This month, Mate Rimac (pronounced MAH-tay REE-mahts) took over as CEO of Bugatti Rimac, whose shareholders are Rimac (55%) and Porsche (45%). Take a moment to think about that statement. We have Bugatti, perhaps the leader in OEM, speed of mass production, power and luxury; Rimac, the maker of an incredible electric hypercar full must-have EV technology; and Porsche, one of the legends of the world sport car manufacturers, collaborate on future products. There’s no better place to put this cliché: What a time to be alive.
Anyway, Rimac is building a new headquarters in Sveta Nedelja, near Zagreb, Croatia, at the same time as preparations for the semi-global Nevera. The company has 16 prototypes ahead of a series of products built to 95% to production specifications, used for activities such as road and road testing, investor and customer driving as well as media trips. Each of them will end its life when it crashes into a wall at high speed, sometimes repeatedly after rebuilding, until it dies. So Mate decided to take one of those prototypes out for a drive on the dirt roads around the HQ construction site for us to enjoy, before the car was painted a matte pale blue for an encounter. deadly with offset barrier and 30 degree frontal crash test. Va no multi-activity. We like it very much. Then he car wash at a self-service car wash, because that’s just the type of person he is.
As for the carbon-neutral headquarters, costing $226 million, it will be completed by 2023. The company says the site will house one of the largest production and R&D facilities in Europe for any industry, while expanding the total number of employees of Bugatti and Rimac to 435 staff about 2,500 heads. There will be a “command center”, virtual reality rooms, a custom studio for buyers, a museum and a bar. There will also be a test track running between buildings, which we assume is the kind of track you can get when building an electric supercar.
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