1.66 s to 60 and 7.90 s for the quarter, on Rimac's own record day, timed by Dewesoft. 2,107 hp, 40 cars planned, about 20 being built.
Rimac says the Nevera R reaches 60 mph in 1.66 seconds recorded and covers the quarter mile in 7.90 seconds recorded, from a July 2025 session at the Automotive Testing Papenburg track in Germany measured by Dewesoft (Rimac). Jalopnik reports that Dewesoft's clock started after one foot of rollout (Jalopnik), the convention Rimac footnotes on its spec sheets.
The same session logged 431.45 km/h (268.2 mph) recorded and 0-400-0 km/h in 25.79 s recorded. Rimac published no trap speed, so our race uses our own figure of 186 mph estimate. No magazine or drag strip has timed an R. The best independent number for the family is DragTimes' 8.582 s at 167.51 mph recorded in an original Nevera at Famoso Raceway in 2021 (Rimac). Rimac planned 40 cars claimed from €2.3 million claimed; AutoNext reports Mate Rimac saying about 20 reported will be built (AutoNext).
Rimac revealed the Nevera R on August 16, 2024, at The Quail during Monterey Car Week (TechCrunch). Mate Rimac said later that "we listened carefully to our customers who wanted to discover just how far we could push the Nevera's cornering ability" (Rimac).
So the R gets 193 more metric horsepower, a fixed wing and a larger diffuser for 15% more downforce and 10% better aero efficiency, Michelin Cup 2 tires with more camber for 10% less understeer, and a 3.8 s quicker lap of the Nardo handling track claimed (Rimac). Rimac calls it a move from Hyper GT to Hyper Sportscar.
Every figure carries its label. claimed means Rimac said it. recorded is timed on an actual run: an instrumented test, a certified or verified record run, or a maker's own pass on a drag strip's timing system; Rimac's records count here because Dewesoft timed them, though Rimac ran the sessions. verified means an official body such as Guinness. reported is press we couldn't trace to a primary source. derived is our math. estimate is modeled for our race because no published figure exists. Here's how we label numbers.
Each bar fills at the real speed of that car's 0-60 time, from the race's lineup plus the original Nevera. Rimac's times subtract the first foot of rollout, as Dodge's and Tesla's Plaid figure do; Chevrolet's 1.68 s doesn't.
Rimac doesn't set its records on a drag strip. It takes the car to the 12.3 km oval at Automotive Testing Papenburg, switches it to high-speed mode and lets Dewesoft's satellite and inertial sensors time each run (Dewesoft). For the original Nevera's 2023 records, Dewesoft says the clock started after one foot of rollout, on non-prepped asphalt with road-legal Michelin Cup 2 R tires, while Racelogic timed the same runs as a check (Dewesoft). For the R, Jalopnik quotes Dewesoft's report saying the same foot of rollout applied.
Rollout flatters a 0-60: US testers leave out the first foot, which is worth roughly two tenths of a second at these launch speeds derived, so a time from a true standstill would be slower than 1.66 s. It matters much less for the quarter mile: a drag-strip timer also starts only once the front tire rolls out of the staging beam, so 7.90 s is roughly comparable with a strip ET, even though Papenburg isn't a prepped strip. Our methodology guide explains rollout.
Studio views are our own generated illustrations, not Rimac photography or design data. The second slide is a real photo.
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The R's redesigned bumper adds a deeper lip and horizontal lines that stress width. Together with the wing and diffuser it adds 15% downforce and 10% aero efficiency.
20-inch front wheels on Michelin Cup 2 tires with more negative camber: 10% less understeer, 5% more lateral grip. The Drive reports "Evo2" carbon-ceramic brakes with a silicone matrix layer.
The pack is part of the carbon monocoque's structure. The R uses a next-generation 108 kWh pack; the original Nevera carries 120 kWh in 6,960 cylindrical cells.
One motor drives each wheel. Rimac's All-Wheel Torque Vectoring recalculates every wheel's torque 100 times a second, retuned for the R's grippier tires.
21-inch rear wheels replace the Nevera's 20s, giving what Heyl calls "a forward-leaning stance."
The Nevera's wing moves; the R's biplane wing is fixed. Heyl: "Every element serves a purpose - from the biplane wing generating downforce to the redesigned air ducts improving cooling."
Rimac's July 2025 session at Papenburg produced 24 records, from 0-60 mph to a standing mile in 19.71 s recorded (Rimac). Jalopnik notes the count is partly bookkeeping: Rimac times the same runs in both km/h and mph. The headline is 0-400-0 km/h, a test of power, aero and brakes that Rimac and Koenigsegg have traded back and forth since 2023 (Top Gear). The EV top-speed title didn't last as long: BYD says a Yangwang U9 Track Edition reached 472.41 km/h a month later claimed (BYD), and the Yangwang U9 Xtreme later claimed 496.22 km/h claimed.
At its 2024 launch Rimac claimed an 8.23 s quarter claimed (The Drive); the record run took 7.90 s. Neither Rimac nor Dewesoft published a speed at the line, so our race uses 186 mph estimate, our own figure. The only Nevera ever timed on a drag strip by someone else is the original car, which DragTimes ran to 8.582 s at 167.51 mph at Famoso Raceway in 98 °F heat (DragTimes).
The original for scale, the R, and the ten-car edition that closes the run. Times are Rimac records with rollout.
The hyper GT that set 23 records in a day and an EV lap record of 7:05.298 at the Nürburgring in 2023.
Delivered limited to 352 km/h; 412 km/h only at Rimac-run events (Rimac). Xiaomi's SU7 Ultra has since lapped quicker reported.
More power, fixed aero and Cup 2 tires, built to corner as hard as it accelerates.
From €2.3 million. Customer deliveries began in late 2025 (Rimac).
Each specified with Mate Rimac in Zagreb and delivered by him; all ten were allocated within a week.
Owners also get factory access and a say in future products, Rimac says. The first car is Cote D'Azur over Titanium Silver.
Eight years from the C_Two to the end of Nevera production. Scroll sideways.
The car that became the Nevera is shown with a 412 km/h target.
DragTimes runs the Nevera to 167.51 mph on a prepped strip recorded.
Rimac and Bugatti start operating as one company, Mate Rimac as CEO.
The Nevera becomes the fastest production EV at Papenburg.
Including 1.74 s to 60 and 0-400-0 in 29.93 s.
275.74 km/h in reverse, a Guinness title verified.
The Jesko Absolut runs 0-400-0 in 27.83 s.
2,107 hp, 40 cars, 1.74 s and 8.23 s claimed.
1.66 s, 7.90 s, 431.45 km/h and 0-400-0 in 25.79 s.
The R's dynamic debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
BYD says a Yangwang U9 Track Edition ran 472.41 km/h claimed.
Nevera R deliveries begin.
The first of ten is handed over on the frozen lake at St. Moritz.
A HOF Capital consortium buys Porsche's stakes; Rimac Group keeps 55% of Bugatti Rimac.
About 50 Neveras and 20 Nevera R in total, against 190 planned reported.
Reaction split four ways. These are opinions, quoted with links.
"It's the ultimate numbers car, but so much more at the same time."Yousuf Ashraf, evo, 2025, Goodwood drive
Holding launch control on the hill, he wrote, "there's so much tension in the car it feels like the motors are twisting the driveshafts."
"Breaking records is in our DNA, and we won't stop here."Mate Rimac, Rimac, July 2025
The Nürburgring EV record and the Goodwood hill record remain targets Rimac named for the R.
"Dewesoft's report says these were measured after 1 foot of rollout was detected with a total velocity threshold of 0.5 mph."Jalopnik, July 2025
Rimac ran the session itself, published no trap speed, and no magazine has timed an R.
"The Nevera missed its sales plan and still did its job."AutoNext, October 2026, production ends
Mate Rimac's own words for the car are blunter: "It's a glitch in the matrix that this exists" (Rimac).
The consensus: nobody seriously disputes that the Nevera R has the quickest instrumented acceleration figures of any production car, or that its top speed was a real, measured run. The arguments are about the fine print: records set by the maker on its own test day, a foot of rollout that flatters the 0-60, a quarter mile with no published trap speed, no independent test yet, and a production run that ended at about half its plan.
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Rimac's 2,107 hp is metric. Its 1.55 MW works out to about 2,078 hp by the SAE measure U.S. buyers know derived.
The R's pack is 108 kWh; the original Nevera's is 120 kWh.
Rimac's launch spec said 300 km/h in 8.66 s. The record run did it in 7.89 s, yet Rimac's January 2026 release still quoted 8.66 s.
Dewesoft's table gives the R's quarter mile, 7.90 s, but no speed at the line. The 186 mph our race uses is our own figure estimate, to be replaced if a timed trap speed appears.
Guinness witnessed an original Nevera reach 275.74 km/h driving backwards in 2023.
The Nevera is delivered limited to 352 km/h. Its full top speed comes only at Rimac-supervised events, with tire checks.
The Nevera's 2023 quarter mile read 8.25 s on Dewesoft's gear and 8.26 s on Racelogic's, timing the same run.
Rimac times the same runs in km/h and mph, so 0-200 km/h and 0-120 mph count separately.
In a 2023 carwow drag race the original Nevera won two of three standing quarter miles against a Red Bull RB8 and the McMurtry Spéirling.
In our quarter-mile model the Nevera R finishes third of 21, using Rimac's 7.90 s record and our 186 mph trap estimate. The car just quicker and the car just slower:
McMurtry Spéirling Pure7.97 s at 190 mph: time recorded, trap estimate. Run by the 2021 Spéirling prototype in 2022 on a 150 mph limiter; our race runs it without one. Read the profile
Card photos: McMurtry Spéirling by Calreyn88, CC BY-SA 4.0, edited.
Rimac recorded 1.66 seconds at the Automotive Testing Papenburg track in Germany in July 2025, measured by Dewesoft. Jalopnik reports that Dewesoft started the clock after one foot of rollout, the convention Rimac footnotes on its spec sheets, so a time from a true standstill would be a little slower. Rimac's launch figure in 2024 was 1.74 seconds. No magazine has published its own instrumented test.
Rimac recorded 7.90 seconds over 402 meters in the same July 2025 session, which Jalopnik called the first quarter mile under eight seconds by a production car. Rimac published no trap speed, so the 186 mph our race uses is our estimate. No drag strip has timed a Nevera R.
431.45 km/h (268.2 mph), recorded by Rimac with Dewesoft in the car's high-speed mode at Papenburg in July 2025. Jalopnik says Dewesoft certified 268.092 mph, averaged over 600 meters. Rimac's 2024 launch figure was 412 km/h, the original Nevera's record.
Rimac quotes 2,107 hp and 1.55 megawatts from four motors, one per wheel. That figure is metric horsepower; 1.55 megawatts is about 2,078 hp in the SAE units U.S. buyers usually see. The original Nevera makes 1,914 metric hp from 1.4 megawatts.
Rimac announced 40 cars from 2.3 million euros, ten of them Founder's Editions. In October 2026 AutoNext reported that Mate Rimac said in an Instagram video that Nevera production ends with car number 71 at the end of 2026, including about 20 Nevera R.
The R adds 193 metric hp, a fixed rear wing in place of the active one, a larger diffuser and a deeper front lip for 15 percent more downforce, Michelin Cup 2 tires, 21-inch rear wheels and retuned torque vectoring. Its battery is smaller, 108 kWh against 120 kWh. Rimac calls the change a move from Hyper GT to Hyper Sportscar.
Labels. Claimed: Rimac or another maker said it. Recorded: timed on an actual run: an instrumented test, a certified or verified record run, or a maker's own pass on a drag strip's timing system, with the tester or measurer, place and conditions named; Rimac's records are recorded rather than verified because Rimac ran the sessions and Dewesoft and Racelogic are measurement companies, not official bodies. Verified: an official body, here Guinness. Reported: press reporting we couldn't trace to a primary source. Derived: our math from published figures. Estimate: modeled for our race because no published figure exists; here the 186 mph trap speed. Dewesoft's table lists 0-200 km/h in 3.95 s and 200-300 km/h in 3.89 s, which add up to 7.84 s against a listed 0-300 km/h of 7.89 s, so the splits are best figures that may come from different runs. All the race figures and the other cars are on the cars hub, and the methodology guide explains what each label means. Sources disagree on a few counts: Rimac's site gives 2,340 Nm of motor torque where some press gives 2,360 Nm; Rimac says "Michelin Cup 2" tires for the records while Dewesoft says "Cup 2 R"; Rimac lists the record top speed as 431.45 km/h on its releases and 430 km/h on its site; and October 2026 stories from The Supercar Blog, duPont Registry and Supercar Blondie describe a factory handover of the "very first" Nevera R, which conflicts with Rimac's January 2026 statement that deliveries began in late 2025 (it may be the first car outside the Founder's Edition), so we rely on Rimac's account.
Images. Rear photo of the Nevera R at Auto Zürich 2024: Alexander-93, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; our edit is shared under the same license. The hero and the studio views are our own generated illustrations, not Rimac photography or design data; their wheels are close to, but not exactly, the real R's design. None are Rimac photos.
