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.
2010 Porsche 911 GT3 is Officially Here
29 Jan 2009, 16:10 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / After almost all the Porsche 911 range of models received a facelift during 2008, the time for the GT3 version to get an overhaul has come. The official information and specifications of the new car have been released by Porsche today, increasing t...
2009 Ford Focus RS Full Specifications Released
29 Jan 2009, 13:28 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Ford's RS (Rallye Sport) marque is now 40 years old. After legendary rally inspired models like the Escort RS 1600 or the Escort RS Cosworth, in 2002 the RS division launched the first ever Focus RS, which was also the first front-wheel drive ...
HUMMER H2 Production in Limbo Until at Least March
28 Jan 2009, 17:42 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / One of the world's most hated SUVs, the HUMMER H2, will suffer from a production hiatus until March, at least, according to a spokesperson from AM General quoted by hummerguy.net. The production halt of the H2 line in the AM General plant in M...
Jaguar Mid-engine Supercar Might Actually be a Compact Roadster
28 Jan 2009, 16:07 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / After launching the rumor that a 200-mph supercar using the new 5.4 liter AJ-V8 GEN III supercharged V8 is in the works at Jaguar, AutoExpress have now been contradicted by both Jaguar people and Autoweek's Julian Rendell. The official dism...
Most Powerful Bentley Ever Set to Debut at Geneva. It's Green Too
28 Jan 2009, 11:33 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / After upgrading the “most powerful Bentley in history” tag line with the Continental GT Speed model, the new Bentley Boys are at it again in 2009. They have announced that the 79th edition of the Geneva Motor Show will exhibit the most ...
2009 Report on America's Infrastructure from the ASCE
28 Jan 2009, 09:45 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Today, at 10 am Eastern time, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will release a study about the state of the US infrastructure, after showing a dismaying one four years ago. The study, which they call a report card, is grading all major...
Forced Induction: The Turbocharger
27 Jan 2009, 19:30 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The tuning world has spawned a lot of evil breeds, and by this we mean motley methods of vastly increasing the power of an internal combustion engine. Apart from the mechanically-driven supercharger, which we covered in a previous Auto Guide, proba...
Sergio Pininfarina: One of the Godfathers of Italian Car Design
16 Jan 2009, 19:53 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / More than three quarters of a century ago, a name which eventually became synonymous with some of the world's most beautiful and prestigious automobiles was getting its first baby steps in the world of automobile coachworking. A future legend ...
Official Fast and Furious 4 Trailer Is Here
16 Jan 2009, 09:08 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Ask any racer, any real racer. It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning. Yes, the original cast is back for the latest and hopefully final iteration of the Fast and Furious franchise. With brawny Vin Diesel...
Toyota Hydrogen Cars are Coming by 2015
16 Jan 2009, 07:10 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / After beginning to lose some of their hybrids'r'us street cred to the likes of GM and Honda, Toyota people are back on the greenie bandwagon with the announcement of selling an all-electric two-seater in 2012 and a hydrogen car by 2015. ...
Jaguar Planning Mid-engine Supercar
15 Jan 2009, 16:37 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / After getting bought by the Indian Tata conglomerate in early 2008, Jaguar is heading into totally new directions. One of these directions will include the unveil of a mid-engine supercar ready to tackle the likes of the Audi R8, Auto Express excl...
Detroit's Big Three Pull Out of this Year's Tokyo Auto Show
15 Jan 2009, 14:37 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Confirming earlier suspicions, General Motors, Chrysler and Ford have already decided to shun this year's Tokyo Motor Show, according to a report by Automotive News. Supporting earlier rumors, the Big Three's individual reasons for this d...
Carbon Fiber Lotus Elise Takes Six Months to Build
15 Jan 2009, 11:27 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / There are a lot of crazy people out there. Some of them like to play with dolls even if they're in their thirties, while others have long conversations with imaginary friends. Gladly, there's an even more infrequently occurring but less l...
Suzuki Kizashi's Production Version still in Talks
15 Jan 2009, 09:27 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / A regular soap opera is happening these days at Suzuki's headquarters. After the Japanese Nikkei newspaper reported that the production plans for Suzuki's Kizashi D-segment sedan were shelved, a spokesperson for the American Suzuki Motor...
Dodge Challenger R/T Classic Mocks Fuel Crisis with Mopar V8
14 Jan 2009, 21:30 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Just like almost any other car show in recent years, the 2009 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) was crammed with fuel-sipping hybrids, low-emission clean diesels and “electrifying” rides in the form of both econoboxes and s...
New Cobra Venom Concept Video Hits the Web
14 Jan 2009, 16:22 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / After first storming almost every car blog out there last summer with the wicked styled Cobra Venom Concept, freelance designer Jamie Martin returns with a movie about his most famous 3d creation. For those of you not up to date with vehicle(s)...
Revenge Designs Presents Hyper-Expensive Turnkey Kit-Car at NAIAS
14 Jan 2009, 14:45 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The world of shed-built supercars has been filled with another product made by a tuner turned carmaker. The humorously-named Revenge Designs company has unveiled their GTM-R $145,000 supercar at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). ...
Bertone B.A.T. 11 DK Concept Fights for Breast Cancer in Detroit
14 Jan 2009, 10:40 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Although technically a logical evolution in the B.A.T. 5, B.A.T. 7 and B.A.T. 9 line of Bertone concepts from the 1950s, the B.A.T. 11 DK was born out of a single man's dream. Shown for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2008, th...
The smart fortwo ed Will be Powered by Tesla Motors
14 Jan 2009, 09:27 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / In a surprise announcement at a Society of Analysts (SAA) meeting, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk let the cat out of the bag about a partnership going on between his company and Daimler AG. The joint venture's first stage involves Tesla Motors pro...
2009 Tokyo Motor Show or no Show?...
13 Jan 2009, 15:23 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... is the question right now on many Japanese minds and not only. The Japan Automobile Manufacturers' Association (JAMA) is apparently reflecting on whether this year's Tokyo Motor Show should be canceled or not, Automotive News informs ...