What’s that old saying? When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and go off-roading.
The Rimac Nevera which made its stormy debut just a few months ago, is in its final stages of development, which also involves ramming it into the wall multiple times. In other words, the €2 million car is required to be crash-tested in order to get homologated/approved for road use in various global markets. The Nevera finished its European homologation crash testing when it was still known as C-Two. And now though, it’s time for U.S. homologation.
The difference, of course, is for the European homologation, Rimac used homologation prototypes, but for the U.S. homologation process, a 95% finished pre-series Nevera is gonna be used. To be more specific, the exact car that was used for customer presentation and media test drives is gonna be rammed into a wall in a couple of weeks from now. Its current deep violet-ish paint will be stripped for a specific pale blue-ish paint for crash testing. The Nevera will be subjected to an offset barrier crash test and a 30-degree frontal crash test.
And so, Bugatti Rimac CEO Mate Rimac decided that he might as well do something that most Neveras will probably never do—take it for off-roading. “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So when you’re already going to crash it, we thought, why not do something with the car that we probably never do and most of the customers will probably never do, and have some fun with the car before it goes into a wall,” he said. Mate then drives off to the company’s €200M under-construction state-of-the-art global HQ site.
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