Daniel Patrascu
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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.
Triumph Is Giving Away a Thruxton Final Edition, But There's a Catch
26 Mar 2024, 11:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In October 2023 British bike maker Triumph announced it is pulling the plug on the Thruxton model. It marked the end of exactly 60 years of factory-made café racers, and as such it was announced the line would end with a special version of t...
Warfighting in the Snow Gets Real With These New Military Snowmobiles
26 Mar 2024, 10:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Military operations in the Arctic regions are far less visible than the ones taking place in or near populated areas, and that's why there's a chance some of you will find purpose-built military snowmobiles to be something of an oddity in...
NASA to Launch Rockets at the Moon's Shadow During Solar Eclipse
26 Mar 2024, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There was probably a time back when humanity was young when solar eclipses caused big concerns for our ancestors. Some of them hid in fear, others probably threw stuff at the black monster that was eating the Sun, while others performed all sorts o...
$183K Aston Martin AMB Pro Bike to Sell in the U.S. From Official Brough Superior Stores
26 Mar 2024, 07:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Brough Superior is one of the oldest names in the motorcycle industry, and even if in its present form it has little to do with what the name meant back in the early 1920s, it still inspires and satisfies the needs of a lot of riders. Provided, of ...
Wildest Drift Hypercar on Earth to Be Unveiled at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
26 Mar 2024, 06:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Drifting is one of the wildest ways of handling a car. Not particularly difficult if you know what you're doing, drifting has become, over the years, a sport of sorts with its own superstars and iconic vehicles. Because of its nature, drift...
WindRunner Will Be the World's Largest Aircraft, Designed To Move Wind Turbine Blades
25 Mar 2024, 13:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Businesses are usually born out of necessity. In a simplistic way, when someone believes there is or will be a need for a product or service, they'll move to provide that. If that need turns out to be real, a market will be created and others ...
Airbus A320ceo Engines Can Easily Run on SAF Alone, Major Test Shows
25 Mar 2024, 09:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Airbus A320 family is one of the oldest and most reliable in the aviation industry. Born in Europe back in 1987 (that's almost 40 years ago), the range is also one of the most widespread, with over 11,000 of them made. During such a lon...
High-Speed Cruise Missile Stands No Chance Against America's Newest Defense Radar
25 Mar 2024, 08:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Defense contractor Raytheon and the U.S. Army are currently hard at work testing a system they describe with no trace of modesty as the "world's most advanced and highly capable air and missile defense radar." Called LTAMDS, the syst...
Potentially Dangerous Side Air Bags Prompt Massive Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 Recall
25 Mar 2024, 07:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since the Takata debacle the simple mention of a recall caused by defective airbags has been enough to send shivers down everybody's spine. Even when the recalls are not directly related to the Japanese parts maker. Airbags are the cau...
Ford Mustang Super Cobra Jet 1800 Makes Record Quarter-Mile Pass in Just 7.759 Seconds
25 Mar 2024, 07:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A little less than a year ago American carmaker Ford let loose into the world something called the Mustang Super Cobra Jet 1800. From the get-go, we were informed that the vehicle "targets several new quarter-mile NHRA world records for electr...
Purpose-Built Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicle eVITA Will Leave You Speechless
23 Mar 2024, 11:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you don't live in the UK then the name Motability Operations probably doesn't ring any bells. And yet, we're forced to bring it up because their latest gimmick has all the makings of a great future vehicle. Motability is a Brit...
10 Electric Motorcycles Under $5,000 (and Which Are Really Worth It)
23 Mar 2024, 10:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the end of last week we had an intimate look into the world of super cheap motorcycles, the ones that are sold for under $5,000. I'm talking here, naturally, about the internal combustion ones, but still cheap enough to be both the perfect ...
How to Take NASA-Style Photos of the Great North American Eclipse and Not Lose Your Sight
22 Mar 2024, 19:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Solar eclipses are among the few grandiose celestial shows we humans can enjoy firsthand and still feel relatively safe as they happen. But eclipses are dangerous in some sense too, especially to the eyes of the onlooker. You all know how an ecl...
LiveWire S2 Mulholland Is the Electric Performance Cruiser You Might Have Been Waiting For
22 Mar 2024, 15:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Not long ago, Harley-Davidson made an attempt to get a foothold in the electric motorcycle segment as the first company of its size to do so. The effort manifested itself first as a motorcycle called LiveWire, but the thing failed to impress both i...
NASA Will Say Who Is Making the Crew-Rated Moon Rover for Artemis Missions on April 3
21 Mar 2024, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Contrary to what one would have expected after American space agency NASA announced it is delaying the launch of the Artemis II and III mission by one year, work on making human presence on the Moon a constant seems to have accelerated. From rocket...
DARPA Is Considering Putting Trains on the Moon, Needs Someone to Build It a Railway First
21 Mar 2024, 09:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Moon has become the center of attention for pretty much all ongoing space exploration efforts currently taking place on Earth. Naturally, the most visible such efforts have to do with how we'll get there and what we'll do while on sit...
Mercedes-Benz Brings a New PHEV SUV to the American Market, Enter the GLC 350e 4MATIC
21 Mar 2024, 08:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For about a decade or so, lovers of compact luxury crossovers have had something truly spectacular to turn to: the Mercedes-Benz GLC. Introduced in 2015, the SUV has quickly become a pillar of the German carmaker's offensive in the segment, an...
The Lexus LY 680 Was Not Made for the Road, New Japanese Luxury Yacht on the Horizon
21 Mar 2024, 07:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese carmaker Lexus has established itself over the years as the maker of some fine luxury vehicles. Spawn from Toyota in 1989, the brand is now one of the pillars of its segment in several of the world's largest markets. But Lexus is not ...
Mercedes-Benz Could Deploy Humanoid Robots in Its Car Factories
20 Mar 2024, 11:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Robots of different shapes and sizes have formed a parallel backbone of automotive manufacturing for decades now. Most of them industrial in nature, they are used in various stages of the assembly process, without completely eliminating the need fo...
2024 Triumph Rocket 3 Storm Is Here, Still Has the World's Largest Production Bike Engine
20 Mar 2024, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was exactly 20 years ago when British bike maker Triumph introduced in series production a motorcycle model with an engine so large it would most likely would have fitted better under the hood of a car. Rocket 3 was the name of the bike, and 2,2...