The mystery car video uploaded by Mata Remak/Remak
Mata Rimac is only 36 years old. He has sold less than 200 cars, and the company he founded bears his name and is located in Croatia.
Not exactly the classic formula for creating supercars.
And still Rimac is one of the most fascinating puzzles in the industry.
It produces the fastest mass-produced car in the world, the electric Navara, with 1,914 hp and dual drive, which accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.85 seconds, to a maximum speed of 412 km/h, and a range of up to 400 km Q and back to a complete stop in less than 30 seconds, faster than the Konisag Regrera and the Bugatti Chiron.
It has a 120 kWh battery and a combined range of 490 km and costs 2 million dollars.
The 150 units to be produced have been pre-ordered.
Before that, Rimac created the Concept One, which nearly killed former Top Gear host Richard Hammond.
Mata Rimac, who wanted to secure the financial future of the company he founded in 2009, agreed to put its knowledge to the benefit of other car manufacturers that are trying to shorten their path to the electric world.
And so at the same time as producing cars on Rimac provides know-how or components to Porsche, Aston Martin, Kunisag, Jaguar and Seat, a bit like the Porsche model (remember the "Porsche engine" in the first Seat Ibiza?).
Rimac Navara.
1.85 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h. It even reaches 300 km/h in 9.3 easy seconds/manufacturer's website
Porsche and Hyundai-Kia even invested in Rimac.
In 2021, Porsche and Rimac even announced the establishment of a merged company controlled by the Croatian entrepreneur (55%), Rimac-Bugatti, which received control of the fascinating but loss-making supercar manufacturer of the Volkswagen Group.
Porsche even bought Merimac, an electric motorcycle manufacturer he founded, and turned it into its motorcycle division last year.
And after all that, when Rimac uploaded an enigmatic video to Instagram promising the launch of a new car he had developed, the web was abuzz with rumors.
The video shows a silhouette that does not belong to a sports car.
Maybe for a hatchback, maybe for a mini-van.
Almost certainly not a crossover or a Jeep, a vehicle Rimac vowed never to build after Ferrari unveiled the Prosungua.
Is this an autonomous vehicle for transporting passengers?
Rimac has said in the past that his company is working on one of these, and the relationship with the Volkswagen Group gives it access to many up-to-date components, and possibly also to the technologies of Mobileye and the Israeli Inoviz.
The video shows the silhouette as part of urban landscapes, a picture of the writer and inventor Jules Verne, and in the background a song about "the arteries of the city" and "we ride from dawn to noon".
So what is Rimac up to?
Wait for June 26.
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