Mate Rimac - a tale about croatian Elon Musk

“I don’t work only when I’m sleeping and taking a sh!t”- Mate Rimac
I’m not being rude here, those are the exact words of Mate Rimac directly translated.

Now let me tell you what Mate Rimac said in an interview with some croatian newspaper (translated)
“I’ve always wanted to work on cars, I don’t know why. My parents always told me that even before I could walk or even talk that I would always be around cars or talk about cars. As soon as I turned 18, I bought my own BMW 3 Series e30, with a bit of help of my parents. It was a 1984, so 4 years older than me. I wanted to participate in races, so the car survived two competitions until the engine just fall apart. So then I wanted to merge the two of my loves: electrical engineering and cars. So I read a lot about Nikola Tesla, and the electric motor just amazed me, and I’ve always thought that the electric motor is better than the internal combustion engine in every way. I’ve studied the electric motor and was trying to understand it in every way, the knowledge I wasn’t born with nor did anyone. I was 18 or 19 and was trying to learn everything in the shortest amount of time possible. I started working on the e30 in 2008, in 2010 it was finally on the road, 2011 I’ve broken 5 guinness world records for “The fastest accelerating electric vehicle”. Horacio Pagani and Christopher Koenigsegg were my heros, I wanted to make what they’ve made with their companies. A man I knew 7 years ago only as an enthusiast, like everyone else, and I’m satisfied. When bigger companies and organizations come here they tell me “Look, we’re a company of a 100 years and many memebers… so you have to be careful because people here are sensitive and they are pissed because they have to go to some stupid country like Croatia just to get something that they havent invented yet”
There were many people who’ve tried doing what I’m doing and failed, so I thought to myself: if I want to make a car I need people who understand this kinds of stuff, who can develop great stuff. Nobody here knew how to make car doors and other stuff, but as we were developing things we were learning because there wasn’t another way, we couldn’t pay someone to make the car for us.
Everything would go to hell if small details were different. 90% of the time I didn’t know how to give out paychecks to my employees, it was very stressful. 90% of the time I spent on thinking how the company will survive so that we can be where we are today.
When I found out that Richard Hammond almost died at this point Rimac is barely keeping his tears I was devastated, I’ve lost 10 years of my life at that point. If he died, I think that the company would just close it’s doors. And it happend right before the closing of the investition of the chinese company, but I kept my mouth shut. You have no idea how we felt in those few hours until Hammond called me and said “Sorry, I’ve fcked up because I wrecked your car”. It was big news, the video got 10 mil views, everyone was talking about it, but we lived through it all and look at us now”

Now here is the Rimac e-M3

Fun Fact: in the rego book it says “Rimac e-M3” instead of “BMW 325i”

Rimac Ampster (also regod as Rimac Ampster, instead of Opel Speedster)

It was nothing more than a test mule. He found the wrecked Opel Speedster on a junk yard and started working on it by putting instantly the electric motor he was developing. It also had a big touch screen in it and was lighter than the Tesla Roadster by around 250 kg (550 lbs), so much work has gone into this car, but Rimac had no intentions to put it into production or even sell a set for an Opel Speedster.

Specs:
180 kW (241 bhp)
460 Nm
350 V
0-100 km/h 3,4 sekundi
0-402 m 13,2 sekundi

Also, yeah, my shtty blogs are back.