Chris is the only reason top gear is still on the air imo . Man’s an incredible natural gifted driver with knowledge to match . 👏

@AsinineComment

Жыл бұрын

AND, perhaps more significantly, he's prepared to back up his attitude and statements, with reasons and even the principles from which he makes a judgement. Some (many?) auto journos - and _sometimes_ Jack Rix is amongst them - very easily falling in line with the hype, and are a bit too easily enthused by yet another product, soundbite, media release, acceleration time. 🤷🏼‍♂️😒

@Keimo452

Жыл бұрын

True. I hate paddy. Just makes me sick.

@nicksmith833

Жыл бұрын

He’s raced in the Nurburgring 24 hour; one of the most challenging, competitive, and dangerous endurance races in the world.

@Kxji

Жыл бұрын

Not a lie.

@sttewmaister

Жыл бұрын

I agree, without Chris there would be no top gear right now

These two men are the only reason I still watch Top Gear.

@lucasbijholt2740

Жыл бұрын

these old three men are the only reason I still watch Top Gear. Oh nvm....

@mclarenf1lm374

Жыл бұрын

I'm only sticking to watching it because of harris, he seems like the only one to not fear backlash after criticizing something.

@ibnbhai

Жыл бұрын

the two other r still good, and the chemistry is there, but yh Chris is really knowledgeable & entertaining

@larryc1616

Жыл бұрын

Matt Leblanc was the best!

@robvlob

Жыл бұрын

They're are only slightly better than Matt leblanc and crew, but will never hold a candle to May, Clarkson and Hammond

Chris Harris brilliant as usual. He talks, we pay attention.

@WhiteOwlOnFire_XXX

Жыл бұрын

Fatherless degenerate

Chis Harris is so freakin articulate that he could talk about a reliant robin and it be gripping.

@ApothecaryTerry

Жыл бұрын

Unlike the Reliant Robin itself, for which gripping was never a strong point 😄

@harrykelly4651

Жыл бұрын

*rolling

@ricochet243

Жыл бұрын

*over

I suggest going over to Nico Rosberg's channel where he picks up his Rimac and talks to Mate Rimac. Amazing car, Chris isn't wrong when he talks about the power of this thing!

@1998TDM

Жыл бұрын

🤣Yup, poor Mate had eyes like pickles on a fork a couple of times.

That 4-wheel drift was just simply astonishing and amazing piece of film. Many things have been said about the different line ups on TG since the OG's left, but i truly think that TG is in good hands with Chris, Paddy and Freddie. They have the same chemistry as the OG's, the same love for each other and the same feeling to the show...although Paddy does get a bit high in the voice stakes when he gets excited :)

It's nice to hear good words about Rimac. Go Mate!! 🇭🇷 Btw. saying Rimac - eng. is Rimatz

@FrozenDung

Жыл бұрын

That is true but still much like Dacia (Da-chia) English people will say it how we see it so many people will say "Day-cia" much like we say "Ri-mac"

@Acimir_main

Жыл бұрын

@@FrozenDung also, I believe Mate Rimac said that the company name is pronounced Rimac, not Rimatz like his name

@summerwinecro

Жыл бұрын

​@@Acimir_main no, you're wrong

@Acimir_main

Жыл бұрын

@@summerwinecro which part?

@ytubeu7450

5 ай бұрын

​@@Acimir_mainFirm Rimac, name Rimac.

The one thing I really want to see from the Nevera are some lap records. Drag races have been done to death. I want to see it on a circuit and see how well it performs.

@KyleHubb

Жыл бұрын

Yup, every carmaker is over-juicing and overstuffing their EVs with horsepower and batteries. EV sports cars now heavier than pickup trucks. lol 4,740 lbs. curb weight. The car is only 20 lbs. lighter than the Plaid Model S. Even the Model S LR is lighter by 200 lbs. And this is supposed to be a sports car made almost out of carbon fiber components, including wheels.

@intersanctum

Жыл бұрын

Use your brain and try to think about why a car over two tons won't be as fast as cars that weight, you guessed - much less.

@TheGrejp

Жыл бұрын

Mate Rimac said that some track times will start to be released next week. Considering the amount of crazy technology in this car, the weight really shouldn't be much of a problem, if I recall correctly many reviewers said it doesn't feel as heavy as it actually is.

@KyleHubb

Жыл бұрын

@@intersanctum Lotus Evija Fittipaldi weighs less than 4K lbs. NIO EP9 weighs less than 4K lbs. The Nevera, in a bid to beat Musk's vaporware Roadster specs stuffed everything he could find into the Nevera. Now the car is as heavy as a small cathedral.

@KyleHubb

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGrejp You can't beat physics. I'll be surprised if the car breaks the 7 minute mark at the Nürburgring.

Chris is an absolute legend of the car world, top gear would be nothing without this man, yes paddy and Fred are funny but Chris is clearly the brains in the trio and damn he can drive

Driving a slow car fast is a million times more fun than driving a fast car slow.

@happyatheists9361

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@pfufoostuff7483

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely drifting my BMW active Tourer walking sideways on 4 tires was more fun then my MG V8 keeping the power down in a high speed corner and hoping there was no oil spill.

@baronvonhoughton

Жыл бұрын

It sounds like a good quote, however the reality is I'm choosing driving the Lambo Hurricane slowly, over going fast in a fiat punto all day and for eternity. As are 99.999% of people.

@brunomontini7716

Жыл бұрын

@@baronvonhoughton Always Huracan, if you can buy a Lamborghini you can afford an extra Punto

@300cmysrt8

Жыл бұрын

@@baronvonhoughton Yeah I've got a base Yaris and C6 Vette. Driving the Vette slow is more fun. It's a manual with the V8 rumble. The Yaris just feels unstable going fast in any situation and is an automatic. So depends on the cars but I like the quote.

Clarkson put it best:"that Rimac just f#%ks off...I've never seen anything like it."

@DS-pk4eh

Жыл бұрын

And that was for their first model, not Nevera (2nd model)

Proud to be Croat 🔴⚪🔵💪👑

@thunderstruck1078

Жыл бұрын

Yep!

Жыл бұрын

🇭🇷

@oliva1745

Жыл бұрын

❤️

@ytubeu7450

5 ай бұрын

💪🇭🇷💪🇭🇷

What I really wanted to know about was the driving dynamics. Despite the Chiron’s weight, Chris said it was one of the most dynamically complete cars he’s driven, after punting it down that mountain road in Oman. I’m curious how the Nevera stacks up in that respect.

@raymondsmith9936

Жыл бұрын

I just don't know if Chris is capable to give a truelly unbais appraisal as he has voiced his distain for all EVs on numerous occasions.

@craigkingdon4424

Жыл бұрын

I'd imagine it's good. It's electric so weight balance and centre of gravity are probably ideal

@matpat2636

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure all will be revealed on the show tonight.

@raymondsmith9936

Жыл бұрын

I take it back, Top Gear tonight was quite balanced, however, the KZread video had different undertones.

@spill1t

Жыл бұрын

@@raymondsmith9936 I was expecting you to say something about his love for Porsche instead of his disdain for EVs. I think he said it all when he mentioned the Porsche acquisition. He thinks the car is amazing but misses the noise.

Its not Rimak, it is Rimac.

@LeonArmstrong

Жыл бұрын

Americans do always their own pronouncation😤

@curtisbme

Жыл бұрын

@@LeonArmstrong Neither of these people are American.

Please start pronouncing it "Rimats"

@spill1t

Жыл бұрын

then they need to start spelling it accordingly haha 🤣

ive always admired chris harris, and that jet ski reference 2:18 was spot on.

It should be pronounced "RimaTS" - the founder said this in one of his video

@bismuth7730

Жыл бұрын

The founder is well aware people will be pronouncing it Rimak and he does not care. Trust me.

@sheeshon

Жыл бұрын

@@bismuth7730 yes but rimak is not correct

@fapmashina1

Жыл бұрын

@@sheeshon Exactly that! Noone is butchering anglo-saxon names, and I simply don't see why should be any different with other names!? Not even trying to pronounce it correctly is nothing else but disrespect!

0:15 quite disrespectful not to pronounce the last name correctly. Same way like if we for example call you Kros Haros. It's not nice of you

It is not faking RimaK it is RIMAC! (Rimats)

@counterguardian6145

Жыл бұрын

They don't care. The right guy sort of did but just made it worse by pronouncing TZ. I dunno how difficult is to understand C is C, not K.

Chis Harris is the only watchable part of the new Top Gear. Love his insight on cars.

I could listen to him speak all day

Its calked Rimatz not fricking RIMAK.

Electric Cars are so incredibly quick it’s amazing

1:55 Chris still remembers Jeremy Clarkson 🔥 Nyc improv

Solid pair. 💯💯💯

Because of the Rimac of Nevera, we now have a phrase, "'conventional' hypercar".

Mate seems like a genuine guy. Happy for him and his company to be very successful. I'm sure they are helping improve ev technology across the vw group.

the f12 drift shots were pretty sick

The Noise Will Not Matter To A Generation Who Doesn't Care And That Will Be A Good Thing .

I am writing from Croatia, to not go in the details now.. Maybe you heard something about us croatians that do not realy rely with the precision of a Nevera but this "car" is the true representation what a young conteporary Cro mind looks like.. Mate took it to another level with the CONCEPT 2 or The Nevera as you now know it but nothing realy is far away from what Mate has produced and people only need investors to show what other wonders we have hidden here..

Chris is a true Motoring journalist. Love to watch him. And always speaks his mind. 👏👏

The first time I saw Chris, I knew that this guy is a genius at what he does. Awesome ❤️‍🔥

i could watch hours and hours of these style vids

Sir, please, it is RimaC not RimaK. Thank you.

"First World Problems" is the best line that Chris had to agree with!

When is this episode coming out?

When does a full video of him driving comes ?

Guardiola is driver now?

If someone accidentally mispronounces a word, it is stupid but if someone intentionally mispronounces a word like Rimac , it is disrespectful! Just my opinion.

@Pepe-hj4zt

Жыл бұрын

How is it intended on being pronounced?

@robertferwagner3051

Жыл бұрын

@@Pepe-hj4zt The interviewer gave Chris Harris two choices. Chris Harris chooses the wrong. (Have you seen the whole video?)

@Pepe-hj4zt

Жыл бұрын

@@robertferwagner3051 Yeah I heard it's pronounced with tz on the end

@robertferwagner3051

Жыл бұрын

@@Pepe-hj4zt You are right. Cheers!

Love Chris but he's wrong saying Rimak, Rimac (with C not Č or Ć ) ends with a sound like ts in English, so it's more like Rimats

Chris you r a legend, the heart of top gear. I agree the Rimac is fast... very fast. But I really would like to hear your opinion if next year you get the chance to drive both the Koenigsegg Jesko and Gemera. Especially the Gemera with its 70 kg 600hp 3 cylinder engine plus electric that combines to give 1700+hp. 0-100 1.9sec and limited to 400km/h....and its a 4 seater. Its got it all....and in my opinion one of the best cars on the planet.

Please Top Gear, just get Chris and Tiff on the show together and ill watch again.

"What it does to conventional hyper cars, is humbling"

@KyleHubb

Жыл бұрын

Let's see these $2M EV hypercars on the Nürburgring. Straight line speed is boring. The Plaid Model S does that with frunk, trunk and seating for five. NIO still holds the record. VW ID.R is a prototype, so doesn't count. I suspect the Evija will be a better car than Rimac. Nevera is bloated and heavy at 4,740 lbs.

@ocdmods4992

Жыл бұрын

Where I live, the Rimac or the Pininfarina would make great daily drivers. Would never replace my ICE cars. As fun as they would be for their insane acceleration, you can't replace the sound and feeling of an engine roaring and ripping thru gears.

@thomashayhurst6547

Жыл бұрын

@@KyleHubb the plaid that did the record wasn't stock, plus the Taycan Turbo S is faster and a better car in general. The plaid might as well be a fast Camry for how much curb appeal it has

No one going to mention the fact that the nivera is the successor to the car Richard Hammond crashed on TGT?

Yes. More QOTSA please

Rimats is foor RESPECT to Croats and Mate

If there was one person on this world worthy of replacimg the three legends of Top Gear, then it's Chris Harris. I could listen to him talk about cars forever

That just shows how really really REALLY fast that Rimac is. It passed that Lamborghini as if it was parked!!!

Can’t wait to see it!!🎉

Rimac v F1… now I want to see that!

Chris what’s more fun to drive on a uk road your manual m2 CS or the Rimac?

Well this went a lot better than the last time a short man drove a Roman quickly

I love great engine sounds, but I just can’t get over how people are crying over it. They would lose a race to an ev, but what? Their car sounded better tho? 🙄

@TheShaddix

Жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone ever cares about losing to an EV. When a tesla races your V8 mustang at a light, do you really care that it takes off and disappears before you can even shift into second gear? I wouldn't. Because that's all the fun the tesla driver can have.

@tormentorxl2732

Жыл бұрын

@@TheShaddix agreed.

@JappaKneads

Жыл бұрын

@@TheShaddix All show... No "Go!!"

@TheShaddix

Жыл бұрын

@@JappaKneads Nowadays with all the speeding restrictions it's all about the show and no go!

@trumptookthevaccine1679

Жыл бұрын

Emotion

Good thing the Hyundai Vision cars actually give you sound, and the feeling of changing gears, even so far as turning off power if you rev too high without "changing gears"

@Superphilipp

Жыл бұрын

That sounds idiotic

Here after Steve Sutcliffe's Evo review of the Nevera and the Chiron Sport. I'm surprised that Chris feels the Never has "no personality" when it seemed to completely win over Sutcliffe's heart. And I greatly respect both of their opinions when it comes to driving dynamics and enjoyment. Perhaps it comes down to personal preference.

AWESOME ! ! ! ! ! !

Only man keeping TG alive.

It is not RimaK it is RimaC

Are the background bricks upside down?

My mates car was the one you dragged 😍

I love Rimac. Their mission statement, their design, all of it. But I'd take a Taycan Sport Turismo over this any day. Electric hypercars and my inner ear wouldn't pair well. lol

As I’ve grown older the performance numbers mean less to me, I’ve driven cars with not much power by todays standards that are a lot more fun to drive than the newer stuff.

I got excited someone could actually pronounce Rimac the correct way... 🤣😂

@Pepe-hj4zt

Жыл бұрын

How is it intended on being pronounced?

@maiskaj6333

Жыл бұрын

@@Pepe-hj4zt the way the host first pronounced it before chris corrected him, Rimats

@thormaster06

Жыл бұрын

@@Pepe-hj4zt 0:12 He is Croatian so correct pronunciation would be with ''tz'' sound at the end instead of ''c''.

@Pepe-hj4zt

Жыл бұрын

@@thormaster06 Thank you both 👍

"Conventional hypercars". How do these two words next to eachother even make sense. Yet...they do.

I would advocate a series entitled The Chris Harris Motoring Show.

Why say his name wrong if you know how its supposed to be pronounced..?

@Valheart8

Жыл бұрын

arrogance?

@jono6379

Жыл бұрын

Porsche lol

The current trip have brought back the chemistry and natural chemistry of 3 middle aged English lads driving cars and having fun.

I've followed Chris all the way from his Autocar days. Yes, Flintoff and McGuinness are funny here and there, but Harris is the car lovers car man.

I already liked Chris Harris....but I like him even more for mentioning QOTSA

In a way, I think there is on one on earth who can talk about his specialist subject better than Chris Harris. He can talk for hours about glove compartments and engine revs and I'm here for all of it :)

@adityavisu

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, we all love him for it and still we won't get bored. That is his talent.

Where’s the frigging footage.

Guys…..think Reematz to say it correctly. Interviewer was right! One of the best cars in the world warrants the right pronunciation.

@uadcro

Жыл бұрын

They can pronounce correctly almost any football player (with very complex surnames) but they can't learn a single surname of the son of a well known Croatian public property thief..

@davidsailboat5441

Жыл бұрын

@@uadcro Bothers me so called expert journalists who don't know put enough effort into pronounciating important aspects of their own topics correctly!! Even Mate has given up correcting mispronunciations of his name in interviews since he is too humble and would need to start most interview as such. My last name btw Brajac. Dobar dan.

so the nevera is the production car of the rimac concept or am i getting that wrong

@skierpage

Жыл бұрын

Rimac only made eight concept_one production cars. Rimac originally named its successor Concept Two but changed the name to Nevera fairly early in development.

Hammond reviewed, and crashed a Rimac a few years ago on "The Grand Tour"

I actually thought the review was really dumbed down. Which probably isn’t CH fault. But really he showed how fast it was in a straight line and that it will slide. Nothing about how it actually handled, stopped, steared etc. does it feel heavy?l because it is by this sort of things standards. I have always thought CH should be allowed to do a proper review of stuff on KZread for top gear for those that want more than just WOW FAST! and Look smoke! To elaborate on the TV stuff.

Top gear wil never be the same again Clarkson made this show

@spill1t

Жыл бұрын

Man. This is such a dead argument already. You're years late to the show. Chris Harris was a legend before he joined TG too so his fan-base appreciates his involvement. The other 3 were entertaining for entertainment first and facts second, whereas he is entertaining for facts first and entertainment second. They're the same coin, just different sides.

Finally the world will learn to pronounce my first name right.

It's RimaTZ (host said it correctly @ 0:12), not RimaK

Top gear will never be the same without original 3

I think that the "party piece" moving forward may have been discovered by Ariel. The extenders. Engines that produce power to extend range/recharge the battery. I mean Ariel just decided to strap a turbine engine but I could see halving the battery in many of these cars and adding a small generator and tank to either double you range or enter fun mode. It wouldn't be needed for day to day driving so it could skirt some of the laws and bring back some pop.IT isn't a gas powered car... it is an electric car with a gas generator. Big difference.

@skierpage

Жыл бұрын

Range extenders have been tried, like the BMW i3. The problem is if the car is moving, the engine has to propel the car as well as recharge a depleted battery, and that can't be done with acceptable performance by a small range extender. To quote another commenter @ams6745, the Ariel Hipercar prototype's "47 hp range extender seems probably smaller than desirable. That is only 33 KW, and running at 75 mph at 350 wh/mi (might be worse with that aero...) requires 26 KW. Legitimately not enough power to contribute meaningfully to recharge at hwy speeds" If you make the engine powerful enough to move the car, you've just built another plug-in hybrid, and despite the benefits, they are comprehensively outsold by pure BEVs in every market.

@nelspaulson3099

Жыл бұрын

@@skierpage So the math currently going on with a vehicle like the Ford Lightening is 1 KW/ Mile at 70 MpH while towing. on a vehicle already that size how big of a generator is needed to do nothing but charge the battery to up the millage to an acceptable range? NO it does not need to power the wheels directly, the engine only needs to be a generator which could minimize size and cost and make more efficient. don't get me wrong, there is an issue on when it triggers and how much it can power/recharge the battery and things like that, but there is also an incentive for it as well. Electric motors are more efficient per watt of power that gas engines are thermally are and converting it to the wheels. The possibility to increase efficiency by focusing on what each system does most efficiently is something to put time into.

@skierpage

Жыл бұрын

@@nelspaulson3099 so in that case the generator needs to produce 70 kW (93 horsepower) plus efficiency losses just to keep the vehicle moving down the highway, so there's little excess available to charge the battery. A small range extender can move the vehicle or recharge the battery, but it's hard to do both, as I wrote. It works better if you're stopping and starting in the city, but then charging while parked is practical. Nissan's e-Power drivetrain sounds like what you're proposing: optimize the engine to be a generator for a motor, avoiding Toyota/Ford/Honda/Volt's efficient but complicated hybrid transmission to send a blend of motor and engine power to the wheels. But it's not successful and Nissan has never put it in a plug-in car. Many novel small generators for electric cars have been proposed including motorcycle engines, rotary engines, and turbines; none have made it to market.

@nelspaulson3099

Жыл бұрын

@@skierpage we may have slightly different definitions of recharging here. It has gone to market on some very small boutique levels but nothing serious by a big manufacturer. Again it would come down to how the laws are written. That kind of extender might skirt the EV laws coming into effect over the next decade. And you do not needed it to fully power the drivetrain, just assist to extend the battery. There are probably a dozen ways to do it and it would probably depend on what type of vehicle(sports car, sedan, truck, etc ) as to what works best.

Volkswagen I.D.R. or Rimac Nevera would you sit in a track race?

I wish they’d talk more about driving instead of drifting.

Top guy Chris

@3:18 "even in the Ken Block era" Ooooh well that's changed.

All electric cars should play Queens of the Stone Age as their external sound. Chris Harris confirmed.

nevera is amazing car

Yes it is very fast, and yes it has very good range, but what is the range when going flat out around a track? +1hour?

@kpsig

Жыл бұрын

I Wonder who could drive that car flat out.

@aslam7952

Жыл бұрын

@@kpsig Lol, as fast as they could?

Like James may said, cars and engines have a personality due to their defects but the electric motor is virtually perfect, so what personality can you create? Forme it emulates the torque of a motorbike so I quite like them

It is read Reemats

Rimac played it well to be the first on the market. They'll sell all their units, and they'll have made their money on the Nevera project. But what happens to the other companies? What can they do to make their electric hypercar different? The sound of the engine isn't there. The cylinder count or displacement isn't there. The weight distribution isn't there. The knife's edge driving experience like the Carrera GT isn't there. The manual gearbox isn't there. I don't know how the hypercar can survive since they're currently unpleasant to give full beans, and it's pointless adding any more beans to the pot because it will be even more unpleasant.

@skierpage

Жыл бұрын

Is there really that much difference between the various combustion-engined supercars? Fossil fuel blows up, car leaps forward. Whatever. There will always be a small market for expensive limited edition cars simply to fill the spaces in the ultra-rich's 20-car garages. What's more interesting is what the incredible performance of $120,000 Model S Plaid and Lucid Air Sapphire have done to more affordable sports cars. Where is the nimble lighter-weight EV sports car that people in comments keep saying they want? I assume sports car manufacturers are finding it hard to do better than a practical five-seater sedan.

Clarkson used to use Golf GTI to show how fast are Lamborghini. Chris Harris used Lamborghini to show how fast Nevera is.

Rimac 🤩😍

Electric cars need a bit of theatre too. In combustion engine cars it's that obnoxious explosion thing. Electric cars need space-age drama. I realized this when I saw the hydrogen Hyperion. I thought, this is it. Electric cars need to go sci-fi to have a personality. Call it silly, call it theatrical, call it artificial... And I will agree. But that's what you want if you miss the combustion engine spectacle.

My only question is what he thinks about the lotus hypercar

Like Chris, he's cool. However, when they introduced the car on the main show, it was as though they were introducing the company as brand new, or at least the car a their 1st. Neither were true, Hammond famously reviewed and crashed the original on the Grand Tour a few years ago.

I only watched this because it was about Matte Rimac and the Rimac Nevera. TopGear is nothing without Jeremy Clarkson.

To have sound is so ancient n old technology. Is like why use hand when there's fork n spoon.

I personally think the Rimac Nevera has the look of something special. What I mean is if it were parked and someone knew absolutely nothing about cars I can see them saying wow look at this car it looks cool. But I also agree with everything Chris said I recently got to drive a Tesla p100d and I was blown away by the performance a really fun car to play with and was totally thinking I wouldn’t mind having one but when I got back in my 2016 JGC SRT with it custom exhaust I knew instantly the gap in character it actually made me really appreciate my baby much more then I already did.

@JohnFromAccounting

Жыл бұрын

The Pininfarina looks better. Rimac has a strange style to it that doesn't work for me.

@503TD

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnFromAccounting I will agree 100% that car is amazing but that doesn’t take away that the Rimac does have a presence to it.

I can imagine this thing doing centric donuts with all the torque ripping the life out of the tyres. something like this would make Ken Block juice up.

@SeanoMcCool18

Жыл бұрын

Ken Block just started driving an electric Audi drift car. Go watch now!

@jono6379

Жыл бұрын

@@SeanoMcCool18 And yet like chris said without all the engine noise it wasnt that exciting ☹

@SeanoMcCool18

Жыл бұрын

@@jono6379 It sounded like a giant remote control drift car to me, I thought it was cool

Like the New Ken Block Snorekana. All smoke no stoke