Ruf RT12 R - why no street tyres?

How come Ruf has no street tyres like 458 and mp412? Not available IRL?
For today i wonted to make street tyres only server with supercars and (my favorite) Ruf must be left out... shame.

 

I'm with you. I think all street legal cars in AC should have Street Tires as an option. There could be different types of Street Tires too. I'm not talking about 90's Street Tires, but like, Street Tires for regular cars like BMW M3/M4 and then Street Tires SC for cars like the RUF.

 

Ruf with street tyres would be bonkers!! lolz

 

Oh, I'm sure it would be... I have a feeling that car, in real life, is absolutely nuts. Just gotta be very gentle with the throttle and get off the gas and break much sooner than you are accustomed to. Maybe it would be good for me so I wouldn't be over-confident like I sometimes am with the semislicks. Or maybe I'd find crash my RUF and end upside-down and on fire just after Flugplatz... One or the other.

 

Semi-slicks are sticky street legal tyres in AC, not actual competition tyres (Toyo RR or Hoosier R7 for instance, one notch higher than R-Comps).

 

Ahhhhhhh interesting. I really need a set of Kumho Ecsta XS for that GT40.

 

They're good but if you want grip go for RE-71R's, they're as fast, if not faster, than NT01's (R-Comps)! They just don't last very long....

 

Have you driven the Ruf CTR with the 90s street tyres ? Quite the challenge especially on a green track.. haha!

 

I haven't, but i'll give it a go.
ALB123 is right, all street cars should have optional ST.

 

But they're street legal basically in name only. Nobody would realistically want to drive round on them in any kind of normal situation.

The RT12 normally comes with full-treaded Michelin Pilot Sport Cup's, which are far more practical road tires that are still track capable. It would certainly be nice to see this option for this car. I believe the Ferrari 488GTB basically uses the same ones and Kunos has designated them 'hypercar' tires, so it'd be nice to see more cars get these more realistic options(such as the Ferrari 458).

 

That's exactly what I said AC's semi-slicks are. Very sticky street tyres. Sport Cups are quite crazy, almost as grippy as R-Comps. If not as grippy. Same kind of thing as Pirelli Trofeos.

 

What! Doesnt 488 ingame have the regular road tyres? :O

 

Because in real life, the Michelin pilot sport cup who is mounted on this car is a semi slick

When you buy a car like it's impossible to think to put it on cheaper tyres

My old Honda Civic and my old Evo 6 was on semi slick tyres 8 month per year ;-)

Now i'm on Evo 8 with Michelin pilot sport 4

 

When you have the money for a car like that it's not really a problem... Personally this year I've kept the UHP's track-only (daily them last year and they wore too much), tho they are on the car now since I'm done with them. I have a set of normal summies for daily driving. Next year I'm getting R-Comps so I just take out the passager seat and shove that in there

 

I thought the Sport Cups weren't quite as crazy as some other more '(semi)slick' rubber. Better wet performance and general road compliance than your typical track-biased semi-slick. Hence their use on many supercars(most of which are never driven on track). And why Pirelli use their P Zero's instead of Trofeo's on Lamborghini's and whatnot.

 

Nah, Cups are very agressive. Even more so the Cup 2's.

 

Its like some Lotuses from factory arrives with Yoko A048 semislicks.

 

To be honest IMO this car should have hyper car road tyres not street ones as an addition.
The RWD version lacks sometimes mechanical grip so much...

I also read somewhere that customers questioned RUF's decision to offer only steel discs for the RT12R (as the company claimed that there isn't difference in braking performance between the two and thus there is no need of using carbon ceramic discs). This car is crying for stronger brakes... the car's pace outperforms it's stopping power. It will be a massacre when brakes temp. will arrive for RT12R...

 

RUF RT12R comes with carbon ceramic brakes.

 

Then I have no idea where I read about those steel brakes... all in all in the end they are still crap even if they're ceramics.
On the other hand not every car can be a 458.