Rimac Concept One

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mrclav

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1,281 posts

222 months

Sunday 4th March 2012
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Interesting car from Croatia, all-electric with some pretty impressive figures (The guy who designed it, Mate Rimac, is only 23!). It apparently was the star of the Frankfurt Motor show last autumn, I'm not sure why no-one has reported this on here already - unless, of course, I'm very late... And personally, I think it looks lovely!

Raw provisional figures:

Four electric motors spinning at up to 12,000rpm

Max Power: 1088hp

Max Torque: 3800Nm (approx 2800lb/ft)

Battery capacity: 92kWh

Top Speed: 305kph (approx 182mph)

Range: 366 miles approx.

0-60: 2.8sec





It features something called All Wheel Vectoring and naturally comes with a carbon-fibre body, LED lighting etc. The price is said to be around £650,000 (hey, who said cutting edge was cheap!?) and they are apparently only making 88 of them. Somehow, I have a feeling that this guy might actually pull it off - the cars design was done by ex-Pininfarina blokes and he's got a truckload of investment cash behind him. His initial effort was a modified E30 BMW M3 he used to race; the engine blew and he decided to replace it with an electric alternative. Performance figures for that toy are as follows...

Power output (wheels): 404 kW / 550 WHP

Power output (motor): 441 kW / 600 HP

Torque: 900 Nm

Weight: 1150 kg

Stored energy: 24 kWh

Charging time (0%-100%): 20 min (If the source is 220V/350Amp)

Range: 180 km

0-100kph: 3.3 sec.

¼ Mile time: 11.3 sec.

Max. speed: 280 kph

Jasper Gilder

2,166 posts

272 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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It will be at Salon Prive at Blenheim this weekend

Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Wednesday 2nd September 2015
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All that money and they still can't get the steering wheel on the right side.

PowerslideSWE

1,116 posts

137 months

Saturday 5th September 2015
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Laurel Green said:
All that money and they still can't get the steering wheel on the right side.
LHD-markets are alot bigger. Hence.

qube_TA

8,402 posts

244 months