The Rimac Nevera electrical hypercar has been setting data this yr, and now a brand new limited-edition mannequin has claimed the quickest lap file on the Nürburgring Nordschleife for a manufacturing electrical automobile. The automobile in query is the Nevera Time Assault that Rimac, which set the file on Friday and was subsequently featured at The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering as a part of Monterey Automotive Week.
One among simply 12 Time Assault fashions set the brand new file of seven:05:298 on the normal 12.9-mile circuit. The mark beats the file set in June by the Tesla Mannequin S Plaid with the Observe Pack by 20 seconds. The automobile additionally set a brand new file of seven:00:928 on the newer, shorter 12.8-mile model of the monitor. Croatian racing driver Martin Kodrić set the file utilizing Michelin Cup2R tires, and Rimac says the file was verified by unbiased timing knowledge.
The Nevera Time Assault is a paint and trim bundle with none efficiency updgrades. The record-setting automobile, in addition to the primary Time Assault delivered to a buyer—which additionally occurred on Friday—sports activities Squadron Black paint with Lightning Inexperienced highlights and stripes. Rimac says this shade of inexperienced was impressed by a climate phenomenon that occurs earlier than a storm, when charged ionized particles provides the sky a inexperienced hue. The colour can also be a nod to the BMW M3 founder Mate Rimac transformed to electrical energy greater than a decade in the past.
The opposite 11 Nevara Time Assault fashions have already been offered, and people house owners will have the ability to decide a Squadron Black or naked carbon-fiber base, with a alternative of spotlight colours that features Rimac Racing Purple and Stiniva E-Blue. The spotlight colours are echoed by a delicate shade reflection within the alloy wheels. The underside of the rear wing of every Time Assault can even sport the message: “Devoted to these coming after us.”
Inside, the Nevera Time Assault’s has black Alcantara upholstery with accents and distinction stitching to match the outside shade. The seatbacks have “Time Assault” stitching and each automobile comes with an engraved “Time Assault: 1 of 12” plaque.
The Rimac Nevera makes 1,914 hp from 4 electrical motors—two up entrance and two within the rear. It set a brand new 0-60 mph manufacturing automobile file in Could of 1.74 seconds whereas claiming 23 efficiency data in the identical day. Earlier than that, it set a brand new electrical pace file of 256 mph. In July, it set a brand new file on the Goodwood Pageant of Pace, operating the hill climb in a time of 49.32 seconds.
