The Hyundai Motor Group invested €80 ($84 / £67.3) million into Rimac in 2019 to develop prototypes for an electric midship sports car and a high-performance fuel cell electric vehicle with the intent to bring them to the market. While a number of years have passed since that original announcement, we haven’t seen any new […]
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Hypercars normally drive on beautifully paved tarmac, so the idea of seeing something with 1,914 hp (1,427 kW/1,940 PS) dancing on ice is a little unusual. But Rimac insists that it wants its upcoming Nevera to truly be useable everywhere, so it took the car to snowy Sweden for some final testing. The drive allowed […]
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Top Gear decided that thanks to the new swath of electrified vehicles on the planet that it needed a whole new set of awards. Now, they’ve released the entire list and quite a number of the winners might surprise you. Here are some of the list and some of the reasoning behind it. Top Performance […]
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Bugatti Rimac has released an intriguing image that could hint at a pair of new hypercars from the company – one for each brand. This photo was released as Bugatti Rimac celebrated its decision to open a new engineering and design center in Berlin, Germany. The announcement confirmed that Bugatti Rimac design director Achim Anscheidt […]
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It’s rare to see big names in the automotive industry change hands but that’s exactly what happened last year to Bugatti. It’s out from underneath the Volkswagen umbrella and is now part of a joint venture called Bugatti Rimac with none other than Mate Rimac at the head as its CEO. He’s just laid out […]
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Rimac has finally completed the intense homologation process for the Nevera. The test program, which started in 2019, has required the electric hypercar to be subjected to 45 separate physical crash tests on its way to becoming roadworthy. The final test took place at the end of January and was the fearsome side pole test. […]
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Sports cars, supercars, and hypercars: are they really just terms coined by journos as new performance cars came along? Or do they each fit into a nice clean little box in your mind? Supercars used to be easily defined it would seem. They were totally wild looking, very fast, and almost entirely impractical. Cars like […]
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During the presentation for the 2021 results last week, Mate Rimac, the CEO of the newly established Bugatti Rimac venture, re-confirmed that Bugatti is working on a new model with an internal combustion engine, hinting at the successor of the Chiron (2016-2022) that is set to arrive by 2024. This means that Bugatti will honor […]
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If you’re an average reader, it likely takes you around four or five seconds to read that title out loud. Read it in your head though and you’ll likely be a bit closer to 2.0 seconds, or the time it takes the Ferrari SF90 Stradale Assetto Fiorano to go from 0-60 mph (0-96 km/h). So […]
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