Ionut Ungureanu
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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.
Lockheed Martin Breaks Boundaries of 360-Degree Laser Shooting
20 Oct 2015, 08:13 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When you fly a jet fighter with the speed of sound, the law of physics will not allow you to shoot a laser beam in any other direction than straight ahead. That is not the best idea for a military aircraft of the future, considering enemy airplanes...
NASCAR Ace Joey Logano Drives a 1924 Model T When Off Track
19 Oct 2015, 17:54 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Whether he’s turning left in the right way, or simply was right when he decided to follow a career in professional racing, one thing is sure: Joey Logano is going in the proper direction. He became the second-youngest Daytona 500 Champion thi...
What If Marty McFly and Doc Brown Travel Back To The Future in a Golden DeLorean?
19 Oct 2015, 17:48 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / For Christmas 1979, American Express and GMC somehow partnered up to create one hundred 24k gold-plated DeLoreans for $85,000 each. They wanted to offer them to their gold card members, but only a couple of them were sold, and not a lot more built,...
Australia Takes World’s First Remote-Controlled Mine Trucks Online, Railway Next
19 Oct 2015, 17:46 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Here you were thinking Google was the only big player on the market investing money to create a road-legal fleet of self-driving vehicles, when, in fact, on the other side of the world, the real big boys are hitting the road. And when we say big, w...
Student Taking Driver’s Test Crashes Car Through the School’s Window
19 Oct 2015, 15:07 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Well, it doesn’t take more than about a blink of an eye to realize that this driver’s ed student failed to pass her exam. Luckily, nobody was injured during the incident, but she may have won the prize for the worst future driver in tow...
Toy Car Manufacturer Tamiya Creates Driveable Full Scale Model After the Aero Avante
19 Oct 2015, 14:26 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Japanese people know their toys, and there’s not one diecast collector out there that can tell you otherwise. Tamiya Corporation has been around ever since the end of World War II, so when they decided to take their most popular scale model c...
This Awesome 1/20 Scale DeLorean Time Machine That Levitates Is Really Hard to Get
19 Oct 2015, 13:42 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Did you know there’s a website counting the time until Marty McFly and Doc Brown get back to the future? As we all know, that moment is two days from now. We’ve seen plenty of marketing gigs that are trying to build something around tha...
Hack Your Car and You Could Get a $100,000 Fine from the Government
19 Oct 2015, 09:58 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Ah, hackers. They may not all be like what Sam Esmail envisioned in the surprisingly successful drama-thriller television series Mr.Robot, but they clearly can be malicious and, therefore, dangerous to our well-being. Sure, some of the well-meaning...
A Catastrophic Future Awaits If Developed Countries Don't Do What They Should: Study
19 Oct 2015, 09:24 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Perhaps the media is discussing too little the climate targets that 146 countries, representing almost 87 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, have submitted by early October. An independent review supported by social movements, environmenta...
You Can No Longer Pay $10 to Watch Ferrari and Maserati Exotics Inside This Casino in Vegas
19 Oct 2015, 07:59 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Spending cash on a regular basis in the hopes you’ll finally hit the jackpot is no big news; heck, they built an entire city just for that in the desert. What we find quite enticing is that this particular place also charged people ten bucks ...
Gordon Ramsay Visits Maranello, Drives the Ferrari 488 GTB
18 Oct 2015, 11:53 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When you own a Ferrari LaFerrari, there’s not much left out there that you can wish for. At least that what most of us think. Perhaps the hybrid Prancing Horse the UK chef was seen with earlier this year wasn’t his. Perhaps he visited t...
Artists Ride Tricycles with Projectors to Change the Color of Sao Paolo's Streets
18 Oct 2015, 11:49 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Crime rates may have decreased significantly in the 21st century, but the city with the largest economy by GDP in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere, Sao Paolo, is still dealing with some problems of the sort. People are changing, though, an...
Rapper Tyga’s Son Drives a Ferrari Toy Car on His 3rd Birthday
18 Oct 2015, 11:45 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Remember when we told you, folks, that customizing toy cars for kids was the next big thing in the aftermarket industry? Well, perhaps that seemed a little far-fetched. But how about opening a go-kart race track with customized toy karts that look ...
Floyd Mayweather’s New Jeep Wrangler Is Ferocious
18 Oct 2015, 11:42 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Floyd Mayweather had four of his luxury toys burned to the ground, one of which was a highly customized Jeep Wrangler. He invested approximately $100,000 in the off-roader’s aftermarket upgrades, but it all went down the drain. However, it di...
Kaiser Chiefs’ Lead Singer Ricky Wilson Visits McLaren Center, Has Jenson Button as a Guide
16 Oct 2015, 16:07 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / It’s been a while since Jenson invited The Voice coach and Radio X DJ to the state-of-the-art facility in Woking to see the production side of McLaren for both F1 and road cars, but a promise is a promise. After three months, Ricky Wilson fin...
This Is How They Made Those Paul Walker Scenes in Furious 7 After the Actor’s Death
16 Oct 2015, 15:48 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / It’s been more than just a joyride for the entire Fast and Furious crew ever since 2001, when producers decided to make a film inspired by the New York street clubs that race Japanese cars late at night. Unfortunately, the actor playing the u...
Aston Martin 808 Smartphone Is Not James Bond’s DB10, but Should Do
16 Oct 2015, 14:24 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Phone. Smartphone. Cheaper than a supercar, luxurious, eccentric and pretty good-looking, the licensed Aston Martin 808 phone should be the next best thing, maybe next to owning an Aston Martin One-77 hypercar. It’s not here yet, so you could...
Wedded Couple Levitating Off the Side of a Double-Decker Steals the Show in China
16 Oct 2015, 13:33 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Dynamo is the name of a famous illusionist from London. He’s the guy you want to think of when looking at these pictures. Whether or not they stole his secret, we don’t know, but the following couple must have learned about the British ...
A Drone’s Worst Nightmare Has Arrived, and It Uses RC Frequency Disruption Tech
16 Oct 2015, 12:33 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Gone are the days when your neighbor was spying on your 1968 Mustang. The time to get rid of that annoying buzz you keep hearing on late summer evenings has come. And no, shooting off the stupid thing with a gun is not what we’re talking abou...
With This Bicycle You Can Feel like Superman While Pedaling
16 Oct 2015, 11:19 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Say you walk instead of swimming horizontally in the pool, how does it feel? Difficult, of course. Well, this California-based designer’s custom-made bicycle, named Bird of Prey, makes a similar point. Why waste energy when you can save it? W...