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Ionut Ungureanu

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When he was sitting in the passenger seat of a modified Dacia and saw his older friend blindly storm the intersection, Ionut realized it was time to get his own driver’s license. He waited to turn the right age since, back then, he was still in high school. He did learn one thing from those aspiring racers he used to hang out with: hold the wheel of the car you’re in.

When it comes to his preferences, our newest team member will always want to get the oldest ride in the barn. He’ll be the first to try a steam-engined car and will probably start a random discussion about it. Modern designs are rarely going to his likes, but when we tease him with annoying questions, our “celebrities specialist” will eventually admit hypercars are what he dreams of.

Personal motto: It’s later than you think, so push the pedal.
Floyd Mayweather Can’t Make Up His Mind About His Jeep Wrangler
Floyd Mayweather Can’t Make Up His Mind About His Jeep Wrangler

3 Nov 2015, 13:50 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Roof off, roof on, doors off, doors on. It’s almost like you can hear the five-division champ saying this on and on again while staring at his newly customized Jeep Wrangler. After Floyd Mayweather initially asked for a stripped off-roader, h...

 
Michelin Will Provide Custom-Engineered Tires for Ford Performance Models
Michelin Will Provide Custom-Engineered Tires for Ford Performance Models

3 Nov 2015, 11:09 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / What better way to make sure your top models function to their ultimate performance capacities than providing the best body parts available on the market? With this new partnership, Ford is making sure its performance line-up gets what it deserves:...

 
Rolls-Royce Says Their New Website Is So Great You Don’t Need to See the Car in the Flesh
Rolls-Royce Says Their New Website Is So Great You Don’t Need to See the Car in the Flesh

3 Nov 2015, 11:04 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Rolls-Royce Motor Cars unveils new digital experience - that’s how the BMW-owned luxury carmaker presented their new interface. At first, you’re thinking something big is going on, perhaps they found a new type of gasoline, or perhaps t...

 
Floyd Mayweather’s Ferrari Enzo Is Going Under the Hammer
Floyd Mayweather’s Ferrari Enzo Is Going Under the Hammer

3 Nov 2015, 10:24 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Well, that’s quite surprising, if not a first for the retired boxing champ: selling one of his most esteemed supercars at a prestigious auction house such as RM Sothebys. After all, wasn’t Floyd Mayweather’s car line-up in the han...

 
Renault-Nissan Alliance CEO Is Proud of the Company’s EV Leadership but Says It’s Not Enough
Renault-Nissan Alliance CEO Is Proud of the Company’s EV Leadership but Says It’s Not Enough

3 Nov 2015, 09:08 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The Alliance has recently sold the company’s 250,000th EV, a milestone for the first automaker to offer a full range of electric vehicles. Together with Renault, Nissan has manufactured more than half the cars that drive on 100 percent renewa...

 
Star Wars Jewelry Pieces Are the Right Way to Get Charmed in Your Living Room
Star Wars Jewelry Pieces Are the Right Way to Get Charmed in Your Living Room

2 Nov 2015, 18:22 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Not all of these Star Wars jewelry pieces are to be worn on the wrist, but they sure look like a charm bracelet. And you don’t have to be a Star Wars fan to see how these things seem to be part of a certain cult, that of a galaxy far, far awa...

 
BMW Welt Jazz Award Reaches Its Eighth Season in January 2016
BMW Welt Jazz Award Reaches Its Eighth Season in January 2016

2 Nov 2015, 17:28 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Musicians from the US, Israel, Switzerland, Italy and Germany will perform a series of concerts during the eighth season of the BMW Welt Jazz Award that starts in January next year. Six outstanding international ensembles will be presented at the d...

 
Bentley’s New Lifestyle Collection Is Now Available
Bentley’s New Lifestyle Collection Is Now Available

2 Nov 2015, 16:33 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Like any other company that makes cars, Bentley too had something special in mind for their customers and followers alike. The new accessory collection was released just in time for the winter holidays. Now, all those aspiring luxury vehicle driver...

 
Google’s Self-Driving Car Is Learning How to Differentiate Kids from Adults on the Street
Google’s Self-Driving Car Is Learning How to Differentiate Kids from Adults on the Street

2 Nov 2015, 15:40 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Halloween has been on everybody’s lips the past weekend, but for Google’s self-driving cars it was also detected by their sensors on board. At least that’s what the IT giant said the other day, when it announced its cars took adva...

 
DJ Example on His Love for Cars: Basically I’m Just a Big Hypocrite
DJ Example on His Love for Cars: Basically I’m Just a Big Hypocrite

2 Nov 2015, 14:59 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / It’s not every day that you get to hear famous people admitting they’re just big hypocrites. So if it’s not for the Caterham Drifting experience, then you should watch this video for the rare chance to see a celebrity being honest...

 
Skydiver Dangles 30 Minutes Off the Plane, Miraculously Parachutes Safely
Skydiver Dangles 30 Minutes Off the Plane, Miraculously Parachutes Safely

2 Nov 2015, 12:42 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When it comes to driving, it’s the experience that could one day make the difference between life and death. This near-death incident that saw a skydiver from Lima, Peru, miraculously get away with a failed jump from the plane proves that the...

 
China Welcomes Airbus and Boeing Passenger Competitor, the C919
China Welcomes Airbus and Boeing Passenger Competitor, the C919

2 Nov 2015, 10:42 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / It’s been in the preps since Mao was around, back in the 1970s, but the communist country did not manage to deliver until now. A Chinese narrow-body jet that can seat 168 passengers has now rolled off the assembly line, starting a new economi...

 
Man with No Hands and Legs Will Race at Le Mans in 2016, Proves You Have No Excuse
Man with No Hands and Legs Will Race at Le Mans in 2016, Proves You Have No Excuse

2 Nov 2015, 09:58 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / How many times have you fallen asleep while imagining yourself holding the steering wheel of a Formula One beast, driving at 200 mph? Perhaps not all of us are made for it, but some should at least try it. That’s pretty much the message of th...

 
Grandpa Charges Balancing Scooter He Bought for His Nephew, Barely Gets Away After It Explodes
Grandpa Charges Balancing Scooter He Bought for His Nephew, Barely Gets Away After It Explodes

2 Nov 2015, 09:16 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The last thing you expect from the perfect gizmo you think you bought for your grandchildren is for it to explode in your kitchen while charging, causing a £25,000 ($38,576 at the current exchange rate) damage. This shocked grandpa is now out...

 
Perfect Dad Turns Son’s Wheelchair in Snowspeeder
Perfect Dad Turns Son’s Wheelchair in Snowspeeder

31 Oct 2015, 17:03 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Those who have already planned a Star Wars weekend filled with spooky sounds and Chewbacca costumes probably know what a Snowspeeder is. The airspeeder became famous during the Galactic Civil War for its use by the Alliance to Restore the Republic ...

 
Insurance Company Designs Halloween Horror Car Based on Statistics
Insurance Company Designs Halloween Horror Car Based on Statistics

31 Oct 2015, 15:03 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Have you ever wondered what the worst car would look like if you were to create it with the poorest parts of each car model? Well, this insurance company did, and they built a cheap contraption that was puzzled based on the insights they received f...

 
You’d Better Not Drink and Drive Tonight, Warns New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
You’d Better Not Drink and Drive Tonight, Warns New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

31 Oct 2015, 09:03 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / New York Governor Cuomo has announced that local and county law enforcement agencies will increase patrols to crack down on drunk driving and underage drinking this Halloween weekend. The special traffic enforcement detail began on Friday and goes ...

 
One Halloween Party Will Have the Perfect Hearse Prop Decoration Coffin
One Halloween Party Will Have the Perfect Hearse Prop Decoration Coffin

31 Oct 2015, 06:33 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / You can barbecue your way through today with that hearse grilling machine, burn rubber with a 1,000-horsepower Chevrolet Caprice on the track, or open a US-based bicycle hearse service. But no All Saints’ Eve will be complete if you don&rsquo...

 
Here’s Your Chance to Own Tony Soprano’s 2003 Cadillac Escalade
Here’s Your Chance to Own Tony Soprano’s 2003 Cadillac Escalade

30 Oct 2015, 16:25 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / HBO’s drama series The Sopranos spanned over six seasons and was celebrated with great commercial success. The Italian-American fictional character Tony Soprano was based on real-life New Jersey mobster Vincent “Vinny Ocean” Paler...

 
Spectre Premiere in Mexico Sees Felipe Massa Drifting Jaguar’s C-X75 Supercar
Spectre Premiere in Mexico Sees Felipe Massa Drifting Jaguar’s C-X75 Supercar

30 Oct 2015, 16:03 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Massa. Felipe Massa. OK, perhaps that doesn’t sound the right way. Come to think about it, it doesn’t even need to, considering the Jaguar C-X75 is not James Bond’s hero car. Furthermore, the Williams Martini Formula One driver do...

 

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