Rudolph Perfect Roadster

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Rudolph Perfect Roadster GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1992
resolution 5th January 2018
Seat Mechernich , Germany
management Ralf Rudolph (Managing Director)
Branch Automobile manufacturer , body shop
Website www.rudolph-roadster.de

Rudolph Perfect Roadster GmbH was a small car body construction company based in Mechernich in the northern Eifel. Its vehicles were mainly produced as kits . But this company also offered finished vehicles and canoes.

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The Rudolph Perfect Roadster GmbH was founded in 1992 and engaged in the development and production of vehicles. The models were initially designed in a two-year development phase. The first stage was the drafting of the design study, which was made from modeling materials on a 1: 1 scale. The model was then molded into a negative form for series production . At the same time, Rudolph Perfect Roadster manufactured the vehicle frame and all other necessary components . Ralf Rudolph was the company's founder and managing director . The company was dissolved on January 5, 2018.

Model overview of manufactured bodies

Rudolph Spyder C and Spyder S

The Spyder was similar to the Porsche racing sports car RS 61 Spyder from 1961 and Porsche 550 , although Rudolph did not strive for a faithful replica. Obviously, however, the Porsche racing cars inspired the largely independent design . As an in-house development, the Rudolph model offered more space than the original, had sports seats and a specially designed instrument panel with four round instruments in chrome frames. When the buyer determined the body details, the model with three windshields of different heights was available. There was also a choice between convertible folding roof and hardtop. The car was handcrafted and built on a hot-dip galvanized tubular space frame . Equipped with the weakest engine, the vehicle had an empty weight of 800 kg. Boxer engines from Volkswagen and Subaru were offered , with outputs between 60 hp (44 kW) and 205 hp (151 kW). The main differences between the Spyder C and Spyder S model variants are their dimensions: the Spyder C was shorter, more compact and narrower than the Spyder S.

The Brusa Spyder was created in 2008 in cooperation with the power electronics, electric car and battery manufacturers Brusa , REVA and Sanyo . This is equipped as a single piece with an electric drive train and has already covered several thousand kilometers under the auspices of the eQmotion project .

Classic Roadster

The Classic Roadster was a replica of the earlier VW Karmann-Ghia Type 14 and was only offered as a convertible with a folding roof. This model was the manufacturer's first independently developed automobile. The one-piece fiberglass body of the Classic Roadster was built on a reinforced chassis of the VW Beetle . Engines with outputs between 34 HP (25 kW) and 174 HP (128 kW) could be installed.

Diardi

A late development of Rudolph Perfect Roadster was the Lotus Super Seven- inspired Diardi . It was not a replica, it was completely redeveloped. Unlike the other Rudolph vehicles, the Diardi was only available as a kit or partially assembled. The engines for this model came from BMW or Fiat with outputs between 120 hp (88 kW) and 343 hp (252 kW).

e-Bugster (and Bugster)

Only a few design sketches of this model of an electric car , also available with an internal combustion engine drive , have been published.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ North Data: Rudolph-Perfect-Roadster-GmbH, Mechernich (iL) Liquidator: Ralf Siegfried Rudolph, January 5, 2018
  2. ↑ Alex Cohrs: Driving report Roadster Rudolph Spyder: Rudolph, the reindeer AutoBILD online, "Sportscars" section, June 30, 2009
  3. ↑ Rudolph Spyder-S ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.automobil-news.de internet portal @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.automobil-news.de
  4. ^ Bill Siuru: Brusa Spyder shares the thrill of coming electric sports cars. greencar.com, May 24, 2009, archived from the original on September 17, 2011 ; accessed on February 3, 2016 (eng).