Razvan Calin
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Personal motto:
Don’t try. Be. Do. Live.
He’s been a field journalist, a TV producer, and a seafarer. Now he writes, finding this to be the closest to keeping wisely quiet.
Getting a degree in PR convinced him that trade job skills are more fun, but if all the schools Răzvan has been through taught him anything, it’s that he’ll never cease learning.
Rare Old Lambo With Odd Story and Multiple Mishaps Falls Short of Buyers' Interest
23 Jul 2022, 21:39 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Only ten Lamborghini Jarama (do pronounce it in Spanish, with an H instead of J, thank you very much) had a factory-installed automatic gearbox, and this specimen is one of those select few. The car has an interesting history: it came to the US via...
EV Future Grows Roots in Trees As Swedish Alliance Sets To Produce Wood-Based Batteries
23 Jul 2022, 19:05 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Wood-extracted carbon is the renewable answer to the ever-growing need for EV batteries. Two Swedish companies join efforts to mass-produce the new technology storage units that rely on plant-extracted chemicals to juice up the EV industry. Stor...
Tiny EVs With Poor Specs Drag for Glory
23 Jul 2022, 15:45 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Drag racing is the most popular and exhilarating way to tell which car is fastest in a straight line. Simple rules, no fuss or amendments: line up, floor it, get to the finish ahead of the other guy. Literally, the race is over in a blink of an eye...
Grumpy-Looking Old Mercedes Fire Engine Is a Cute Hideout for Adventuring Globe-Trotters
22 Jul 2022, 21:49 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / It has been through desert storms and dry, rocky roads in the Andes. Its high ground clearance, thick bulky tires, and all-wheel drive helped the beige paintwork blend perfectly with the Sahara dunes. It started life in Germany, in 1978, as a firef...
Cats and Woman Trio Live Adventure-on-Wheels Freedom in a Very Cozy Nissan
22 Jul 2022, 20:07 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Give a woman a house, and she will make a home out of it, or so goes the saying. Lisa Jacobs gave herself a van and made a life out of it. The classic story of “want to be an actress, go to law school instead, hate it, have a life-changing ex...
EvTOL Flying Simulators – One Wing Flap Closer to Urban Air Mobility
22 Jul 2022, 14:05 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / I believe you agree that driving is much easier to do than flying. The hype of going electric, silent, clean, fancy, and busting climate change by ditching fossil(-fueled) old-fashioned cars for flying taxis is this century’s equivalent of a ...
Italian Duo Record-Setting Moving Car Wheel Change – 77.64 Seconds Flat
20 Jul 2022, 21:37 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Italians have a very personal approach to all things on wheels. But sometimes, that has to change. The wheel, I mean, the Italians can stay because we need them to do it fast. And you don’t have to stop the car; they can do it while driving. ...
18-Year-Old German Garage Queen Comes Out for a New Expensive Life
18 Jul 2022, 05:25 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The 18-year-old supercar cost $448K in May of 2004. Strangely, the odometer reads just shy of 1,300 miles, which means it was driven for an average of SIX miles per month. Which is good news for the 5.7 liter V10, which yields 605 HP and 435 lb-ft ...
Utility Trailer Serves As Foundation for Tiny "Wooden Temple" – A Little House on Wheels
17 Jul 2022, 20:07 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Aaron H., or Anzu, built his small "Wooden Temple" after a quarrel with his landlords. Faced with the prospect of a three-week notice, Anzu bought a double axle, +10,000 lb rated payload trailer and built his dream house on it. His exp...
Lucid Air GT Performance Trashes Dodge Charger Hellcat Into Oblivion
17 Jul 2022, 15:33 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Some 119 years ago*, horses were still primarily used for daily transportation. But they were becoming obsolete, shoved off the road by a very noisy and weirdly shaped cart on wheels that could move around by itself. Horse Power lost to horsepower....
770 HP McLaren GT Makes 216 MPH on Highway Look Mundane
16 Jul 2022, 21:44 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Based on the 720S, the GT is only a notch more domesticated, with its smaller turbos and somewhat larger luggage space. However, it didn't catch the eye of Grand Tourists, and the automotive world has yet to discover what it missed out on. ...
Vertical Approach for Business Aviation Company's Call for Clean, Quiet Air Taxis
16 Jul 2022, 19:41 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The EvTOL constructor Vertical Aerospace enters business aviation with a FlyingGroup "conditional preorder" deal of up to 50 flying people carriers. The British company totals its books at an outstanding 1,400 vehicles. That's 5.6 bi...
A Flamboyant Flashy Jeep for the Ultimate Motoring Experience
16 Jul 2022, 19:40 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Say you suddenly grew a desire to jump into your car and drive. You imagine the gentle breeze running over the open-top vehicle. Then suddenly, you feel the cold embrace of mud and rain, and you hear the wheels free spinning in a river. And you jus...
Biggest Hybrid Truck on the Planet Is Almost Nowhere To Be Seen
16 Jul 2022, 03:40 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / BelAZ, the Belarussian mining equipment heavy-weight and constructor of the largest truck on Earth, broke ground on the Plug-In Hybrid heavy hauling dump truck war. The former Soviet (extra) large equipment manufacturer made a 130-tonne truck that ...
The Smallest Campervan on the Road – A British Modified Piaggio Ape Trike
15 Jul 2022, 20:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / "Ape" means "bee" in Italian. So please be considerate about the tiny vehicle and the hardworking insect and say the name correctly ("A" as in Alaska, "pe" as in Pennsylvania. Think of appe-tizer and stop mon...
Thinnest Time-Taming Tale – The Titanium Time-Telling Tribute to the SR-71 Blackbird
15 Jul 2022, 14:43 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Ferrari – the epitome of superlatives in the automotive multiverse. Fast, Famous, Flamboyant, Fascinating, Flirtatious, Fun, Forthright, Fundamental, Florid, Fancy, Feisty, Fervid, Frisk, Fiery. Thin. Titanium. Time. Wait, What?! Those are no...
Original Unique Historical Prototype Mustang Twins Crave a Connoisseur's Care
11 Jul 2022, 19:54 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Henry Ford changed the face of our world forever. His ideas brought about one of the greatest revolutions in the history of man. But all that falls under the curtain of time. However, there is one thing for which Ford is a monument not only to the ...
A Half-Century Love Story Comes to an End for the Owner of a Very Pretty Austin-Healey
11 Jul 2022, 07:58 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The car started out in life on the 16th of November 1966, when it rolled out of the factory gates in Britain. Just a week after that, it crossed the Atlantic to meet its first owner in early 1967. The car and owner would part ways just 11,000 miles...
Unbeatable Ford Truck Enthusiasm: Came to Buy Three, Got 114
11 Jul 2022, 05:13 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Naturally, 21 of them are now for sale on the new owner's site. More to come. What's the interesting part? Well, Solomon Lunger is well known for his passion for Ford trucks. So he got a call from a private collector and went to see what ...
Chinese "Surrounding Reality" Autopilot Takes Human Driver for a 16-Mile Test Ride
10 Jul 2022, 09:04 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Chinese EV maker, which celebrated the 200,000 car sales landmark this June, released a video of the testing on its official Twitter channel. Xpeng is aiming to become one of the world’s leading electric car makers, and they are running m...