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.
Smaller, Next-Generation MINI Cooper SE Prototype Has Some Weird Details
2 Apr 2021, 17:54 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / After being facelifted twice since its market introduction in 2014, the third-generation MINI to be developed by BMW is not exactly getting long in the tooth, especially since the second refresh was only recently unveiled. That said, the compan...
2022 Porsche 911 Targa GTS Prototype Is Also a 992 Facelift Mule
1 Apr 2021, 20:35 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Porsche has a very odd way of testing near-production prototypes on public roads, most of the cars being either poorly camouflaged or completely naked. The latter is true for the yet-to-be officially unveiled 992 Carrera GTS, whose pre-producti...
How the F1-Inspired 2023 Mercedes-AMG C 63 Will Have Up to 653 Horsepower
1 Apr 2021, 19:25 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Some carmakers are underselling and overdelivering, while others do it the other way around. Mercedes-AMG seems to be part of neither category because it recently announced the technical capabilities of the upcoming C 63 E-Performance. Despite ...
2023 BMW M2 Coupe Will Be the Most M Car of the Third Millenium
31 Mar 2021, 20:40 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / BMW stepped on very thin ice with the latest M4 and M3, and we are not just talking about the controversial oversized kidney grilles but also the technical solutions used by both sports models. For the first time ever, the BMW M4 G82 can be fit...
2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV – What We Know So Far About the Avant-Garde SUV
31 Mar 2021, 19:30 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Despite a somewhat inconclusive first endeavor into the realm of mainstream electric car manufacturing, Mercedes-Benz has big plans for its upcoming EQ lineup of EVs, which will include a large variety of sedans and crossovers. With the EQS set...
Mercedes-Benz EQS With 770 Km (478 Miles) of Range Officially Confirmed
31 Mar 2021, 19:08 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Approximately two weeks before the model’s official launch, Mercedes-Benz has already spilled most of the beans surrounding the upcoming EQS luxury electric sedan, from its interior to the most important numbers for many people. In an odd...
2022 BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe Could Spawn M Version for the First Time
30 Mar 2021, 20:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Not even a week has passed since we last talked about the upcoming 2022 BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe and it looks like pre-production prototypes have started to seriously shed some of the heavy camouflage they used to have. While the last prototype ...
Mercedes-Benz EQE Will Be a Notchback Sedan Like the Tesla Model 3
30 Mar 2021, 19:21 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Mercedes-Benz is about to embark on a massive EV journey in the next couple of years, and the beginning of that journey will be signaled by the arrival of the 2022 EQS luxury electric sedan as early as 15 April 2021. Like the Tesla Model S, th...
2022 BMW X7 LCI Looks Like It’s Getting a 1990s Dodge Ram Truck Front End
30 Mar 2021, 09:49 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / BMW mid-cycle facelifts are usually one way or the other, with no middle ground. They can either not change the design motifs of a model at all or go fully bananas and change its entire design language. Somewhat unexpectedly, it seems that the ...
Seven-Seat Range Rover Evoque LWB Is Like Thinning the Land Rover Soup
29 Mar 2021, 20:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / While the current Range Rover Evoque has somewhat failed to live up to the expectations left by the first generation of the compact crossover, at least when it comes to global sales, it is still a very important model in the modern Land Rover lineu...
Super Luxurious 2022 Audi A8 Horch Version Is Aiming for the Stars
29 Mar 2021, 20:40 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Audi’s fifth-generation A8 is slowly but surely heading toward having a rather extensive mid-cycle facelift, and it seems there are plans in motion to truly make it a force to be reckoned within the luxury segment. Not long ago we were t...
Does the 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS Need a Front Trunk?
29 Mar 2021, 20:06 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The first electric Mercedes-Benz designed from the ground up to be an EV is about two weeks away from its official unveiling, and the carmaker has started to shed some more light on the model's technical capabilities. It all started with a...
2022 BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe Still Rocking Full Camo Before Official Reveal
26 Mar 2021, 21:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / With the all-new BMW 4 Series Coupe and Convertible already trying their hardest to make everyone at peace with their new enlarged nostrils, it is time for the 4 Series Gran Coupe to continue the huge-nose onslaught, albeit with two extra doors and...
Antithetic 2023 Mercedes-Benz GLC Is a Bigger but More Sensible SUV
26 Mar 2021, 19:51 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The current generation of the Mercedes-Benz GLC is built on the previous generation of the C-Class, which was just recently replaced by an all-new one, so you can expect the GLC to go the way of the Dodo sometime over the next year as well, but onl...
Massively Powerful Plug-in 2022 Mercedes-AMG S-Class Drops More Camo
25 Mar 2021, 21:50 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The W223 generation of the legendary Mercedes-Benz S-Class is already the benchmark in its segment, but the luxury sedan is far from having shown all the tricks up its sleeve. For the first time in the company’s history, Mercedes-AMG has ...
Strange Mercedes-Benz Electric SUV Prototype Is a Red Herring
25 Mar 2021, 20:51 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Mercedes-Benz recently announced further details about the upcoming EQS electric sedan set to become the S-Class of EVs after its official launch on 15 April. The 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS will spearhead an extensive array of electric-only models ...
2023 Ferrari Purosangue Will Not Be a Traditional SUV
24 Mar 2021, 19:49 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / There are more questions than answers with every sighting of Ferrari’s upcoming crossover, the Purosangue, and most revolve around the looks of the peculiar mule that Maranello has chosen for testing. Clearly based on a chopped-up Maserat...
See the 280-Horsepower Hyundai Kona N in All Its Non-Camouflaged Glory
24 Mar 2021, 19:06 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Hyundai already teased the 2022 Kona N’s imminent arrival a couple of weeks ago, but those who are anxious to see it before its official unveiling are in for a treat. Spy photographers recently spotted a completely undisguised Kona N duri...
Electric BMW M2 Mule Spawns More Questions Than Answers
24 Mar 2021, 18:05 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The second generation of the BMW M2 is about a year away from its official unveiling, and various pre-production prototypes have been spotted testing all over the world. Set to be powered by a detuned version of the S58B30T0 inline-six engine f...
2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS Electric Sedan to Have Up to 108-kWh Battery
23 Mar 2021, 21:41 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / We are just a few weeks from the official unveiling of the first electric Mercedes-Benz built on a dedicated EV platform, the 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS. Known as the "S-Class of electric cars," the EQS is set to be launched on 15 April 2...