CIRCUIT THEORY
It feels as if we are witnessing a death. A bloody revolution where everything that we thought we knew is torn down and remade, familiar dynasties deposed in favour of a new ruling class. Top Trumps will never be the same again. Brake horsepower figures will become largely irrelevant telephone numbers, acceleration times so extreme that we’ll be dealing with fractions whittled from universally sub-two second zero to 62mph times. Bragging rights have just been pressganged. Welcome to the rise of the electric hypercars.
Slightly bizarrely, the initial blows are apparently being struck from a small village just outside Zagreb in Croatia, and we are here to bear witness. A first taste of this burgeoning new sector that will unironically burn the paper stats of internally combusted supercars to ash. It is here that I am to drive one of the prototypes for Rimac’s C_Two EV hyper-GT. With 1,887bhp and 1,696lb ft of torque, a 0–62mph time under two seconds, a 258mph top speed, a £1.7 million pricetag and a planned production run
