How fast does your car hit 60 mph? If it’s more of a family car like an old Toyota Prius or a Corolla Cross, you’ll be lucky to get the job done in under 9 seconds. Well, somehow, the mad engineers at Rimac made a car that hits warp speed in no time flat. The 2025 Rimac Nevera R is so ridiculous it has 2,107 and a 0 mph to 186 mph time of just 8.66. You read that right.
The modern hypercar is simply something ridiculous. These vehicles cover more ground so much faster than other vehicles that they’re mind-boggling. I remember when I thought the Bugatti Veyron was hot, but Bugatti needs to move over because there’s a cooler spec monster in town.
Let me run you through what you’re looking at here. The Croatian-built 2025 Rimac Nevera R makes 2,107 all-electric horsepower punched out through quad motors, races to 60 mph in 1.74 seconds, and you’ll be hitting 186 mph before the stopwatch even hits 9 seconds. A quarter-mile? Not even Dom Toretto will keep up with you as you bend time and space across the line at 8.23 seconds.
Mate Rimac, the founder of Rimac, says this is the only car on the planet that’s capable of accelerating faster than it can stop. That’s saying something considering the Nevera R has, quote: “New EVO2 brakes are carbon ceramic with a silicone matrix layer to ensure improved stopping performance, cooling performance and durability during hard usage.”
All of this is a bit nutty considering the original Nevera already wasn’t a slouch. Launched in 2022 after years of development, the Nevera packed 1,813 HP and hit 60 mph in 1.74 seconds before pummeling the quarter in 8.25 seconds. Rimac claimed the Nevera broke 23 acceleration and braking records in one day.
Plus it hit 258 mph and destroyed the production EV record at the Nürburgring. Oh, and don’t forget the Nevera set a record for going 171.3 mph in reverse, too! So you’re just getting more of that madness. Really, the Nevera R isn’t much faster in most metrics, but it hits 186 mph 0.57 seconds faster than the regular Nevera, and that’s just too funny.
Rimac lists out some other improvements:
The large fixed rear wing, combined with an aggressive aero package that includes a new large diffuser, boosts downforce by 15% and aerodynamic efficiency by 10%. With new Michelin Cup 2 tires, total understeer is reduced by 10%, lateral grip is up by 5% and the lap time around the Nardo Handling Track is reduced by 3.8 seconds. Through this combination of negative camber, the higher grip level of the new tires and the added downforce the Nevera R is ready to bend physics like never before. Every element, crafted through a performance-driven design philosophy, has been rethought for agility and handling.
The Nevera R brings enhanced performance with an even greater focus on driver feedback. It offers sharper, tighter cornering thanks to the new generation All-Wheel Torque Vectoring (R-AWTV) system, which has been re-tuned to maximize the potential of the high-performance tires. Increased downforce provides greater stability and lateral performance, setting a new benchmark for driving excitement on twisty B roads and occasional track use. The traction control system has been revised to expand the capabilities of the R-AWTV, ensuring predictability even in wet conditions. Drift mode has been adjusted to accommodate the new tires, and the steering system has been refined for sharper response and crisper feedback to the driver.
Rimac further says the Nevera R has the biggest and stiffest carbon structure of any car in history, and I can’t think of a vehicle that beats it. Despite similar appearances, Rimac also notes that roughly 30 percent of the Nevera’s parts are making over to this flashy R-version.
Rimac says that the original Nevera was built to be a grand tourer with all of the space and comfort that encompasses. The Nevera is supposed to be the kind of hypercar that you lay down hot laps in at the track, then hit the blacktop on a road trip countries-long. It’s a practical hypercar, if you will. The Nevera R focuses a little bit harder on the go-fast part of the equation. For a fun fact about the car we’re looking at here, which is at Monterey Car Week, its paint is inspired by a BMW E30 M3 Mate Rimac owned.
As for battery and range? Well, you get a new 108 kWh nickel-manganese-cobalt battery whereas a regular Nevera owner gets a nickel-cobalt-aluminum battery. The change in chemistry is said to allow the car to sustain its performance in track conditions. Rimac has no confirmed numbers for how far it’ll go but expects one of these to hit 250 miles on the European WLTP test cycle. The charging sounds future-proof, too. It’ll charge at 500 kW, which is better than you’ll find at most chargers in America.
The 2025 Rimac Nevera R goes on sale next year and just 40 of them will be made at $2.5 million a pop, a bit more than the $2 million commanded for one of the 150 standard Neveras. Rimac says this new car has more color and trim options, or you could just tell the company to do whatever you want. I hope someone picks hot pink for the Nevera R. Obviously, it’s unlikely you’ll see one of these on the street. But if you do, now you know this car can come close to touching 200 mph in the time it takes your hooptie to flirt with 60 mph.
(Images: Rimac)
Any car can accelerate faster than it can brake if the brakes are busted enough ????????
“this is the only car on the planet that’s capable of accelerating faster than it can stop”
That is a weird claim. I think it’s a brag about it’s acceleration but I can’t help but read it as an admission that it doesn’t brake as fast as it could. If there is enough tire grip to accelerate it at a certain rate then they can clearly make the brakes better to match that on the negative acceleration side. Leaving something on the table I guess, which his just weird for a supercar.
This is the perfect example of “Just because you CAN doesn’t mean that you SHOULD” in car form.
It’s called Nevera because we’ll never-a be able to buy one.
Meh. EV does EV things like accelerate ridiculously fast. News at 11.
Keep Hamster from Top Gear/Grand tour away from this one
I don’t want to be a nit picker here (I do), but the first car with the ability to accelerate faster than brake was bestowed upon the Tesla Model S Plaid a few years ago. Nice try, Croatia.
But if it had the Jatco Xtronic CVT…
Ah, who am I kidding? What could the Jatco CVT do for a 0-186mph time of less than 9 seconds? They’ve beat me…
Ludicrous speed? Pffth. Gone Plaid? Ha! We’ve blown your doors off going Argyle! Can’t they apply their talent to a viable E Turbofan engine private jet? That might be beneficial to society.
This will be a lot of fun in Forza horizon if EVs are still absurdly broken. The regular Nevera does like 300mph if you “take the limiter off” because that’s how that works
They Taycan is similarly broken it does like 250 once you upgrade it
As a child, I loved these kinds of cars. As I get older, I’m losing interest in gorgeous Supercars/Hypercars and other museum pieces that effectively won’t be driven and/or are owned by complete asshats.
So, interesting car, but meh…
No one cares about other people’s dreams, but if there was ever a place to share this one, it’s here:
Last night, I had a dream I was picking up the boss’s car type deal. It was vaguely mostly a yellow C5 Corvette, and I was driving at 40 in city traffic, and thought I’d blip the throttle for a fun overtake. That blip sent me up to 90 and broke the rear tires loose that I remember thinking the safest option was to keep dragging on the jersey barriers, because to try to control the car would hurt or kill someone.
It’s weird to wake up and see the nightmare car is pretty much real.
How many cupholders?
Never mind the acceleration. How many seconds between the owner taking possession and totaling it?
They can’t even sell the regular one. I don’t see this being that popular.
Yes. Well, most of them, anyway.
When I was a kid, I used to skim the articles about boring sedans or minivans or proto-SUVs without interest in case I could help someone who was shopping those ordinary vehicles. Now I find myself skimming these super-mega-happytime hypercars with the same level of disinterest except nobody I know is buying them. I guess it’s tough to break habits, but the real sick thing is that I’d rather cruise along in one of those Caprice Classics. I don’t know why I find these so boring (not just EVs, either), but I really don’t think I’d be interested in this thing at 1% of the price. Maybe it goes back to the people checking out the Aztec in the sea of me-too supercars and I’d be one of them (while passing by the video game cars without a glance on my way to the old stuff).
I understand your feelings because I share them. I think, at least for me, it is because I know there is NO WAY, I will EVER own one, much less even see one. That takes the fantasy out, doesn’t it? I can read an article about a C8, shit, even a ZR1, and tell myself that it might could happen. Maybe after the magic of depreciation and a salvage title, and a little luck, I might score one. Nevera? Not so much.
None of those cars interest me, either. I like plenty of cars I would never be rich enough to own or have the conscience to spend so much money on if I were, I just find these things to be pointless and uninteresting. They’re about disconnected performance that can’t be used on the street even if I had the driving skills (which I don’t and never could as it’s not like there’s any practical way to even get familiar with the upper end of the performance envelope of something with 1000 hp), filled with electronic crap I just find annoying, and “yup, that’s pretty much what I expected to see” looks that can barely elicit a shrug from me. I used to love exotic cars—I still do—but the old ones and it’s not just me getting old as it’s something I’ve been feeling since my early 20s when exotics started getting uglier, blander, “required” driving aids to be manageable, and largely became automatics. The things I find repellent are only increasing at an alarmingly rapid rate. I’m not some luddite lamenting the loss of carburetors and railing against tech, I’m against bad tech and that’s all we seem to be getting—complexity for the sake of it, terrible ergonomics and elimination of reliable mechanical features for more fallible electronic ones for less real safety, but adding increasingly obnoxious theater safety, and forced obsolescence that’s bad for the wallet and the environment. I’ll gladly take an EV, but make it so the batteries are upgradable in the future, something that’s good to drive that I’d actually want to keep for the future, ditch the touchscreens, LCD gauges, sissy nanny trash, fake “character”, give it actual switches that are mechanical and not some bullshit that has to go through the ECU and take 5 minutes to maybe comply with my request, and some comfortable damn seats and reasonably sized center console while I’m at it. Give me that and I’ll even happily take it in bland-ass white with those shitty machine-face black Pep Boys wheels that seem to refuse to go out of fashion with the OEMs.
I understand some of your concerns about modern hyper cars and exotics. I do also have to say that I’m glad that there are some wild eyed speed freaks out there that are just trying to make the most extreme performance vehicles that they possibly can, cost no object. Obviously these guys have been around since the dawn of the car and I’m rooting for them. Even though i may never be able to afford any of the cutting edge of what they come up with. A lot of the things that have been developed on hyper cars have trickled down to everyday vehicles and we have benefited from them eventually. The Porsche 959 is a great example.
Going back to your analog laments, I understand. Probably some of the most fun I’ve had in a car were in a 2nd gen CRX Si, which barely cracked 100 hp. It was all in the feel and the fun.
So what you’re really saying is, maybe a Corvette, but never a Nevera?
Nevera? Never-a.
That is enough G force to probably knock someone down.
It is really nice to see something this fast, but it will be strangely quiet around. Need to get used to this.
Can you dig it?
I can dig it!!
That spec sheet looks like somebody is exploiting hacks in Gran Turismo
Absolutely mind-boggling numbers.
0 to 300kph to 0 in 15.68s
So a former Soviet satellite best known in recent history for a nasty civil war and the punchline worthy Yugo can successfully get it together to produce multiple lines of low volume electric hyper cars that put even other hyper cars to shame.
Remind me, how is building electric cars hard? GM, you wanna take this one? How about you Ford?
That’s how they do it.
That may be how they do it, that doesn’t mean its hard.
GM already proved it’s hard with multiple fires and no performance. Ford is trying their hand but with weak results.
Accomplishing greatness requires risk and innovation, those are words that don’t belong with American auto makers due to their history of going broke and trying to impress stockholders.
Their future success is dependent on lobbying to suppress competition and adding subscriptions, they didn’t need to compete or innovate to meet their goals.
Based on depreciation trends from other start-up EV brands, I’ll expect to be able to pick one up for about $50K in a couple years.
With a range of 47 feet.
Nissan did not make this one, so likely to be over 200 feet
Downhill.
With the wind behind them.
All I need is enough to get up and down the dragstrip a couple times.
rilmac owns Bugatti…it’s not a startup anymore. and no you won’t be able to pick one even if you sell your house
fisker did crash and burn but peoblem wasn’t the car, but the guy who ran the company