Car manufacturer Rimac is not boring this year. In addition to setting time records at the Nürburgring and during races at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the electric hypersport Nevera also set more than 20 acceleration and braking records and reached a new maximum speed of 412 km/h. But the attacks of distrust towards the world record did not end there.

While many thought there were no more new records to break, Rimac recently proved us wrong. At the Automotive Testing Papenburg test track in Germany, the Rimac Nevera set the record for the fastest reverse car in the world by reaching a maximum speed of 275.74 km/h.

The Rimac Nevera was the first production car to exceed 170 miles per hour (273.5 km/h) in reverse. As stated by the automaker in its press release, the first production car capable of exceeding this speed in classic forward driving was the Lamborghini Miura with a V12 engine in 1967.

The Croatian Hypersport is able to reach extreme speeds in reverse because it only has one gear. The four electric motors that drive the wheels only rotate forward or backward. However, the extreme power of 1,914 horsepower still flows to the wheels.

“During development, we thought the affair might be the fastest car in the world in reverse, but then we laughed about it. After all, the aerodynamics, cooling and stability are not designed to reverse at speed. But then we started talking about how fun it would be to try,” said Matija Renić, Chief Program Engineer at Nevera.

“It definitely takes getting used to the journey itself. You face directly in the direction of travel, watching the landscape pass faster and faster in front of you, and you feel your neck being pulled forward in much the same way as when you brake hard. “You move the steering wheel gently and carefully so as not to disturb your balance, you monitor the direction and braking point in the rearview mirror, while still monitoring your speed,” added test driver Goran Drndak.