The Rimac Nevera, arguably the quickest road car on earth right now, is at the center of a controversy as footage of the hypercar doing more than double a local speed limit was published on social media.
In the video, the Nevera is filmed accelerating to a speed of 232 km/h (144 mph) on a two-lane road near Dubrovnik, Croatia. As noticed by Motor1, Croatian news outlet Index HR reported that the police determined that the car was on a section of road with a 90 km/h (55 mph) speed limit, meaning that the car was exceeding the posted limit by 142 km/h (89 mph).
In a post on Facebook, company founder Mate Rimac apologized for the dangerous behavior on behalf of the company, adding that the driver called the police himself to confess. He added that the driver would be punished like anyone else.
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Rimac suggested that the incident happened at a launch event in which the company invited customers from around the world to drive the car in real-world conditions. He said the company was clear that the drive would be happening on public roads and that local laws would apply but concluded that the company will be more careful about supervising drivers in the future.
He added that all drivers at the event knew that there would be a second one hosted on a closed track to allow customers to test out the full potential of the car as journalists were allowed to do recently.
In one of those videos, CarWow’s drag test against a Ferrari SF90 Stradale, the incredible speed of the Nevera is addressed. In the same video that the host (unofficially) clocks a record-breaking production car quarter-mile time, he also runs a rolling race from 50 km/h in which he says “That’s even madder than the launch […] oh, you could be a real nightmare in this car.”
Indeed, the warp-drive-style acceleration shown in the video suggests that there already is at least one person being a nightmare on the road in the Nevera. The driver, too, may be facing a bit of a nightmare as police told Index HR that they would be filing an indictment against the driver in municipal court.