Rimac Concept One

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A Croatian car firm? Well that's news to me. If I first looked at the front end of that Rimac without knowing what it was, I genuinely would have thought that it was a new Jaguar concept of some sort.


That being said, the front end of that car looks great, plus the rear isn't too bad looking either:

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The downside is it sounds like one of those Veyron price range uber luxury cars instead of maybe like a Tesla competitor.
 
It's one thing to build a concept car, but quite another to build a realiable, usable real-world production vehicle.

I think this Rimac project won't get much further than this.
 
N-n-necro!

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/05/11/rimac-concept_one-shreds-its-custom-vredesteins/

Go back a decade or so – before Koenigsegg, SSC and the Bugatti Veyron were on the scene – and the idea of a million-dollar, thousand-horsepower supercar that could break the three-second barrier to sixty would seem out of this world. Posting those kinds of figures with an electric car? No way.

Way. That's what the Rimac Concept_One is all about. It chews up Tesla Roadsters and spits them back out into the Silicon Valley from whence they came. The electric motors mounted at each wheel give the electric supercar 1,088 horsepower of thrust and a 2.8-second sprint to 100 km/h (62 mph). Range comes in at a claimed 372-miles. All yours (if you're one of the first 88 customers to call) for the low, low price of $980,000.

We could hardly believe it when we saw the show car in Frankfurt last year, and neither could the show-goers in Monte Carlo where it made its production debut. So to show the public that it was for real, Rimac put out this short video clip showing its Croatian creation laying down patches of its Giugiaro-designed Vredestein rubber on the tarmac. It's brief, but it's worth a watch. Scroll down below to check it out.

 
I do like its looks, very videogame-ish but its an excellent effort. Front looks like a Tesla product.
 
sure roof profile maybe a bit idealistic and not very practical, but overall are of good shape and proportion.
 
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