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Aurel Niculescu

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Once upon a time there was a little boy that didn't know his age but dreamed of reaching high in the sky alongside the absolute best aviators. He was passionate about reading books (action and Sci-Fi), grew up with many great authors and soon discovered the mirage of cinema.

There he understood anything is possible if you work hard and passionately strive to follow your imagination. This is how at the age of 16 he managed to fulfill the first dream – flying alone in a glider plane. He was no Tom Cruise, of course, so young adulthood brought him back to reality.

With every kick in the familiar *utt comes a chance to step forward, so a seemingly unimportant ad in one of his favorite automotive magazines brought a dilemma - follow through with the current job or dare to achieve greatness by deploying (previously) unknown literary skills.

Since 2006, he’s been perfecting them at Automondial, Supercar, Cox, Autoshow, Autopro, Auto Motor & Sport, and more magazines plus their online versions. After driving some of the best and worst cars in Europe and around the world, he’s part of the autoevolution team, where he aims to develop his best-ever form.
This Audi Pickup Truck Concept Is a Work of Digital Art Rather Than a Real Workhorse
This Audi Pickup Truck Concept Is a Work of Digital Art Rather Than a Real Workhorse

22 Mar 2024, 08:10 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / After years of everyone feeling like Audi crawled into a corner to watch the clash of BMW and Mercedes-Benz titans, the Ingolstadt-based automaker is finally attacking the automotive market with all its might once again. However, it's not all ...

 
Audi TT RS Drags McLaren and Porsche at TX2K24, Someone Gets Stunned Easily
Audi TT RS Drags McLaren and Porsche at TX2K24, Someone Gets Stunned Easily

22 Mar 2024, 07:26 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The good folks over at the racing-focused ImportRace channel on YouTube were on point during TX2K's 2024 edition, which took place between March 12 and 17 in Texas at the Texas Motorplex outside Dallas, and they're continuing their e...

 
Dodge Challenger Hellcat Luxury Sport 4-Door Sedan Looks Marvelous, Albeit Only in CGI
Dodge Challenger Hellcat Luxury Sport 4-Door Sedan Looks Marvelous, Albeit Only in CGI

21 Mar 2024, 10:18 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / As promised, following the seven 'Last Call' special editions of the 2023 Dodge Challenger and Charger, which culminated with the introduction of the 1,025-hp (on E85) Demon 170, Stellantis has moved the eighth-generation Dodge Charger to...

 
Volkswagen Announces ID. Buzz GTX With 335 HP as the Most Powerful Bulli Ever
Volkswagen Announces ID. Buzz GTX With 335 HP as the Most Powerful Bulli Ever

21 Mar 2024, 09:43 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Hopefully, there won't be too many memes about the ID. Buzz turning into Volkswagen's latest bully - it's too cute for all that, right? Anyway, as promised in a teaser last week, Volkswagen premiered the new GTX version at the annual...

 
400-HP 2025 Ford Maverick ST Would Be a Great Virtual Idea If Not for the CUV Looks
400-HP 2025 Ford Maverick ST Would Be a Great Virtual Idea If Not for the CUV Looks

21 Mar 2024, 09:03 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / It's been a minute since we last talked about the popular Ford Maverick unibody compact pickup truck. But it's all coming back to us now because at the New York Auto Show later this month, its only rival, the 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz, is g...

 
'Sleeper' BMW M240i Drags Three Toyota GR Supras, Obliteration Follows Only Twice
'Sleeper' BMW M240i Drags Three Toyota GR Supras, Obliteration Follows Only Twice

21 Mar 2024, 08:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / With the Toyota GR Supra sharing its underpinnings and more with the BMW Z4 (G29), it's obvious that everyone will draw many comparisons with models from the Bavarian automaker. However, we didn't know those would include more quar...

 
Ninth-Gen Mercury Cougar Digitally Revives the 2-Door Hardtop Personal Luxury Car
Ninth-Gen Mercury Cougar Digitally Revives the 2-Door Hardtop Personal Luxury Car

21 Mar 2024, 07:42 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Blue Oval Company, although the second-largest US automaker and third in terms of overall sales last year, almost doesn't have a (passenger) car culture anymore. Instead, it's all about the Benjamins via crossovers, SUVs, and trucks. ...

 
All-New 2025 Infiniti QX80 Keeps the Monograph Looks, Gets New 3.5L TT V6 With 450 HP
All-New 2025 Infiniti QX80 Keeps the Monograph Looks, Gets New 3.5L TT V6 With 450 HP

21 Mar 2024, 07:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The all-new 2025 Infiniti QX80 reimagines the luxury body-on-frame full-size SUV for its third outing and switches to a contemporary styling, and packs a downsized powertrain that's still more capable than the old-school 5.6-liter V8 it replac...

 
Rolls-Royce Ghost and Ford F-450 Are Like Beauty and the Beast on White-Orange Forgis
Rolls-Royce Ghost and Ford F-450 Are Like Beauty and the Beast on White-Orange Forgis

20 Mar 2024, 12:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / A lot of aftermarket outlets and parts providers love to play with the looks of Rolls-Royce vehicles, but very few of them dare to make them compatible with a Ford, let alone a heavy-duty pickup truck! Usually, an ultra-luxury four-door saloo...

 
Isuzu Enters the EV Pickup Truck Sector, Tesla's Cybertruck Won't Worry About D-Max BEV
Isuzu Enters the EV Pickup Truck Sector, Tesla's Cybertruck Won't Worry About D-Max BEV

20 Mar 2024, 11:06 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The third-generation Isuzu D-Max mid-size pickup truck will soon gain an all-electric version previewed by a concept on display at the 45th Bangkok International Motor Show held between March 27 and April 7 in Bangkok, Thailand's capital and l...

 
Imagined Range Rover Pickup Feels Ready to Conquer the Mid-Size Truck Establishment
Imagined Range Rover Pickup Feels Ready to Conquer the Mid-Size Truck Establishment

20 Mar 2024, 09:11 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Land Rover invented the Range Rover in 1970, back when it was a British Leyland brand, and didn't intend it as the premium 4x4 SUV we know today – a model that can easily reach quotations in excess of $200k for its fancier versions. ...

 
Charger Hellcat Drags Demon, Challenger, Camaro, Stomps All, and Posts a New World Record
Charger Hellcat Drags Demon, Challenger, Camaro, Stomps All, and Posts a New World Record

20 Mar 2024, 08:26 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / While Lady Winter hasn't completely left from the Northern Hemisphere, that doesn't mean it still has enough strength to impede some of the traditional spring events – especially in the traditionally sunnier places across the greate...

 
Daringly Refreshed Kia Sportage Arrives From Behind the CGI Curtain Based on Latest Spies
Daringly Refreshed Kia Sportage Arrives From Behind the CGI Curtain Based on Latest Spies

20 Mar 2024, 07:40 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Kia, along with its cousin Hyundai, is one of the most daring and restless companies across the automotive industry. The best part is that most of its styling ideas are well-received and brave, unlike other creations (cough, BMW, cough) that seem e...

 
Revived Lincoln Mark IX Steals the Digital Soul of an AMG GT, Comes Out Stylish
Revived Lincoln Mark IX Steals the Digital Soul of an AMG GT, Comes Out Stylish

20 Mar 2024, 07:10 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Lincoln currently sells just one type of vehicle if you're in its home market – either big or small, but they're all of the crossover SUV variety. Of course, that doesn't bode well for everyone, and some people even take matter...

 
The Very Special Mercedes-AMG G 63 Grand Edition Costs Over $269k In Australia
The Very Special Mercedes-AMG G 63 Grand Edition Costs Over $269k In Australia

19 Mar 2024, 13:37 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / With $269k, you could buy a couple of Tesla Cybertruck Cyberbeast EV pickup trucks and still have money to hook your home to a Powerwall station and keep some spare change. The same amount could net you a pair of Mercedes-AMG GT 55 Coupes or...

 
Digitally Refreshed Porsche 911 Remains ICE-Powered But Gets Taycan Turbo GT DNA
Digitally Refreshed Porsche 911 Remains ICE-Powered But Gets Taycan Turbo GT DNA

19 Mar 2024, 11:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The German sports car and SUV plus EV automaker is currently busy churning out novelties left and right with the arrival of the second-generation Macan as an EV luxury compact crossover SUV and the introduction of the refreshed Taycan with more pow...

 
Ritzy Tesla Cybertruck Morphs Into Tilting-Bed Dually Workhorse: Does It Still Look Cool?
Ritzy Tesla Cybertruck Morphs Into Tilting-Bed Dually Workhorse: Does It Still Look Cool?

19 Mar 2024, 10:07 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Right now, electric vehicles – despite being heralded as eco-saviors and although many have pitched the EV revolution time and again – are not dominant yet. But they might be in the near future so it's clear that this paradigm chan...

 
Dodge Challengers and Chargers Drag Ford Mustangs, the Result Is Always the Same!
Dodge Challengers and Chargers Drag Ford Mustangs, the Result Is Always the Same!

19 Mar 2024, 09:23 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Last year, Ford came out to play with the S650 seventh generation 2024 Ford Mustang in EcoBoost, GT, and Dark Horse form, the latter two packing the mighty 5.0-liter Coyote V8 under the hood. This year, Dodge is giving them something EV to think ab...

 
2026 Dodge Durango Comes Out Virtually to Play With the Charger Daytona and Sixpack
2026 Dodge Durango Comes Out Virtually to Play With the Charger Daytona and Sixpack

19 Mar 2024, 08:50 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Currently, the online Dodge portal allows anyone to select the 'old' L-bodied Challenger coupe from $32,800 or the Charger sedan from $35,325 plus the Jeep Grand Cherokee WK2-related WD Durango mid-size three-row crossover SUV from $41,67...

 
All-New 2025 Infiniti QX80 Will Sing a High-Placed Tune With Help From Jon Batiste
All-New 2025 Infiniti QX80 Will Sing a High-Placed Tune With Help From Jon Batiste

19 Mar 2024, 08:11 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and composer Jon Batiste is almost ready for an unforgettable performance some 100 stories above the Manhattan skyline – and it's all for the eagerly-awaited launch of the 2025 Infinit...

 

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