That’s one way to look at it. Go watch the video of the rimac hill climb where he crashes. From the start he looks terrified behind the wheel. So he knew the car was too much for him and his driving skills. Yet he still chose to push it. It was selfish on his part. Glad he’s okayc but Guaranteed if it was his car he wouldn’t have pushed it.
Its because its electric, the electric motor will deliver maximum instant torque when you start kicking the pedal. Not like ICE where the maximum torque is at certain rpm
@@itsokay7989 I think it's more a matter of we really like Hammond and we don't want to see anything bad happen to him, so we engage in some good natured ribbing.
This car was almost as fast on the goodwood hill climb as the VW IDR.... which got the fastest time up pikes peak EVER only a few weeks before. That gives you an idea how fast it is.
@@HaydenLau. it is a rip off of so many Western designs that are at least a decade old. If the Chinese cannot improve their Long March missiles to be better than essentially extended range Soyuz- it is extremely doubtful they would pioneer in anything as mundane as automotive. Their cars are as bad as their aircraft- which is why nearly no-one buys Chinese aircraft except the broke and the debt-trapped.
I bought a NIO ET5, which is a great EV car. Especially, its battery replacement strategy is very user-friendly. A whole fully charged 100kw/h battery can be replaced in 4 minutes.
Didn't Fararri or Pagani did similar thing ages ago? The one that Richard made a joke about renting Big Ben as a 'watch'. Edit: Silly me, hamster mention it on the video. I was reading the comment before hitting 2;49.
Essentially not really. No one else can drive it without your consent, so it's not like rental at all. If the storage, maintenance and all logistic that comes with it is included in the price, it's actually not a bad deal at all.
Looks and performance! It's not all about the straight line. This thing hugs the turns like no other electric car. The idea of swappable batteries is ideal for a race track-specific EV. You'll have your batteries swapped out in the time it takes them to change out the tires. Meanwhile, the competition is plugged in waiting 15+ minutes for their batteries to recharge. Now if I only had a few hundred million lying around I could finally fit into an RC car that I've been dreaming of doing since I was little.
I cannot believe more electronic devices with rechargeable batteries don't allow standardized size batteries with swap capability. Cell phones being a big and major example of this simple technology to save people's time. We used to have double a triple a c and d batteries that were somewhat standard in all electronics. But for cell phones, every model even within the same manufacturer requires its own specific battery. And many of them don't even want you to take it out easily and solder it shut inside the case.
Richard has managed not to set this on fire, well done to the camera men and film crew making this faster than it was, as Richard is no longer allowed to go over 80mph!
@@Mantulisme No, it was a racist comment. He was trying to down grade the chinese electric manufacturing car to say made in America is the best and faster. Typical American is bunch of racist.
@@hemanherbal4903 you are the racist, people who call other people racist for no reason are usually guilty of what they accuse others of being so look in the mirror when you say that. And the chinese most likely stole that tech from another country anyway nobody under a communist regime is creating this type of tech any other way.
The braking of this car looks great. Need to see more electric hypercars on race tracks than straight line races. Sure, the Plaid and Nevera are monsters in drag races, but I wonder how they will fair against this in a race course.
The Plaid was almost a minute slower than the EP9 on the Nurbergring, for a family sedan couldn’t brake or corner as fast as an electric race car. Other cars with about the same lap time has only half the power of it. I believe Rimac would do much better.
I think having a really long first gear definitely helps with handling. A lot of race cars have really long first and second gears for this reason. It really is an electric track car.
'Eyes have come forward, lungs are at the front again'. Interestingly, that is also what Hammond's surgeon said after 10 hours of operating time post the Rimac "tumble"
The pace at which these EV hypercars are progressing is mind bending. We went from 600 to 800, then 1000, 1300 and now 1900+ HP with the Rimac! This is a small sliver of time where there's still competition between EV & ICE. Given another decade, EV will be truly in a different galaxy.
Horsepower and top speed is one thing, driveability and drive feel is another. As far as road-based applications, electric has always been dead in the water from the start.
@@efferus LOL you have no clue what you are talking about. Ontop of horsepower BEVs also just have better Mass Distribution, Flexible Packing more space for better suspension & chassis bracing, then fine throttle control. The inherent qualities of a BEVs makes them great Driver's Cars with far more agile handling than though possible with it's high weight. Total Sprung Weight does not dictate handling, it's how the mass distributed in what shapes which dictates handling. As for Road application, the best use is a 2 door GT Coupe with 90kwh easily giving you 250 miles of spirited driving in about 1600kg. Basically a Canyon Carver.
Really wish the GT featured more of these sessions where they featured one car and presented it in their usual theatrical style. Really miss these from the series.
I mean, compared to crashing a jet car called "Vampire" and being in a coma and having amnesia... crashing an electric car on a corner and just rolling down a hill to wreck one leg IS a "little tumble". Of Hammond's two crashes, the Rimac was the "little" one.
In need for speed 2 special edition (1994) there was a futuristic bonus car that was just like this one, even made the same noise . Also unbelievable grip and acceleration
Richard the reason why they are changing the batteries over in that way is because its quicker to put a fully charged battery than waiting for it the charge up via a cable. Dur!
@@englishwithteachermarius5950 Its a track car, basically changing tires but with batteries, allowing easy access and replacement of them during a race can save you the few crucial seconds/minutes you need to gain the lead or to drive the car for longer. At the same time the old batteries are still usable and can be used after the second set has been dried so that you can actually drive your 1.1 million pound car for longer instead of waiting for it to charge up.
Doesn't even have to be Hammond... remember way back when the Stig crashed to Koenigsegg? No one knew who they were at the time, now they're going head to head against Bugatti lol
Curious to see how this video would be without all the music and sound effects. I reckon it'd be 90% Hammond screaming, 10% road noise, .01% engine hum.
That invoked a rather curious mental image for me... Imagine the roads of near future. Instead of normal cars going about their business at normal pace while producing moderate rumbling and super- / hypercar jockeys blasting past them with motors roaring, now we have glorified golf carts you can have a normal vocal intensity conversation in with little isolation... and "Hammonds" on these silly contraptions only barely not taking off, all the while screaming their lungs out. You just sit there having a chat with another passenger and then from behind you there is an approaching hysterical shouting, followed by a glimpse of a "hypercar" zooming past.
The way the breaks killed the power to a dead stop is insane. Remember Super Pursuit Mode in Knight Rider? Needed all the anti air filters to pop out to stop the car and it still didn't stop without skidding. This is real life though and we've just seen an unbelievable demonstration of emergency breaking, at break neck speed.
There wasnt RUclips back in say the 80s but when testing '0 to 100kph cars in the below 5 seconds range' back in the days, the exact same descriptions like 'insane, neck snapping, crazy power, eye popping etc etc' were used by car journalists back then.
@@recall2880 My point is that motor journalist necks and eyeballs have gotten stronger because they wont feel neck-snapping acceleration when reviewing 5 second cars today while their forebears would be raving about how their eyes were popping out.
Remember the progress: in 2016 when this car was new, 0-60 in 2.7s was apparently "insanity". In 2021, a Model S Plaid, which seats four with luggage reaches 2.2s without Launch/Cheetah on normal street surfaces and will hit below 2.1s with Launch mode enabled. That's what I call progress.
the limiting factor is not tech but our own evolution, our eyes, hands, reflexes, etc just haven't kept up to the advances, thats why cellphones all look the same now, not like we have extra fingers or hands to take advantage of anything more innovative they can do, eventually the cars will be too fast for us to control, so either give the control to the AI or limit the car to a point where we can safely control it. Tech will keep improving, which is amazing, we are a bit slow.
@@bighands69 umm yes they do? People race for 1/8 mile all the time. The plaid traps at 120mph in the 1/8th and 60mph is most of that 1/8 mile speed so people do care.
The fact that he is, well, him, and he *_STILL_* gets behind the wheel of supercars that go as as fast as a rocket, just speaks to his bravery. He's got balls of steel.
Hammond's reaction when it launches is like on a launched roller coaster sitting in the station at a dead standstill and suddenly flying out at like 70mph
I love you man, tried to Shazam it but without success.. went back into the comments to keep looking and there your comment was, right infront of me :] Great song btw 👍🏻
@@orneryokinawan4529 Cause it's the closest thing to paradise on earth, by far the best place to live, too bad brainwashing Western media loves to spread lies 24/7 and demonize everything about it.
@@orneryokinawan4529 a lot of places in china already better than a lot of states in the US in terms of safety, cleanliness, convenience and so on. what a ridiculous question. only an ignorant propaganda-fed person like you would ask this. would you rather live in san francisco today or hangzhou? you'd have to be insane to choose the former in every practical sense, aside from concerns of language barrier/culture barrier
it would make sense to me that electric roadsters will be this generation's hot rods. The modularisation and 4 wheel drive 'skateboard' platforms mean open season on how they can be made to a custom look.
@@BoatLoadsofDope I've felt that a substitute for the satisfying deep growl of a hot rod might come from the charge-up sounds from either capacitors or a microturbine generator spooling up, or both. The turbine would run hot at a stoplight, producing vapor from a coolant purge, simultaneous to a hypercapacitor chargeup for starting boost...
has he ever driven one???? Most of this footage is fake!!!!!!> Why do I say this? +look at 1.06.. the hyper warp outside the car confirms it... that is totally doctored by VFX. +Also.... the amount he is moving the steering wheel compared to the speed out the window DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!!! +One minute he is breaking in a forest... then stops in a field. (F OFF) + the fact he is looking at the camera talking (not the road) when movin at hyper-warp speed. +Nurberg footage is real (because he is not driving)>" +note you never see him in the car driving like top gear would show. +The fact it's fake footage is all covered up with fake camera shakes and editing to distract from the fact its fake. +You can also tell from the lighting outside the car compared to inside the car. +1.44 looks ridiculously fake .. steering wheel and hands have been blurred to match the fake 3d simulation footage outside,. Not saying the car isn't fast .. Richard Hammond has probably just been Paid a F TONne on Money ... to pretend he is driving it. Looks like Richard Hammond has sold OUT!!!!!!! Just my professional opinion.
You guys should start your own show. This is just oozing with old skool top gear! Awesome work The Grand Tour, And well done Hammond for not rolling it
This is far better than TOP GEAR ever was. Had this been BBC they would have done what they did to the TESLA ROADSTER had a script faking it breaking down and running out of energy.
I’m not sure how faste he was driving with the blurred exterior…thinking he drive safely with editing aimed to quash the bad vibes from the past. Not necessary for them to go about it that way
This was the only thing that turned me off Top Gear, I even wrote to them complaining about it, and I was sad to see they took the same editing team with them to The Grand Tour, and it's been getting worse and worse there.
Seriously going to miss these "reviews" - They was the best thing about The Grand Tour (and old top gear), New Grand Tour doesn't have the same appeal now :(
For a sportscar that's used rarely, this is actually a good way to do it. You buy two sets of batteries and change them once then charge them slowly later at home. For a normal day to day use it's unusable.
Given that this is a track only car it's actually a good system. This will let you swap out a pair of batteries and continue around the track while the other set charges. Given that it comes with it's own pit crew, i'd say that's a pretty good approach rather than having to wait between charge ups.
If Tesla can do the battery swap, I will buy a Tesla, unfortunately it takes 1 hour each time to get it charged in super charging station, while gas cars only take 5 minutes to fill up the tank, that is much more convenient than electric.
Before going off on ''the whole battery change scenario is a nightmare'' .. This car meets or exceeds the performance of an F1 racecar. Battery development only moves forward by companies that are willing to push the envelope.
NIO actually have battery changing stations just like petrol stations and its automated. So swapping out batteries takes minutes just like filling up with petrol. Also, you can rent and swap for a longer range battery than the one you bought with your car when you need the distance. How is that a nightmare?
All this thing needs now is the modulating voice box with the voice of William Daniels and finally we'd have an irl (as close as we'll ever get) K.I.T.T. Although it's Turbo Boost didn't launch it into the air... probably a good thing since it was Hammond in there.
Most of this footage is fake!!!!!!> Why do I say this? +look at 1.06.. the hyper warp outside the car confirms it... that is totally doctored by VFX. +Also.... the amount he is moving the steering wheel compared to the speed out the window DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!!! +One minute he is breaking in a forest... then stops in a field. (F OFF) + the fact he is looking at the camera talking (not the road) when movin at hyper-warp speed. +Nurberg footage is real (because he is not driving)>" +note you never see him in the car driving like top gear would show. +The fact it's fake footage is all covered up with fake camera shakes and editing to distract from the fact its fake. +You can also tell from the lighting outside the car compared to inside the car. +1.44 looks ridiculously fake .. steering wheel and hands have been blurred to match the fake 3d simulation footage outside,. Not saying the car isn't fast .. Richard Hammond has probably just been Paid a F TONne on Money ... to pretend he is driving it. Looks like Richard Hammond has sold OUT!!!!!!! Just my professional opinion.
In case anyone else was wondering, at 197 hp and 203 kg, the 2020 Yamaha R1 motorcycle has 970 hp/tonne. The street legal Kawasaki Ninja H2 has 228 hp @ 240 kg, 950 hp/tonne, while the H2R (not street legal) has 310 hp @ 216 kg - or 1435 hp/tonne 🥴
Don't get me wrong I am 100% a motorcycle guy put power to weight ratios on motorcycles are pretty useless as adding a rider will usually account for an additional 30 to 40% Weight.
I dunno how u do it...as gorgeous as that machine is, the video(and host/driver) and continuous fake effects annoyed the HECK out of me!! If i have often said "if i was given that car (most nice ones) i would probably sell it" ...in THIS case i m not even sure i would accept it for fear of screwing something up before selling it(cuz u have to charge it before u sell 🤣😂)!
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Raise your hand if you were worried for Hammond
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Worried whenever he gets in a fast car on a straight line
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The Grand Tour's Insurance People: **Sweating Intensifies**
mr wilman: hammond you idiot, our budget exceeded 23¥ !
Every I see these guys I always wonder about their insurance premiums.
Ita a promotion of the car. His life insurance maybe but not the car haha.
@@JHFMW Maybe, but someone has to cover the possibility of destroying a million dollar car driven by TV hosts with a penchant for dangerous "games".
@@CG-vn8iy yeah how about .. amazon? Haha
Hammond is a true G after all the crashes he still gets behind the wheel of monstrously fast cars. He has my respect 👏
Nah...his brain has forgotten he has crashed before
He keeps banging out asian cars on top gear. Why get him to test this car is my question
And who are you?
That’s one way to look at it. Go watch the video of the rimac hill climb where he crashes. From the start he looks terrified behind the wheel. So he knew the car was too much for him and his driving skills. Yet he still chose to push it. It was selfish on his part. Glad he’s okayc but Guaranteed if it was his car he wouldn’t have pushed it.
it's not a big deal
For those saying Richard shouldve reviewed the Rimac instead of this:
This video is from 2 years ago.
Nio EP9 was made in 2016.
Was wondering that. What episode is this from, because i might've missed it i think 😅
Or was this never released?
@@AmoghHarish Definitely released, but forgot what episode
@@AmoghHarish Season 3 episode 6, the Chinese one.
yup, but that rimac concept one was made in 2013. and its still faster than this.
@@dv6808 it's a concept though so what is your point ??? Lol
That Nio does 0-124 faster than a Aston Martin DB7 doing 0-60. 🤯
It's not your personal experience or opinion. You just Google the figures and try to put them as if you thought about those numbers.
Its because its electric, the electric motor will deliver maximum instant torque when you start kicking the pedal. Not like ICE where the maximum torque is at certain rpm
@@Dranreb865So?
@@inrain_bows so it has no value.
@@Dranreb865 WTF not relevant. Such acceleration numbers are just extreme, regardless if you experienced it or not.
Meanwhile in the Rimac factory: "interesting, but too late we've upped the game with 2000hp! Nevera".
This machine is crazy fast but the Nevera will eat it for breakfast :D
You do know this was an early 2019 episode right lol
The concept one is still faster than this. No need for the Nevera
@@JohnSmith-uy2jg where? in traffic?
This nio was introduced before the nevera
That leaves me with one question.... *how* does Hammond know it feels to drive an octopus? And do I really want to know the answer?
Mindy may not be what she appears to be. Lmao.
@@syc2543 Now I do know that I don't want to know the answer XD
Probably like the merc he drove on the sand dune
rich people have very weird sexual fixations
What is this? Men in black?
1:57 Hammonds "This is a bad place" pops in my head every now and then
A computer that almost drives itself without rolling, just what Hammond needs 🙂👍
But that computer should be able to do a loud exhaust sound in a tunnel automatically, and be able to do drift circles on public places
I think even with a "car" like this, Hammond is able to have an accident ;-)
Yes, he needs something with invisible, force field, outriggers to stabilize the car she keep it from rolling or going off road.
The guy almost died let's make fun of that every time he's in a car lol... Seriously, some of you need a reboot.
@@itsokay7989 I think it's more a matter of we really like Hammond and we don't want to see anything bad happen to him, so we engage in some good natured ribbing.
Even driving this flat out, you would still have a BMW driver behind flashing his lights wanting to get past
Or a 7m long white citroen jumper hdi delivery van
with his exhaust popping and banging.
@@Ivan-jz9by a rusty one
Or a white van tailgating.
none of those vehicles could even keep up with this things speed though.... this thing is one of the fastest vehicles around.
Electrical cars instant torque is just amazing to feel. I drove the Polestar 2, and was amazed to say the least!
I drove an electric car at the fair but I couldn't really enjoy it since everyone else was bumping their electric car into mine.
At this point im pretty sure they are trying to kill Hammond off, we all know his track record with fast cars.
pretty sure he volunteers himself to drive those powerhouses
My tummy hurts...that's too funny. Stop now
He's survived so much that would have killed or permanently disabled most people. Richard is a human HiLux
Now we just need someone that can crash it and survive
Wait, we have one
Hammond is quite the radroach 😂
My first thought!!
Some say...
@crabhat1 bruh
Max Verstappen will do
"You drive it, crap yourself, and they come and hose it out for you" is just a flat-out brilliant piece of scripting. Hat tip there.
Kinda proud i was part of the team that developed the batteries for this vehicle.
Hope Hammond had fresh boxers after that 🤣
Weeds ft the up in ok
Wow. What kind of battery used in this Nio Ev supercar ?
Got this bit right - "It's like, one minute I'm here and the next minute... BAM!"
So is this one of the taglines for this car? "Grip so good, even Richard Hammond can't crash it"
If it isn't it should be
Yet - only driven it once on a racetrack.
Very intelligent from hamster for not driving the car near a cliff
was the... hamster part based on hammond from overwatch?
Man oh man. I dont even know how to express my impress. Whew. That baby is something out of this world.
This car was almost as fast on the goodwood hill climb as the VW IDR.... which got the fastest time up pikes peak EVER only a few weeks before. That gives you an idea how fast it is.
not impressive. Sorry Communist apologist.
@@markiobook8639 EP9 is completely build in UK by the nio European Team🫠🫠🫠🫠
@@markiobook8639 cry more
@@markiobook8639
Not .. impressive....? That thing is so fast
@@HaydenLau. it is a rip off of so many Western designs that are at least a decade old. If the Chinese cannot improve their Long March missiles to be better than essentially extended range Soyuz- it is extremely doubtful they would pioneer in anything as mundane as automotive. Their cars are as bad as their aircraft- which is why nearly no-one buys Chinese aircraft except the broke and the debt-trapped.
I feel like we've been here before...
Said Richard as he walks into his front room
Deja vu!
Rimac: "yeah we don't have any newer cars" *hides Neverra*
hahahahahahah good one
seems this one came out in 2016?
One of the most beautiful cars I've seen.
Ur mom
@@spapauw9384 no the car in the video.
@@spapauw9384 definitely not your mom
I bought a NIO ET5, which is a great EV car. Especially, its battery replacement strategy is very user-friendly. A whole fully charged 100kw/h battery can be replaced in 4 minutes.
Rich man.
do you keep spare battery in the boot ?
@@LevyHappyClapperet5可以快速更换电池 只需要5分钟 驾驶员不用下车就能完成❤
i've one too😅
And a what cost?
2:49 So essentially you'd be paying more than a million pounds for a rental.
Sort-of like NetJets, then - a really low-flying electric jet.
It's not about the money though, and considering how little the prospective buyer would drive it, it makes sense.
Didn't Fararri or Pagani did similar thing ages ago? The one that Richard made a joke about renting Big Ben as a 'watch'.
Edit: Silly me, hamster mention it on the video. I was reading the comment before hitting 2;49.
Essentially not really. No one else can drive it without your consent, so it's not like rental at all. If the storage, maintenance and all logistic that comes with it is included in the price, it's actually not a bad deal at all.
@@penusliski you're crazy. If I bought something that expensive I want it at my house.
Looks and performance! It's not all about the straight line. This thing hugs the turns like no other electric car. The idea of swappable batteries is ideal for a race track-specific EV. You'll have your batteries swapped out in the time it takes them to change out the tires. Meanwhile, the competition is plugged in waiting 15+ minutes for their batteries to recharge. Now if I only had a few hundred million lying around I could finally fit into an RC car that I've been dreaming of doing since I was little.
except the Tesla, 15+ seconds faster.
@@tedmoss 15+ seconds faster than what? swapping batteries is what Nio does best and its the way to go even when super charging stations.
@@tedmoss The only thing Tesla does better at is being crap.
@@tedmoss but then you'll have the huge downside of being a Tesla driver
I cannot believe more electronic devices with rechargeable batteries don't allow standardized size batteries with swap capability. Cell phones being a big and major example of this simple technology to save people's time. We used to have double a triple a c and d batteries that were somewhat standard in all electronics. But for cell phones, every model even within the same manufacturer requires its own specific battery. And many of them don't even want you to take it out easily and solder it shut inside the case.
Richard has managed not to set this on fire, well done to the camera men and film crew making this faster than it was, as Richard is no longer allowed to go over 80mph!
Racist
@@hemanherbal4903 Did that hurt your feelings? Oh dear, let me put that on my IDGFL!
@@hemanherbal4903 you mean Racer?
@@Mantulisme No, it was a racist comment. He was trying to down grade the chinese electric manufacturing car to say made in America is the best and faster. Typical American is bunch of racist.
@@hemanherbal4903 you are the racist, people who call other people racist for no reason are usually guilty of what they accuse others of being so look in the mirror when you say that. And the chinese most likely stole that tech from another country anyway nobody under a communist regime is creating this type of tech any other way.
The braking of this car looks great. Need to see more electric hypercars on race tracks than straight line races. Sure, the Plaid and Nevera are monsters in drag races, but I wonder how they will fair against this in a race course.
If forza has any realism to it ep9 is FAR better at cornering than the Rimac concept 2
They did a record on the Nürburgring and it's pretty decent.
The Plaid was almost a minute slower than the EP9 on the Nurbergring, for a family sedan couldn’t brake or corner as fast as an electric race car. Other cars with about the same lap time has only half the power of it. I believe Rimac would do much better.
I think having a really long first gear definitely helps with handling. A lot of race cars have really long first and second gears for this reason. It really is an electric track car.
@@ChrisSmallman1981 And it is. I’ve played the game, it corners WAY better than the Nevera.
Hammond should drive the new Rimac Nevera
You want to kill the man? 😂
Should he tho? Because the last time he drove a Rimac, it didn't end too well for him
Hammond should probably just stop driving fast cars at this point.
@@patrickracer43 This one comes with a fire extinguisher
@@Zippiye0001 The Nevera didn't actually has fire extinguisher. It is the Concept two that has.
Where is the footage of Hamster driving an actual octopus? 😳😂
The octopus ordered it censored.
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Ask the wife/octopus....
For a second there I read that as "driving anal octopus" - I need to clean my filthy mind with bleach
I wish the Stig could put his time and signature on it.
I am watching Grand tour and topgear over and over again.
Please bring back the episodes. We all need more of that.
The way this is filmed is driving me crazy ,no pun intended. Huge props to the whole crew I'm absolutely amazed.
Fake video though :)
I feel the same way like he didn't even drive the car 😕
'Eyes have come forward, lungs are at the front again'. Interestingly, that is also what Hammond's surgeon said after 10 hours of operating time post the Rimac "tumble"
Lol
Brilliant!
Insurance Agent: How much insurance did you want for the Grand Tour filming?
NIO: *YES* (slapping desk furiously)
3:42 that shot, editing, and form of presentation is just beautiful
The most impressive thing about this is that Hammond didn’t crash
I'm pretty sure he crashed after the cameras stopped
Oh he did they just have good editors
He Crushed in to an octopus
He’s not even driving so… 😅
It's been 5 years since this car was made. But thanks for the throwback, always cool to see any one of the old Top Gear trio on the screen.
The pace at which these EV hypercars are progressing is mind bending. We went from 600 to 800, then 1000, 1300 and now 1900+ HP with the Rimac! This is a small sliver of time where there's still competition between EV & ICE. Given another decade, EV will be truly in a different galaxy.
Horsepower and top speed is one thing, driveability and drive feel is another. As far as road-based applications, electric has always been dead in the water from the start.
@@efferus LOL you have no clue what you are talking about. Ontop of horsepower BEVs also just have better Mass Distribution, Flexible Packing more space for better suspension & chassis bracing, then fine throttle control. The inherent qualities of a BEVs makes them great Driver's Cars with far more agile handling than though possible with it's high weight. Total Sprung Weight does not dictate handling, it's how the mass distributed in what shapes which dictates handling. As for Road application, the best use is a 2 door GT Coupe with 90kwh easily giving you 250 miles of spirited driving in about 1600kg. Basically a Canyon Carver.
@@Neojhun nowadays we can get about 300 miles out of half that charge
@@efferus 汽车从最初就应该是电车，由电力驱动，内燃机时代只是错误的弯路，电动车更加高效更加清洁更加极致
@@efferus 只是很短的时间内电动车就完成了内燃机 70 年的成就，再过 10 年，1500 匹马了的车会成为普遍现象
Really wish the GT featured more of these sessions where they featured one car and presented it in their usual theatrical style. Really miss these from the series.
I'm surprised they let Hammond test drive it after what happened with the Rimac 😅🤣🤣🤣
I'm sure they got the whole fire bigade and a field hospital on the side of the track just in case XD
@@s.31.l50 XD lmaooo 🤣
@@s.31.l50 and definitely a scissor to cut his pants open
I'm 2 mins into the video and you can clearly see he's not really driving the car.
@@Vertical-sandwiches how?
New Rimac Nevera has 1914 hp
Your point being?
@@phantomgamingstore It’s more powerful… thought that was obvious 😂😂
@@captainelliot8767 The Nevera was fine tuned and produced after the EP9, surely it would be better. Thought that was obvious.
@@phantomgamingstore Not when the comment is about literal horsepower and not “FiNe-TuNiNg” or when the car was produced 💀
@@captainelliot8767 jokes on you. The video we're on is about the EP9. So why is the Nevera needed here? Topkek.
Great to see one of the trio back in a car review, now can we have a monthly hour long Conversation Street please? 🙏🏻
As an investor of the company, very proud
I can't wait for Nio cars be on sale in the UK, they look great
@PREDATORSIAN nah, I prefer the Nio, it looks awesome
"...Rimac Concept 1, in which I had my little tumble"
That's an interesting way of describing almost dying in a mechanical contraption!
They should have added a ejectable teleportation for the driver
I mean, compared to crashing a jet car called "Vampire" and being in a coma and having amnesia... crashing an electric car on a corner and just rolling down a hill to wreck one leg IS a "little tumble". Of Hammond's two crashes, the Rimac was the "little" one.
In need for speed 2 special edition (1994) there was a futuristic bonus car that was just like this one, even made the same noise . Also unbelievable grip and acceleration
Are you talking about fzr2000
Richard you are my favourite. Thanks for the hours and hours of joy and entertainment
Surprised we didn’t Clarkson in one of the fields playing farmer.
I was actually looking for a grey Lambo Tractor trying to keep up… or plow through the course from left to right…
"Harry is that you, kindly get me out of here before it catches fire".
Clarkson: stands there laughing.
This was filmed some time in 2018 and was on the grand tour in 2019. The farm didn't start recording till mid 2019 so timing is out a little haha
Richard the reason why they are changing the batteries over in that way is because its quicker to put a fully charged battery than waiting for it the charge up via a cable. Dur!
And 10000000 more expensive... a big fail
@@englishwithteachermarius5950 Its a track car, basically changing tires but with batteries, allowing easy access and replacement of them during a race can save you the few crucial seconds/minutes you need to gain the lead or to drive the car for longer. At the same time the old batteries are still usable and can be used after the second set has been dried so that you can actually drive your 1.1 million pound car for longer instead of waiting for it to charge up.
If hammond hadn’t have wrecked that Rimac many less people would know the name Rimac. In a way having hammond wreck a car is good for business 😂
Right, I dont think ive seen or heard anything about Rimac that wasnt associated with the Hamster
I believe they sold more cars than they ever intended to as a result of Hammond's crash.
And now they are planning to take over Bugatti from VW 😄
Doesn't even have to be Hammond... remember way back when the Stig crashed to Koenigsegg? No one knew who they were at the time, now they're going head to head against Bugatti lol
No doubt
LOL very entertaining video. Now I want to experience this myself!
Curious to see how this video would be without all the music and sound effects. I reckon it'd be 90% Hammond screaming, 10% road noise, .01% engine hum.
On god
Just right 👌🏼
That invoked a rather curious mental image for me... Imagine the roads of near future. Instead of normal cars going about their business at normal pace while producing moderate rumbling and super- / hypercar jockeys blasting past them with motors roaring, now we have glorified golf carts you can have a normal vocal intensity conversation in with little isolation... and "Hammonds" on these silly contraptions only barely not taking off, all the while screaming their lungs out.
You just sit there having a chat with another passenger and then from behind you there is an approaching hysterical shouting, followed by a glimpse of a "hypercar" zooming past.
The way the breaks killed the power to a dead stop is insane.
Remember Super Pursuit Mode in Knight Rider? Needed all the anti air filters to pop out to stop the car and it still didn't stop without skidding.
This is real life though and we've just seen an unbelievable demonstration of emergency breaking, at break neck speed.
Regenerative braking? Magnets are a heck of a thing.
Try 'Brakes'
There wasnt RUclips back in say the 80s but when testing '0 to 100kph cars in the below 5 seconds range' back in the days, the exact same descriptions like 'insane, neck snapping, crazy power, eye popping etc etc' were used by car journalists back then.
And audiophiles have been talking about ever-increasing levels of hi-fi perfection for over 40 years too...
Well yes we still all used words back then too
@@recall2880 My point is that motor journalist necks and eyeballs have gotten stronger because they wont feel neck-snapping acceleration when reviewing 5 second cars today while their forebears would be raving about how their eyes were popping out.
1:06 You when you ride a roller coaster and you've never been on a roller coaster before
Fantastic!! This is literally like the classic Top review videos I’ve always loved! I thought that was over, but this is fabulous to see!
Remember the progress: in 2016 when this car was new, 0-60 in 2.7s was apparently "insanity". In 2021, a Model S Plaid, which seats four with luggage reaches 2.2s without Launch/Cheetah on normal street surfaces and will hit below 2.1s with Launch mode enabled. That's what I call progress.
the limiting factor is not tech but our own evolution, our eyes, hands, reflexes, etc just haven't kept up to the advances, thats why cellphones all look the same now, not like we have extra fingers or hands to take advantage of anything more innovative they can do, eventually the cars will be too fast for us to control, so either give the control to the AI or limit the car to a point where we can safely control it. Tech will keep improving, which is amazing, we are a bit slow.
No body actually cares about 0-60 times.
@@bighands69 Seems like the RUclips algorithm doesn't agree.
@@bighands69 not since EVs arrived. Now it's all about the sound and smell; that's the "real soul".
@@bighands69 umm yes they do? People race for 1/8 mile all the time. The plaid traps at 120mph in the 1/8th and 60mph is most of that 1/8 mile speed so people do care.
The fact that he is, well, him, and he *_STILL_* gets behind the wheel of supercars that go as as fast as a rocket, just speaks to his bravery.
He's got balls of steel.
So when he crashes it and is burnt to ashes all that is left of him are 2 prosthetic bollocks?
@@mk2nathan and a white tooth
@@grom69 lol
Or arrogance
Or his stupidity.
Hammond's reaction when it launches is like on a launched roller coaster sitting in the station at a dead standstill and suddenly flying out at like 70mph
'The brakes...whoa!!! Now that's put everything back where it should be. My eyes have come forward, my lungs are on the front again!' - lol
“This is just insanity”!
I wanna drive one now!
The song at launch is Elevate, by Snavs. :) That took a while to find.
Embrace Shazam.
I love you man, tried to Shazam it but without success.. went back into the comments to keep looking and there your comment was, right infront of me :] Great song btw 👍🏻
As soon as I saw that title my brain went "OH JESUS! Not again!"
Now I’m sure that somebody drove an octopus once, and crashed it
I bet that insurance company have a great time seeing this 😂
it has a DRS , IT HAS A DRS , THIS THING IS INSANE
This thing looks ASTONISHING! I hope we'll get to have it in Forza Horizon 5!
:(
Now you get it😏
The very thought of him test driving anything at 200mph makes my hair stand up
it was 200 kph not mph it was written wrong
5:42 this reaction is gold 😂
The EP9 is insane! I lived 3km from a dealership in Hangzhou, China. It is nuts in person.
Why would you live in China?
@@orneryokinawan4529 Aircraft owner made me an offer I couldn't refuse- lot of $! Plus, Hangzhou, is a beautiful city in China!
@@orneryokinawan4529 Cause it's the closest thing to paradise on earth, by far the best place to live, too bad brainwashing Western media loves to spread lies 24/7 and demonize everything about it.
@@orneryokinawan4529 a lot of places in china already better than a lot of states in the US in terms of safety, cleanliness, convenience and so on. what a ridiculous question. only an ignorant propaganda-fed person like you would ask this. would you rather live in san francisco today or hangzhou? you'd have to be insane to choose the former in every practical sense, aside from concerns of language barrier/culture barrier
1:04 - When you touch your hot bowl of cold food straight out of the microwave
Amazing Gran Turismo 7 teaser! I'm definitely picking Hammond as my character.
it would make sense to me that electric roadsters will be this generation's hot rods. The modularisation and 4 wheel drive 'skateboard' platforms mean open season on how they can be made to a custom look.
An electric Mazda MX-5 would be a dream.
Gonna miss the noise though
Yea.. if we can get out of lockdown...
@@KS-ok4ym Wdym?
@@BoatLoadsofDope I've felt that a substitute for the satisfying deep growl of a hot rod might come from the charge-up sounds from either capacitors or a microturbine generator spooling up, or both. The turbine would run hot at a stoplight, producing vapor from a coolant purge, simultaneous to a hypercapacitor chargeup for starting boost...
this fucking thing has a soul though... I can't even with tesla's... but this fucking thing
The question is...has Hammond crashed an octopus?
He probably did
Close the car cracked up cuz it’s Chineez 😏
has he ever driven one????
Most of this footage is fake!!!!!!>
Why do I say this?
+look at 1.06.. the hyper warp outside the car confirms it... that is totally doctored by VFX.
+Also.... the amount he is moving the steering wheel compared to the speed out the window DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!!!
+One minute he is breaking in a forest... then stops in a field. (F OFF)
+ the fact he is looking at the camera talking (not the road) when movin at hyper-warp speed.
+Nurberg footage is real (because he is not driving)>"
+note you never see him in the car driving like top gear would show.
+The fact it's fake footage is all covered up with fake camera shakes and editing to distract from the fact its fake.
+You can also tell from the lighting outside the car compared to inside the car. +1.44 looks ridiculously fake .. steering wheel and hands have been blurred to match the fake 3d simulation footage outside,.
Not saying the car isn't fast ..
Richard Hammond has probably just been Paid a F TONne on Money ... to pretend he is driving it.
Looks like Richard Hammond has sold OUT!!!!!!!
Just my professional opinion.
WHAT A BEAST OF A CAR FOR SURE.
You guys should start your own show. This is just oozing with old skool top gear! Awesome work The Grand Tour, And well done Hammond for not rolling it
This is far better than TOP GEAR ever was. Had this been BBC they would have done what they did to the TESLA ROADSTER had a script faking it breaking down and running out of energy.
When these guys finally call it a day, I think many many many people will fall completely out of the loop of new cars coming out
"it's like driving a jet engine"
except that the wheels didn't explode
5:42 - pure joy!
Since I can’t afford the car I’ll settle into buying nio stock. Now off I go in search of an octopus to drive!
Hammond hyped himself over and depressed himself almost immediately mentioning a drivable jet engine
It's a shame this is so over-edited. It honestly brings suspicion to the integrity of the review.
I was thinking that
I’m not sure how faste he was driving with the blurred exterior…thinking he drive safely with editing aimed to quash the bad vibes from the past. Not necessary for them to go about it that way
It looks like a first year creative who just discovered motion blur for the first time and doesn't know what reality looks like
Exactly, I wanted that launch to be natural
This was the only thing that turned me off Top Gear, I even wrote to them complaining about it, and I was sad to see they took the same editing team with them to The Grand Tour, and it's been getting worse and worse there.
Insane!! But i think all car with electric engines on the wheels have these great results… big smile on your face!!
Wouldn't it make more sense for the team to carry spare batteries and just switch them?
I'm guessing they're not that cheap and they don't have many of them
@@filippo8495 For a car that costs 1.5 mil, I'm sure a few more hundred grand for the extra batteries wouldn't be an issue for the buyer.
@@akmal94ibrahim "a few more hundred thousand grand" - not really your native language, is it??
@@thequietkiwi And? What's your point?
You were able to understand and that's the whole point of languages, communication.
Chill out Bukowski!
@@hadyhalawy4628 lol
As soon as the camera shut off he burst into flames
just in case you missed it, this is an excerpt from an older grand tour show
The fact that you have to edit the video to make the car seem anything other than as boring as your grandmothers microwave is absolutely comedic.
Sour
Stunning car! All Nio cars are beautiful. I think Nio making the best Ev cars in the world.
I 2nd that sir
No cars stopped looking good I the 80s they should look like boxes like a datsun 720
Seriously going to miss these "reviews" - They was the best thing about The Grand Tour (and old top gear), New Grand Tour doesn't have the same appeal now :(
new top gear*
@@cyberdemon6517 nope I'm talking about the old top gear when the 3 guys hosted...
i thought you meant new top gear doesnt have that appeal
That whole battery change scenario is a nightmare
For a sportscar that's used rarely, this is actually a good way to do it. You buy two sets of batteries and change them once then charge them slowly later at home. For a normal day to day use it's unusable.
Given that this is a track only car it's actually a good system. This will let you swap out a pair of batteries and continue around the track while the other set charges. Given that it comes with it's own pit crew, i'd say that's a pretty good approach rather than having to wait between charge ups.
If Tesla can do the battery swap, I will buy a Tesla, unfortunately it takes 1 hour each time to get it charged in super charging station, while gas cars only take 5 minutes to fill up the tank, that is much more convenient than electric.
Before going off on ''the whole battery change scenario is a nightmare'' .. This car meets or exceeds the performance of an F1 racecar. Battery development only moves forward by companies that are willing to push the envelope.
NIO actually have battery changing stations just like petrol stations and its automated. So swapping out batteries takes minutes just like filling up with petrol. Also, you can rent and swap for a longer range battery than the one you bought with your car when you need the distance. How is that a nightmare?
All this thing needs now is the modulating voice box with the voice of William Daniels and finally we'd have an irl (as close as we'll ever get) K.I.T.T. Although it's Turbo Boost didn't launch it into the air... probably a good thing since it was Hammond in there.
Acceleration is phenomenal!! So useful in Central London -- 0 to 20 mph (limit) in 0.89 seconds.
Central London wasn't a racetrack last time I checked...
Richard doesn't have bad memories driving a jet engine, he doesn't remember it... lmao
2:09 that is a really cool piece of cinematography.
Yes. Like something out of a James Bond movie.
What the bit where the car drove down the road or the bit where the car drove passed the camera?
Most of this footage is fake!!!!!!>
Why do I say this?
+look at 1.06.. the hyper warp outside the car confirms it... that is totally doctored by VFX.
+Also.... the amount he is moving the steering wheel compared to the speed out the window DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!!!
+One minute he is breaking in a forest... then stops in a field. (F OFF)
+ the fact he is looking at the camera talking (not the road) when movin at hyper-warp speed.
+Nurberg footage is real (because he is not driving)>"
+note you never see him in the car driving like top gear would show.
+The fact it's fake footage is all covered up with fake camera shakes and editing to distract from the fact its fake.
+You can also tell from the lighting outside the car compared to inside the car. +1.44 looks ridiculously fake .. steering wheel and hands have been blurred to match the fake 3d simulation footage outside,.
Not saying the car isn't fast ..
Richard Hammond has probably just been Paid a F TONne on Money ... to pretend he is driving it.
Looks like Richard Hammond has sold OUT!!!!!!!
Just my professional opinion.
In case anyone else was wondering, at 197 hp and 203 kg, the 2020 Yamaha R1 motorcycle has 970 hp/tonne.
The street legal Kawasaki Ninja H2 has 228 hp @ 240 kg, 950 hp/tonne, while the H2R (not street legal) has 310 hp @ 216 kg - or 1435 hp/tonne 🥴
Don't get me wrong I am 100% a motorcycle guy put power to weight ratios on motorcycles are pretty useless as adding a rider will usually account for an additional 30 to 40% Weight.
@@peaceinoutb yeah true. The R1 is then maybe down to the same as this car? The H2R would still be far ahead
Rimac: "dont give him our nevera or it will never come back"
That battery swap could be so efficient if optimized to a race scenario
Absolutely. Have batteries on standby and swap them in like tires on an F1 car
I rewatch this clip about once every 2 months to remind myself that my car insurance payments could be MUCH higher, like Hammond's.
I dunno how u do it...as gorgeous as that machine is, the video(and host/driver) and continuous fake effects annoyed the HECK out of me!! If i have often said "if i was given that car (most nice ones) i would probably sell it" ...in THIS case i m not even sure i would accept it for fear of screwing something up before selling it(cuz u have to charge it before u sell 🤣😂)!
The colour and design is incredible