Ciprian Florea
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Personal motto:
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough horsepower." - Mark Donohue
You'll never catch him drooling over the latest supercar but he could spend hours talking about why he loves 1940s windshield visors, Mopars, and Studebakers. Naturally, most of his stories are about barn finds and rare classics.
He can give you several reasons why speed and power are more about motorsport than silly street wandering, and Can-Am machinery tops his ridiculously fast all-time favorite car list. He claims he could die happy after a Rattlesnake Raceway ride in a Chaparral and a cup of coffee with Jim Hall on the other side of the table.
Before landing on these pages, Ciprian's work has been published on outlets like TopSpeed, AmericanMuscle, and ThisWeekInMotors.
2015 Ford Mustang, Different Enough to Get New Platform Designation
6 Feb 2013, 15:15 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The next generation Ford Mustang will receive a new platform designation as part of the Blue Oval's plans to significantly change the future global muscle car. According to MustangsDaily.com, who's citing an anonymous inside source, th...
McLaren Teases P1's Interior
6 Feb 2013, 14:32 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / McLaren's P1 supercar, widely known as the F1's successor, is getting ready for its Geneva Motor Show debut as a production version with a couple of interior teasers. The images published by the British automaker reveal two very import...
Caterham Shows 2013 Formula 1 Car
6 Feb 2013, 13:19 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Caterham F1 completed the line up of teams that revealed their new single seaters for 2013 during the first pre-season testing at Circuito de Jerez in Spain. The British team will not be using a re-designed car for the new season, choosing an ev...
2014 Toyota Corolla Pictures Leaked
6 Feb 2013, 13:18 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The first pictures of the production version of Toyota's 2014 Corolla have surfaced on the web, revealing a design based on the Furia Concept car seen at last month's Detroit Auto Show. From the two leaked photos we can see that while ...
Chevy SS to Debut a Week Before Daytona 500
6 Feb 2013, 12:15 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors took an unexpected decision regarding the new Chevrolet SS performance sedan, announcing that the unveiling of the production version will take place at the Daytona International Speedway, with just a week before the NASCAR 500 mile-...
Pininfarina Announces "Innovative and Exclusive" Concept Car for Geneva
6 Feb 2013, 10:44 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Italian car designer and coach builder Pininfarina has announced that it will debut a concept car as a tribute to its former Honorary Chairman, Sergio Pininfarina, at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show. To honour the man who headed the company for 4...
Chevy Volt is No Match for Tesla Model S On Drag Strip
6 Feb 2013, 10:42 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Putting a Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid against the Tesla Model S on a drag strip is not a very good idea if you're looking to check you're own Chevy's performance. It works just for the fun of it, but the Volt is no match for the Te...
Red Bull Reveals Infiniti RB9 Formula 1 Car
6 Feb 2013, 09:38 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Infiniti Red Bull Racing team launched the RB9 2013 Formula 1 car in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. With Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber pulling back the sheet to reveal the car, the new RB9 was described as a revolutionary racing car by engineer ...
Bentley SUV Receives Production Approval
6 Feb 2013, 08:41 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Bentley's new SUV has been approved for production by parent company Volkswagen, a German newspaper said citing board sources. While Bentley is yet to confirm the news, German business newspaper Handelsblatt is reporting that the still-unna...
Updated 2013 Subaru WRX Proves Impressive Before Nurburgring
5 Feb 2013, 17:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2013 Subaru WRX STI Nurburgring 24-hour race car was put to test at the Fuji Speedway in Japan, and produced some impressive results ahead of its most important challenge: winning the third consecutive race in Germany. Enhanced by Subaru Tec...
Camaro Looking Down on Mustang After January 2013 Sales
5 Feb 2013, 17:37 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The Chevrolet Camaro is America’s best selling muscle car in January 2013, the Oshawa-produced vehicle doing better than rivals Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger, despite a decline in demand. While the Camaro topped the performance car sel...
Hardcore Toyota GT 86 Is Ready to Hit the Track
5 Feb 2013, 16:29 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Can you take a low-cost coupe and turn it into a brilliant race car? Well, it seems like Buckingam’s GPRM already did it with the Toyota GT86. We’re talking about a GT4 version of the otherwise nifty Toyota GT86 developed by motorspo...
Citroen Preparing BMW X3, Audi Q5 Rival for 2014
5 Feb 2013, 15:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / French automaker Citroen will be entering the compact crossover class from 2014, with a new DS derived model, called the DSX. In fact, the Citroen DS sub-brand will expand with three new models by the end of that year, the DSX SUV actually being...
Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Is Damaged Goods After 90 Feet Jump
5 Feb 2013, 13:50 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The Ford F-150 SVT Raptor is one of the coolest and most capable American trucks on the market, but it wasn’t really designed to fly. Since Ford didn’t sell it with a sticker saying “not suitable for silly stunts” , one o...
Mercedes W04 Formula 1 Car Showcased at Jerez
5 Feb 2013, 13:07 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its 2013 F1 car, called W04, ahead of the pre-season testing at Jerez, Spain. The new Silver Arrow, which is supposed to make fans forget last season’s failed attempt at the World Championship title, was revealed in...
Mercedes-Benz Outsells BMW in the US in January
5 Feb 2013, 11:24 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Mercedes-Benz had a flying start in the US auto market this year, leading BMW and Lexus in the luxury brand battle after the first month of 2013. With 22,501 vehicles sold in January, which means a rise of 11 percent, Mercedes-Benz took the lead...
Bristol to Finally Unveil Its 200 MPH Electric Supercar
5 Feb 2013, 10:33 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / It’s been one and half years since famous British sportscar manufacturer Bristol has announced a high-performance electric vehicle, and the wait might be over in just a few months. Acquired by Kamkorp Autokraft, part of the Frazer-Nash gro...
Bugatti Veyron Gets Beetle Edition Rendering
5 Feb 2013, 10:04 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Seems hard to believe that the ludicrously fast Bugatti Veyron and the legendary Volkswagen Beetle have something in common, but the two totally different type of cars share the same parent company name. That’s no reason to sit both cars a...
Fiat to Build Maserati, Alfa Romeo SUVs in Turin
5 Feb 2013, 09:15 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Fiat will build Maserati’s new Levante SUV at its plant in Turin, Italy, despite original reports that were suggesting manufacturing might take place in Detroit, alongside the Jeep Grand Cherokee. According to Automotive News Europe, CEO S...