You see that green E30 BMW laying waste to the BMW M6? It’s a full-on electric conversion. The M6 that is currently having it’s own backside handed to it on a silver platter came with 500hp on tap…it’s no shrinking violet by a wide measure, but with the one benefit of being an all-electric being a tidal wave of torque off of the line, the M6 had no chance…even when the 3-series was blowing it’s tires clean off.
The car is officially the Rimac Automobili e-M3, but it’s more famous as Rimac’s “Green Monster” test car. Originally built by company founder Mate Rimac as a drift car, when he blew the engine up he decided to make the move to electric propulsion. After several developmental forms and evolutions, the final product is what you see here. The numbers are impressive: 600hp, over 660 ft/lb torque, a 0-60 time right around the three second mark, and 11.8 quarter mile times. This is one bad Beemer, regardless of what’s powering it. The cool note is that all of the electric components inside the car were developed by Rimac and a small team of engineers and mechanics. Since the e-M3 was finished up in 2012, Rimac Automobili shifted to automobile manufacturing with the first vehicle, the Rimac Concept_One, going on sale in 2013. Not bad for starting out with a dead drift car.
Click play below and to see this little beast scream roar …uh, whisper violently?
That is a sick little scooter for sure. I kind of want this drive train in a 1st gen Honda insight. Slap on some PETA and Coexist stickers then go slap around the new Mustangs and Camaros as they pull out the dealers lot. Man that would be fun.