Updated images from Geneva in the OP.

 

Narrow body 911?
3.8L engine?
Twin-Turbo?
Old block?
What have they based it on?

 

If you read through the thread, answers to your 4/5 of your questions were answered above.

 

I know, I should have rephrased it. The last question was the one I should have asked. I know Porsche doesn't make a narrow body 3.8L TT car.
I was pointing out how unusual it is for RUF to build an RT12 that's not based on a 911 Turbo.
RT12 -> 997.1 TT
RT12 S -> 997.1 TT
RT12 R -> 997.2 ??

 

The RT12 does not equate to the 997TT. With the exception of sharing the same block, the two cars have very little in common. Different transmission gearing, RWD, narrow body frame.

All the RTurbos are built frame up. The entire car is unique. The RT12R will be a carbon body shelled version of the RT12, using a modified version of their 3.8L M64 block.

bob

 

^It's fully configurable and built to order, as is every RT12. You can choose narrow or widebody, RWD or AWD.

 

True, my point being that it is not "based on the 997 Turbo" as many believe.

 

Bob, any chance of getting some pics of the black 911 on the end of the stand?? TIA

 

The RGT-8?

 

Yeah, that does seem to be a common misconception. The cars all start out as bodies in white, either wide or narrow.

 

The only ones I have were from the launch of the RGT-8 a year ago:

 

Now that's something new for me.
I always thought the RT12 (normal and S) was based on a 997.1 TT, as the RT12 and S tuning packages were available only for the 997.1 TT (as I remember from the RUF webpage) and I also knew that they were available on both RWD and AWD, but I never thought you could get a narrow body RT12 and RT12 R. Hence the connections in my mind about RT12 (S) being derived from a 997.1 TT.
Can you get one in wide-body? If so, why not have a wide-body shown? It's confusing...

 

why not buy a gt2 rs with 100k in mods and lots of change leftover? lol

 

There is no RT12 or S tuning packages. You can get engine conversions, but they just carry the name of the hp, they don't carry the name "RT12" or "RT12S package for 997TT". For the 997.1TT, there are conversions that will achieve a minimum of the following hp: 510, 550, 600 and 650.

Here's the pdf in german of the conversion details:

http://www.rufauto.us/ruf/images/sto...ch-12.2008.pdf

On the 996 however, the conversion packages were known as RTurbo, just as the RUF VIN cars were. So you could buy RUF RTurbo or if you owned a Porsche, could have the RTurbo engine conversion performed on you car.

 

You can't make a RUF, but the RT12 (S) engine tuning package is available (650HP for the RT12). And it's very expensive (80k+ EURO if I remember correctly). And only for the 997 TT.