1996 911 Turbo Modified

In the world of Porsche tuners, none bring more cachet than RUF, with RUF cars brining top-dollar for their builds. But, there are factory-built RUFs with their W09 VINs, and then there are RUF-modified cars, those originally manufactured by Porsche with WP0 VINs and later modified to RUF specification. And the price between those is a world apart.

This 1996 911 Turbo falls into the latter category as it was modified by RUF in 2003 to Turbo R specification. Finished in Grand Prix White over a Marble Gray Supple Leather interior, this 19,000-mile Turbo features RUF front and rear springs along with RUF shocks and a twin-turbo flat-six fitted with RUF turbochargers as well as an oil feed check valve and return line kit as part of the RUF 993 Turbo R package, all installed by a factory RUF technician flown over from Germany.

Modified 993s have had quite the climb over the last few years, going from ~$121,000 this time in 2021 to sit at $270,000 today. Over that time period, we’ve seen an handful of RUF-modified examples, bid from mid-$300s all the way up to $460,000 with our Spotlight car previously selling for $380,000 back in October of 2021. But this time around it only brought a bid of $276,000, a bit disappointing in a rising market. I would have kept it too.

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