1.2 GIGAWATTS!
“The software guys,” Miro says with a smile, “aren’t human.”
The Croatians, you quickly learn, are a nation of plain speakers. Even about their own co-workers. Miro Zrnčević is Rimac’s chief test driver, a big, bluff guy who loves cars and has one of the key tasks on the company’s long-awaited Nevera: locating the soul of a machine whose colossal abilities are corralled by a frenzy of ones and zeroes, like the opening credits of The Matrix.
This has sent him on a journey of discovery in parallel with the software guys. “It’s very strange,” he continues, “because during development I would drive the car and give them feedback. They would stare at the data on their laptops and say, ‘Is this better?’ And it would be, despite the fact that they’ve never even driven the car.”
Better here takes on a wholly different meaning. Better here means ballistic. Or brain scrambling. Welcome to hypercar v2.0, a world where everything you know about very (very) fast cars is about to change forever. Sure, software has long played a role in setting parameters but never as profoundly as this. The Nevera’s top-line numbers game is seriously strong. Only 150 will be made, costing L1.7m each (plus local taxes). Top speed is 258mph, but Miro admits that despite a notably rigorous test programme they
