Andrei Nedelea
3,618 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself" - Ferdinand Porsche
He is a strong believer in the recent developments in green car tech and especially its entertaining applications. However, for him, green is more than just a brash color sprayed onto a supercar, it's a different way of thinking and perceiving modern car culture.
Two-Speed Gearbox Just Makes The Porsche Taycan Better Than Tesla Model S
14 Oct 2019, 07:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back when it was developing the original Roadster, Tesla intended to manufacture it with a two-speed gearbox that granted the car both better acceleration, as well as the ability to travel at higher speeds. However, the transmission Tesla tried to ...
Tesla Builds The Safest Cars But The Workers Who Build Them Are Not Safe At All
11 Oct 2019, 15:58 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Praise has to go to Tesla for making some of the world’s safest cars. No, really, kudos to what is still a new and inexperienced manufacturer for showing the establishment that its small size has actually helped it eschew the encumbrance over...
Dan Gurney’s Biggest Contributions To Motorsport And Cars In General
10 Oct 2019, 13:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Dan Gurney was a racing car driver, race car builder and it really wouldn’t be a stretch to call him an inventor. In the world of racing, he was active from 1959 to 1970 and he won races in Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can-AM, and Trans-Am ...
This Is Why SUVs Are The Worst In Cities
8 Oct 2019, 15:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / High-riding SUVs and crossovers (the distinction between which is sometimes blurred these days) are taking over the world’s roads and are becoming increasingly common in cities as well. This because some buyers genuinely want to sit high...
Which Cars On The Road Are Most Prone To Crashing?
8 Oct 2019, 08:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Every year lots of studies come out, usually from insurance companies or various countries’ government agencies, based on road safety statistics. Some of these statistics have to do with which car brands (and/or models) you’re more like...
Gasoline Cars Can Run On So Many Other Fuels Other Than Gasoline
6 Oct 2019, 11:22 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Oil is eventually going to run out. It won’t be tomorrow, or even in the next few decades, but since it is a finite resource that is being extracted intensively, it is an inextricable fact that at some point there will be no more of it. What ...
Your Steering Wheel Is Festering With Germs You Might Want To Know About
6 Oct 2019, 11:22 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / There are many things you don’t expect to be dirtier than a toilet seat, yet they are. Your mobile phone is one, your computer keyboard is another and the sponge used to wash dishes with, so as you can imagine, these are things you touch freq...
Guy Buys Flood-Damaged Tesla, Fixes it For $6,500, is Now a YouTube Sensation
3 Oct 2019, 16:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Tesla is by no means a brand you would associate with cheap, salvage cars, yet that hasn’t stopped one intrepid enthusiast from buying not one, but two damaged Teslas and creating a single running, full-functioning example. One of the cars wa...
Bosch Increases Development Speed for Self-Driving Tech
29 Jan 2013, 11:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the automakers themselves are working on self-driving technology, which will be integrated into their own cars, there are also other companies out there developing the same tech. One such company is industrial giant Bosch, which has announced...
Truck Drivers Adopt Herd Mentality - Follow Each Other off the Road
29 Jan 2013, 10:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Driving a large truck on snow-covered roads is quite dangerous, and while modern trucks may be fitted with all sorts of electronic aids, and good brakes, it still requires a lot more planning than driving a regular passenger car. In this video f...
Embarrassing - Lexus GX SUV Can`t Handle Deep Ice Grooves in Town
29 Jan 2013, 10:22 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you think owning a big SUV will get you out of any tight spot, when it comes to traction and off-road ability, think again. Sometimes, vehicles like the Nissan Patrol, Toyota Land Cruiser and Range Rover are simply too heavy, and they are stuck ...
Tesla Model S - World's Fastest Production EV
29 Jan 2013, 10:05 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The stats of the Tesla Model S never cease to amaze us, and the car keeps wowing everybody who sees and drives it. It`s got a great body shape, which looks good and clean and is also very aerodynamic. It`s got two trunks (one in the back, where you...
W Motors Lykan Hypersports Revealed in Qatar
29 Jan 2013, 09:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It`s not every day that we get to see a very exclusive supercar, from an unknown manufacturer debuting at the 2013 Qatar Motor Show, as the venue is not normally associated with boutique automakers. However, the W Motors Lykan Hypersport is an exce...
Moto GP's Casey Stoner Headed for V8 Supercars Series
29 Jan 2013, 09:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite saying that he wasn`t going to enter the V8 Supercars series just last week, Casey Stoner seems to have changed his mind, and has now announced he has, in fact, signed a one-year deal to race a Triple 8 Holden Commodore in the V8 Supercars ...
Volvo Looking to Overtake Daimler as Largest Truck Manufacturer
29 Jan 2013, 09:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It is not only cars which bring in the big bucks for the large automakers, as most of them have some sort of commercial arm, which builds anything from vans to fully-fledged trucks. Volvo and Daimler are two examples which neatly fit the descriptio...
PSA - 200 Aulnay Workers Protest and Disrupt Production
29 Jan 2013, 08:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The situation in Europe is becoming increasingly tense, and after Ford encountered some problems and production setbacks due to protests, PSA has not been spared. Now, 200 workers from their Aulnay factory are protesting the planned layoffs and clo...
China Car Market Up 10% by the End of 2013
29 Jan 2013, 08:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that along with the US and Russia, one of the most stable and fastest-growing car markets in the world is that of China. Withsales increasing by 4.3% last year, a total of 19.3-million automobiles were sold in the PRC - a huge number, whic...
Chinese Kid Risks it All and Plays in Very Heavy Traffic
28 Jan 2013, 16:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Children under a certain age should really not be left unsupervised. If not, this may happen. Check out the above video and you will bear witness to a Chinese kid's very dangerous attempt to play in very heavy traffic, with dozens of cars all ...
Alfa Romeo Launches Giulietta Hatchback in the UAE and Middle East
28 Jan 2013, 16:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that Alfa Romeo's expansion plans did not only include the Italian brand's reentry into the US market. Last week, they launched their very stylish Giulietta hatchback (which we tested in QV guise) in the United Arab Emi...
Tesla Model S Beats Viper on Drag Strip
28 Jan 2013, 15:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you needed even more proof that the Tesla Model S is properly quick, by any standards, we highly recommend you check out the video above. The car was recently put up against a previous-generation 2004 Dodge Viper SRT-10, which features an 8.3-li...