Andrei Nedelea
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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.
Kia Adds a Dash of Fuchsia Blush to Picanto Range
28 Jan 2013, 09:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The current Kia Picanto is about as far away as possible from the first car bearing that name. It is a stylish and utterly European car, which is highly competent and rather affordable, for what it is. Now, the Korean manufacturer has decided to ma...
Kia Reveals Sporty Pro_Cee'd GT With 200 HP
28 Jan 2013, 08:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Kia has been slowly etching its way up the automakers' ladder, and while in the US it may be enough to have a competent Toyota Camry-sized sedan, in Europe you need a solid hatchback. Kia's first attempt at wooing buyers away from their G...
Volvo Demonstrates AEB Efficiency on FH 18-Wheeler
27 Jan 2013, 16:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Braking on your small family saloon is one thing, as it never weighs more than two tons, even when fully laden. Volvo has recently started fitting their clever autonomous emergency braking (AEB) system to most of their cars as standard, and we sho...
14,700 Mitsubishi i-MiEV-Based EVs Recalled
27 Jan 2013, 16:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Mitsubishi may not have sold that many i-MiEVs around the world (selling only 588 in the US, last year, for instance), around 27,000 examples have been sold since the model debuted, back in 2009. However, not all were sold as Mitsubishis, and...
LPG-Powered Pick-Up Blows Up at the Pumps
27 Jan 2013, 16:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It`s not every day that you get to see a car blowing up, and the cars that do, usually have some sort of modification, which does not sit well with the rest of the car. For this pick-up driver from southern Iran, however it seems to have been his f...
Tesla Now Building 400 Cars Per Week - 20,000 Per Year
27 Jan 2013, 10:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Tesla Motors, as a fledgling automaker, has a few advantages the established leviathans just don`t have. One of these is flexibility, and the fact that when a change is made, its effect is felt immediately, as there is not that much to change. T...
The Morality of High Displacement
27 Jan 2013, 10:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back when man was pondering giving up the idea of tying a horse to the front of a wheeled vehicle, petrol and diesel engine technologies were in their infancy. Steam was king at the turn of the century, and we owe a lot to steam, because it was the...
Volkswagen Announces Use of High-Strength Steel to Reduce Weight
25 Jan 2013, 16:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Weight negatively affects automobiles in so many ways. It dents a car`s handling capabilities, its performance, comfort and economy. This is why all automakers are now on a quest to reduce the weight of their vehicles, and VW, of course, is among t...
2013 Citroen C5 Facelift Leaked Photos
25 Jan 2013, 16:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The bold Citroen C5 has been around for a few years now (debuted in 2007-2008) and while it did get a very mild facelift in 2011, the car will apparently get another very mild facelift for the Chinese market. We don`t know if this particular ver...
Lamborghini Murcielago Becomes One With Tree
25 Jan 2013, 16:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You must drive your Lamborghini Really hard to have it become part of a tree. You have to drive the car much faster than you think is necessary, for the tree to pierce the bodywork, and for the car to get lodged in. Sadly for a Murcielago owner ...
Audi Q6 Slated for 2016 Debut
25 Jan 2013, 15:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / There have been talks in recent years about a coupe version of Audi's Q7 SUV, which would be aimed squarely at the BMW X6, which basically has all the market share to itself - it is the vehicle which created it, so it is only fitting. Howev...
We Need No Excuse to Make You Listen to the Maserati GranTurismo S!
25 Jan 2013, 15:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Maserati GranTurismo S is not one of the fastest cars in its price bracket, and you can go a lot faster for less. However, it is arguably one of the best looking cars you can buy at any price, and also one of the best sounding V8 cars you can b...
Volkswagen Passat Driver Makes a Real Mess on Russian Street
25 Jan 2013, 14:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We have said time and again that speeding in the city is all-but irrelevant, and the few seconds (rarely minutes) you gain in doing so are definitely not worth the risk. We have found yet another video which proves the point, and eloquently so. ...
Scion Reveals xD Rally Car
25 Jan 2013, 14:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Toyota's youth-oriented sub-brand, Scion, has just revealed a rally version of their xD crossover (sold as Toyota Urban Cruiser around the world), which is set to compete in the Rally America National Championship. The car is set to make it de...
Tesla Model S Sprint from Standstill to Over 100 MPH - Onboard
25 Jan 2013, 14:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that when Tesla first announced the performance numbers for the Model S, they were rather pessimistic with their claimed 4.4 second 0-62 mph or 0-100 km/h time. Several tests have been carried out, and the car has been timed anywhere from ...
Tesla Model S Is a Quicker Sprinter than a Mercedes-Benz E63
25 Jan 2013, 13:46 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite the fact that Tesla sold around 3,000 Model S EVs in 2012, the all-electric sedan is still a rare sight on US roads. This means that there aren`t all that many videos of it online (though the number is going up), so when a new one which sho...
Wind Power Helps 'Wind Explorer' Travel 3,000 Miles for Less than $15
25 Jan 2013, 13:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We are just starting to understand what it actually means to harness the full power of nature to produce power, and help us move along, both literally, and moving into the future, by improving the kind of technology we use. However, we never rea...
BMW Expands Electric ActiveE Testing to Leipzig
25 Jan 2013, 12:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / BMW has just announced that it will begin a very extensive user study for long-distance commuting in all-electric cars. The testing will be done in the German city of Leipzig. The German automaker will give 15 of their 1-Series coupe-based Activ...
Ultra-Exclusive Supercar by W Motors to Debut at 2013 Qatar Motor Show
25 Jan 2013, 12:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Arab world is not renowned for building the world's greatest cars, and in fact they do a lot more buying, than actual building. So when we heard about Qatar-based W Motors' plan to build a $3.4 million ultra exclusive supercar, we wer...
BMW Driver Storms Through Poland-Belarus Border to Freedom
25 Jan 2013, 12:21 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It may be an action movie cliche, but speeding through a border crossing is no laughing matter, and it is an action which can dramatically increase the time you already have to spend in jail, if caught. This BMW driver, from Germany, is just one...