Born in Germany in 1979 and shortly after moved to England. Emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 15 and has been loving it ever since. Bought sight unseen and I had an INDEPENDENT prepurchase inspection done by RUF Great Britain. It all checked out well so it boarded the "Cape Natal" and set sail for NZ. I got it out of the container, registered it, changed the oil and set out on a 3,000 mile test drive. We are still happily together 20 years later.