RUF badges
 

RUF badges for sale, anyone tempted?

I'll be having them if I can pick them up for less then a score. :cheers:

yeh, last set I saw on a forum went for £280 I tried getting a set from ruf LOL, no way would they sell them.
I sawa ruf a few days ago at the porsche dealer and everyone was crouding around it.

Why would you put a Ruf badge on your car, unless it was really a Ruf? Would be like putting an M badge on a regular BMW. Tacky, no?

since when has that stopped anybody? :dance:

I've seen an R8 badge on an Audi A5. I had to chuckle.

I guess whoever buys it also wears a fake rolex and his gf/wife has enhancement in the chest area.

Not hating but that's usually how they roll...

Some transgressions can be more easily forgiven than others :)

It's an unnecessary modification IMO. Plus it hurts if they hit your face. :matchup:

The problem I see with adding Ruf badges to a "non Ruf" Porsche are twofold,

1, needing to explain to car fanatics asking about your Ruf, that your boxster is not actually a genuine Ruf Boxster but a standard Boxster with Ruf badges bought from ebay.

2, Explaining to the person that asks you "what is a Ruf" that RUF Automobile GmbH is a German automobile manufacturer, and RUFs are built from unmarked Porsche bodies and chassis. When a chassis arrives, RUF builds their own independent work into the car. Because RUF installs many of their own-made parts, the company is recognized as a manufacturer by the German government and that is why they are badged as Ruf, but that yours is a standard Boxster with Ruf badges bought from ebay.

It could get a bit embarrassing.

Not a hater just not for me

hmm this coming from someone with modlist as "carrera lights" why if you dont have a carrera, why do people put GT3 bumpers on if you dont have a GT3.. you get my point...

also just to clear it up, RUF do a ruf conversion not just a full build.
they also do boxsters and offer a nice white 987.
they do manufacture cars but as above they still do a ruf conversion which has many performance upgrades,..

Putting a Ruf badge on a Porsche that has absolutely no Ruf mods is tacky. Most people here in the states don't even know what Ruf is, and personally, I think the standard Porsche badge looks much nicer anyway. Let me guess...you sell those badges? :D

nope i do not.

Boxsterboy, what areyou talking about, not many people know what ruf is?
are you kidding me..
Also your assuming peoplewho buy a badge or put a badge on the car are not replacing an already damaged badge.
Not everyone takes life a seroius as yourself :rolleyes:

Those Carrera Lightweight wheels on Ekam's ride were standard options on all 2003/2004 model yr Boxsters, so he's not posing by putting those wheels on. Putting a Ruf badge when you don't have any Ruf mods at all, is.

why put the porsche logo font on the rear of your car, whats up boxstaboy you desperate to show everyone its a real porsche boxster dude?

Also whats wrong with posing? dude why did you buy your porsche i mean boxster?

Nope, I'm not kidding. There's only one Ruf dealer in the USA. How do you expect all Porsche owners to know the name Ruf? And again, why would you put a Ruf badge on your car if you have no Ruf mods on it?

putting a different bumper on is much different than a RUF badge. Just because I think Ferrari are cool doesn't mean I should put a Ferrari badge on my hood. his lights are stock for a 03-04 model year and a GT3 STYLE bumper doesnt say you have a gt3 because it insn't the same. its just similar. moreover the bumpers and body parts can enhance the aerodynamics of a car. being in of itself a performance modification. whereas a RUF badge has only one purpose... to say that the vehicle attached to it is a RUF.

:cheers:

Lol. Call me when you grow up. Have fun trying to sell those Ruf badges.

Grow up?

Its a simple question.
My point being people like to do this, some say its posing but so what, some people add M3 a ****************ting 325i so what, stop taking this so seroius.
Look the amount of times I have been in the OPC and someone asks for carrera brake pads yet when they have the reg checked its a boxster.
Again my point being does it really bother you that much if someone wants to put a badge on the back of there car and they get attention from other users?

as for bumpers, if porsche thought you needed a GT3 spoiler or whatever I am sure they would have added, look my point is, you cant have a complaint with people who do things to there car and then turn around and wack GT3 this and GT3 that on a bloody boxster.

Correction, there is no longer a single RUF dealer in the US. RAC has split ways with RUF.

I thought the Texas dealer severed, and then they found a new distributor in Michigan...

http://www.rufauto.us/ruf/

Those wheels were optional on the Boxster, but at no point did I never put a badge or claim I have a Carrera or a 911.

I think the point has been made by other members and the original poster still doesn't "get it". :ah:

Not only does he not "get it"...he resorts to looking up your personal mods list to try to find ways to personally attack you if you don't agree with him. Lol. Real classy.

I still think he came on this site for the purpose of helping to promote the sale of those badges.

Uh oh, guess I shouldn't post in this thread since I'm a moniker poser b/c I don't drive a Boxster :eek:

Good discussion gents ;)

I still have a bone to pick w/ ekam's statement above re: "It's an unnecessary modification" re:chest enhancements. Yes, just cause you can doesn't mena you should but look, lot's of mods are unnecessary. Some however look really really good when done right :D

....and they can feel good too! :D

but to say that there is no harm in posing is just a lie. sure some forms of copying are good to go. styling cues from 911s or what not. but its one thing to have a car that is styled like another but a whole different animal when you claim your car is something that it is not.

why put a RUF badge on your car when it isnt a RUF? would I put a turbo badge on my NA boxster? of course not.

Yeah, we need to talk about that too. Maurice said he wants you to stop fondling the Cayman wheels on his Boxster :D ;) :cool:

Yep, car mods. That's exactly what I was talking about. :D

If you like car mods, you'll really like these mods...

http://www.hootersmagazine.com/image...47/47_Lynn.jpghttp://www.hootersmagazine.com/image...59/59_bev2.jpg

:D

Those mods are much nicer than Ruf badges.

Yeah, but they are typical Aussie girls, nothing special compared to the really, really good looking chicks over here.... you can tell !! :p

As to badge - perceived image (even if fake) is everything in the UK. They stick AMG, Cosworth and Autodelta on any stock car as a status symbol with no regard to origin.... :confused:

Ducks for cover as the English ECBM's are lit.....

I have all my work performed by RUF (now RAC), they have installed a new engine for me (non RUF modified) but I do have a RUF exhaust!

Can I put the RUF badge on my car? :rolleyes:

ekam probably won't like this but my wife's rack is modified and I like it and she wears a RUF badge on her shirt :cheers:

what happens when you pull up next to a ricer at a light who DOES know what RUF is and makes you look stupid when his 4-banger leaves you (and your badge) wondering if maybe you should have spent that money elsewhere lol

Now thats funny. I have read this entire thread and I have concluded that those of us, myself included that think its tacky to add a badge to a car that does not reflect that car should just let others do it. That way we can laugh at them when we see them. I love seeing Stock Mustangs with Saleen badges, or Camaros with SS badges. No matter what we all know it is funny as ******************** and we should just let them know how stupid it is as you fly by it.