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.
761-Horsepower Mercedes-AMG EQS Prototype Is Hunting for Porsche Taycans
28 Apr 2021, 21:09 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Just weeks after the Mercedes-Benz EQS was unveiled as the flagship of an entire range of EQ models set to come out of Stuttgart in the following years (all of them built on a modular platform dedicated to EVs), Mercedes-AMG has already started tes...
Volkswagen ID.4 GTX: The 295-Horsepower GTI of Electric VW Crossovers Is Here
28 Apr 2021, 20:24 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Volkswagen’s journey toward an all-electric lineup had been paved with a huge number of plug-in hybrids until the MEB architecture came barging into the lineup, which has been designed from the ground up to encompass an even higher number of ...
Twin-Turbo V6 Maserati Grecale Trofeo Prototype Looks Primed for Launch
27 Apr 2021, 20:06 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The compact premium SUV segment is about to get heated up in 2022 when many new entries and revamped older models will go head-to-head for supremacy, especially when it comes to driving pleasure and comfort. The Porsche Macan will get its secon...
Hyundai Kona N Finally Revealed, Is an FWD "Hot SUV" With 276 HP
27 Apr 2021, 08:50 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Hyundai has been teasing the sportiest version of the Kona subcompact crossover like it is about to revolutionize the entire automotive industry with a never-before-seen segment. In some regards, the South-Korean carmaker wasn’t exactly w...
Unlike Current Model, 2023 BMW M2 to Get 50:50 Weight Distribution
22 Apr 2021, 22:25 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Whether you’re on the fence about the huge nostrils of the latest BMW M3 and M4 or not, there is no denying that their performance is the highest as it has ever been. Even without the addition of the M xDrive all-wheel-drive system, which...
Porsche 911 Turbo ‘Jezebel’ Is Akira Nakai’s Seventh Ever RWB Conversion
22 Apr 2021, 20:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Rarity comes in many shapes and forms, and when we’re talking about hand-built custom Porsches, Japan’s RWB (Rauh Welt Begriff) shop has reached a cult status over the years. Extra wide body kits, multi-level towering wings on the ...
2022 Mercedes-AMG GT 73 Prototype Shows Massive Rear-Wheel Steering Angle
22 Apr 2021, 15:40 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / A revolution is coming for Mercedes-AMG this year, with the performance brand set to welcome not only its first real hybrids but also the most powerful road-going models it has ever produced. Sporting the "E Performance" moniker, the ...
Turbocharged 1975 Porsche 911 Carrera Outlaw Is a Street-Legal Racecar
21 Apr 2021, 20:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / A large portion of old-school Porsche aficionados frown upon the ‘Outlaw’ movement when it comes to classic Neunelfers, no matter if the extra parts fitted on the cars are original or not. The following G-Series 911 with a 930 Turbo...
2022 Mercedes-Benz EQE Prototype Looks Like It’s Floating Over the Nurburgring
21 Apr 2021, 19:44 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The mighty Mercedes-Benz EQS has only recently been unveiled as the flagship of an upcoming range of EQ models set to come out of Stuttgart in the following years, all of them built on a modular platform dedicated to EVs. Called EVA2 by Merced...
Ferrari 812 "Versione Speciale" Breaks Cover, Is an 819-HP N/A V12 Swan Song
21 Apr 2021, 14:27 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / What may very well be the last hurrah of a naturally aspirated V12 lineage that started in 2002 with the mighty Enzo, Ferrari’s F140 family of engines is about to go out with a bang in a limited edition of the Ferrari 812 Superfast. Last ...
VW ID.5 Prototype Looks Like an Opel, Is an Audi Q4 Sportback in Disguise
20 Apr 2021, 19:48 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Not long after revealing its first purpose-built electric crossover, the ID.4, Volkswagen is now gearing up to unveil its sportier-looking coupe-SUV brother, which is set to sport the ID.5 moniker. It is not the first time that a pre-production...
800+ Horsepower Mercedes-AMG S-Class Plug-in Hybrid Is Coming
19 Apr 2021, 20:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / As the largest and most luxurious sedan in the Mercedes-Benz lineup, the S-Class has been seen as the standard of the world since almost forever, with each generation pushing the limits of technology and luxury even further. We can pretty much ...
2022 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Will Put Its Obnoxiously Large Rear Wing to Good Use
19 Apr 2021, 20:24 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Even though not so many official details are known about the upcoming 911 GT3 RS so far, you don’t need to be a Porsche insider to realize that the model will be a true track slayer. While the 992 generation of the "regular" 911...
Probable 2023 BMW X1 M35i Prototype Attacks the Nordschleife
18 Apr 2021, 11:48 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Back in 2009, when the first generation of the BMW X1 was unveiled, it was more or less slightly shorter version of the 3 Series Touring with a higher ground clearance. That meant that it had longitudinal engines and a rear-biased AWD-system, b...
2022 Bentley Bentayga LWB Looks Enormous, Will Fight Rolls-Royce Cullinan
16 Apr 2021, 20:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The Bentley luxury nameplate celebrated a century of existence almost two years ago, so why is the carmaker testing a poorly camouflaged and stranger-looking Bentayga prototype with ‘Beyond 100’ stickers plastered all over the body? ...
2022 Mercedes-AMG SL 63 Prototype Is a Brute in a Tailor-Made Suit
15 Apr 2021, 20:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Nowadays, Mercedes-Benz engineers are working overtime testing a multitude of prototypes for upcoming models, including for the AMG version of the long-awaited seventh-generation SL-Class. Set to be unveiled in the second half of this year, the...
Mercedes-AMG One to Lap the Nurburgring in Under 6:00 Minutes
15 Apr 2021, 19:35 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The Mercedes-AMG One hypercar project has gone through so many hiccups on its way to series production that it desperately needs a glass of water. It was originally supposed to be unveiled in production guise in 2019, but numerous setbacks, mos...
Official: Mercedes-Benz EQS Is the Most Aerodynamic Production Car in History
15 Apr 2021, 17:28 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Even though it had a somewhat rough start in its first foray into mainstream manufacturing electric cars, with all its current EVs being just modified versions of ICE-powered vehicles, Mercedes-Benz has big plans for its future EQ lineup. The f...
Dune-Bashing Porsche 911 Safari Prototype Returns to the Nurburgring
15 Apr 2021, 16:15 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Despite all the successes it has had over the years in off-road rallying, Porsche has never officially built a high-riding 911 for the street, a marketing mistake it will fix sometime this year. The sports carmaker has been active with the 911 ...
This Cheeky VW Transporter Hides a 2023 ID.Buzz Electric Hippie Van Inside
14 Apr 2021, 20:55 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Volkswagen has been talking about developing a modern iteration of the 1960s Microbus hippie love van for what seems like ages. Well, it looks like the dream car of your parents from back when they were teenagers is almost here. The last concep...