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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.
2021 Acura TLX Type S Goes to Pikes Peak as 355 HP Official Pace Car
2021 Acura TLX Type S Goes to Pikes Peak as 355 HP Official Pace Car

31 Jul 2020, 11:16 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Sedans are being dropped left and right, and we are not saying this in the positive sense. But there are still automakers having faith in the classic body type. Most of them are Japanese, to be honest. Among them, Acura shines like a beacon of hope...

 
Twin-Turbo C8 Chevrolet Corvette Engine Blown Up by Popular YouTuber
Twin-Turbo C8 Chevrolet Corvette Engine Blown Up by Popular YouTuber

31 Jul 2020, 10:15 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / There are many aftermarket companies looking to enhance the General Motors LT2 naturally aspirated V8 - Hennessey, ProCharger, Extreme Turbo Systems just to highlight a few. The name of the game is adding turbo power – double turbo power to b...

 
Ford Apparently Gave Up on Inflatable Seat Belts for the 2021 F-150
Ford Apparently Gave Up on Inflatable Seat Belts for the 2021 F-150

31 Jul 2020, 08:31 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Ford F-Series is poised to remain the best-selling vehicle across the U.S. in 2020 as well – in part thanks to the Blue Oval’s impending introduction of the new F-150.  Ford is almost ready to deliver the 2021 F-150 to its N...

 
Mopar and JPP Present Factory Lift Kit for EcoDiesel Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator
Mopar and JPP Present Factory Lift Kit for EcoDiesel Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator

31 Jul 2020, 07:18 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Jeep has been keeping the banner up for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on a global level while some of the group’s other brands (no need to give examples, we all know them) are but mere shadows of their former selves. Well, the Wrangler and Gladia...

 
Bentley Goes to St Tropez for Continental GT Mulliner Convertible Launch 
Bentley Goes to St Tropez for Continental GT Mulliner Convertible Launch 

30 Jul 2020, 13:34 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / If one thing is certain in the world of luxury automobiles is that when a customization division does something, nothing will stand in its way. Not even a global health crisis, the same one that affected the British carmaker’s plans for a pub...

 
Base Mercedes-Benz E-Class Is Just £39k in the UK, AMG E 63 S Estate Is £100k
Base Mercedes-Benz E-Class Is Just £39k in the UK, AMG E 63 S Estate Is £100k

30 Jul 2020, 12:05 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / To say the 2021 model year facelift for the E-Class range is subtle would be a major understatement. Still, the Stuttgart-based automaker has done its homework – the light upgrades front and back have been carried to the AMG versions as well,...

 
Own This Lifted 1984 Chevrolet K5 Blazer With a Modern Silverado Vortec V8
Own This Lifted 1984 Chevrolet K5 Blazer With a Modern Silverado Vortec V8

30 Jul 2020, 11:10 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / General Motors might have done better to revive the Chevrolet K5 Blazer in a different way in order to fend off the approaching 2021 Ford Bronco hurricane. But this is a very long shot considering the company’s drive towards electrified GMC H...

 
Classic MINI Cooper Gets Honda B18 VTEC, Morphs Into 369 HP Swapped Bomb
Classic MINI Cooper Gets Honda B18 VTEC, Morphs Into 369 HP Swapped Bomb

30 Jul 2020, 09:48 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Builds come in all forms, shapes, and sizes. And sometimes the best adrenaline rush comes in the smallest of packages. Such as a timeless MINI Cooper that was produced during the elegant times of the 20th century and was elevated to 21st century ma...

 
Mercedes-Benz GLB Gets the Brabus Touch, Comes Out Sportier or Off-Road Ready
Mercedes-Benz GLB Gets the Brabus Touch, Comes Out Sportier or Off-Road Ready

30 Jul 2020, 08:45 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Aftermarket specialist Brabus virtually needs no introduction, but the same cannot be said about Mercedes-Benz's own GLB-crossover. For some it might sound like compact overkill to have the GLA, GLB and GLC models covering the space of just tw...

 
BMW Might Soon Produce Easily Recyclable Battery Cells for its Electric Vehicles
BMW Might Soon Produce Easily Recyclable Battery Cells for its Electric Vehicles

30 Jul 2020, 07:53 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The vast majority of normal folk out there know battery electric vehicles are better for the environment. But what happens when these technologically advanced objects reach the end of their life cycle – they also need to be recycled to remain...

 
Lamborghini and the Pursuit of Track Happiness: Essenza SCV12 Revealed
Lamborghini and the Pursuit of Track Happiness: Essenza SCV12 Revealed

29 Jul 2020, 14:13 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The inevitable happened – after the earlier teaser on the company’s international website, Lamborghini has fully revealed all the juicy technical details and the styling of its latest limited-edition hypercar. The Essenza SCV12 readily ...

 
PSA Ready to Move Away From C/EMP Architecture to All-New eVMP by 2025
PSA Ready to Move Away From C/EMP Architecture to All-New eVMP by 2025

29 Jul 2020, 13:35 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Citroen, DS Automobiles, Peugeot, Opel, Vauxhall and even Toyota vehicles have been developed for years on just two multi-energy platforms belonging to the PSA corporation. Truly modular, these two architectures have underpinned anything from the P...

 
Skoda Reveals First Design Sketch of 2021 Enyaq iV Interior
Skoda Reveals First Design Sketch of 2021 Enyaq iV Interior

29 Jul 2020, 13:13 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Volkswagen has presented the production-series ID.3 and Cupra officially unveiled the el-Born as MEB-based electric hatchbacks. Skoda, on the other hand, might be the first to reveal a crossover derivative of the Volkswagen Group’s Modular El...

 
Sony Vision-S Heads Home to Tokyo for Further Evolution
Sony Vision-S Heads Home to Tokyo for Further Evolution

29 Jul 2020, 12:21 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas managed quite fast to steal the red carpet from underneath the classic North American International Auto Show in Detroit. And did it so well that NAIAS’ organizers moved the date while technology com...

 
London Concours to Showcase Iconic Lancia 037, B24 Spider and Flaminia SS Zagato
London Concours to Showcase Iconic Lancia 037, B24 Spider and Flaminia SS Zagato

29 Jul 2020, 11:22 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / What a shame that a wonderful Italian automotive brand such as Lancia has had its prestigious history drowned in the muddy waters of the current global automotive economy. The maker can trace its roots way back to 1906 and yet in 2020 it has just o...

 
ICE vs. EV Tug of War: Mercedes, Lamborghini, and Range Rover Fight Tesla
ICE vs. EV Tug of War: Mercedes, Lamborghini, and Range Rover Fight Tesla

29 Jul 2020, 09:52 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Remember the good old days of the evasive maneuver test aka “moose / elk test” when Teknikens Värld had to flip the first-generation Mercedes-Benz A Class to get a little bit of notoriety? Today’s social media cravings can ma...

 
Lamborghini SCV12 Teaser Reveals Green Shade
Lamborghini SCV12 Teaser Reveals Green Shade

29 Jul 2020, 09:10 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Lamborghini’s Squadra Corse usually does not preoccupy itself with street-legal machines – it has enough on its mind with the Huracán Super Trofeo Evo racers. This is because even its latest product, the upcoming SCV12 hypercar i...

 
2021 Ford Bronco Badlands Looks Stealthy in Pre-Production Factory Leak
2021 Ford Bronco Badlands Looks Stealthy in Pre-Production Factory Leak

29 Jul 2020, 08:30 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Everybody is hyped up about the reinvented 2021 Ford Bronco – but here is the thing: we are barely scratching the tip of the iceberg. These are just the first stages of revival and there is so much going on around the new model family it is e...

 
Augmented Reality HUD Warps 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Into the Future
Augmented Reality HUD Warps 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Into the Future

29 Jul 2020, 07:54 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Head-Up Displays have become almost ubiquitous in the automotive industry. They are no longer a cutting-edge feature borrowed from the world of aviation. Long gone are the days of 1988 when the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was the first car to use a ...

 
Ford to Deliver Bronco "Untold Story" With New Podcast Series
Ford to Deliver Bronco "Untold Story" With New Podcast Series

28 Jul 2020, 14:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Our own coverage of the 2021 Ford Bronco story is statement to the powerful impression the revival of the legendary off-roader made on everybody. The U.S. automaker does not seem all that surprised, though, and keeps giving little snippets to the f...

 

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