Fifteen years after founding the automobile firm that bears his identify, Mate Rimac has designed his personal Nevera supercar. He admits he may not have been his firm’s best buyer, however the last creation is beautiful.
He determined to indicate off the automobile’s carbon fiber physique in all its glory, as one would hope. The automobile’s bespoke end has fibers that stream in a really particular path, persevering with throughout neighboring panels to create an unbroken stream of carbon. Nevertheless, the physique is not fully devoid of colour—Mate tinted the automobile with crimson with naked carbon fiber accents. He even requested the bespoke badging function crimson anodization.
Mate’s Nevera has hand-painted Croatian flags on the aspect mirrors. It additionally has a hidden lightning motif underneath the rear spoiler that represents the sudden, turbulent Mediterranean thunderstorms that helped give the Nevera its identify.
Mate chosen asymmetrical trim inside—black on one aspect and crimson on the opposite. He crammed the cabin with customized, hand-stitched motifs which can be seen on the armrests, headrests, and knee pads. One is of Solinjanka, the lady from Solin, based mostly on a sculpture in Zagreb’s Archeological Museum.
“It’s form of a loopy expertise to be a buyer of your personal firm,” Mate says. “And I in all probability wasn’t the best buyer both. Similar to with all our prospects—there was a technique of co-creation; sharing concepts, evolving them, after which lastly perfecting them till you have got a Nevera that stands alone and speaks to you personally. The consequence not solely appears to be like nice but it surely tells an necessary story for me.”
Powering the Rimac are 4 bespoke permanent-magnet, oil-cooled electrical motors—one for every wheel. The full output is 1,914 horsepower and 1,740 pound-feet of torque, which may propel the EV to 60 miles per hour in 1.75 seconds. The Nevera’s high pace is 258 mph driving ahead and 171.34 mph in reverse.