Proper now there is no such thing as a hotter manufacturing automobile on the planet than the Rimac Nevera. And fairly presumably none that accelerates sooner. In case you haven’t already watched it demolish Ferrari’s 1000-horse SF90 hypercar in CarWow’s drag race, then we propose you comply with this link right here and do it now.

After which get your self again right here to observe The Late Brake Present’s Jonny Smith discover each element of the 1914 hp Croation rocketship, drive it on each highway and monitor, and get a complete information to the automobile’s manufacturing course of with the sickeningly younger and profitable boss of the company, Mate Rimac.

The Nevera is able to blitzing the zero to 100 mph (62 mph) supercar yardstick in 4.3 seconds and reaching 258 mph (415 km/h) flat out. Whereas speaking although the easy launch management process with Smith, Rimac’s engineer reminds us of one of many main variations between EV and gas-powered hypercars: there’s no have to heat the oil by means of in an EV, you’ll be able to simply mash the precise pedal and go.

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And when Smith does that he’s clearly so blown away – and doubtless barely terrified – that he’s truly misplaced for phrases. However when he turns to face the digicam within the passenger seat after lifting off the gasoline, eyes like saucers, the craziness of the expertise has clearly hit dwelling. Then once more, for €2 million ($2.44 million), you’d wish to really feel like that whenever you stepped on the ‘gasoline’.

In case you’re not familiar with Jonny Smith, he’s one of those petrolheads who’s additionally massively into EV tech. Whereas his storage is dwelling to a ’68 Dodge Charger and ’64 Impala, he additionally constructed a 9.86-second highway authorized drag automobile known as the Flux capacitor out of an early Seventies Enfield electrical automobile. Nevertheless, even that appears tame beside the Nevera.