Kristin Shaw fell in love with cars while visiting dozens of auto shows as a kid, which explains her love for big-finned 1950s cars and 1960s Corvettes. She competed in her first Rebelle Rally, an all-female off-roading competition, in the fall of 2022 in a lifted Hyundai Santa Cruz and will participate again in 2023.
Twenty-two-year-old test driver Goran Drndak earned a new Guinness World Records title for Rimac in a four-electric-motor Nevera, and this was no typical speed trial. Drndak reached 171.34 miles per hour in reverse. Drndak smashed the previous driving-backward record set in 2001 by more than 70 miles per hour.
You’re moving the steering wheel so gently, careful not to upset the balance, watching for your course and your braking point out the rear-view mirror, all the while keeping an eye on the speed.”Nevera chief program engineer Matija Renić says the team recognized during development that the hypercar could be the world’s fastest car in reverse, but they “kind of laughed it off.
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