Electric Never Land
THE FIRST THING YOU want to know about the Rimac Nevera is how it feels to launch-control an electric hypercar with twice the power of a modern Formula 1 car. I wondered that too and casually decimating the Bugatti Chiron’s world production-car standing-quarter record was very nearly the first thing I did in a Nevera. I was given mine on the runway of a quiet provincial Croat airport, its nose already pointing down the strip towards the cones that marked the end of the quarter-mile. Mate Rimac was there and quite happy for me to knock out a new world record with my first push of the throttle, so confident was he of the ease and safety with which his car will do it.
That might have made for a better tale, but given that there were still damp patches on the concrete and the wide painted lines from the morning’s rain, I thought I would recce the track and the car first. You might
