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.
How GM Stole Taxpayers' Money to Become No. 1 Again...
10 May 2010, 10:35 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... Technically, the above headline is wrong. Or part of it, anyway. That's because the new, or should I say, "current" General Motors is a separate and somewhat independent company from the old corporation. First of all, its name i...
Daimler-Renault-Nissan – Threesome Made in Heaven?...
9 Apr 2010, 10:54 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... or is it the foundation stone for a future disaster? I'm pretty sure of the former, but I'd like to think that I'm doing more than just giving a factoid opinion about it. I'm sure many of you remember the other "heavenl...
Exclusive Interview With Horacio Pagani - Passion Meets Engineering
26 Mar 2010, 15:23 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / An Argentinean dreamer that emigrated to Italy in his youth, Horacio Pagani is now being regarded as one of the last remaining old-school builders of supercars. After spending some time in and around the Modena region, where all the Italian magic h...
Car Industry's 2010 Face Off...
10 Mar 2010, 08:47 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... If 2009 was the year of thundering bankruptcies and an almost total collapse of the American car industry - while the Japanese more or less flourished - 2010 seems to be the exact opposite. General Motors, Ford and even Chrysler – who wer...
When Classics Return – Hispano Suiza Interview
9 Mar 2010, 14:47 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / If there are any pre-war classics fans out there, then you are probably already aware that a historical car brand has been recently revived (again) at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show. We say "again" because the Hispano-Suiza brand had been prev...
Detroit, the Cradle of American Automotive Civilization...
25 Jan 2010, 15:58 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ...Statistically, every North American Auto Show has always been the venue where every US manufacturer is making its best peacock impressions in front of its competitors. Why? Well, it would be hard not to. I mean, whether it's good ole GM, Ch...
2010's Five Most Expected Automotive Comebacks
11 Jan 2010, 05:34 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / By now, there's probably not even a single avid Internet user who is not familiar with the way 2009 has wiped the floor with most carmakers and pretty much everything related to the auto industry. The on-going economic crisis, coupled with a m...
autoevolution Behind the Scenes/Anniversary...
29 Dec 2009, 18:32 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ..."Y'know one of the most beautiful things about a car? If it isn't working properly, you can strip the skin off, expose the insides, find out exactly where the trouble is, take out the faulty part and replace it with a new one. If ...
Saab's Sine Wave...
7 Dec 2009, 07:54 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... Back in March this year, I was bringing the almost-certain death of a once great car maker to your attention. Yes, I'm talking about Saab, once famed for making some of the quirkiest hatches around. In the meantime, things have evolved, by...
Exclusive Interview with Mercedes-Benz's Head of Design: Gorden Wagener
27 Nov 2009, 09:28 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Gorden Wagener is one of the youngest (if not the youngest) chiefs of design in the automotive world. He became the head honcho of Mercedes-Benz's design division in the beginning of 2008, when he was just 39 years old, therefore replacing the...
The End is Nigh...
23 Nov 2009, 16:26 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... or so it seems if you believe all the hype about the world's oil reserves coming to an end. Still, after constantly dismissing all the facts into rumors, even I started to think there must be some truth behind all this commotion. I looked ...
The French Connection...
26 Oct 2009, 18:52 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... No matter what some history books are telling you, the French didn't invent the automobile. Yes, I know, a French dude by the name of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was experimenting in the late 1700s with a steam-powered vehicle - the so-called Fa...
Exclusive Update: 2011 Porsche Cayenne to be Launched at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show
21 Oct 2009, 09:48 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / We got ourselves a bit of an inside information from our very own "Deepthroat" at Dr. Ing. Ferdinand Porsche AG. According to the aforementioned sources, which we will keep undisclosed for obvious reasons, the current generation of the Ca...
Volvo, to Roll or Not to Roll?...
7 Oct 2009, 14:50 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... harsh times are coming for the Swedish car manufacturer. A brand which once stood for strength, durability and most of all, safety, is now on the verge of falling out of its owner's and even its customers' graces. After countless pres...
Post-Frankfurt Auto Show Impressions...
24 Sep 2009, 17:24 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ...The complementary champagne glasses have dried out, all the major executives have left the building and the original booth girls have probably been replaced by doubles after being smitten by tens of thousand of DSLR flashes. The autoevolution te...
Unicorn Cars...
25 Aug 2009, 08:22 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... so I had a long talk about cars with one of my buddies the other day. As pretty much always, several topics spawned during the conversation but one of them kept reappearing no matter how hard we tried to change the subject. You see, this buddy ...
Quo Vadis, Porsche?...
27 Jul 2009, 13:43 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... as I'm sure most of you guys remember, Porsche was pretty much in deep doo-doo during the mid-nineties. Sure, there are probably more people who only (want to) remember the success period in the past few years, but they should also know th...
John Zachary Delorean – the Detroit Dream Merchant
6 Jul 2009, 06:36 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Nicknamed by People Weekly as the "Auto Prince" John Delorean is the guy who was almost single-handedly responsible for bringing power to the masses in 1964, by being instrumental in the launch of the first ever true muscle-car, the Ponti...
D-MAXimum Payload iz Moar Important Than Speed
1 Jul 2009, 12:12 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / So we went to an Isuzu rally last week. Before jumping to any sudden conclusions, let us first say that by "rally" we mean "to come together for a common purpose". Although, come to think of it, driving with a copilot through so...
All Your Cars Are Belong to Us...
18 Jun 2009, 06:49 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... would be an appropriate tagline for the upcoming Chinese invasion. Yes, I'm well aware that the original phrase ("All your base are belong to us", ed) was quoted from a Japanese video game, but Engrish can be used to define prett...