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.
Dacia Duster Concept Revealed with Pictures and Video
2 Mar 2009, 12:09 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Almost a month ago we showed you some leaked images which were scanned from a bunch of teaser shots depicting a new Dacia Concept. Well, time passed and with it some new details emerged, such as the concept's name – Dacia Duster. Then so...
1350 hp Bugatti Centenaire to Shake Geneva's Ground
26 Feb 2009, 10:35 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The puny 1001 horsepower and 1250 Nm (922 lb ft) of torque of the regular Bugatti Veyron might seem a little boring for some of its owners, or future owners. After all, a 408.47 km/h (253.8 mph) top speed and a 2.5 seconds time from naught to 100 k...
Bentley Continental Supersports Gets Official Unveil
26 Feb 2009, 08:40 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Just almost a week from when the 2009 Geneva Auto Show opens its gates, Bentley has released the official pictures and specifications of its newest creation: the Continental Supersports. Also dubbed as the fastest, most powerful and also greenest B...
Toyota iQ-ould do Better than smart...
25 Feb 2009, 20:48 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... or can it? The newly-launched Toyota iQ has filled its creators with a lot of expectations, since technically, this is the first Japanese kei-car specifically designed for the Europe market. First of all, I should mention the fact that my taste...
The Most Expensive Panamera Almost Tops 200,000 Euros
19 Feb 2009, 19:46 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Yes, you've read that correctly. Even though Porsche has released the official prices for the upcoming Panamera, most people probably missed the fact that those were the "starting prices" for each model. A decently customized Turbo (...
NHTSA and IIHS Crash Test Scores Explained
17 Feb 2009, 19:08 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Almost 100 years ago, car passengers faced risks of death even in a minor – by today's standards – fender bender. Automobile safety has evolved so much in recent times that it is possible to escape with minor or even no injuries at...
New Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse Coupe Revealed Ahead of Geneva
17 Feb 2009, 15:25 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Just two weeks before the official unveiling at the Geneva Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz has taken the wraps off of the CLK-replacement, the new E-Klasse Coupe. For a reason known only by themselves, Mercedes-Benz marketing people have decided to scrap ...
CNG-powered Sedan Released by Iran Khodro
16 Feb 2009, 14:26 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The largest car maker in the Middle East, Iran Khodro, has just unveiled what they claim to be the world's most powerful car engine to run on natural gas. Except it isn't. The Samand Soren ELX has a turbocharged 1.7 liter four-cylinder en...
Audi A4 allroad quattro Finally Revealed
16 Feb 2009, 10:54 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / After countless spy-photos of jacked-up A4s in both sedan and Avant-guise, Audi has finally lifted the veils off of the new A4 allroad quattro. What is essentially an A4 Avant on stilts and permanent all wheel-drive, the A4 allroad quattro thus bec...
Meet the World's Fastest Limo Driver
12 Feb 2009, 16:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / A businessman from Indiana and a limousine driver have jointly developed what they and an obscure organization called the “World Record Academy” say it's the world's fastest street-legal car. The vehicle in question can appare...
Porsche Panamera Interior Officially Revealed
12 Feb 2009, 14:10 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / After months of spy-shots, teasers and official exterior pictures, the time has now come for the Porsche Panamera's interior to be fully revealed. If some of you guys were expecting something at least as boring as the exterior, prepare to be c...
550 hp Genesis Coupe Drift Car Unveiled
12 Feb 2009, 11:13 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The Hyundai Genesis Coupe is probably the most attention whore vehicle coming out of the Hyundai stable in recent years, if not ever. The car hasn't even been properly launched or even put on sale on the market yet but everybody's talking...
Chevrolet Stingray Concept is Sideswipe Transformer
12 Feb 2009, 09:37 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / In what was probably a much more anticipated new concept rollout than it was at the North American International Auto Show, General Motors dropped more than a few jaws at this year's Chicago Auto Show, which started for the media just yesterda...
Camel-Powered Ambulance Oddly Solves Problems
11 Feb 2009, 17:14 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The evolution of ambulance vehicles in recent years has reached new heights. Apart from getting to a hospital in just minutes after an accident, patients can now receive almost full medical assistance on the ambulance itself. In the old days, if y...
Wolfgang Bernhard Returns to Daimler AG
11 Feb 2009, 16:33 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / After a short two-year stint as Member of the Board at the Volkswagen Group and approximately five months as a consultant for Cerberus Ltd, Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard returns to his first love: Daimler AG. Starting with April this year, he will assume w...
Maybach Zeppelin Nameplate Makes a Return at Geneva
11 Feb 2009, 15:36 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Almost seven years since the Maybach-Manufaktur brand made a comeback into the super-saloons for the super-rich market, the German head-honchos have decided to revive another Friedrichshafen-related nameplate. The legendary Maybach Zeppelin namepla...
Driver Does Handbrake Turns on the Highway after Quarrel with Girlfriend (Video)
11 Feb 2009, 10:47 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Images which appear to show a Rémy Julienne-wannabe were caught by security cameras on a British highway. A driver got into an argument with his girlfriend, stopped his silver Vauxhall Corsa on the hard shoulder of the M62 motorway and then ...
Gas-Saving Products: Myth or...
10 Feb 2009, 19:23 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ...truth? Just like mushrooms after the rain, the number of aftermarket gas-saving products has started to exponentially grow since the global rise in fuel prices. In recent times though, fuel prices have stabilized or even decreased, but fuel-savi...
GM and Chrysler May Indeed Go Bankrupt
9 Feb 2009, 16:28 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The Big Three automotive soap opera appeared to reach a happier-than-expected finale in mid-December, when General Motors and Chrysler LLC received a $17.4 billion low-interest loan from the United States Government. After Ford announced it does no...
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Teaser Game Trailer
9 Feb 2009, 11:26 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The second offspring of the Transformers-gone-Hollywood movie franchise is set to have its theatrical release on June 26, 2009. Wanting to speculate on the success of the brand as much as possible, a videogame version of the Transformers: Revenge ...