It hurts to watch this.
In order for any car to get approved for the road, whether it’s in the U.S. or Europe, it has to go through extensive crash tests. This is done in order to ensure each car is able to keep its passengers safe during just about every kind of crash you can imagine. For automakers that create very high-end cars, this can come at a cost. For Rimac, they’ve recently had to put the new electric Nevera through its series of crash tests and Carwow was there to witness it go down.
For the test that you’ll see up above, the 1,914 horsepower Nevera is flung into a pole at 20 mph. While there is extensive damage done to the car, it protected the would-be passengers. Being the 45th crash test the Neveras have gone through, you would think that they would have made 45 different prototypes. However, this is actually the 10th Nevera prototype to be used in crash tests. This is because some of the crash tests only inflict minimal damage, allowing one prototype to go through multiple tests.
Check out the crash test for yourself up above and see just how extensive they truly are.