Rimac Automobili

A luxury chase.

So we got this guy, Matej Rimac, who is the boss of Bugatti.

He had his $3 million Bugatti Chiron stolen from the company's headquarters in Croatia.

He'd left the keys inside.

I mean, is that just a bit? OK, so it was the company compound.

But nonetheless, the thief simply stepped into the car and drove it off.

But Rimac realized from the telemetrics of his car, hang on a moment, what's he doing going up that road? So he watched it go towards Slovenia and then veered towards Austria.

So he himself jumped into his Porsche 911, as you do, and gave chase at speed, although he was an hour behind.

He's got it back, so...

The CEO of Bugatti, he also owns Rimac.

His name is Mace Rimac.

His Chiron, which is, for those who don't know what a Chiron is, it replaced the Veyron as one of the world's fastest cars, 16 cylinders, quad turbos.

The crazy thing is his campus is quite, he described it online as his campus is quite open.

What else was I going to say to you? This, I think, is interesting.

What do you think about this? The Bugatti CEO, Matteo Rimac.

You know him, obviously.

Well, you know of him.

Do I want to see one driving around in front of me on the motorway? No, not really.

But, you know, it's going to be something that I'm sure a few really, really, really rich people will buy the way people would buy a Pininfarina Batista or a Rimac, you know?

Anyway,

I think, yeah.

And the question I want to put forward is, are we seeing with the onslaught of evs and the petrol prices yeah are we starting to see the end of the glorious of v8

i hope to god not i hope to god not And I saw a, I don't know if it was a Instaclip or what it was, but there's a guy, Mate Rimac or Rimac?

Yes, yes.

He's the CEO of Bugatti.

Correct.

And he makes the Rimac electric super hypercars.

Hypercars, okay.

This guy came out and I literally wanted to give him a hug because he said, he goes...

So I think it was just like, and also in the interim too, we now have an electric supercar market.

There's the Rimac and there's, you know, Bugattis that can go like insanely fast.

And there are these hyper cars and these low volume one shots and all these other sort of like crazy engineering feats that all these other companies have come along to sort of supplant and replace the Roadster in a lot of people's imagination.

So I do think that that is a combination of like the engineering challenge was insane.

Yeah, I think my argument there was that, you know, that electric performance has since been sort of proven out, right? We've got Formula E.

We've got all of these sort of like very impressive supercars that, you know, sound like they're straight out of science fiction.

Things like, you know, the Rimac Nevera and Pinafarina's Batista.

BYD has got an insane sounding electric performance car that they came out with.