Andrei Nedelea
3,618 ARTICLES
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.
Fiat 500 Abarth Onboard Lap at Imola
21 Aug 2012, 15:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fiat 500 Abarth is one of the most popular performance-oriented small cars, having gained an impressive fan base since its introduction. Marchettino has had his for nearly two years, and has recently taken it for a spin around the famous Imola ...
CODA Converts Gas Station into Green Oasis
21 Aug 2012, 15:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Each EV manufacturer is trying to promote its product in an interesting and catchy way. CODA, makes of the CODA Sedan, have decided that the best way to advertise their product is to turn a grey, dirty and dull gas station into a green oasis. Th...
Two APCs Fall Off Trailer in Ukraine
21 Aug 2012, 14:55 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You get to see lots of strange military equipment being transported on the highways of the old USSR, and while it may have been abolished in 1991, its legacy still lives on today. Take this peculiar incident from Ukraine, where a truck with a flatb...
Take a Tour of Caterham F1’s New Headquarters
21 Aug 2012, 14:22 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Caterham F1 team and their GP2 team, Caterham Racing, have moved to a new factory, deep in the heart of Oxfordshire, in Leafield. The move had been planned in advance, specifically to coincide with the F1 break. The bulk of the work will now...
Robert Llewellyn Looks at Inductive Wireless EV Charging
21 Aug 2012, 14:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Robert Llewellyn says that it is one of the most important technological breakthroughs and it will only improve the usability of EVs and make them more appealing to more people who will be able to use them more of the time. An inductive charging...
BMW Gets Second DTM Season Win at the Nurburgring
21 Aug 2012, 13:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After an absence of nearly 20 years, BMW is back in the German DTM racing series and they have already grabbed their second win of the season, at the Nurburgring. The man who took the specially modified BMW M Performance Parts M3 DTM to the checker...
Harley Davidson Shows Off The CVO Breakout
21 Aug 2012, 12:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the 2013 model-year may have brought little in the way of ‘new stuff’ from Harley Davidson, with the American motorbike manufacturer only changing minor styling cues and paint jobs on their existing range of bikes, they will be la...
BMW R7 Motorbike Wins Best-in-Class at Pebble Beach
21 Aug 2012, 12:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The BMW R7 motorbike, a 1934 classic is an exceptional exponent of the art deco movement which influenced the design of many vehicles of the era, regardless of whether they had two or four wheels. Sadly, it was merely a concept and was never put in...
Over 150 Illegal Taxis Get the Axe in China - Literally
21 Aug 2012, 12:05 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Illegal taxis are a big problem in most of the world’s countries, but in China, it is a widespread and very difficult to control phenomenon. In the Chinese city of Hefei, in the Anhui province, a city of 5.7-million inhabitants, some 156 ille...
Remote-Controlled BYD Su Rui Now Available in China
21 Aug 2012, 11:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may remember a while back an article about a Chinese car which you could move about without actually being inside? Well, it’s now officially here - the BYD Su Rui (formerly known as the ‘F3 Su Rui’ or simply 'F3') ha...
Honda Begins US Production of ‘Earth Dreams’ Drivetrains
21 Aug 2012, 09:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the introduction of the new Accord, Honda will also kick off production of an all-new range of engines, called ‘Earth Dreams’. The range consists of two all-new engines, one 2.4-liter four-cylinder and a 3.5-liter V6, as well as tw...
Swedish Audi TT Owner Gives His Car the R8 Treatment
21 Aug 2012, 09:04 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / What is it with Audi TT owners trying to make their cars look like the R8? They wouldn’t be fooling anybody, now would they, as the difference is so big that no amount of fiberglass and filler could bridge the gap. It doesn’t even m...
Kid Crashes BMW M3 After Blind Corner
21 Aug 2012, 08:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Lack of experience behind the wheel often leads the overly-adventurous driver to overcompensate with more speed. However, this is a recipe for disaster, as this kid from Arizona demonstrates. He drivers his BMW M3 E46 into some rocks on the side of...
Mercedes-Benz Announces CLS Shooting Brake UK Pricing
21 Aug 2012, 08:11 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Brake, probably one of the prettiest estate cars ever made in our opinion, has just received its official pricing information for the UK. After having sold some 170,000 examples of the sedan variant, since its introdu...
Ken Block Sues Co-Producers Regarding Gymkhana.com
21 Aug 2012, 07:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ken Block and his company, Gravel Farms Racing, LLC., have sued the co-producers of the first three Gymkhana videos over the registration and use of the GYMKHANA.COM website. The defendants, Mad Media say that “the automotive sport of GYMKHAN...
Irresponsible Speeding Leads to Avoidable Crash in Russia
21 Aug 2012, 07:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Driving one’s car fast is something best left for the track, deserted airfield or anywhere where you don’t face the risk of hurting other people or destroying their property. However, people still enjoy the thrill of fast driving throug...
Russian Woman Fails at Parking
21 Aug 2012, 07:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Parking is a really tricky affair for some, especially if what they are driving is big, cumbersome and with limited visibility. This woman, however, has a rather small estate car which should pose no real problems when parking - not the case here, ...
In Israel, You Need a Gun to Be Respected
21 Aug 2012, 06:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that Israel has its fair share of undisciplined drivers who will stop at nothing to ruin other people’s day. The young man in the Renault 19, in this video, according to some of the video’s comments, had made some very risky an...
Aston Martin V8 Vantage Amazing Sound!
20 Aug 2012, 15:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Aston Martin V8 Vantage has arguably one of the best-sounding engine notes in the business. Its 4.3- or 4.7-liter V8 engine creates a symphony of V8 goodness like no other engine can - we say it’s one of the car’s main selling point...
Man Recovers Stolen Harley Via Social Media
20 Aug 2012, 15:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It is usually the police which bring you back your stolen goods, if they find them, that is. However, Donald Pyper, a 32 year-old man from Edinbrough, Scotland, who had his Harley Davidson stolen from a parking lot outside his house was able to rec...