The Rimac Nevera Is a $2.5 Million Hypercar Game Changer 

THIS is the brand new Bigtexatx11 Dougpleaser 3000. First I’m going to show you all it’s quirks and features, then I’m going to… you know the rest

😂

Or just make it have the most RIDICULOUS features and quirks and you will get a perfect Doug score, the weirdest of weird things you can think of, that’ll actually get him off harder than his wife ever could.

Gotta have a third trunk and gear tunnel 😎

And convertible

The Grand Tour, not Top Gear

It passed the safety one for sure.

It was a lovely bond fire.

Hammond is the goat

Frankly I think they owe him. This was great publicity! If Hammond can crash it then it's clearly a production car.

They make parts for koenigsegg too, pretty cool

Koenigsegg is one of his most important client. ( battery and inverter)And Christian is a personal friend of Mate. They do it their own way.

it looks exactly like a c8 corvette

yes, they wanted a timeless design

Totally agree. I love the design.

I think they were aiming for the man who's a kid inside with all the gimmicky digital controls which feel more like a toy or a case study than being practical. So stupid to use computer controls to adjust the mirrors, steering wheel and seat positioning...

Love it, like the mp4-12c.

This is not a timeless design. It already looks about ten years old. It looks like a sports car you see in Grand Theft Auto 5.

Dougs taste isnt a secret, hes into weird and quirky designs that are not always beautiful. When it comes to designs that are outside of those categories he usually refers to "people think".

Completely agree!

"... eliminates the needs for ugly buttons." What about those huge, ugly knobs right in the middle Doug? How about put that in the infotainment screen, because they just look silly.

@@jimdennis2451 I expect those things to grind some salt and pepper for my meal.

I really think the design is kinda outdated, it looks like a 2005 Ferrari. Not saying it's ugly, or basic, just old.

The design is the one letdown of this car, sadly.

I have seen this guy once about 5 years ago, and his cloths is not yet change, he's wearing exact same cloths....

And an understeering shitbox

Rimac + Nevera = Rivera ?

You forgot "record-shattering drag racing monster of a production car" not a big deal, almost negligible (sarcasm)

not sure I would take it offroading but nice to have the option...

well its still fake they cant homolgate car..

Electric has huge potential and always has. It has more or less been about how much they can squeeze from the batterys since day one; 120+ years ago or so. Now the batteries are finally at the level where things like this are feasible.

Can you say Devel 16?

@@jakovsmith9331 afaik, it is homologated, at least in europe

Be afraid. Be very afraid. 😱

-Costs $2.5 Million each -Seats only two -Has minimal other tech

@@Leoneidas -Has six times the processing power of a performance workstation computer -Has advanced drive mode capability -Has driver facial recognition and stamina detection -Has a virtual “driving coach” for track use -Will come with a charging dock for drones and other tech as one of the future trunk storage options -Detects the conditions of the road and adjusts the suspension automatically -Vectors torque to all four wheels 100 times per second Not all of these are available, but they have already been developed and will be implemented on the fully produced model.

@@Leoneidas as a comparison plaid costs around $150k ( you could buy 16.5 plaids with the same price of that) And can seat a lot more, and can use it as a daily driver, and road trips and charge it at super chargers At the end of the day it’s anyones cup of tea

@@Leoneidas Yes, of course it does, do you want four seats? Get a fucking Bmw mate, this was not designed for family purposes nor going a hundred yards down your block for groceries.

@@andreispiridon3241 But can it go around a corner? Or slow down quickly enough to even go into a corner? Especially considering that the 5,000lb super saloon in question has the brakes of a Camry.

Doug butchered the name.

@@igorivanov299 it is not Doug it is Đoug 😜

Rimac also supplied the battery system for the Aston Martin Valkyrie. I guess most of their revenue comes from selling the technology to other brands.

@@emptymannull Pininfarina

Very cool learn something new everyday

Yes and no. Rimac Group owns 55% of Bugatti Rimac, but Porsche owns 24% of the Rimac Group and 45% of Bugatti Rimac. With that combo of stock ownership Porsche can still, if they really badly want to, decide what happens with Bugatti Rimac by combining 1/4 of the 55% of votes with the 45% percent of votes...

@@emptymannull Pininfarina Battista

The video hasn’t been out for long enough for you to watch the whole video

Walk me through each category on that one

I wouldn't be surprised if the Gemera ended up as the all-time DougScore champion when he gets his hands on one. I'm surprised the Nevera didn't quite dethrone the F1 or Speedtail.

They didn’t bribe him enough ;) :) sick of “influencers”

@@wc6046 Gemera is a supercar with saloon practically essentially. I have no doubts it'll be the highest score once it's in production

#pininfarina battista is the best. Please do a review of the best hypercar ever made

A lot of electric cars are also terribly over-styled. They hit the nail on the head with this thing

Because Supercar target audience need to show off. If Lamborghinis are not designed like crazy land jets they'll not sell as much to all the youtuber celebs and NBA players

There's also the NIO Ep9

@@wristoww especially european electric cars. all of them have massive fake grilles and vents that look bad from every angle. looking at you audi and BMW.

The rear end of this looks bad

As he should. Fast car go wheeeeeeeeeee

Prove it 🤫

He gains more weight, he not gonna go as fast. Maybe ask the owner to take out the passenger seat.

Allegedly

Most laws are useless and only about control and keeping dumb people safe because they can't depend on common sense to do it.

Dobro receno

Front end is awkwardly long, but overall much easier to look at than most hypercars these days.

You wouldn’t say?

pininfarina battista twin is better

@@Riles07 because pininfarina is responsible for "generic" supercar styling. They made this trend. Not vice versa

He crashed c1. C1 is not that good like nevera

@@thefox2902 agree, nevera is even more powerful

I don’t remember ever seeing a Rimac on Top Gear. Are you sure?

@@driftmeister2244 It was on the first episode of the second season of The Grand Tour. So GT rather than TG.

@@IanHobday top gear too. You can search rimac on their channel.

What? You don't like hypercars having fins to their fins?

+mazda9624 Agreed, this Design will still look good in 10 or more Years. Also i'm happy to see Rimac & Bugatti & Porsche now work together under the VAG Umbrella and of course also will share Knowledge with another! Prost & Cheers from the Bavarian Alps

Doug has no taste. look at how he dress...

I had the opportunity to see this in real life, parked beside a Koenigsegg Regera. I have to say, I used to dislike the Rimac but when I personally saw it I LOVED IT! But the Regera looks better (personal opinion):

@@psbono764 I got to see the Rimac Nevera and those before here in the Alps and since i attend Sportscar Meetups & Tours through the Alps myself and what you said is so true. That's the case with a lot of Cars in my experience, this is why i never judge a Car from Pictures alone because in Person they often look much better and a bit different than they do on Pictures

Yes, also, comparing it to the Chiron, I feel like the Chirons design is even tamer, more stately. You just think it's crazy, because of what it is.

Perfect design??? Did you see the stupid placement of the cupholders?

@@tomjanowski8584 Yea but I also drove a manual 1996 F-body for years and the cup holder was right behind the manual shifter. Doesn’t get much worse than that.

@@I-Teee if the driver is right handed, there's no easy way to put a cup in the cupholder

is it just me who dont like bright colors. I hate cars in like red paint. I only like mono tone colors and blue.

What will truly help in heavy traffic would be keeping your distance from the car ahead of you.

I have thought the same thing for years. The harder you step on the brakes, the brighter your brake lights should be. It really wouldnt be that hard to do

@@janbracic2674 many modern cars have a feature where under heavy braking, the brake lights will rapidly flash.

I get a warning message in my cheap skoda to keep distance when I get too close too fast behind another car. There is also front collision detection and it will apply the brakes for me in extreme situations. Other modern cars have adaptive cruise control which uses the same radar technology to maintain distance automatically. Not sure how an indication light beats any of these existing solutions.

It looks kind of crazy I am sure you would still get attention.

Yeah, I think it looks great. It looks exotic and "wild" but it isn't childish, where it begins to look like a transformer, or something purposely trying to show off and look fast.

If you don't want a lot of attention, don't buy a $2.5 million all electric supercar.

@@Chris_Wolfgram Electric hypercars aren't nearly as noticeable as loud ICE Hypercars.

#pininfarina battista is the best. Please do a review of the best hypercar ever made

Don't forget the GMC Hummer EV. I hope he reviews the Ferrari Monza, as well.

Can't wait to see his reaction on the GMC Hummer EV on Thursday!

I'm witholding my reservation deposit payment until I am offered negative zero to sixty.

I wish he had done an acceleration from a dead stop, too.

his eyes.mind blow and that futuristic sound of speed

insane

The same can be said of unpainted surfaces or other weight/cost savings, but hey we all have some bias, can't hate too much on it

I think the cheaper the car, the more user-friendly it should be, hence why he didn't complain here. How many people are going to complain about Rimac's this feature?

it's an issue on a mass production vehicle because it has to be reliable and easy to use for millions of people, on a hyper-car that maybe a 100 people will own and drive it once per year it's not a problem

@@caeditus everything can and can not be a issue for Doug. He is not really objective at this point anymore and his reviews dont really have quality to them anymore. He just talks his talks about the cars and if he likes a car everything is great and if he doesnt then nothing is a good thing

it usually is, i was surprised as an acid watcher of his videos to see that he liked that. i think its just that he got it from rimac and he doesn’t want to shit on their design when theyre giving him the car to review and its preproduction so not all the kinks are worked out yet and he can do a full review and drive it.

Yeah, it's hard to explain to non-slavic speakers

Yes, here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YmyQiwAPC5Y.html

Fast transsexual?

I think they said that they're fine with foreigners pronouncing Rimac with a c, just because it's easier. Just like how Mazda is pronounced Matsuda in Japan but nobody outside of Japan bothers.

There is "timeless" design, and then there is "simple/generic/restrained" design. It is understandable how an artist can easily end up creating something that is merely generic/uninspired when trying to create something "timeless" because timeless design is probably the most difficult and advanced forms of design that exists. To make something successfully timeless you not only need to thoroughly understand modern tastes and understand the tastes + styles from *many* different time periods, but also understand *why* and *how* those preferences morphed over time. All of that must be understood in order to be able to predict how your creation will be seen for decades to come. I think Rimac's designers believed that it couldn't have too unique of a design without dating it, but that's wrong. They've ironically made it look *completely* dated by making a design restrained to the norms of this time period. Every angle that I saw of this car had at least one aspect of it that was almost identical to another car currently in production. I know that they get a lot of hate for the fact that their badges are as much status symbols as anything else, but Bugatti and Rolls Royce are the two companies that come to my mind when I think of companies that have successfully pulled off timeless designs in the past and in the present. The standard Chiron is a *perfect* example of how you can still make something look daring, unique, and bold while also ensuring that it will look that way decades from now whenever people see one for the first time. I think they ended up creating something that looks good today, and will look good for a few years, but that won't stand out 50 years from now because it doesn't really stand out even now, whereas nothing about the Chiron looks like anything else to day, and likely won't look like anything 50 years from now either. Also, I'm not sure where screen technology will go next, but considering the fact that the entire car is controlled via screens, I don't see how this design will be "timeless" in a couple decades unless they plan on creating new screens with updated tech that fit into this car's current interior and "recalling" all of these cars periodically over the next few decades to replace the older screens with newly updated ones. I guess that could be done, but it would cost them an insane amount of effort, time, and money to actually carry out such an ambitious plan. Btw, it's good to know about the whole pronunciation thing, but the name is written in English letters, so I suspect they are fine with people just pronouncing the 'c' like a 'k', because otherwise they would've used your language's letters/symbols to make it clear if they'd wanted it to be pronounced the native way.

I KNOW IM FREAKING OUT WHEN I SAW THAT

It ain't even street legal

Dougcember always delivers. I'm stoked to see the bombs he's about to give us.

It's cool that there are these little teasers of what reviews are coming soon, can't wait for this one!

Exactly, your the only person I’ve seen mention that somehow

Definitely. This is Ferrari F40, Ford GT type design. Timeless, sleek, and beautiful. It will never look dated. Absolutely perfect and one of the most beautiful cars I’ve ever seen.

It looks very generic and forgettable in my opinion. Especially when we compare it to cars like the Bugatti Chiron, Aston Martin One-77, Maserati MC20, Ferrari LaFerrari and many more...

Personally I sort of like the styling of.... say, a Gumpert Apollo, or Porsche 918 Spyder, Ford GT40, or some example of subdued curves and hard lines that are more subtle and less loud and wild. Performance by what it does rather than what it implies by styling.

I agree. Tho, I'd like even more conservative, more subtle lines.

Think about it, the looks is the only subjective score Doug gives in the weekend category. If he gave it a 10 (which i think deserves) it would have been the perfect weekend score and would have been the best overall score that Doug ever gave. I simply believe that didn't think that the car merits such a recognition, which I think it's unfair.

TBH, yes

#pininfarina battista is the best. Please do a review of the best hypercar ever made

@@blessen9238 its the same car jsut with better styling

Yeah...

He was too small for that car sadly

🤣😂😭😂🤣

How many Rimacs did they make? 7 How many are left? 6 What happened to the other one? SHUT UP

Richard Hammond and Rimac are living in your head rent free brestie

You should check out the Rimac Yt channel, they are super open about everything and show all

@@techtt6213 absolutely will do, thanks

Looks totally generic to me, doesn't stand out at all.

Pontiac eFirebird

@@cenciende9401 I agree. It's the most forgettable design I've ever seen.

The Tesla Model S Plaid is much better looking. And it only costs $130,000 compared to this $2.5 Million Croatian ripoff which hasn't sold anything yet. Since the Tesla is just a tad bit slower than this over-hyped Atomic looking insect, it's a far better value. Save your $$.

#pininfarina battista is the best. Please do a review of the best hypercar ever made

A bit hyperbolic but not far from true. Most cars in America do 60 under 8.5. 5-7 seconds is most cars. 8.5 to 60 would of been pretty standard around 2000 maybe.

really needs to change up the scale... not fair to have the same score as a Mclaren P1 when they differ ALOT in power and acceleration.

@@Sheridantank 5-7 is quick even by today’s standards. I think car enthusiasts like us can be pretty skewed by the sheer number of “quick” “everyday” vehicles that are available now, but realistically the majority of consumers are not buying them. Look at the most popular vehicles sold today. The majority of small crossovers do 0-60 in 8-9 seconds unless they have turbos. All popular midsize sedans are 7-8 seconds in base engine form. And all 3 row v6 crossovers are also around 7.5-8.5 seconds. There are of course exceptions to each of these, for instance luxury vehicles of every category all typically come standard with pretty powerful engines in base form, but most people do not buy luxury vehicles. Very few non-luxury vehicles with the “base” engine do 0-60 under 7 seconds. So 8.5 seconds is really not an exaggeration.

@@jakes5530 well said

Exactly, slower cars also got a 10 so it doesn’t actually make sense

Model 3 performance also has drift mode, for a bit less money.

Richard hammond had a lot of fun with it it seems.

@@JackMott like a lot of new cars...

I'm not sure I'd call this restrained

amazing speed and sound .like enterprise

but can it fly?

Me too!

Tbh it sounds like 50 year old trams in Croatia, not that I mind

That’s because it is a space ship lol.

It sounds like a go kart... 2.5 million dollar go kart. Sounds nothing like a bugatti, pagani, etc.

@@Martin-bf8qs doubt that was what they were going for

@@Martin-bf8qs yeah no shit? Those cars aren’t exactly electric. This is an electric car and they aren’t trying to mimic that sound.

#pininfarina battista is the best. Please do a review of the best hypercar ever made

I live in Minnesota in the US. I have relatives with property in Croatia I’ve visited. I love Croatia - can’t wait to go back ✌🏻

@@two3D great to hear you’re loving it

❤️🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷❤️

Luka modric is the best croatian ever. Love croatian people !

I just imagine how you must feel about Mate and his successful company. You know, I'm from Serbia, and long ago, Croatia was part of the country in which I was born. Of course, much changed since then. But that doesn't prevent me from being glad that something as extraordinary as Nevera comes from your country.

I also so miss it

Nice that he reviewed it. It would be a shame if he didn't. It's not just an accomplishment for our country, but sth for the whole world

Cost of aerodynamics? More aerodynamic drag when braking is good! Free braking!

Good for stopping at the top of a hill where

acts as an airbrake

@@JackMott totally! 👍

This has been used by Bugatti on the Veyron like... 200 years ago already? It's called Aero brake. Porsche Panamera Turbo ST has it. Nothing crazy about it. Keep calm and carry on 😉

If you like it so much, why don't you buy it Adam? Then you'll realize how boring this EV really is upon ownership.

@@peterkater4292 Yeah, I'm sure you know exactly how boring it is because you've actually driven it before. Your idiotic comment is neither necessary nor wanted. Go annoy someone else.

@@rars0n I wasn't aiming at annoying you Adam. Sorry if I did. I just wanted to say that an EV, especially a Supercar EV is boring. It might be very fast, but is utterly soulless. Let's see in 10 years from now, what the actual "importance" of this car really has come to be towards the Automotive world. I wasn't trying to hurt you, but seeing (mostly millennials) all these people in admiration for something they'll never buy, but all in one voice praising the EVs as "a whole" makes me wonder where the future of cars is really heading..

@@peterkater4292 "all these people in admiration for something they'll never buy, but all in one voice praising the EVs as 'a whole'" What does liking THIS ONE car have to do with EVs as a whole? Who cares if I'll never buy it? One of my favorite cars ever is the 288 GTO. Am I not allowed to like that car because I don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on a car? I started drag racing my daily driver back in 2000. I love gasoline engines. The most you're going to do to an EV to make it faster at the track is to put in a better suspension and bigger motors. That's pretty boring to me. I don't even care if my car is slower, I did the wrenching, the tuning, and the driving. I made it drop 4 seconds in the quarter mile, trap 120 mph, and do 0-60 in 3.4 seconds. I made it fast, it didn't come that way. And yet sometimes it's a pain in the butt daily driving the car that you're constantly working on. Sometimes it's nice to just have cheap transportation from point A to B. I will always prefer having a clutch pedal and stick shift, even in stop-and-go traffic (automatics are far more annoying to me), but you're an idiot if you can't see any upsides to owning an EV. The fact of the matter is that the best cars of the past are exactly that now, in the past. We can still drive them and fix them and keep them nice and enjoy them, but automakers aren't making them anymore because it's just not what people are buying in large quantities. I don't even like the idea of owning a brand new car anymore because of all the nanny bullshit that now comes on every car. But the average driver is an idiot who doesn't care about anything but getting from point A to point B, so the specialty cars are going to continue to get rarer. Just because it has an EV powertrain doesn't mean it has no "soul." It's even more dumb to say that without ever having driven the car yourself.

@@rars0n Now we're communicating Adam, and I truly value your detailed answer! I totally reckon I might be halfway to an "idiot" (as you kindly put it) as the only advantage I'd assume EVs have over ICEs is the lower running cost. I'm glad you like the 288 GTO (one of the first true Supercars). My dream car would perhaps be a Carrera GT. You liking the 288 GTO and me the Carrera GT doesn't mean we'll see the world shifting over to super GTs or even Supercars, but people massively admiring a "Supercar EV" might actually help open the door to a global market presence for EVs. That's what I dislike. I kind of dread that the EVs will once replace cars as we know them today. Just because people do not want to drive anymore or do not enjoy driving anymore. OEMs encouraging them to be completely passive behind the wheel, with all sorts of electronic bullshit... I definitely am in favor of a cohabitation of ICE and EVs. But I don't really think it is really possible. On the other hand, EVs are maybe the less eco-friendly creatures I know of. Batteries made with cobalt, nickel, lithium... The main power sources for EVs being electrical energy produced by nuclear and coal plants... I guess any drag racing car is just 10 times more environmentally friendly. But as the logic has it, what matters is what comes out of the exhaust pipes, not the energy feeding process that comes beforehand. Anyways, I truly hope we'll enjoy our ICE cars as much as we can before the world tips over into full EV dictatorship.

Opet te tamo banalo? 😂

Well I mean, it is really cool.

Top cars TV?

it's actually (i think) the name of a well known croatian storm

Tired of all these tiny cars. Where's the 2 second minivan? I want to take my whole family on a roller-coaster ride.

Fun fact:Rimac cant sold 150 vehicles in 5 years.You still can order one.🤣

Some US bros probably never heard of Croatia before lol.

@@bubbazanetti4522 even though he invested a lot in development of this car it's not Rimacs goal to only sell cars but technology. So whatever number it is its actually irrelevant for the value of the company. Pinifarina is Nevera in a diff shell

@@bubbazanetti4522 fun fact: you don't have a clue what Rimac actually does and what that company's focus is...

Actually Bosnian since Rimac is Bosnian and born in Bosnia.

Lol.... nevera...fford it.

Nevera is a dalmatian region of Croatia word which means "the storm".

@@unwokeneuropean3590 also comes from the word “unbelievable” in Croatia because the Storms are so bad they are unbelievable.

@@vrcmf3172 Partially true. Croatian born guy here...Slavic word for unbelievable (in croatian) is NEVJEROVATNO...The storm is extremely powerfull,it comes VERY suddenly and it often becomes unbearable due to coldness that it brings. ANYAWAY,to be true here's the ADRIATIC SEA nautical definition for those reading this::: :::Quote: The Nevera is a thermal storm system that comes in at great speed from the open sea (west). It lasts a brief time but is very powerful. It is most often in summer, mostly on the northern Adriatic, and is accompanied by lightning. Signs it is coming is the development of white cumulus cloud and increasing height and darkness of high clouds, whose peak begins to spread into stripes. There is usually a calm before this storm. In general, it appears after many days of high humidity, warm nights and an unclear horizon.

@@Clueless2daWorld Yes… I’m Croatian. Born and Semi raised. The word was used for storms like Bura

Cooler sounding than the regular purr of gas engines IMO

We're basically limited to 2s 0-60 time for a wheel-driven car on street tires and away from a prepped (drag) surface. So while some of these cars are faster than a P1 they aren't likely to get much faster going forward.

@@IanHobday While I'm in agreement, I guess there is also the factor of "fast" speeds when measuring 60-130 (or roll speeds, in general), too.

@@IanHobday true. But I think he could factor in quarter mile times aswell in the future.

So true you know you gotta change up your acceleration metric when you have a family sedan doing 60 in 2

@@IanHobday not necessarily...lots of tuned cars are much faster on street so there's some room for improvement. And tire manufacturers are also starting to introduce airless tires.

ok google guy

@Google Guy I know this is slightly off topic, but do you know a lot about horse racing? Can you teach me how to get into it?

Rimac

Totally agree. It's just getting absurd...

Making different scores based on car classes would take a lot more work, as well as open up debate as to which class certain vehicles would go in. If the score does mean anything to you, just pick similar types of cars from the DougScore spreadsheet and compare them, like he does at the end of every video.

U gotta be joking 🤣🤣🤣

Said no one ever

Faster than a V8 will ever be

@@robertjebediahfreeman Jeez, what sort of cars have you been around?

@@robertjebediahfreeman we talkn bout sound … 🤔

this design is no where need Ferrari in terms of...well anything. The design is simply boring, it looks like a generic baby of a Koenigsegg and a Mclaren...its just not daring and doesnt have any true design features that helps build a design language for the brand. Ferraris are beautiful and muscle bound with their lines, this car is just a car.

Think about it, the looks is the only subjective score Doug gives in the weekend category. If he gave it a 10 (which i think deserves) it would have been the perfect weekend score and would have been the best overall score that Doug ever gave. I simply believe that didn't think that the car merits such a recognition, which I think it's unfair.

Dustin Green=bot by rimac

@@SchlaftaterNrzZz Haha lol could you imagine?

@@oldben1800, every part of this car has its exact purpose, and some parts are even inspired by Croatian history, you can't rely on Doug explaining this to you cause he knows nothing about it all and hasn't invested any time or effort to get to know it, but the creator of the car explains it in details in some videos. Once again, every part of this car and every shape has its exact purpose, unlike the cars you mentioned, they also have a lot of purposeful car parts but a lot of it was sacrificed for the design, in the case of this car everything that needed to be sacrificed for the performance was sacrificed.

I'm more confused by the casual mclaren F1 car behind just sitting there in the show room

@@h0lycrap isnt that a p1?

Spyros Panopoulos wants to invite Strad or TJ Hunt to Athens, to drive the 1750hp Zion hydrogen car

Do you know that battista uses Rimac built powertrain?

@@boltedxd no no there's a genuine McLaren F1 car you can only see the nose and front wing but the papaya and cyan are quite distingusble check 21:50 it's the best shot I've found

They just clocked 412km/h in one.

What others…C8 Corvette? The rest is generic AF.