Hey guys tried searching all ova for this, but no luck. Anyone have 19" Ruf Rims on their 996 or have any pics of one with them. Thanks guys

 

you guys do know that ruf doesn't make these wheels, right?

 

No, did not please enlighten us.

 

nothing new but all they do is slap their brand on usually OZ wheels.. same goes for hamann. nothing wrong with it, but just thought it'd be a curious factoid to know.

 

I am aware that Ruf re badged the OZ Superleggera IIIs for their most recent cars, but I have never seen their previous five spoke or their modular wheels by any other brand. Regardless of whether Ruf manufactures them or not, I see nothing wrong with the original thread starter referring to them as Ruf wheels, especially since Ruf considers itself its own automaker, just like Porsche.

For example:

 

didn't say there was anything wrong with them, but i bet you the other wheels are my by oz as well licensed exclusively thru Ruf.

just telling everyone that there's no secret Ruf potion added to these wheels.

 

I think as long as they are "exclusive" to RUF....then its fine. If OZ is their manufacturer of RUF's own design...or OZ developed the rim for RUF..and RUF only then that is cool. But thats my opinion...

 

hi there from germany.
thats not right, the five spoke rim is made by/for RUF.
you can get them (if you have the money) in magnesium as well.
Superlight but around 10k EUR which is a fortune.
It's not that they just fit perfectly even the quality is ahead.
If you are talking about Techard aso I will agree but RUF is RUF.

Anyway,
there are a lot of guys driving around with the 19" even on 993. They are just gourgous!

regards,
Christoph

 

Do you have any pics of them on a 996???

 

howdo you think ruf is going to own their own manufacturing plant, R&D, supply chain, all that razzmatazz and justify the expenditure by selling an insigificant number of ultra niche cars a year in the X,XXXs?

they are made by OZ or some other wheel company dude. even the "forged" print on the center of the five spoke wheels look just like the ones on the superleggera IIIs which is also a wheel used by ruf on their rt12.

 

Just speculating hear. I would imagine that if they are made by another factory really would not matter if they are made to RUF Spec's makes them a RUF Rim and R&D would be accomplished by Road testing on there own course in germany and racing and there supply chain well it's RUF which has been around along time.

 

Coming from the motorcycle roadracing world and having had similar re-badging relationships with companies, I can't speculate on how the RUF relationshiip works, but I can tell you from my own background... the products we brought in, and re-badged were produced to our specs just like if we had our own manufacturing process and moved it off-shore... no difference.

 

That green car is just plain sick looking. i want it.

 

I used to own a set of the 19" cast wheels. Like the ones on Kermit up there. They're made by Speedline in Italy. Top manufacturer in my opinion.

John

 

The wheels may be manufactured by OZ, but that really means nothing at all. Just like a good number of different name brand televisions are made by one electronics manufacturer. That doesn't mean that they are all the same thing with a different badge on them. If RUF approaches OZ with material and manufacturing specifications, and has OZ manufacture a small run of wheels, that doesn't mean that they are OZ wheels rebadged as RUF. RUF just outsourced the manufacturing for them, it happens all the time.