There’s rare, and then there’s Rimac rare. Forty Nevera R cars already felt like a slightly mad flex in a world where “limited” usually means whatever the finance department can tolerate. Ten, though. Ten is a whisper. And that’s exactly what the Rimac Nevera R Founder’s Edition was—quietly shown, murmured about, and then gone inside a week.
I love that. No hype circus. No dramatic unveiling with lasers and EDM. Just a handful of people being told, politely, that this thing exists, and that if they hesitate, someone else will take their seat at the table.
Because this car is very much about the table.
The obvious stuff is easy. It’s the full-fat Nevera R underneath, which means 2,107 horsepower delivered through four electric motors that talk to each other faster than your nervous system ever could. Numbers so aggressive they almost lose meaning. 0–60 in 1.66 seconds. A top speed north of 268 mph. Records falling like skittles. Mate Rimac once said it accelerates harder than it brakes, which still feels slightly rude, even by hypercar standards.
But that’s only the surface layer. The Founder’s Edition goes somewhere else entirely.
Each owner gets a card. Not a novelty thing. A proper, grown-up card that grants permanent access to Bugatti Rimac HQ in Zagreb. Turn up whenever you like. Walk in. Sit down. Talk cars. Talk strategy. Talk about what comes next, before anyone else has a clue.
That’s extraordinary.
We’ve seen factory tours, special previews, bespoke options lists longer than a Tolstoy novel. This is different. Rimac is effectively inviting ten customers into the bloodstream of the company. Input on R&D. Conversations with Mate himself. Early exposure to products that don’t even have names yet.
It’s brave. Possibly risky. Definitely confident.
The buying process follows the same logic. You don’t spec one of these from a sofa with a glossy brochure. You go to Zagreb. You sit down with Mate and design director Frank Heyl. You build the car together, live, using VRED visualisation software that lets you see every tweak as it happens.
Colours shift. Surfaces change. Lines sharpen. You watch the car become yours in real time. That matters.
There is a core design language, and it’s wonderfully obsessive. Two-tone paint split along the Nevera R’s natural body lines, visually pushing the car even closer to the ground. A centre stripe running over the roof, absurdly thin at just two millimetres in places, carrying Rimac’s cravat motif and circuit-board graphics. It’s geeky. Precise. Utterly intentional.
Inside, things get more personal. The asymmetrical seats mirror Mate’s own Nevera, which I find oddly charming. Hand-stitched leather everywhere. Door panels embroidered with three dates that matter to Rimac: the garage days, the Concept_One moment, and the Nevera era. It’s a timeline you can touch.
Performance, though, remains the anchor. This is still the Nevera R that rewrote the EV record books in 2025, setting 24 verified world records in a single year. Torque vectoring that feels telepathic. Grip that recalibrates your sense of physics. Speed that arrives instantly, then just keeps going.
Owners also get proper driver training with Rimac’s test team, which matters more than most people admit. Cars like this demand respect. And when delivery day comes, Mate hands over the keys himself. No velvet rope. No intermediary. Just the man who built the thing, passing it on.
Pricing stays discreet, as it should. The regular Nevera R starts at €2.3 million, so you can safely assume this sits well north of that. All ten cars were allocated almost immediately after a private reveal earlier this year.
And that feels right.
Because the real value here isn’t the horsepower, or the records, or even the rarity. It’s proximity. To ideas. To ambition. To a company that still behaves like it’s hungry, even while building some of the most outrageous cars the world has ever seen.
For a certain kind of enthusiast, that’s the ultimate golden ticket.
