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.
Transparent Four-Seat Lamborghini Cristallo Is a Hologram EV Missile From the Other-Verse
27 Feb 2024, 16:15 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Lamborghini is historically associated with fast, mad-styled two-door rockets with room for one (and maybe, sometimes, on rare occasions, two) occupants. But the Raging Bull didn’t take a vow of four-door or four-seater eternal hatred, and th...
21-YO Is Gifted Her Dad's 1968 Mustang That Sat for 18 Years, Her Reaction Is Unexpected
27 Feb 2024, 07:07 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / By 1968, America was no longer hypnotized by the Mustang mania from ’64-’66, and the car was sliding downhill in sales. The heat from the Camaro and Firebird and the arrival of the AMC Javelin forced the Blue Oval pony to share the mark...
First Hennessey Venom F5 To Hit the Auction Block Has 229 Miles, One Owner, and No Reserve
25 Feb 2024, 23:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Here’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of American motoring history in the making: the second Hennessey Venom F5 ever built is going up for sale next weekend at no reserve at the Amelia Island auction. Probably the least numer...
450-Lb Trunk Flywheel Is One Russian's Way To Save Fuel Since Physics Is Still Free There
25 Feb 2024, 21:50 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Remember the days when toy cars were simple and fun? Basic contraptions with four wheels, a tiny body on a plate, and endless fantasy plays in which we were everything from race drivers to cops to mechanics. The last role fell upon those with the m...
One-Off 1970 Convertible Hemi Cuda Is Available Again After Selling for $2M in January
24 Feb 2024, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / How many HEMI Cuda convertibles have you seen? I mean, all of them that were put together since you first learned how to count. 10? 20? 30? Alright, stop. Anything above 21 is a lie because that’s how many were ever made - fourteen in 1970 an...
Porsche 918 v Ferrari SF90: Here's How $1.2 Million Isn't Enough To Win a Drag Race
24 Feb 2024, 16:12 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / When Gordon Murray engineered the McLaren F1, the motoring world suddenly realized a new era had begun. The hypercars fell on Planet Speed, taking no prisoners and heating the horsepower wars to unfathomable levels for street cars. What followed is...
This HEMI Mopar Unicorn 1967 GTX Is a 1-in-10 Convertible, What Would You Pay To Own It?
23 Feb 2024, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1967 was a wake-up year for Plymouth, as the division proudly displayed a muscle offering in its menu with a name of its own, not a borrowed moniker with no mean sound. The Belvedere and the Satellite (itself a high-brow Belvedere) were the first i...
Million-Dollar Cadillac: This 16-Cylinder Roadster From 1930 Stayed 81 Years in One Family
23 Feb 2024, 21:14 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Bugatti made tidal waves in 2000 when it presented the sixteen-cylinder Veyron, the marvelous luxo-missile that topped 250 mph (400 kph). As forerunner as it was, Bugatti arrived a bit late at the multi-piston party – like seven decades late....
Land Rover Defender 130 Turns Into a Fashion Icon With $20K Urban Automotive Makeup
22 Feb 2024, 21:58 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘My brand-new luxury SUV Land Rover Defender 130 doesn’t have enough road presence,’ said a great many people, apparently, and Urban Automotive obliged. The UK-based car beautification studio released a styling program for the fam...
Hummer H2 vs. UAZ 469 Is Off-Road Cold War, Badass Soviet Kicks American Rear
22 Feb 2024, 16:31 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What could possibly be better than a summer day’s fun in an off-road vehicle? Two off-road vehicles - reenacting a piston-sized playground Cold War clash between the USA and the USSR. A UAZ from the glorious times of the mighty Soviet automob...
Super-Rare 1967 GTX Convertible Is a 1-in-10 HEMI, Don't Be Fooled by What Sits on It
21 Feb 2024, 15:48 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / By 1965, Detroit was all but hurling the Big Three gentlemen’s agreement to stay out of motorsports into the blazing flames of internal combustion hellfire. Mainly, Ford and Chrysler had something to settle: a squandered dispute from the NASC...
The Duesenberg Straight 8 Hemi: The First All-American Win at Le Mans, in 1921
20 Feb 2024, 22:34 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The early twenties were some pretty hectic times for the world, and we still have some resonances of those troubled times that echo to this day. Remember, humanity was striving to get back up on its feet after a pandemic that eradicated tens of mil...
Mate Rimac Sells First Nevera to a Conational 16 Years After Founding His Car Company
20 Feb 2024, 15:25 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Mate Rimac (pronounce his name correctly, Rimatz, please; he’s earned that) is a name that needs absolutely zero introduction for anyone with even marginal knowledge of cars. Chances are, if you are aware of the existence of automobiles, you ...
1,300-HP Onslaught: VW Golf R Drag Races Audi RS 3 Until 'Rear Diff Has Left the Chat'
20 Feb 2024, 13:51 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Blazing hot hatches have always had a particular following ever since the Golf Mk I put on the GTI racing overalls and started poking its tongue out at pompous performers with heraldic blazons of piston aristocracy. Today, the segment is invaded wi...
Inline-Four Engine Gets Its Firing Order Rearranged Because Russia Doesn't Do Mainstream
18 Feb 2024, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / An internal combustion engine is a precise mechanism that works appropriately under stringent conditions, requiring minute and accurate calculations to make it operational. Timing is the keystone of that lump of metal pulsating with every power str...
Manual Mustang Dark Horse Drags Auto Porsche Cayman GTS, Frustration Is Deep
17 Feb 2024, 21:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Fans of the Mustang Dark Horse, do not watch the following video! I repeat, do not watch the next video! This is a general emergency alert, and everyone should proceed at their preassigned battle stations because we are on the brink of war. The dra...
Family Sports Car: 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk Packs a Super-Clean Surprise Under the Hood
16 Feb 2024, 22:22 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1953, America was introduced to its sportscar – the Corvette From Chevrolet. Ford opened another uncharted territory two years later with the Thunderbird’s ‘personal luxury car’ mantra. And in 1956, yet another genre debu...
Sell Your Soul to the Lord of Hell: Demon 170 Dyno Result Does Dodge Justice
16 Feb 2024, 11:35 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Dodge played the ultimate practical joke on all members of the ‘Go Fast’ piston-credence club when the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 came out to engage in quarter-mile live-action role-play. The most powerful muscle car ever to come ou...
One 1968 Mustang GT500 Asks Ridiculous Six Figures for a Car That Doesn't Even Have a Roof
15 Feb 2024, 14:11 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In early 1968, Ford made dragstrip headlines when the new 428 Cobra Jet stormed the NHRA Winternationals and won the company’s first-ever Super Stock Eliminator title. ‘Win in February, sell a Shelby Mustang GT500 King of the Road in Ma...
1960 Impala Is a Retired Racer's Fun-Drive Car, 348 4-Spd and Bubbletop Go Well Together
15 Feb 2024, 00:25 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Chances are in my favor that you or someone you’ve visited at their home had or still have owned a Chevrolet Impala. No wonder, with around 13 million built during its production span, the model was America’s go-to choice of personal tr...