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Time of India
5 days ago
- Automotive
- Time of India
Luka Doncic adds 14th car to his fabulous collection with rare $2million hypercar after signing Los Angeles Lakers deal
Luka Doncic signed a $165 million contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers. The new money earned from the contract has given the NBA star all the right reasons to swell up his car collection. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now And he did it in style. For adding a 14th car to his mind-blowing car collection, he has gone this time for a rare beauty. It is Rimac Nevera, an all-electric hypercar, priced at $2 million. Luka's car collection already features a Lamborghini, Mercedes, Porsche, etc. The new car has indeed upgraded his collection with something exclusive, as there are only 150 units manufactured of this make. Luka Doncic spends $2 million on a rare hypercar Rimac Nevera Los Angeles Lakers forward Luka Doncic is a bona fide lover of swanky cars. His latest addition to his eye-popping car collection is proof. The NBA star has signed a mammoth $165 million contract extension deal with the Los Angeles Lakers. It has given him the right resources to expand his garage with more beauties. This time, he has chosen a very rare Rimac Nevera to be his new travel partner. Rimac Nevera is Bugatti Rimac's exclusive vehicle, with only 150 units available so far. This rare automobile wonder is an all-electric hypercar, uber stylish in looks. Luka was spotted driving the beauty recently, turning heads with the car's stunning design and color. This new car is his 14th purchase and will be adding more oomph to his already boastful collection. Luka Doncic loves driving, calls it his 'personal time' Luka Doncic finds driving a perfect pastime to wind down. He spoke in a previous interview with a Men's magazine about what driving meant to him. The Los Angeles Lakers' valuable forward shared: 'I like to drive. It's personal time. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now I drive everywhere. Sometimes late at night, just around. In the summer, I like to drive by the water.' With LA's vast coastline, Luka will not need to struggle to find the perfect spot to drive. He will always have a suitable beach to drive by to enjoy his swanky car collection that now boasts the fastest electric car. Rimac Nevera's top speed is 258mph and was tested at a high-speed track in Papenburg, Germany. Luka previously shared that he loved cars since his childhood. He shared how he started collecting cars, and later, with NBA fame grew his garage, filfilling his childhood dreams. With such a glorious NBA career to boast, more cars are sure to be added to the Lakers star's collection. Also Read:
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
NBA Fans React As Luka Doncic Spends $2 Million On Rare Car With Only 150 Units In The World
NBA Fans React As Luka Doncic Spends $2 Million On Rare Car With Only 150 Units In The World originally appeared on Fadeaway World. Luka Doncic recently inked a $165 million contract extension that keeps him with the Lakers until the end of the 2027-28 season. The Lakers have publicly admitted Doncic will be the franchise's cornerstone for the foreseeable future. Therefore, Doncic's future in LA is now secure. He did not take a lot of time to start spending big in LA as well. Doncic seems to have bought a rare hypercar, the Rimac Nevera, which, according to sources, has only 150 units available in the whole world. The Croatian car maker's fully electric hypercar has a hefty price tag of $2 million and could go as high as $2.2 million, but that is nothing for Doncic, looking at how much money he is set to earn in the future. Doncic was spotted driving the addition to his collection of cars in LA, and the video went viral on the internet. Fans took to various social media platforms and expressed their fascination with Doncic's luxury purchase. "The real reason he got in shape was so he could fit into this car," said a fan on Reddit hilariously in the context of Doncic's recent body transformation. "It's the fastest car in the world, you gotta lose weight or else you're literally weighing it down too much when you're talking about fractions of a second." Yes, the Nevera has a top speed of 258 mph and is indeed the fastest electric car in the world, but body weight does not correlate with Doncic's decision, as he has no interest in competing with a rare car like that. "If NBA players go broke today making $50 million/year, there's something mentally wrong with them. I could see how 90's players like Shawn Kemp go broke with like 3million/year contracts. Taxes and agent cut that in half, then a mansion and a few nice cars could easily evaporate that 3 million." "Those streets aren't worthy." "He might have the best car collection in the league." "Luka has such a varied and unique car collection. You can tell he loves cars." According to an interview with Esquire, Luka Doncic previously had 13 cars in his collection already before adding Rimac Nevera to it, likely making this the 14th car in his collection. 'I like to drive. It's personal time,' he said in the interview. 'I drive everywhere. Sometimes late at night, just around. In the summer, I like to drive by the water.' Doncic will now have a 75-mile coastline with 20 different beaches to drive by in LA with the fastest electric car in the world. It must be fascinating to have so much story was originally reported by Fadeaway World on Aug 8, 2025, where it first appeared.
Auto Car
29-07-2025
- Automotive
- Auto Car
Maserati 'cancelled' the electric MC20 - but don't write it off for good...
The electric version of the Maserati MC20 supercar could still see the light of day if the market picks up, says Maserati, after it cancelled the model earlier this year, citing insufficient demand. Promising huge power and similar dynamics to those of the V6 car, the MC20 Folgore would have been the first electric supercar on sale – the circa-2000bhp Rimac Nevera, Pininfarina Battista and Lotus Evija meriting full-bore hypercar status. Its potentially seminal status was ultimately its downfall, though, with nothing comparable on sale against which it could be benchmarked. Maserati wasn't confident it would attract a sufficient number of buyers away from V6 and V8-engined alternatives to recoup the substantial development costs. Maserati CEO Santo Ficili stands by the decision and told Autocar: 'I don't think it's the right time to take this kind of supercar in the electrification direction.' But he added that the MC20 Folgore project was on pause, rather than cancelled, and the car could yet make production as the MCPura Folgore. 'Let's say we will see,' he said when asked if the firm's supercar could yet go electric. 'The project is [advanced], but we decided to wait to understand what is going to happen.' There are no immediate plans to begin development again. Ficili said: 'We have this fantastic [V6] engine that is to the satisfaction of our customers. We hold a different kind of power. This is our engine at this time.' He added that he did not have the 'crystal ball' to see when there will be a market for an electric supercar, and that it was crucial 'to have the customer ready to buy a car like this' before investing further. In the meantime, Ficili went as far as to suggest Maserati could launch a new ICE-powered, manual-shifting super-GT flagship, in partnership with Alfa Romeo. This would be likely to use the 3.0-litre twin-turbo Nettuno V6 that powers the MC20 and Granturismo. The firm's technical boss Davide Danesin Maserati engineering boss Davide Danesin said "there are still customers looking for pure mechanical cars,' because they have a 'bad feeling' about having a battery on board a supercar, due to the heightened complexity and extra weight it brings.
Bloomberg
10-07-2025
- Automotive
- Bloomberg
Rimac's Slow-Selling Nevera R Is the World's Fastest Production EV
A Rimac Nevera R reached 268.2 mph at the Automotive Testing Papenburg facility last week in Germany, a feat the Croatian hypercar maker is calling a world record for the top speed of an electric vehicle. 'Breaking records is in our DNA, and we won't stop here,' Mate Rimac, founder and president of Rimac Group, and chief executive officer of Bugatti Rimac and Rimac Technology, said in a press statement. The 'R' stands for radical, relentless and rebellious, Rimac said when he introduced the €2.3 million ($2.7 million) electric hypercar during Monterey Car Week last year.
The Citizen
16-06-2025
- Automotive
- The Citizen
Watch: Xiaomi's SU7 Ultra snatches EV record fat the Nürburgring
Xiaomi may be a household name because of the cellphones they produce but now the Chinese tech brand's SU7 Ultra electric sedan has beaten two of the biggest names in high-performance EVs at the Nürburgring. With a lap time of 7:04.957, the production-spec SU7 Ultra went quicker than the Rimac Nevera and Porsche Taycan Turbo GT. To put that in perspective, the Nevera previously lapped the track in 7:05.298, and the Taycan Turbo GT managed 7:07.55. This makes the Xiaomi the quickest production EV around the 'Ring so far. The car used for the lap was a full production model, though fitted with the brand's optional track package. It's still nearly 18 seconds slower than the heavily modified prototype that ran last year, but beating Porsche and Rimac in a showroom-ready car is a strong statement that the Chinese brand wanted to make. The company hasn't named the driver behind the wheel, but it did release full onboard footage of the run. That video, now on the official Nürburgring YouTube channel, shows the car hitting 345km/h on the long straight. Xiaomi claims a top speed of 350km/h, so it wasn't far off. Power comes from three electric motors delivering up to 1 138kW and 1 770Nm of torque. The 0 to 100km/h sprint takes just 1.89s. But not all that power is available from the start. Out of the box, the car is limited to around 662kW. To unlock the rest, owners need to complete a qualifying lap on a Xiaomi-approved track. Once verified, the car enables full performance through a software update. Related: China's Electric Xiaomi SU7 Snatches Sedan Record at Nürburgring Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says this is just the beginning. With a record-breaking lap already under its belt, the SU7 Ultra shows the company isn't just testing the waters, it's diving straight in. Watch the video: Click here and browse thousands of new and used vehicles here with CARmag! The post Xiaomi's SU7 Ultra Snatches EV Record From Porsche and Rimac at the Nürburgring appeared first on CAR Magazine.
