Rimac Nevera

The Nevera isn’t just the best hypercar we drove over the past 12 months; it’s a vehicle that permanently redefines the class in terms of what we should expect from this rarest and most extreme breed of automobile.

Its impact also transcends the category. While the Nevera’s unanswerable performance persuaded the Volkswagen Group to entrust Bugatti’s future to its young Croatian creator, Mate Rimac, its electric vehicle alchemy will also flow down to more affordable models within the group stable. But oh, the sensations. Statistics such as its crazy 1,914hp and 8.6-second standing 402m time don’t begin to communicate the bizarre, disorienting experience of flattening the Nevera’s right pedal. The car seems to defy physics, its rate of acceleration increasing as it finds more grip, the four electric motors doling out precisely the limit of torque each tyre can handle. Nothing, not even the new 1,578hp Bugatti Chiron Super Sport, which we drove soon after, comes close to what the Nevera delivers.

Mate Rimac