2011 Ruf Greenster First Drive by Inside Line

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2011 Ruf Greenster First Drive by Inside Line

"Green is the new black in sports car circles and now we even have the 2011 Ruf Greenster, a Porsche 911 converted into a high-performance, battery-powered electric vehicle. And why not, when you consider the excitement created by the 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport and the 2012 Audi E-tron.

This is not the sort of thing that you expect from Alois Ruf, who took over the family Porsche business in 1974 and went on to create the 211-mph Ruf CTR Yellowbird, the fastest production car in the world in 1987. Since then Ruf has become an important manufacturer of Porsche-based cars, including exotic creations characterized by the Ruf Rt 12 and even including the radical midengine Ruf CTR 3.

But Ruf is a complicated character. He might have a penchant for serious horsepower, but like so many Germans he's an environmentalist, too. The company has its own hydroelectric plant that powers the factory and feeds excess energy to the national grid, and for years now Alois Ruf has worked on a battery-powered Porsche, which we saw last in the form of the 2010 Ruf eRuf Model A.

And now the 2011 Ruf Greenster sits before us, about a year away from production, Alois Ruf tells us."

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