This is what happens when an enthusiasts vision comes to fruition. I am simultaneously glad and jealous of what Matte has managed, it is truly incredible. it's not often the vision of one of us enthusiasts vision comes to light, but i am glad every time it happens. just imagine all the gems locked away in the hears of us enthusiasts, only relegated to fiction due to the facts of reality; Matte overcame this and in the near or distant future, this will be looked upon as the Mclaren F1 of EVs.
As someone who works at rimac for the last 7+ years and i worked closely on Nevera development i must say this video is as accurate as it gets when talking about history and the product. Great job and thank you!
When is it going to the Nurenbergring? Great name. And I'm an EV enthusiast, so an EV that looks like a supercar next to a Plaid in a 1/4 mile, fantastic! My favorite video was probably CarWow running it against a SF90, and I kept wanting to scream at the screen, that Ferrari is fast, I swear.😅
@@fjalics Just these days Nevera can be seen at the Nürburgring. There are no official videos yet, but a couple of RU-vidrs managed to record a few short shots (Shmee150 is one of them). Nothing special, the car is going slow, scanning the track or something.
Oh so you missed the Top Gear special, they got him, Koenigsegg, Gordon Murray and Hennessey (a bit of a question on this one) in a room together to discuss hypercars. Yeah that is a thing that happened... It was kind of interested, if only because Mate was "the EV guy" so the other owners had a habit of just looking at him strangely when they had to deal with an EV question.
I think I'm hoping that, if someone can figure out how to make an electric supercar fun and exciting to drive, some of that tuning and techniques may be applicable in more run of the mill electric sports cars that me and you will be able to buy and drive within the next 20-30 years...
This film was beautiful. I enjoyed watching this far more than even bbc top gear's coverage of the Nevera. Writing, editing... so much time and love was put into this
This video was so visually striking! It always is with BTS but I felt this one up the game a bit. Once again great work by DTS, thanks and thanks ISSIMI for allowing us to access how DTS perceives cars around him. Very inspiring.
EV or gasoline? Fuck that. DTS just gave the best answer to date. Buy both if you have the monies. Buy a Dodge Viper and a Tesla Model S Plaid. Buy a Porsche 992 GT3 and a Taycan Turbo S. Buy a Bugatti AND a Rimac. Variety is the spice of life, and EVs just add to that. Silent, sure, but otherworldly in their capabilities and not incapable of entertaining the monkey behind the wheel. As someone who grew up on the sound of 9000+ RPM NASCAR pushrod V8s, I really appreciate this car, both because it has its own qualities and because it reminds me of why I really got into cars in the first place: sheer, reality-warping speed. This car can explode forward with more urgency than a fighter jet off an aircraft carrier, and nothing that ferocious will EVER be on my bad side.
The car can actually asist you with drifting. If you use a drift mode, it's still not 100% uncontrolled, in fact, it helps you drift. There is also a mode which gives you full control and computer doesn't help you, but you can literally burn tyres forever in a standstill because it has so much power. Once you enter a drift, just imagine a steering wheel as a laser pointer where you want to go (like those lines on some parking cameras), and even though you are sliding and burning tyres, the car will make you go where you want to go. You also don't have to take care of the accelerator too much, if you floor it, it will still give you only as much power as it can control. It's not 100% fool proof but it's amazing. It's doing like 80% of the work.
Great video indeed. All this from tiny Croatia…what an amazing achievement by the founder and to keep everything about the company homegrown within Croatia.
nope. he makes us poorer. goverment invested huge money in him and they are going to gift him another 186 million euros,of our money,instead of investing that money in serious car production. we have another ev....better than this showoff car....it is being produced by Dok-ing company which produces best de-mining robotic vehicles in the world....car is named loox. it cost 50 000 euros. it is as big as smart but for 3 people.and it could generate huge profit if it would be produced in numbers. nevera is not generating anything for the country
DTS is a daredevil. I (and I believe most other people) wouldn’t even dream drifting an eye wateringly expensive electric hyper car in the rain on tight public roads, regardless if it is closed or not. What a savage
I visited the Rimac factory near Zagreb in 2019. I was not particularly interested in EVs, but I was holidaying in Croatia and thought it would be a nice stop. I found there a small team of dedicated and passionate people, a team of petrolheads. I was really impressed by the tech and by the execution of the Concept_One considering it was a step into the unknown taken by such a small team with such a limited budget. Can’t wait what the future has in store for Bugatti-Rimac! 10:32 another episode featuring a damn W201 ❤
What a great video. Great story with excellent storytelling, beautiful shots and crazy good driving, sliding around those forest looks sick af. Thanks for the video, it's very entertaining.
I'm honestly not a big supercar fan, I don't like the aesthetic, but the Nevera is actually genuinely gorgeous. I think it's what every supercar wants to be, but can't quite manage, because of packaging compromising style.
Mate embodies what passion and dreams can become. It's incredible what he and the people he works with are capable of achieving. Koenigsegg showed him that it can be done. If I could, I'd love one. An amazing dream come true!
Thank you for the wonderful showcase, the white Nevera sliding in the rain is a fantastic visual, amazing origin story aswell.... but all I can think of is Gordon Murrays T50 and T33 Spider as things I would actually want to own.
That's all you've been conditioned to want to own since you were a kid with the F1, f40 and carrara gt. This is a whole new breed of hypercar. One that the next generation of car nuts will also lust for. Let's be real. If you can afford a nevera, you can probably afford the t50 and t33
The ONLY EV that pulls at my heart strings! A real driver's car from a true petrolhead. He shows his love for ICE in his interview on The Late Brake Show. The man is so damn humble even after technically taking over Bugatti at such a young age.
To me, the Nevera has a bittersweet taste of what-if... It shows that legacy manufacturers could have done so much more, so much better, and yet they just didn't try. The 4 motors (one per wheel) layout reminds me that the Mercedes SLS AMG Electric Drive has this same layout, 750 PS and was the fastest AMG ever at that point. It was half the power of the Concept One, half the price too. Both came into production at the same time in 2013, both showed brilliantly how exciting to drive an EV could be, especially with 4 wheel torque vectoring. Mercedes really wasn't too far off... but only Rimac persisted, Mercedes themselves apparently forgot that they created this masterpiece (do you realise they say the EQC is their first electric car? That timid, bland, inefficient and boring SUV? Mercedes-Benz? Gosh). So now Rimac is thriving, showing everyone how it's done, and just in general finally showing that an electric future can be exciting. But if MB had had a bit more perseverance, we would have been there 5 years ago. We'd have an electric AMG GT alongside the GTR and the Black Series, most automotive journalists would have come to the conclusion that indeed EVs can be fun to drive, and most other legacy manufacturers would have their own fun EV in the range. Rimac would probably still be top dog, let's be honest, but the movement would have happened so much quicker. I'm happy that people are now jumping on the bandwagon, but it feels like there has been a whole train that has been missed already.
That's an inspirational story about Rimac. Talk about "greatness from humble beginnings". The Nevera is quite something! Seeing it do a 360 spin in the SNOW and make it look graceful was a cool sight to behold :)
This story feels weirdly nostalgic. As a kid played with RC cars and always dreamed of getting gas powered ones. When I finally got one I was actually disappointed. They were much more complicated and expensive. The instant torque of the electric cars made drifting so easy.
I really hope Rimac plans on making a gr86 competitor in the future so more people can enjoy their cars. If this is the derection EVs are going in im super excited for whats to come. Also wow that shot at 11:27 is amazing! Outstanding work as always.
You can't expect a cheap car from Rimac but you CAN expect one with Rimac tech from Hyundai or Kia. They both already use Rimac tech. Kia EV6 GT is a great example of a result of Hyundai/Kia investment into Rimac tech and it's supposed to be around $60k tho high demand and the world situation has increased it's price, afaik it's pre-sold out for next 2 years. It's like a budget family version of Rimac Nevera and it even has a drift mode just like Nevera. After Hyundai/Kia there's Porsche with majority share in Rimac tech but they're double the price. Long story short we won't get a budget Rimac but we already got Rimac technology in budget cars, that's how they used to survive and it's still a major source of income for them.
The Rivian R1T and R1S are another example of absolutely sensationally fun to drive EVs. Off-road rally mode is so much more fun than I've ever had in BMWs and in sport mode hunkered down on the roads it is ridiculously flat and great. Steering feel and accuracy beats anything I've driven in the last decade.
Another 4x motor torque vectoring vehicle with number plates. The Rimac platform and R1 platform are the only 4x motor black magic available right now.
I'm in love with these BTS Videos! They're shot amazingly well and the Encyclopedic Knowledge of Hyphen is a very big cherry on top! Thank you for making these videos❤
Any other presenter and this would've been a tough watch. That said, as fascinating as the engineering is, the car is meh, like almost all modern cars.
While I've loved BTS from the start, I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate the final shot... Not only was it gorgeous cinematographically, but by showing the Rimac drifting around corners the whole film, our expectations were for a nicely setup wide drift, only to have them subverted by the 270 degree u-turn. That laugh said it all. What an epic car.
This thing is just a "more" thing: more computational development, more battery and systems development, more factory structure., more money involved. And all that because Mate surfed the eletric (hyper)car wave at the right point in time.
@@Daniel-dj7fh yeah, it was made by Gordon Murray to be a driver's car. All the speed records it broke were by accident. Gordon Murray and his team of engineers didn't even test how fast it was, they only tested how nice it was to drive. The only reason we know it's top speed is because a customer decided to attempt it's top speed just for fun and out of curiosity
this review made me realise what all the new ones (post Clarkson) are missing: soul. it was an experience, a love for the machine that seems to be alive (at least for us, petrolheads). thank you
Just amazing! I don't know how Mate Rimac did it, from the near complete in-house design and manufacturing to hitting it out of the park on his car's first outing. I don't think I want one, but goodness I love that it exists. Perhaps it will let our appliance manufacturers remember there is more to driving than just infotainment and "features" and maybe we can still have feeling. Here's hoping some of these traits trickle down to us mere mortals. Also a wonderful and complete introduction to it, both the story and the vehicle. Beautifully shot and engaging!
Amazing company. It's a shame they got into bed with Volkswagen - the most morally bankrupt carmaker in the world. I hope that relationship doesn't come back to bite Mate.
Interesting how ICE and BEV are developing in opposite directions. BEVs are inherently overpowered big boats crazy in a straight line, while ICE is best stripped down light weight for agility (with number plates: Ariel atom, BAC mono). But in modern times ICE has become bloated boats trying drag back a new age of muscle cars even in the form of SUVs. While BEVs need to prove their worth by chasing cornering handling and drifting Agility. I think the sweet spot will be a 1400kg 2 Seater BEV with 85kwh NET useable battery and like 2x 250KW (670hp) motors one for each rear wheel for torque vectoring. That means an agile 2 seater BEV that is only RWD with torque vectoring. That might be the ultimate driver's car without being stupidly teleportation fast.
One of the best car reviews I ever watched ! Impressive confidence and driving skills , rich data and facts presented both about the car itself and Rimac’s history. This car got my attention and even being a Petrolhead, I really want one of those. Awesome !
Fantastic Review by Derek Tam-hiven-Scott - and its a great car changing the industry - Rimac is now part of VAG, owns Bugatti (that sounds great for the next Bugatti EV Generation), and also Porsche.
I would watch any video with this title because i trust DTS and this is a great example of why, this is an amazing piece of work. Thanks to all involved
*I WHOLEHEARTEDLY disagree.* This car and other electric vehicles are SOULLESS. Yes, it's fast and has broken records but... there are no mechanical sounds or emotions. I would rather drive a slow s2000 revving it out to 9k RPM and hearing all the sounds it makes while rowing my own gears over something like this. Electric cars are fine but... they are only good for one thing - to be your boring inner city commuter and grocery getter. They are not sports cars as they completely lack the emotional aspect.
Your manual shifter and rattling gasoline engine is just a generational nostalgia and nothing else. New generations of car guys or "electric heads" will not have any sympathy to this ancient technology... same goes to everything else. My cousin who is born 2012 cannot comprehend the music of the 80s 90s even 2000s... Songs that give me chills makes him cringe, and instead he will listen to black pink or what ever garbage music has become nowadays. Same will go to the cars... when you are dying to hear the V8 ROAR new generations will say WTF is this nonsense.
Excellent video and presentation. The Nevera seems like a distinct and historic inflection point in automotive design and technology, specifically in the area of operational dynamics. I am now officially an old man, an antique driver operating an antique car, using an increasingly obsolete knowledge-base and skillset. I don't even have ABS... But this was bound to happen, and I'm OK with it. I've entered the 'acceptance' stage of grief, at long last. Kudos to this incredible young man and his incredible young company. Very well done, indeed.
Derek Tam-Scott, very nice vid. I have to admit that it was nice to get the history of the Concept One without the crash heard around the world (mostly because you didn't know about it, somehow). How did you find some of these old vids to use, damn.
It is phenomenally interesting that almost no HyperCar manufacturer thinks or thought about the one very important aspect that is 'Comfort', this is the reason why i would prefer a Bugatti every single day over any other HyperCar it is as Nimble as a Normal Car and as Aggressive as it can be. Truly it is almost a perfect car just minus the off-road capability. But nevertheless the Rimac Nevera is a fantastic car.
Great material but as far as the car goes - I don’t know, to me existence of this car doesn’t make any difference in this world, created to show off how much money someone can burn - “a driver’s car” that will never end up in driver’s possession. Not to mention an elephant in the room - it is an EV. It will never be on any of my posters.
