Alex Oagana
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Personal motto:
Suck, squeeze, bang, blow. (no pun intended)
His parents almost called the police the day after he got his driving license, suspecting their car had been stolen. Little did they know that Alex had went for a 24 hour joy ride with his friends and had forgotten to announce his parents that he was going to “borrow” the family car for the trip.
In case it's not obvious enough by now, he lives and breathes cars. He considers himself an oldschool petrolhead who is well aware that the automotive industry is a polluting business but he's also sick at heart knowing that someday we're all going to drive kitchen appliances with digitized V8 sounds.
Following some time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea. Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project, which he believes is changing the face of online automotive coverage.
During various periods of sabbaticals from autoevolution he also got a few writing and/or editing gigs at websites like Carscoops, Top Speed, and also did some freelancing work, but his first online passion kept calling him back at the car site he helped launch back in 2008.
Best Family SUVs You Can Buy in the U.S. in 2023
31 May 2023, 18:42 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Did you know? In the past two decades, the classic "chicken and egg" problem of family cars has been resolved by SUVs: these vehicles didn't appear before families required transportation, nor did families that like to travel togethe...
Most Affordable RWD Sports Cars You Can Buy in 2023
26 May 2023, 16:35 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / We live in an interesting age. The baton is being passed in the sports car industry, which is both a blessing and a curse, depending on your perspective. Gone are the days when you could walk to the nearest car dealership of almost any brand, and c...
Best Family SUVs You Can Buy Anywhere in 2023
24 May 2023, 17:57 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Slowly but surely, the long-lasting market share dominance of station wagons and minivans as family vehicles has been beaten to a pulp by the advent of the mighty SUV. Gone are the days when people would fill their driveways or garages with a ...
Auto Evolution: 2003 Porsche Cayenne vs 2024 Porsche Cayenne – The End of the ICE Age
10 May 2023, 15:19 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The 1990s were a volatile period for luxury and sports car makers, and Porsche was among the most vulnerable to the recession that took place in the early part of the decade. It is easy to take Porsche’s current success for granted and fo...
Mercedes-Benz Is Missing an AMG Icon, and It's a Van
16 Oct 2022, 11:09 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Unveiled back in 2014 in its current form, the Mercedes-Benz V-Class shouldn’t be perceived as a vehicle synonymous with excess or antithetical qualities, yet it sometimes is. Most people see it as a more luxurious, passenger version of a...
2023 BMW 3.0 CSL Redux Is a 600-HP Missile That Harks Back to the Disco Era
29 Jun 2022, 17:05 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / This year is a mighty special one for BMW, as its M sub-brand has been gearing up for its 50th anniversary with a ton of surprises, some of which are yet to be revealed. We finally have the first BMW M3 Touring in history, while the M4 CSL shou...
2023 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Strips Camo Before Imminent Reveal
23 Jun 2022, 10:02 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Almost 20 years have passed since the very first sighting of the GT3 RS badge on a production 911, and Porsche has definitely kept its GT3 stock low, with only three generations built until now, in limited numbers. Adding both the facelifts and...
2023 Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 Is Almost Here With More Power but Half the Cylinders
21 Jun 2022, 10:22 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Since direct rivals such as the BMW X3 M, Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio or the Porsche Macan Turbo S have never given their customers the pleasure of trying to harness the power of more than six cylinders, the Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 is in a class of...
Monster-Hybrid Mercedes-AMG GT E-Performance Begins Public Testing
14 May 2022, 13:39 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Unveiled in 2014, the Mercedes-AMG GT is getting a little long in the tooth, especially since the platform it uses is actually even older, harking back to the SLS AMG, launched back in 2010. Despite being that old, the aluminum spaceframe solut...
Watch a 2023 BMW XM Prototype Torture Its Tires on the Nurburgring
12 May 2022, 09:23 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Arguably, it’s not the name that will divide BMW fans once an all-new member of the carmaker’s SUV/SAV family gets revealed later this year, but its controversial exterior design. We say this because Europeans will probably remember...
Porsche 911 2.7 R Engine Becomes Coffee Table Instead of Going to the Junkyard
9 May 2022, 17:35 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Over the years, Porsche 911s have become famous for a lot of things, but one of the pre-requisites for a true Neunelfer has always been a flat-six engine, with the older air-cooled Boxers being the most revered by purists. So it happens that so...
Is BMW or BMW M Powering the Next-Generation Range Rover Sport SVR?
27 Apr 2022, 10:13 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Jaguar and Land Rover purists are probably pretty bummed about the looming demise of the AJ-V8 engine family, whose roots lie in the late ‘90s, back when Ford was pulling the strings at Jaguar, and later the ill-fated Premier Automotive Group...
Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport 25 Is a 'Grello' for Gentlemen Racers
26 Apr 2022, 09:50 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Founded near the Nurburgring-Nordschleife in 1996, Manthey-Racing has been collaborating with Porsche in motorsports ever since, with countless successes in series like the FIA World Endurance Championship or the Nurburgring Endurance Series. T...
2023 Porsche 911 Dakar Is a Blast from the Past with One Foot into the Future
24 Apr 2022, 11:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / This year is a seminal one for the Porsche 911, as the beloved Neunelfer lineup is set to receive at least three extremely special versions that will change the current automotive landscape. The first one is the mighty 911 GT3 RS (992), which w...
2024 Mercedes-Benz G-Class Facelift Has New Engine Lineup
5 Apr 2022, 10:10 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / With a history going back to the 1970s, when it was originally developed as a military vehicle, the mighty Mercedes-Benz G-Class is now at its second generation, with a massive 2018 upgrade bringing the model into the 21st century. The changes ...
Gordon Murray’s All-New ‘Entry-level’ GMA T.33 Looks Happy to be Here
27 Jan 2022, 18:29 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Gordon Murray Automotive has unveiled its second production model in its somewhat newly created lineup, with a supercar called T.33 following in the footsteps of the T.50 but losing a passenger seat and a bit of horsepower while keeping the same le...
Leaked Data: Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance Is a New Breed of Grand Tourer
21 Jan 2022, 23:24 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Over four months have passed since Mercedes-AMG pulled the wraps of the most powerful production model in the company’s entire 55-year-old history. With a name that takes longer to spell fully than it takes for the car to hit 100 kph (62 ...
2024 Mercedes-Benz E-Class W214 Is a Last Hurrah for Stuttgart Tradition
13 Jan 2022, 18:20 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / For decades now, the E-Class has been viewed as the workhorse of the Mercedes-Benz sedan range, with its celebrity status as an executive mid-size sedan only being equaled by its success as a preferred taxicab in most of Western Europe. Premium...
New Ferrari Hypercar Prototype Sighting Gives More Questions Than Answers
7 Jan 2022, 18:28 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Among other things, Ferrari is in the habit of unveiling its most impressive car to date every ten year or so, and the latest hypercar from Maranello coincidentally was unveiled back in 2013, at the Geneva Motor Show. We are, of course, talking...
Porsche Facelifts the Panamera Again for 2023, Ahead of Full Switch to Electric
6 Jan 2022, 18:41 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The automotive world is changing at a rapid pace, and a global switch to electric cars seems not only inevitable but fast approaching, especially when talking about mainstream carmakers. Somewhat surprisingly, Porsche is arguably the first nich...