Chris Harris On… The Rimac Nevera | Top Gear

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The Rimac Nevera has outrageous speed and makes you feel sick on a full-bore launch. It has 1900 horsepower and it's a shock to drive. On a Yorkshire Moorland road, with only 70% performance because the road was damp, it still felt faster than all previous super and hypercars driven on the road. There are different drive modes. It slides like a conventional car in drift mode. With equal torque to all four wheels, one has the opportunity to wreck four tires with equal torque in super drift mode, but no noise.

The lack of noise and a full four-wheel drift were challenges for editors who must find musical portfolios that work well with that. One shot of the film is its greatest-ever drift shot. There are a lot of modes including drift mode. The electric supercars present an existential threat, but the world still wants to judge cars by how fast they are, headline figures will always be compelling.

The Nevera doesn't have much personality. It's so fast that you can't get over the numbers. There is an ongoing question of how people will show off at low speeds in hypercars because speed isn't always an option in built-up areas. The cars need context. To demonstrate what the hypercars can do the car needs to be put up against a very fast car like a 700-horsepower Lamborghini to show what physics can do.

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