Daniel Patrascu
17,937 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
"I truly believe men and fish can coexist peacefully" – George W. Bush
Following several years off the grid, Daniel is back at autoevolution, and seeing how the great crisis of the past decade made the auto industry boring, he grew bored with it too, so he slowly shifted his focus to custom cars, custom motorcycles, and other weird stuff. He also loves ranting about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
During his time at autoevolution, Daniel put his name on more news articles, coverstories, auto guides, reviews, and editorials than we care count. To slow him down a bit, he was given more responsibilities not long ago, so he is now also in charge with coordinating the editorial team on autoevolution.com.
Long time ago, Daniel also translated Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “The Fountains of Paradise” to Romanian for Paladin Publishing.
3 Alternative Scenarios NASA Considered Before Deciding to Crash the ISS
30 Sep 2023, 23:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting our planet for more than two decades now. Its story began with the launch of the first component in 1998, and since that time it has been visited by hundreds of humans, both trained astronauts...
Harley-Davidson Le Mans Costs a Ford Mustang and a Chevrolet Camaro Combined
30 Sep 2023, 22:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the world of motorsport the name Le Mans is always spoken with awe and respect. The place designated by it has for ages been home to one of the most important motorsport events in the world, the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race. Beca...
Café Racer Bikes: From the Ton-Up Boys to the Classic British Hybrids
30 Sep 2023, 08:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I'm guessing no one ever tried to see whether there are more car lovers out there than there are motorcycle fans. But one look, even superficial, and what both sides do with the vehicles they love makes it instantly clear moto guys and gals wi...
50-Year-Old Dodge Charger Looks Like a Newborn, And It's a 440 Magnum
29 Sep 2023, 23:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the mid-1960s the fight on the then-nascent muscle car segment was just heating up. The early heavyweights of the breed, Ford's Mustang and Chevrolet's Camaro, were soon to be joined by others wearing other branding, as everybody was l...
Harley-Davidson Full Billet Jacket Is Heavy on $10,000-Worth of Aluminum Parts
29 Sep 2023, 22:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aluminum is one of the cheapest metals on this Earth. That is mostly due to the fact it is also one of the most abundant metals to be found in our planet's crust although, granted, it's not to be found free, but bounded in various mineral...
Tesla Model 3 Performance-Priced Harley-Davidson Breakout Will Surely Get You Noticed
29 Sep 2023, 10:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's at times difficult to perfectly understand just how expensive custom motorcycles get to be, and that's why we often use the price of brand-new cars to get a baseline. After all, it's one thing to learn a bike is worth this many ...
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Looks Like a Show Car, Has the Setup of a Dragster
29 Sep 2023, 10:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Chevrolet Bel Airs are highly regarded cars in our day and age. The ones of the early generations, with their 1950s styling, often enhanced by custom work, are enough to get collectors' blood pumping and the money flowing. In the vast major...
ESA Calls for More Moon Mission Ideas, Throws in the Ariane 6 as a Hook
29 Sep 2023, 08:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The past few years have proven that humanity can't have a successful plan for the colonization of space without the resources provided by the private sector. Not only did the world's space agencies seem to have come to terms with that, bu...
Airbus A320 Aircraft Parts to Be Shipped to the U.S. by a Wind-Powered Ship
29 Sep 2023, 07:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With soaring fuel prices and the ever-looming danger of irreversible climate change hanging over our heads, the race to cut down fuel consumption in all aspects of a business is heating up. It does so to such a degree that we'll soon even have...
Autonomous Robot Learning to Pick Up Lightsaber-Like Tubes From the Surface of Mars
29 Sep 2023, 07:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We're still some years away from when the first component of the Mars Sample Return mission, the Earth Return Orbiter, will depart for Mars. An even longer time separates us from the moment a rover (or some helicopters, as the case may be) sta...
BMW Heats Up the Touring Enduro Segment with the Most Powerful R 1300 GS Ever Made
29 Sep 2023, 06:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / German bike maker BMW Motorrad likes to call itself the inventor of the touring enduro segment, something that happened more than four decades ago, when the R 80 G/S first came to life. As such, it must also feel great pressure to keep leading the ...
Harley-Davidson Duesseldorf Is How the Germans Spell Cool Custom Motorcycle
28 Sep 2023, 10:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / America may be the world's main supplier of stock Harley-Davidson motorcycles in stock form, but there is no question about it the Germans lead the pack when it comes to modified American two-wheelers. The European country is home to perha...
1968 Chevrolet Camaro Is So Wonderfully Black It Makes You Ignore the Rest of the Monster
28 Sep 2023, 10:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are many old-gen Chevrolet Camaros out there worth a closer look and an unscheduled spend, but few of them come with as many awards in tow as the one sitting before us now. After all, a car that scored 994 out of 1,000 points at the Muscle Ca...
New Rolls-Royce Turbogenerator Gas Turbine Nails First Fuel Burn, Meant for VTOLs
28 Sep 2023, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world as we know it is on the verge of complete transformation in more ways than we can count, from climate to geo-political. But nowhere does the transformation look as exciting as in the transportation industry. Cars are in the middle of t...
Terminator-Named Heavy-Lift Drone Can Drop Anti-Submarine Torpedoes
28 Sep 2023, 07:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Terminator universe is perhaps not as rich as some people would have liked in terms of machines. For a franchise that focuses on a robot-led apocalypse, there are surprisingly few robots, bots, drones, and other some such doing the rounds. E...
Brabus 1300 R Masterpiece Edition Is This Year's 1290 Super Duke R Evo on German Steroids
28 Sep 2023, 06:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Brabus is a well-known European builder of cars. It mostly specializes in modifying Mercedes-AMG machines, but we do get the occasional Porsches, Rolls-Royces, and even Range Rovers. Oh, and these guys also have a side business dealing with boats. ...
Harley-Davidson GTO 6 Petrolwire Is a Slap in the Face of Electric Motorcycles
27 Sep 2023, 12:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We live in a time when the electric vehicle bug has engulfed the world. Not only cars, but boats and airplanes are being developed with electric drivetrains. Motorcycles too, only these ones are mostly made by startups, as established names in the ...
1956 Imperial Crown Is Another Taste of What an American Classic Car Means
27 Sep 2023, 11:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If one takes a superficial look at the many car lots going under the hammer in the upcoming auctions scheduled to take place in the U.S., one might be left under the impression that the usual suspects are alone on the field. Chevys, Ford, and Dodge...
BMW Issues Stop-Sale Order for All Bikes in U.S. Inventory, Except for One
27 Sep 2023, 08:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If often happens for car and motorcycle makers to issue recalls, and that's one of the ways we can all rest assured that we're driving or riding the safest machines possible. Safety-related stop-sale orders are not unheard of either, but ...
U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Plane Gets New Computer and Displays, Flies Them for the First Time
27 Sep 2023, 07:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are a number of high-profile and very advanced aircraft in the inventory of the U.S. Air Force (USAF), and the military branch does not shy away from advertising their exploits every chance it gets. But there are flying machines that through ...