Cristian Curmei
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He was born in Romania, yet left at the age of six. Destination? U.S. of A. Grew up in Chi-town for the first two years of his life, followed by the remaining 14 years in Phoenix, Arizona. A history of musical and martial arts made him the ‘crazy’ human he is today. Majors in Chemistry and English ‘endowed’ him with with a joy for jumbling letters, sometimes making people laugh in the process. His true joy and ultimate goal.
His love of expression, in any form, has led to a large stack of notebooks on his coffee table. Some stories are about love. Some stories are about clarity. Some stories are about trials and tribulations. All of them are about what it means to be a human. Most recently you’ll even find stories about anything vehicles, transportation, and more.
The Larisa aka W has “Yachting's Best Kept Secret” as the Interior Designer
13 Aug 2020, 09:00 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / 2020 brought with it upgrades for the W super-yacht. Lets have a look at what the interior and exterior is all about, and why this super-yacht costs over $50 million. Up in the Netherlands they really like their yachts. A long shipping and sail...
A Customizable Hybrid Powered Yacht Even Elon Musk Would Proudly Own
12 Aug 2020, 15:14 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / This yacht by Eramotive is bringing a whole new shape and function to yachting. True, it is a concept, but one that could very easily be shaping the future of how we go yachting. What you’re looking at is both solar and diesel, a hybrid a...
The Audi AI Trail Can and Will Deliver a Sensational Off-Road Experience
12 Aug 2020, 14:20 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / The time has come for off roading to see some EVs doing the work. Capable of massive torque and distances to help you explore the outdoors, this concept is doing it all and then some. So you may or may not have heard of Audi’s off-ro...
Is the Volkswagen Touareg R Worthy of the R Moniker?
12 Aug 2020, 13:18 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / It’s like this. Internal combustion engines have been doing our work, taking us to new levels of speed, and even into space, for over 100 years. But now, that technology is starting to seem a little obsolete and is making way for electric pow...
Survey Says Tesla Is Looking to be the Power Grid for Your Home
11 Aug 2020, 16:35 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / Elon Musk is on top of making cars, rockets, satellites, and even brain implants. So it comes to no surprise that Tesla is now looking to power your home. This, however, is nothing new for Tesla. They have been showing us their ideas for solar...
Elon Himself Is Approving Tuning on His Teslas, Is Even Excited by Some Tuners
11 Aug 2020, 12:29 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / You know Elon, that guy with the last name Musk, that makes those Tesla thingies? Yeah, him. He’s given the world a green light for tuning to happen on his cars. You read that right, folks. Elon Musk himself has given a not so enthusiasti...
This Volvo PV Concept Makes You Look Like a Test-Tube Baby on the Streets
11 Aug 2020, 09:57 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / It seems that weirder and bolder designs are coming about for a future that may never arrive. One of those bold designs, with an emphasis on bold, shows us an autonomous vehicle that has nothing but a seat. The rest is not up to you. Times are ...
China is a Big Place with Secrets. One of the biggest is a Ferrari Superamerica
11 Aug 2020, 07:28 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / People, the world is a big place, yet, still so very small. Somewhere on this little blue planet, hides a Ferrari 575 Superamerica. That place is China. It seems that China still holds some secrets. One of these secrets is an abandoned dea...
Put Your Enthusiasm Away Just a Tad Longer for Ferrari’s SF90 Stradale
10 Aug 2020, 17:06 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / In 2020 we were supposed to be getting our new Stradale from Ferrari. However, a delay in component manufacturing due to the global health crisis will be bringing this Ferrari later than expected. Just to get your blood pumping a little more, here&...
This Ford Landau Coupe is Rarer Than Hen's Teeth
10 Aug 2020, 16:16 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / Nowadays it seems people don’t always know how to appreciate the old timey stuff anymore. That being said, I've noticed the car world works a bit differently. Here we find that the older, the rarer, the better. So what do you have to say...
Mars Racer XRC Branded Peugeot - I Bet Matt Damon Wished He had One in Mars
10 Aug 2020, 14:27 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / I remember playing with cars when I was a kid, and if my memory serves me right, this is exactly how I imagined them in my mind. It’s no wonder my eyes dilated and suddenly everything seemed clearer when I first laid my sight on the design. ...
Tesla Model 3 by Unplugged Performance - Faster Than a McLaren F1 Around Tsukuba
10 Aug 2020, 07:21 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / A team of meddling kids at Unplugged Performance have taken the Tesla Model 3 to a whole new level. It's now able to beat track times of Porsche and McLaren. So there’s these guys, right? Their name is Unplugged Performance, and thei...
This Mouth-Watering Camaro Garage Build by Jim Stehlin Is Full of Custom Work
9 Aug 2020, 15:36 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / A '73 Camaro lost in a Missouri swamp made it into the hands of someone who has shown it all the necessary love to get it looking and feeling like new, and then some. We all love the classics. It's something about the lines or the body...
Dubbed the Arctic Frog, This Tracked Jeep Pays Tribute to an American Hero
9 Aug 2020, 07:30 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / Complete Customs build this Jeep Wrangler as a tribute to Chris Kyle, the US Army’s most decorated marksman. A fully decked out mini tank with Mattracks to get through just about any terrain. Ever since their start in 1941, when the first...
Here's a 650 HP Camaro Body on a Hummer Chassis Tamed and Named “Mud-Maro"
8 Aug 2020, 10:54 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / A Camaro and a Hummer had a baby. This one of a kind build took only thirty days and 10,000 US dollars. The mud is just there to prove that it does what it is rumored to do. Have you ever imagined what sort of offspring would result from a Chevy...
Baja-Ready Porsche 911 Looks Like It’s Straight Out of Mad Max, Without the Junk
8 Aug 2020, 10:07 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / This stripped down and reloaded 911 is the creation of master restorer Michael Lightbourn. With backing from Arc Studio, he’s taken a lost relic and brought it back to life as a beefier reincarnation. Every now and again, someone gets an i...
It's Nothing Special, Just the Most Verstile Bugatti to Date - the Chiron
8 Aug 2020, 08:52 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / For now, it’s all about the Chiron introduced in 2016. That year at the Geneva Auto Show, Bugatti introduced the model that would to take over where the Veyron left off. We all know the Bugatti family. They've been doing speed s...
Family Friendly Tank Comes with All the Luxuries of Home
6 Aug 2020, 08:14 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / You and your family are on your early road-trip. Mom, Dad, your brother or sister, and you, four in total. This year's destination is the Yukon. But the Yukon you did the year before. True. But the year before you didn’t have the Globecr...
Russians Hit Dakar 2020 with the Kamaz Master Team Sponsored by Red Bull
6 Aug 2020, 06:48 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / Leave it to the Russians. Honestly, when was the last time that Russians have disappointed us with their "balls-to-the-walls" approach to anything, from gymnastics to crazy contraptions and even Dakar? We’ve known that Russians...
"Black Mamba" Project 6x6 Land Rover Defender Is Ready for the Tough World
4 Aug 2020, 15:56 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / A Land Rover Defender. So what? It’s from the '80s. What do you mean it’s a 6x6!? No way that’s even real...What, I can buy it!? Hell ya, I've got 315K! Land Rover is just well, Land Rover. They’ve been making ...