Andrei Nedelea
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Personal motto:
"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself" - Ferdinand Porsche
He is a strong believer in the recent developments in green car tech and especially its entertaining applications. However, for him, green is more than just a brash color sprayed onto a supercar, it's a different way of thinking and perceiving modern car culture.
Russian Car Jackers Just Fail
23 Aug 2012, 06:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After having seen many carjacking videos from Russia, we had gotten a feel for how these actions usually take place. Two men get out of the back of a small sedan with heavily tinted windows and then attempt to get inside the target car, steal it or...
What Goes Up, Must Come Down - Hot Air Balloon Crash
22 Aug 2012, 15:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It’s not every day that you see a hot air balloon tethered to a van, moving that van from side to side and finally crashing over several cars in a makeshift parking lot, in the middle of a field. This, however, is exactly what has happened i...
Infiniti CEO de Nysschen Is Confident in the Future!
22 Aug 2012, 15:21 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / A few months back, we reported a surprising move at the very top of the premium car market’s shot-calling level, when Audi CEO, Johan de Nysschen left the German brand, in order to take up a similar position with Nissan’s luxury sub-bra...
Mando Footloose Chainless Folding e-Bike
22 Aug 2012, 13:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Some innovations fit so well together that we often wonder why they weren’t designed in tandem in the first place. One example to support the claim are e-bikes, which use pedal power to both drive the rear wheel, as well as charing up a s...
Mercedes-Benz Recalls G- and M-Class For Rubber Floor Mats Issue
22 Aug 2012, 13:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As far as recalls go, we thought this one would take the cake, but sadly, it has been surpassed by a recall for gasoline, if you can believe that. Mercedes-Benz will be recalling some 11,500 G-Class and M-Class SUVs, produced between July 2011 and ...
Acura ILX Gets Spectacular Array of LEDs
22 Aug 2012, 13:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Acura ILX, the luxury version of the Honda Accord, has been chosen as the platform for a very impressive array of LED lights. How many? Well, some 7,500 controllable LEDs have been installed throughout the car, turning it into a unique mobile s...
New Honda Paint Process Now 25% More Efficient
22 Aug 2012, 12:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Of all the separate procedures that are required to properly build a car, the most energy-consuming of all the processes is painting. According to Honda engineer Shubho Bhattacharya, paint alone uses as much as 60% of all the power used to build a ...
Mazda MX-5 GT4 Racer Now Available at £150,000
22 Aug 2012, 11:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Mazda MX-5 is one of the best balanced and most fun to drive rear-wheel driven cars you could buy on a budget. However, if you want to take your MX-5 racing, and do it professionally, you will need to spend a lot more money than you would for t...
Turkey May Return to F1 Calendar - May Be Joined by Greece
22 Aug 2012, 11:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Turkish F1 Grand Prix, held around the Herman Tilke-designed circuit in Istanbul has been one of the more enjoyable ones, at least for the drivers who were very pleased with its layout. Despite the lack of fans, the Turkish GP ran from 2005 to ...
Drunk Driver Causes Four Car Accident in Russia
22 Aug 2012, 10:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We will spare you the lecture on not drinking and driving, because simply watching this video is far more eloquent to the point at hand. When you drink and get behind the wheel, your reaction time is considerably dulled, images become fuzzy, de...
Russian Girl Presses Throttle Instead of Brake
22 Aug 2012, 10:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Learning to drive, and having no prior knowledge or understanding of how to operate a motor vehicle, can be a tricky affair, especially for some women who are not particularly interested in the technical side of things - a must, for the truly great...
FlexFix Bike Carrier To Be Offered for Opel Adam
22 Aug 2012, 09:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Opel/Vauxhall Adam, GM’s attempt at stealing a few sales away from the excellent Fiat 500, has now received a very interesting addition. Since it is a car conceived to be used mainly in town, where things often get rather congested, ...
Valentino Rossi Signs With Yamaha for 2013-2014
22 Aug 2012, 09:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite earlier rumors that Valentino Rossi would be rejoining Honda, to at least try to relive the ‘glory days’, it seems that he will be, in fact, riding for Yamaha for the coming 2013-2014 season. He will ride along with his friend a...
Piquet Jr. Says Senna Would Have Not Been Competitive in Modern F1
22 Aug 2012, 09:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After his departure from the glamorous world of Formula One back in the 08/09 season, and his entry into the far-less-glamorous world of NASCAR, Nelson Piquet Jr began ‘bashing’, if you will, some of his former F1 colleagues. He firs...
F1 Teams Back in Business after Two Week Break
22 Aug 2012, 08:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The world of Formula 1 ground to a halt for the last two weeks, as half of the month-long gap between the the Hungarian and Belgian GPs was dedicated to doing absolutely nothing. However, in the break, it has come to our attention that Mercedes-Ben...
GM Begins Testing of Vehicle to Vehicle Communication in Ann Arbor
22 Aug 2012, 08:26 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The day of August 21st marked the start of GM’s real world testing phase for their vehicle to vehicle communication system. It is, however, only one half of a new breed of safety technology, which the American giant has split into two categor...
Chrysler-Based Bentley Replica is a Car for Posers
22 Aug 2012, 07:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / When a car comes with a disclaimer in its eBay sales ad, warding off specific types of people, in search for the perfect buyer, the perfect match, it makes you wonder, especially since the car in question is a Chrisler LeBaron-based Bentley Contine...
Bentley Releases Full Performance Specs for Continental GT Speed
22 Aug 2012, 07:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Bentley Continental GT is one of the most desirable coupes money can buy and with the latest redesign and inclusion of a smaller, more efficient V8 engine in the options list, it is now more appealing than ever. However, aside from the excellen...
Fiat Now Offering 500 ‘Street’ to UK Buyers
22 Aug 2012, 07:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fiat 500 is truly a resounding success - even the Americans seem to love it. However, closer to its home market of Europe, Fiat has just launched a new version of the popular retro-inspired city runabout, called the 500 Street. With such a name...
Toyota Hilux Driver Removes Wheel Clamp With Circular Saw
22 Aug 2012, 06:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Some people really have a problem with authority and regardless of what situation they may find themselves in, they will stop at nothing to get their way. Take this African man and his white Toyota Hilux riding on 20-inch chrome wheels. He appar...