Gabriel Nica
7,693 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
"You finally save up enough for your dream car and you get fired"
Fast forwarding to the 21st century, his passion became his life when he was adopted by the autoevolution team. Now he finally got to do what he liked, and bring joy to others as well while writing about the passion that's been radioactively infused into his DNA.
Need For Speed Puts Together BMW Showdown to Introduce the M2 into the Virtual World
17 Oct 2015, 09:38 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The BMW M2 is on everyone’s lips these days and it looks like the Need For Speed franchise will include it as well. The guys from Electronic Arts, the developers of the new NFS game, wanted to pay tribute to the BMW brand altogether and publi...
Get Your BMW M2 Wallpapers Fresh Out the Oven
17 Oct 2015, 05:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The BMW M2 is out and on the prow,l and to get its fair share of fans in the net, the Germans provided a small batch of photos that can easily serve as wallpapers on a variety of devices. The photos were taken at the track where the official lau...
BMW M2 Visualizer Goes Online, Shows Us Some of the M Performance Parts Prepared
16 Oct 2015, 15:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / One thing that just doesn’t make sense to us about the M2 is the pricing. Given that it will start at €56,700 in Germany, it leaves way too much leeway in its comparison to the M4, and that’s not reflected in the performance of the...
Rally Driver Tries Out Driving Simulator, Shatters Stage Record
16 Oct 2015, 14:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / For a long, long time people have been asking how a real-life race car driver would handle himself in the virtual realm. At the same time, the same question was asked the other way around, as in how an accomplished gamer would handle a real-life si...
BMW Claims Its New 7 Series Plug-in-Hybrid Has a Longer Range than the Equivalent S-Class
16 Oct 2015, 12:59 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The 2016 BMW 7 Series is heading to showrooms around the world as we speak. Unfortunately, at launch, the 7er is available only in a couple of guises, and they don’t include the 740e model, which is the plug-in version specially prepared for ...
2016 MINI John Cooper Works Gets Aero Parts from 3D Design
16 Oct 2015, 11:49 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The guys from 3D Design unveiled a set of body parts for the F56 MINI John Cooper Works a while back, but up until now we didn’t get to see them on a car in real life. The time has come to take a more practical approach to them and check what...
Cheap BMW 30th Anniversary M5 for Sale in Germany Makes Us Suspicious About Its History
16 Oct 2015, 09:54 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / When the 30 Jahre BMW M5 was announced (or 30th Anniversary in English), we were taken aback a little. That’s because it became the most powerful BMW ever made and the fastest accelerating one. It was a car built to celebrate the 30th ann...
BMW Welt’s 20 Millionth Visitor Gets a BMW X1 to Drive for Free for a Year
16 Oct 2015, 09:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Eight years ago, the BMW Welt museum opened its doors and started welcoming fans of the brand from across the world, curious to find out even more about the blue and white roundel. Today, the 20 millionth visitor stepped in and got the surprise of ...
BMW M5 Drag Races Ferrari 458 Italia, Something's Not Right with It
16 Oct 2015, 08:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / When it comes to comparing a mid-size sedan with a supercar on the drag strip, few cars can rise to the challenge. And by few, we mean probably four or five models in the world. That list includes names like the Audi RS7, Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG ...
BMW M2 Convertible Rendered: Not Far Off
16 Oct 2015, 07:49 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The BMW M2 Coupe was launched this week and reading the press release thoroughly might’ve brought you the same revelation as it did to us. Care to guess what we’re talking about? Well, we’re talking about the fact that BMW used a ...
475 HP BMW E34 535i Impresses Matt Farah More than an M5
14 Oct 2015, 16:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Older BMWs are being driven around the US today only by two types of people: the poor and the enthusiasts. The first category is made up of those that just can’t afford to buy something newer and find themselves forced to keep going with an o...
Audi A5 DTM Selection Special Edition Launched with 3-liter TDI Engine
14 Oct 2015, 15:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It’s hard to comprehend what is going on in the VAG Group at the moment. After the Dieselgate scandal, they claimed the necessary steps will be taken to make sure that everything is set right. Well, facts speak louder than words and no matter...
BMW M2 Will Start at €56,700 in Germany, Deliveries Begin in April 2016
14 Oct 2015, 14:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Excited about the BMW M2? Good, then you’ll be disappointed to learn that the new M model will go on sale in April 2016, so there’s quite a long way to go until we get to see the first cars on public roads, camo free. Even though the...
BMW Z4 GT3 Two-Seat Race Taxi from Marc VDS Goes on Sale
14 Oct 2015, 13:28 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Now that the new BMW M6 GT3 car is on its way to replace the Z4 GT3 in all motorsport events, most private racing companies are looking to get rid of their stock. The problem is, the market for second-hand race cars is extremely limited, to avoid c...
BMW 8 Series Coupe Rendered Properly, Could Become a Real Car
14 Oct 2015, 12:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Everyone’s focused on the new BMW M2 these days, but we’re taking a step back for a moment and looking at the whole picture in Munich, a picture decorated with more models than ever in the history of the Bavarian brand. It’s n...
Here’s How the BMW M2 Sounds Like, in a Sneak Preview
14 Oct 2015, 11:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / When the current M3 and M4 models came out, with their new 3-liter inline 6-cylinder engines, most people declared they were disappointed in how they sounded. Most, however, forgot that they were comparing the old V8 with a whole different configur...
BMW M2 Availability Limited to Under 500 Units in the UK, Prices Start at £44,070
14 Oct 2015, 09:42 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It seems like UK customers and fans of the BMW M2 model will be shorthanded in terms of supply. According to Auto Express, the Germans will build less than 500 right-hand drive M2 cars destined for the UK market for some reason. This will defini...
2016 BMW M2 Nurburgring Lap Time Set at 7:58
14 Oct 2015, 08:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Now that the rabbit’s finally out of the hat, it’s time to take a closer look at what the BMW M2 brings to the table. We learned about its specs earlier today, but what do they actually mean? How do they translate into performance? W...
370 HP BMW M2 Revealed, Nibs on the M4’s Little Toe
13 Oct 2015, 21:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Oh, the wait leading to this event has been truly hard to endure and yet, here we are, showing you the final product after thousands of rumors and assumptions. The BMW F87 M2 is here in all its glory and it is a beautiful machine. Just as we exp...
BMW Posts Record September Sales, Thanks to Double Digit Growth in Europe
13 Oct 2015, 15:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / There’s been a lot of talk lately about the way the drop in sales recorded in China will influence the auto world. With the biggest market on the Globe going under, a lot of manufacturers started worrying about not only their sales figures bu...