Atop is the 3.0L 908 engine, with a vertical fan being driven by a crankshaft and a belt, similar to air cooled 911 configuration.

A proper flat 8-cylinder PORSCHE 907 engine, itself a derivative of an earlier F1 engine, was produced briefly in both 2.0 as well as 2.2L displacements. But a new race category favored a 3.0L. Thus a new engine, the 908 power plant, was developed instead. The 907, which was more compact engine than the 908 (almost…

Since the 919 engine is so very compact, why not three of them together to make a 12-cylinder...

Ruf’s answer to 8-cylinder calling . . . Not a flat 8 but a very compact V8 instead.

Bentley Turbo R - pretty potent, wonderful at high speed on straits, on and off ramps not so much...

A 959 more so than a Cayenne, perhaps? No matter how very good the Cayenne really is...

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An easy fix, with original Audi parts at that - put the front Ur-bar in the rear and get a much larger dia front bar from a 4000 Quattro, including bushings. (Sorry, can not remember which year.) A totally bolt-on affair, since the rear suspension is the front one, facing backwards. Almost 1 to 1 match to SportQ bars,…

The brilliant engineer, Ferdinand Piëch, together with his talented engineering team at the Porsche Weissach engine and racing departments, was responsible for _all_ post 1965 tube-frame Prototypes, starting with the gorgeous Carrera6 and going all the way to various versions of the incredible 917. No doubt his…

So much speed, so little skill . . .

Having spent considerable seat time in a Ur-Q and road going, homologation-issue Sport Quattro and others, on the road as well as track, the Sport-Q has as good of an composure as any well sorted car, such as the Singer 964 nowadays. Granted, at the absolute limit, it can be a bit twitchy but no less than the other…

Also, on this day, Jay Leno is born, 34 years after Ferruccio Lamborghini!

Can be done! Not a problem. If one knows the proper timing, of course.

However thrilling the ride may have been in a ‘84 930, it was not at all comparable to the seriously violent kick the original ‘75, ‘76 and ‘77 versions offered. By the time ‘78 3.3L 930 came along, albeit even faster by then, that car had considerably less dramatic power delivery. It was already much smoother by then…

The original = Ur- Quattro, with its longer wheel base, was too stable to be an ideal rallye car. Thus the shorter wheel base version of the Sport Quattro followed. The more unstable Sport Quattro was much easier to get to slide especially around tight corners. Front and rear wings were added later primarily for more…

According to the current owner, as well as confirmed by the famous creator, Alois Ruf himself, this awesome car (in the equally awesome photograph), is in fact THE very first production Yellowbird in the US and the ONLY real Yellowbirdn built by Ruf from scratch (dully listed among the original 29 cars built) with…

The black Countach looks so perfectly ‘clean’ in its design, as originally intended, no doubt.

Never understood why P AG wanted to save money by not painting the two black plastic pieces, forming the airdam, in the color of the car. Not much of a problem, if the car was black, quite obviously. But, following a Boxter of any other color, made the rear look as if the deck lid was open... How unattractive!