silhouette. All external body parts, such as fenders, bumpers, hood and doors, weigh just 40 kilograms in total, this reduces dozens of kilograms of weight compared to a conventionally built vehicle. It's really amazing to be able to build something like this and only then can you see what you've actually created, not many will be able to do this overseas next. Body builder Zemon and his colleagues fit the remaining parts, such as fenders, doors, hoods and bumpers. It takes the mechanics two weeks to complete the body construction and everything is done by hand.
The benefits of a lightweight design are evident during assembly. Too many jobs can be done. made by a single worker simply because the parts are very light there is no comparison with a conventional mass-produced hybrid chassis where robots and heavy equipment would be used at this point the shape of the yellow bird is now clearly recognizable it is obvious that a Porsche 911 served as the model for the CTR, with the blessing of Stuttgart, of course wanted to cease production of the 911, the plan was to phase it out in 1978-79 and there was a huge outcry in the Porsche community that naturally everyone wanted another 911.
I said that If there wasn't going to be one, we'd build one instead, so I assured everyone that at the time there was a huge demand for special 911s that were no longer in Porsche's programs, so we built an unbiased program over the next few years. 40 years. Alois Hoof and his colleagues built specially developed vehicles and prototypes for customers, always with the proviso that the focus Beyond driving pleasure and performance, without luxury equipment, No Frills. It is on this passion for purism that the car manufacturer has built its reputation at the same time as the Faffenhausen headquarters.
The sports car manufacturer has increasingly distanced itself from the Porsche group outwardly. At that time an agreement was reached. Porsche said that we have to become an independent manufacturer because Porsche no longer wants to have our name behind it. The extreme performance that cars are capable of offering. we must be responsible for its safety, so it is legally distinct and that is how we became a manufacturer in our own right in 1981. After two weeks of building the body, the CTR lightweight chassis travels to the in-house paint shop, there the next team of The specialists get to work, the helmet painters.
They begin by shaping the carbon fiber skin of the supercar. Special attention is paid to ensure that space conditions are appropriate. They spend days sanding the preformed outer shell until all irregularities in the material are completely removed. Eliminated because here too the goal is perfection. Sometimes it takes 35 hours of manual labor before the case is ready to paint. Requires a lot of manual skill. A good sense of touch. You have to feel and use your eyes. You have to see the gaps. in general and have a trained eye to detect any imperfection in the surface, the paint.
Specialists continue to work in practically the same way as at the dawn of the automotive industry, the only thing that has changed since then is the material of this kaboon: carbon and glass. Fiber composites are handled exactly the same as metal substrates, although sometimes there are shapes or structures that need to be sanded by hand that you don't get with metal sheets, but in terms of layer buildup, we don't use a primer or apply a different primer. them differently if you're drawing hard between coats, you may have to use a different temperature than you would with an all-metal body, although the small paint shop with its staff of five is set up to be able to paint up to 30 bodies per week.
This year the Faffenhausen paint booth is constantly receiving new developments. First, the additional components receive their first layer of spray putty, with which the painters close the fine pores of the carbon parts, in this way they can also level the slightly uneven surface. structure of the materials so that it is completely smooth then it takes a worker about three hours to apply a coat of paint to the CTR we do everything by hand here we have that the volume is too small to justify the use of robots or automation we are still a small traditional manufacturer and that is just what illustrious clients appreciate and expect when they order a roof for their 850,000 euros.
They can choose any color they want from Chief Painter Mike, but deciding on a color can be a daunting experience in Faffenhausen. This is our paint mixing room with the paint manufacturers that we work with and using our paint mixing scale computer software and these substances were able to mix up to 275,000 colors, we started with these color samples, so if a customer decides he's interested in a metallic metallic blue, we let him take a look at this and at that point it's too much for most people not to drown in the endless sea of ​​colors. In the end, most customers decide to opt for the legendary original color, the yellow of the 1987 classic.
If its name does not quite fit the character of the 700 horsepower supercar, I click here on Blossom Yellow, the formula SMF special roof mix is ​​our version of this mix formula and these are the individual components of water-based paint, so we need a leader. 600 grams of colorless binder 290 grams of yellow plus orange ocher tones and a blue cartoon eh, and the original yellow bird still looks great in Blossom yellow back then, in 1987, such a bright color was still an absolute novelty outside of motorsport in the 1980s. of the vehicles were produced in dark colors and the photographers were not at all happy with that, the photographers always wanted a bright color, so the cars in the press were often very red and we said, oh no, another red car, since the plan was to paint the Indian car. red and the paint was practically in the spray gun and I made a last minute decision.
I said, you know, there's a really cool yellow that no one will be familiar with, we should try it, that's really scary, why don't we do it? It's yellow and we came out with flower yellow, that's how the yellow bird got its name, it was a nickname the photographers gave it in the paint shop. Master Mike Cleaversal gets to work, the CTR in the booth is not being painted flower yellow. but a metallic blue, two coats of spray filler and primer, followed by two or three coats of odd-colored base coat, when the clear coat is applied at the end, the paint shop workers will have applied up to 10 coats to the body of carbon, so about 200 hours are spent painting a CTR.
This is how sports cars have been painted here since the family business opened its doors. Alois Roof Sr. founded an automobile workshop in Faffenhausen, Bavaria, in 1939. After World War II, the family expanded their business. The business added a gas station and, in 1955, a separately run bus company. They build the roofs themselves. The vehicles from the beginning. Father and son Alois became Porsche enthusiasts sincethe beginning. They acquired their first experiences in its service and maintenance in the 1960s. Our first Porsche because my father was driving his bus, which by the way he also built himself, and while he was making his journey, he was overtaken by a Porsche.
After overtaking him, the Porsche driver lost the The control overturned twice and ended up in a ditch. My father stopped and wanted to help the man. He asked him if everything was okay and told him not to worry about his car. I will tell. I have a car dealership and what happened. My father bought the vehicle damaged by the accident and repaired it. That was our first Porsche and uh, I was 13 at the time and after having the car for almost a year, we were driving through Munich on a Sunday afternoon and we were stopped by a young man who was a student, he knocked on the window and said who wanted to talk to us.
I want to buy your car he said I have the money in my room I will buy it from you today I will give you the money we will sign a sales contract that was the most incredible deal my father has ever made you did it because every car The sale was always an effort and It was very easy after the early death of his father and in 1974 Alois Hoof took over the workshop and made it what it is today. The long-standing company set up shop right next to the family home with the old gas. Station Once the painters have finished with the bodywork, the mechanics begin the complicated task of assembling the car.
Here too, each job is done by hand with great attention to detail. They build each car from scratch. The assembly process begins as always with the lines. and hoses here they arebrake lines the first job when the chassis returns from the paint shop is to install all the lines brake lines fuel lines clutch hoses etc because they are the components that run directly along the walls so that the other Parts can be installed later. Specialists meticulously install each and every line. The time they have for work is not stipulated. Work on high-performance cars like the CTR should not be done under pressure under any circumstances, so the brake servo is installed without rush or power.
The brake servo is taken from the engine's intake manifold and controlled through a throttle valve. If this component were to fail, applying the brakes would require much

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force, likely exceeding what a driver could apply using their leg muscles. the maximum effort to press the 3D printed titanium brake pedal is absolutely inconceivable at 350 kilometers per hour outside the printed petals the mechanic installs the suspension like much of the CTR these assemblies are also patented roof designs more than 30 years of experience and development work We have already entered into the complicated assembly in the next wheel well, this green helmet is about to be wired.
The 15-kilogram wiring harness comprising hundreds of wires and dozens of plugs can only be installed in the vehicle in a specific way, a complicated job that requires a lot of experience and patience, the special construction method of the monocoque causes another problem. , unfortunately the carbon from which it is made does not conduct electricity. Now we are running the ground cable and the test cable for the rear because the monocoque is made of carbon. fiber we cannot make the electrical connection through the body so we have to install a non-metallic cable it means there is no natural ground so it has to be created artificially using an extra cable the technicians install around 800 cables with a length average one and a half meter total length of the wiring harness is approximately 1.2 kilometers navigating it through the body of the sports car is a physically demanding job that requires three hours strange the brake system is the life insurance of the driver that is why nothing is left out of place here nor the brake calipers with their ceramic shoes are normally only used in motor sports have a longer useful life and are lighter this cardboard box contains another distinctive feature of the CTR a At first glance its shock absorbers appear completely standard but the mechanics adjust the high performance shock absorbers horizontally instead of vertically like On normal cars, Formula One racing cars also use the pushrod system and its main benefit is improved aerodynamics .
Most normal vehicles use McPherson struts, which means the shock absorber is installed vertically from the bushing bracket to the fender or vehicle body. Using a pushrod system that sits horizontally results in much firmer handling and we can better tune the vehicle dynamics. The push rod is located between the suspension and the actual shock absorber when the card goes over a bump, the wheel and the push rods deflect upwards and transfer the energy to the shock absorber in the workshop a mechanic is currently operating in the heart of the CTR the in-house developed 3.6 liter twin-turbo water-cooled Flat 6 engine we assemble the engine using a special cast block and many of the parts it uses are also

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to us, so it doesn't have much in common with an engine production in terms of design.
Around 1,000 pieces must be assembled by hand. It takes a mechanic 14 days to build an engine like this each day. The engine has its own personal Creator strictly in accordance with the philosophy of one man, one machine. Carlo knows the model of the six-boxer by heart. He builds up to 30 of them each year. It is highly unlikely that he will get a V-engine in the future. For the foreseeable future, Flat 6 units have been continually developed by engineers for decades and offer many benefits. The Goldberg and the guns move this way, while on a V engine they move like this, the weight size is much less on the car and because it is flatter we can also make the roof lower, this Improves aerodynamics to make the Flat 6 engine really sing.
It is equipped with two turbochargers, the intake manifold must be absolutely hermetic since this is where the boost pressure is created that will later give the Flat. 6 at least 710 horsepower, unlike the air-cooled yellow bird of 1987, today a water-cooled engine is used due to the enormous heat generated. Energy is converted into energy over time and the energy in a combustion engine is provided by the fuel we burn. There is a lot of heat produced inside the engine that we have to get rid of somehow with 720 horsepower a lot more heat is generated and it is easier to cool the engine using water than with air.
Next, the mechanic adjusts the oil tank to the CTR. engine In engines that are subject to high acceleration and extreme cornering forces, a special lubrication system is used, as with an airplane or off-road vehicle, the yellow bird needs an additional pump and tank to force much larger volumes of oil through your engine. To lubricate and cool it down, I just installed the old tank. All Porsche engines have one because the engine has a dry sump, meaning it has no oil pan. This is usually the case with sports cars. cars because the oil is actively pumped to where it is needed and there is always oil pressure even in tight corners which is crucial now I just need to put the muffler on the front and the engine is ready to head to the dyno, a final gasket for turbochargers. and the powerful exhaust manifold is installed, it adds the exhaust gases which then drive a small turbine wheel in the turbochargers, this then supplies the engine with fresh compressed air resulting in more power.
The original plan was to celebrate the yellow bird's 30th birthday in 2017 by building. only 30 new CTR anniversary models the enormous demand for the cult sports car led Hoof to decide to build at least 50. by hand and, of course, focused on providing the purest driving experience. You don't need a radio, you have a wonderful sounding engine. so you can enjoy that instead the minimalist specification includes things like air conditioning which is a must nowadays so our car has air conditioning our instrument panel still looks like the one on the original 911 when it was launched in 64 with all five dials and I don't.
I don't think we can abandon it, it has become a tradition. Alois Roof's two sons also work in the company. San Marcel trained as a car mechanic and then studied mechanical engineering and business administration at the Technical University of Munich, today he deals with vehicle electronics. and lighting systems The Habit systems have just started the vehicle for the first time. We have connected the batteries, so now each of the ECUs also starts for the first time. Now I'm going to check the communications by plugging in the diagnostic plug and then I can use my software to see if each ECU is responding and sending and receiving which should check the central locking system to ensure that the doors are locking and unlocking and that the controls remotes and key here work properly and then there are basic things. such as ABS fuel pump etc.
I make sure that all the components that have to communicate with each other are calibrated and programmed because you cannot completely do without electronics. Since 1987, a handful of relays, capacitors and resistors have become a dozen ECUs. For me, these are the individual ECUs that are identified through their respective addresses, the values ​​are transmitted here, so if I see a message containing a string of zeros, for example I know this ECU is not ready yet and when I see this there is a continuous stream of changes. messages I know that the ECU is communicating that it is working and I can move on to the next Marcel thoroughly checks that each vehicle is working perfectly before sending it to the customer as a teenager, he also got carried away by his father's passion for Fast Cars and I don't has blurted out since I spent two weeks working here in the engine building shop during summer vacation when I was 13.
And I became increasingly fascinated and interested in the technical aspect. Every time I was with my father, I kept ripping him down. With questions about how the heating system works and why I need a turbocharger and why we have two turbochargers in our cars, I slowly realized that this is what I want to do with my life and decided to train as an automotive mechatronics engineer. , so Alloy Senior can rest assured that the future of your company is in good hands. The third generation of the roofing family is already waiting in the wings. Now the upholsterer gets to work on the interior of the yellow bird as soon as he applies the spray adhesive to the headliner.
The clock is ticking The specialist only has a few minutes to install the lining over his head before the glue dries Carrying out upholstery work in the interior of the vehicle is a rare thing in the automotive world all the unnecessary backing materials were eliminated in the CTR to save weight, so the headliner is not applied on a plastic board but entirely on the roof of the vehicle, this means hours of manual work for the two upholsterers. It takes almost 10 square meters of Napa leather and 50 hours of meticulous work to upholster the cabin of a CTR.
The interior is of particular importance, after all it is what the owner will see the most, but upholsterers are capable of doing it. Often displayed in special editions, in addition to the classic yellow bird, the Hoof family also develops new and sometimes unique concept cars, such as the Rodeo Rally Concept Vehicle in keeping with the theme, the wheel-drive sports car. Four-wheel drive is equipped with a leather-clad Bull Bar, a bow, a scoop, a longer wheelbase and a longer wheelbase make it the perfect desert racer. The interior is upholstered in luxurious leather. This vehicle is still a one-time issue, although whether the alloy roof ends up producing the rodeo in greater numbers depends on the interest of potential customers in the workshop.
Things are a little less wild. The mounting seats used by the mechanics are removed to make room for a pair of really light weights. The special internal development called lollipop is a real highlight. The lightweight carbon fiber racing seats weigh only six kilograms per piece, thus following the lightweight construction philosophy of the Faffenhausen automaker. The price is three thousand euros per seat with its systematic embodiment of lightweight design the hoof CTR is one of the fastest and most exclusive supercars in the world the fact that there is still a classic Porsche hidden inside the new successor to the yellow bird 87 has a which is why company boss Alois Hoof fell in love with the iconic 911 almost 60 years ago before the eyes of the uncompromising automaker, this is what a true sports car should look like despiteof many innovations and new materials.
Old school in the best sense has been my father and we feel like I was with my father in '64. I still remember exactly when it was April, it had been pouring rain, we were passed by a car that I had never seen or heard before and through this cloud of water and spray hitting the windshield I saw the profile of the car. I started with this father, I told my father, that's the new Porsche, this is it and that's the first time I heard a 911 engine, this sound, the unique style of this flat six is ​​a sound that no other car in the world world had, there is nothing like it.
The experience shaped my entire future, this childhood crush became a passion that persists to this day. The CTR engine is now ready for its durability test. The mechanics release it from the position. After assembly the 710 horsepower Flat 6 engine then heads to one of the two internal dynamometers, it takes Carlos a good 90 minutes to prepare his engine in the test booth for the upcoming test. Install a water intercooler for the two turbochargers because the engine will soon become very hot and will spend the first 90 minutes in an operating mode in which it will operate at various engine speeds and load torques, this is followed by up to two hours under load complete and then you will know for sure how much horsepower and torque this Beast really has this way.
Customers receive a vehicle that has already been completely broken in and will effortlessly handle a kick on the highway. At the end, the mechanic fills the oil tank with a special oil, this is 10w60. It is a proprietary dyno oil that we only use for engines we are testing and we replace it approximately every eight engines. We put a new oil filter on the engine after each performance test. Naturally, the engine manufacturer turns on the dynamometer and starts up its test candidate, the 3.6 liter. Flat 6 Comes to life on the first try, the 14 days of painstaking manual work was worth it.
Carlos can tell if everything is okay with the engine just by its sound, there are still a few rattles here and there, but so far that is perfectly normal shortly after birth. so good the rattling that can be heard in the background are the hydraulic tappets that are not yet full of oil they should disappear in the next 10 to 15 minutes once they are filled once the door is closed the punishment can begin the two colleagues They start the real test from their console they can remotely control both the mounted engine and the entire dynamometer basically works like a giant brake the CTR engine drives a turbine wheel that is submerged in water the dynamometer technicians can adjust the resistance that the engine has to overcome by changing the water level allows us to determine the torque and the software in the computer uses the torque to calculate the power output as well and its very high hull guarantees that the CTR units will have at least 710 horsepower during the test the technicians maintain a Be attentive to all engine parameters.
The temperature is good. Lambda is fine. Yes, everything looks good. We can run at full power. Let's start the performance test. After the warm-up comes the risky part of the test. The technicians open the throttle little by little they increase the speed of the engine. The engine has to work so hard that after a few minutes the exhaust manifolds They begin to shine, however, the two technicians have no mercy. They want to see at least 710 horsepower on the screen. The yellow glow of the collectors is familiar to them and no one in Faffenhausen stops and looks amazed.
The tubes are at about 1000 degrees Celsius as resistance. test slowly comes to an end after two hours, the new twin-turbo Flat 6 survived its baptism of fire and delivered tangible results, so we achieved 727 horsepower at 6900 RPM and 930 Nm of torque at 4000 RPM, that's incredible , perfect, the stress we just put on. the engine on the dyno would be almost impossible to replicate on a normal road, you'd have to hit the car on a race track for things to shine like that, it has to be able to do it right if the engine can't handle it. It is not a good and clear enough statement.
The engine wants to leave this room. It should be able to hold its own against a Formula One car and it shouldn't leak either. I am completely satisfied that the engine is dry. We'll leave it assembled. overnight and if there are still no drops in the engine tomorrow morning we will take it apart and put it in the car. The specialists have outdone themselves once again and have extracted 17 more horsepower from the engine than the head of the roofing company always guaranteed. roof Returns the world's fastest 1987 production car to its parking spot in the Company Museum.
This is where the family's private collection and the exclusive vehicles of good friends are kept. Perfectly air-conditioned and pleasantly warm in winter. The location of the sacred Hall is top secret. The 87 Yellow Bird prototype alone is probably worth a seven-figure sum. It is the only copy that is still in the family's possession. The hype surrounding the brand began with this yellow cult car. Indirectly, weapons grow. A big roof became really famous a little later, at the end. of the 90s due to the Sony PlayStation because another video game already had the rights to the Porsche 911. Sony was looking for a powerful equivalent for its Gran Turismo game and the CTR of the roof was just what they were looking for.
The game was spectacular. It sold around 80 million copies ensuring the popularity of the yellow bird in the process. It all started with the 1989 movie The Yellow Bird on the Roof in the Bookless Ring there was a certain Mr. Yamauchi at Sony and he developed his game based on this story about how the yellow bird bird walks through Norburg the name hoof has been known all over the world since it sometimes happens when I travel to the United States that the passport control officer asks me if you are the yellow bird rudely, they pronounce my name rudely of course. then they add that my son is playing your car on the PlayStation.
Such things can happen. I am convinced that the new CTR anniversary will also achieve similar fame one day. The final quality control of each vehicle is carried out by the boss himself. Not even the smallest of imperfections escapes him. trained eye, in addition to the development of its own cars, a car with hooves also has other areas of activity, such as the repair and maintenance of customer vehicles and the conversion of 911s into Porsches. A colorful gathering of all generations of the Porsche brand takes place at the company facilities in Faffenhausen. This model will become something very special.
A foreign client believes that his gray Porsche Carrera is not bold and extravagant enough. In the coming weeks the specialists will turn it into a supercar. I would say we spend about 50 percent of the time on our new cars, the other half on restorations and conversions like this, the customer's standard Carrera will receive a completely new exterior shell. The doors, roof, front bumpers and engine hood will be replaced with carbon fiber elements, shaving almost 100 kilograms from its weight. The cooled Porsche Carrera engine will receive a power boost in the form of twin turbochargers, resulting in around 590 horsepower.
It is what we would call a Resto mod which is half restoration because everything is being renewed down to the last screw and half modification because it is receiving a different engines, gearboxes and wheels, a restoration with a modification like this can sometimes take 10 weeks and In this case it costs up to 100,000 euros. Another passion of the Faffenhausen tuning professionals is the high-quality restoration of classic Porsches, not surprising and to be expected considering they are 60 years old. years of experience at Porsche, the mechanics currently deal with the restoration and maintenance of several wonderful customer-owned 356s. Many rusty buckets are restored to their former striking glory here.
Alois Roof's daughter also often helps in the restoration workshop. Aloisa Roof works on cars alongside her studies. She grew up with her father's passion for all things sports cars. Old treasures are even closer to her heart than modern vehicles built by her family. She appreciates the simple and robust technology that It is ideal for learning the fundamentals of Automotive Construction they are very analog and also very simple, if something breaks I know what I need to repair anyway, it is much simpler without all the technology. I mean, our sports cars are still very analogue, which makes them simple too, but I just wanted to delve a little into the history of Porsche to understand it better and so we can also pass on this knowledge, but Eliza also works on modern supercars of the family.
She is a welcome guest and valued colleague in the workshop. It has always been important to take a hands-on approach. for the roofs of all generations That a family business can function the big moment has arrived the dynamometer engine has cooled down and has been incorporated into a CTR anniversary the mechanics carefully install the 160 kilogram unit in the rear of the car despite of the compact design of the Flat 6 engine is still a little tight keep going, that's a little bit more right, keep going, keep going, keep going, stop, the dimensions of the rear space frame are such that the engine barely fits, there is not much room to maneuver. between the push rod system, the steel tubes and the cables, once again finesse is required with a little movement, the mechanics managed to fit the engine perfectly after 20 minutes, the engine is in place and the men They secure with bolts and then connect the Hoses and cables to the electronic engine management system.
Another of the 50th anniversary vehicles is nearing completion in 1987. Only 29 Yellow Birds were produced here. Foreign versions of the CTR helmet. 30 years of automotive engineering development separate them. The engine in particular has changed significantly inside. the 2017 CTR has a water cooled heart back then the Porsche engines were all air cooled and there was an air duct here and an alternator in the middle here back then we could only see the fan although since the alternator was always hidden, we are not For now we have adopted a similar concept, so we keep the original look and it fits with the car, although it is now water cooled, not air cooled, unfortunately, but it is fantastic and of course in terms of design, It's a bit old school.
If we look at the exterior of the car, the two generations look very similar but they cannot be confused, which of the two seems more attractive to you is a matter of taste. Many of the details of the CTR anniversary model have been reworked by the roof specialists. It was especially important to them to retain the bold appeal of the original yellow bird, as the designers now paid particular attention to minimizing weight, which forms the basis for excellent handling characteristics and, when it comes to performance, there is almost no nothing between them despite the difference. With a power output of around 250 horsepower, the modern yellow bird may no longer be a contender for the world's fastest production vehicle, but when it comes to Pure Driving Pleasure it may still take a few titles before it can get out of the woods. factory and faffenhausen, the yellow supercar first.
At the end of the day you have to weigh it, the light construction of the car is a decisive factor for its high performance, so a few hidden kilos are the last thing anyone wants. A new anniversary CTR can weigh a maximum of 1,250 kilograms, the slight excess weight. It's because of the fuel The visit to the scale is crossed off the list One of CTR's 50th anniversary supercars is finally finished after more than 1,800 hours of manual work. An 850,000 euro sports car will now be transported by truck to the nearest airport or port because somewhere in the world a sports car enthusiast has been anxiously waiting for months for his exclusive Supercar handmade in Germany a hull a small family business in his second generation makes one of the fastest production vehicles in the world in 80 years a small workshop with a gas station has grown to become one of the most exclusive car manufacturers in Germany and everything is made painstakingly by hand.
The love and passion for powerful Porsche-looking supercars is unlikely to lose any of its powerful appeal in the future either, but we'll have to see how things develop when everyone drives electric cars, we'll probably have to build another bird. yellow with the sports car manufacturer from Puffenhausen. Everything is possible.

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