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"GTO62" (gto62)
03/11/2020 at 10:55 • Filed to: None

New RUF Rodéo Concept, for that time you would like to drive around the world in your sports car.

DISCUSSION (26)

HammerheadFistpunch > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 11:04

That tied rope on the push bar...ewww. Im bothered by deeply functional, and frankly ugly, practicality being romantically reimagined as fashion.

atfsgeoff > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 11:12

Taking your sports car around the world? Haha not with those 20+” wheels and rubber band tires

JustAnotherG6 > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 11:17

Is the push bar wrapped in leather too? A nd leather straps ‘ holding’ down the hood (bonnet) on a new car? I do like the light placement on the roof rack but can’t seem to think of a reason to have the rally lights mounted so close to & in the way of the actual headlights.

Nom De Plume > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 11:20

RUF’d up.

Excuse me while I go gag myself of memory seeing that.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 11:29

I like the idea, but yeah I think the execution needs some help. Color scheme and (imo) tasteful use of leather is neato, but those tires are silly on an “expedition ” build and the light placement needs... some rethinking haha .

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 11:31

There are others that will gladly build you something more functional for far less money than this.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a25561467/porsche-leh-keen-safari-911-smoking-tire-review/

Matt Farah did it, and had Leh Keen of the Keen Project build it for him

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > HammerheadFistpunch
03/11/2020 at 11:34

Agreed. As much as I love an off-road/rally Porsche, that is simply hideous and just screams poser.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > HammerheadFistpunch
03/11/2020 at 11:35

the mud/rust colored alcantara, suede, whatever they used for the push bar and the backs of the fog light buckets is just wrong.

And strapping a shovel to the engine lid, when it already has a roof rack, is dumb.

Plus, the cladding isn’t cladding, it is paint, which is going to look horrible after getting scratched, on a car that is likely so expensive, it probably won’t turn a single tire off-road in anything more strenuous than a manicured photo-shoot.

I like Porsches, and I even like some of the stuff RUF does... but this is a ridiculous show-only version of a Safari 911 which is the antithesis of being show-only.

MonkeePuzzle > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 11:52

well i like those wheels

Bryan doesn't drive a 1M > HammerheadFistpunch
03/11/2020 at 11:56

Yeah, that looks terrible. It screams out “I’ll never use this!” a little too loudly.

Victorinoo > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 12:00

Are they planning on producing new “old” cars ? Bc that would be awesome.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > HammerheadFistpunch
03/11/2020 at 12:33

Even with the “rally heritage”, the Safari builds have gotten out of hand. I have a colleague who runs a noted Porsche specialist shop in LA... I knew this trend had gone over the top (he normally builds only serious, serious vintage track cars) when HE turned up at an event in a Safari 911 he’d built. It was cool but left me scratching my head.

It just feels bad to have perfectly good “correct” vintage cars being treated like... This... I guess the market wants what it wants, but it seems like a terrible waste.

I’d never take a 911 on an Overland expedition. That’s what the good lord made FJs for.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 13:08

I wasn’t convinced to kill us I’ll be interior. But yeah I want it.

The wheels do need to be a goof 2-3” smaller tho

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > HammerheadFistpunch
03/11/2020 at 13:12

This is kinda hookie. It’s like an explensive purse made to looks like a cowboy’s saddle bag.

HammerheadFistpunch > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
03/11/2020 at 13:19

Seriously, we all know it’ s supposed to go the other way round.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
03/11/2020 at 14:02

The push bar is upholstered?

Hahaha I’m now 100% certain this is a joke. That or proof of how the rich tend to loose touch with reality

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
03/11/2020 at 14:03

Apparently my talk to text is balls

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > MonkeePuzzle
03/11/2020 at 14:04

They just neeed to be 15”s instead of 18s

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Victorinoo
03/11/2020 at 14:05

Their car is basically a bespoke carbon fiber 993. So yeah

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 14:07

Too low, push bar is useless, wheels are to big, an around the world Adventure car this ain’t

GTO62 > atfsgeoff
03/11/2020 at 14:07

Very good point, but I love the 959 Dakar vibes from this concept on a modern 911. And that 959 would definitely get you around the world.

Kinja'd!!!

GTO62 > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
03/11/2020 at 14:13

I’d never take a 911 on an Overland expedition. That’s what the good lord made FJs for.

Fair enough, unless you are René Metge.

Kinja'd!!!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 15:22

Inspired by Oklahoma - ha ! (the Navajo didn’t live here, though) Pretty crazy that they met in Oklahoma City.

It’s a crime that we never get to hear the engines.

Super awkward end to the video...

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
03/11/2020 at 17:15

I think so. I think the push bar, and the backs of the auxiliary lighting are covered in the same material used as an accent in the interior, and it looks like a dirt/rust colored, matte-finished textile or engineered material.

I could be wrong... but that is what it looks like to me.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > atfsgeoff
03/11/2020 at 17:22

Imagine trying to find those tires without 5 day shipping

Jason Spears > GTO62
03/11/2020 at 18:29

Did they actually make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse?