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Tudor Serban

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Tudor has been connected to cars since he was 5, when he began working on them, and his first driving lesson left parallel tire marks on the street. In 1996, while still in Journalism school, he started to write about cars. One year later he discovered his true calling when he began writing for a small car-magazine, and since then most of his career has been car-related.

He has a passion for old cars and thinks that the real ones were made up until the year 2000. As a journalist he went to various events around the world, covering races, new-car launches, international testings, and interviewing CEOs from big car companies.

His passion for cars took him from the heights of Pikes Peaks to the Moroccan desert, from 2 mph off-road trials to the corkscrew of Laguna Seca. He still doesn't completely understand electric cars and considers them not to be the true future, but only a step toward the future. A future where, sadly, petrolheads like him will be outlaws.

He published thousands of articles in over 20 years and still enjoys it. He joined the autoevolution team in 2020 and he is tasked with digging up info about forgotten cars and stories about once famous vehicles.
Aston Martin Returns To Formula 1 After Six Decades With Mercedes-Benz Engines
Aston Martin Returns To Formula 1 After Six Decades With Mercedes-Benz Engines

2 Jan 2021, 12:53 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / Aston Martin has excellent racing heritage, and even though it is known in the motorsports arena more like a GT racer, it has ran in the Formula 1 World Championship in the past. The British carmaker had to decide in 1957 if it would continue it...

 
A BMW M3 E30 Race Version Is Cheaper Than Its Street-Legal Brother
A BMW M3 E30 Race Version Is Cheaper Than Its Street-Legal Brother

27 Dec 2020, 06:15 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / The E30 BMW M3 is a legendary race-car. It won both on racetracks and rally stages, and it did that with grace. More than three decades later, the race and street versions are precious amongst collectors. According to FIA regulations, the carmak...

 
Step Inside the Malaga Automobile Museum and Feel the Taste Of History
Step Inside the Malaga Automobile Museum and Feel the Taste Of History

19 Dec 2020, 18:21 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / Decades ago, Jose Antonio Magalhaes, a Portuguese fabric manufacturer, started to collect cars. He loved them, cared for them, and gathered them together into a small collection. Then, the Portuguese Revolution came at the beginning of the '70...

 
A 1999 Civic Si Is Now More Expensive Than a New Civic Type R
A 1999 Civic Si Is Now More Expensive Than a New Civic Type R

3 Dec 2020, 08:02 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / While the brand new Civic Type R starts at $36,995, a 1999 Honda Civic Si Coupe with 12,000 miles on the clock slowly reaches the same price. And a Civic Si with 5,600 miles one was sold in June for $50,000! It is hard to understand why the Civi...

 
Automechanika Shanghai Shows Opens a New Trend in Automotive Exhibition
Automechanika Shanghai Shows Opens a New Trend in Automotive Exhibition

30 Nov 2020, 16:51 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / While the world pandemic slammed the doors of the main international auto events, Frankfurt Messe found a way to open the doors for Automechanika Shanghai. Hard times made people more inventive, and the German Auto Industry found a way to adapt ...

 
Ford Claims and EPA Confirms 300-Mile Range for Mustang Mach-E
Ford Claims and EPA Confirms 300-Mile Range for Mustang Mach-E

24 Nov 2020, 11:26 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / Ford dealers have started placing window stickers on Mach-E vehicles that show a confirmed range of 300 miles for the Blue Oval's quickest electric vehicle. At first, it was a shock since EPA didn't post the official figures on its we...

 
Hotter 2021 Toyota GRMN Yaris Caught Testing at the Nurburgring
Hotter 2021 Toyota GRMN Yaris Caught Testing at the Nurburgring

21 Oct 2020, 18:03 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / There's nothing wrong with the GR Yaris at first glance, at least not in terms of on-paper figures. Toyota, however, can do better thanks to the know-how of Gazoo Racing, the automaker's go-faster skunkworks. Revealed at the begin...

 
Manhart Porsche 911 Turbo S Tears Up the Tarmac
Manhart Porsche 911 Turbo S Tears Up the Tarmac

6 Sep 2020, 11:08 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / The Porsche 911 Turbo 991.2 is already an outdated model, after the introduction of the 2020 Porsche 911 Turbo 992. But the Manhart tuning company thought differently and took it to a different level with the TR85 model. The Porsche 911 Turbo ha...

 
How to Build an Expedition Vehicle and Live Wherever You Want
How to Build an Expedition Vehicle and Live Wherever You Want

30 Aug 2020, 11:29 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / Buying an Earth Roamer could ease your pockets with over a hundred grand in a second. Building one is a different story and it's not all about money. It's about passion. Two years ago, a Romanian photographer with some off-road and tec...

 
1967 Mustang Eleanor Tribute Is Ready to Roam the Streets
1967 Mustang Eleanor Tribute Is Ready to Roam the Streets

28 Jun 2020, 19:14 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / There is always room to debate how much new stuff you can put into a car to make for a good tuning project. If it is too much, then all you have is a new car with an old shape. If there are only a few things, it is just a slightly updated old car. ...

 
Does Honda Civic Type R Fight Back for Its Lost Crown?
Does Honda Civic Type R Fight Back for Its Lost Crown?

21 Jun 2020, 07:07 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / Not long ago, the Civic Type R lost the crown on the Nurburgring racetrack in front of the Renault Megane R.S. Trophy-R. Now it fights back and aim to destroy the French record. Back in April 2017, Honda Civic Type R went to Nurburgring racetrac...

 
Charles Rolls Once Crossed The English Channel from U.K. to France and Back
Charles Rolls Once Crossed The English Channel from U.K. to France and Back

1 Jun 2020, 13:05 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / Charles Stewart Rolls was the first man to go from the U.K. To France and return on a non-stop flight across the English Channel in 1910. It was a daring try that could have ended up in disaster. The third son of Baron and Lady Llangat...

 
AMC Rebel The Machine Was the Last Underdog of the Muscle Car Era
AMC Rebel The Machine Was the Last Underdog of the Muscle Car Era

23 May 2020, 15:13 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / Ask anyone what is more important in a bar-fight: who throws the first punch, or who is the last one standing? The answer will be "the last one standing". But there was the small AMC brand that did both. The debate about which vehicle...

 
This French Electric Sofa-Car Spins Out of Your Bedroom
This French Electric Sofa-Car Spins Out of Your Bedroom

28 Feb 2020, 17:40 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / Half a century ago, Citroen made a bold step launching a two-cylinder car with non-round headlights. It was economical and practical, but the design of the AMI 6 had nothing to do with beauty. Now Citroen has recalled the name, launching a practica...

 
Get Your Free Charger and a Pair of LED Fog-Lights with a Nissan Leaf e+ N-Tec
Get Your Free Charger and a Pair of LED Fog-Lights with a Nissan Leaf e+ N-Tec

25 Feb 2020, 17:09 UTC · By: Tudor Serban / Nissan announced the limited edition of its worldwide-known Leaf in the UK right after Brexit happened. The new e+ N-Tec edition, joining the Micra, Qashqai, and X-Trail with the same trim levels, adds more features for this second Leaf generation....

 

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