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.
Nissan Leaf Battery Pack Survives Massive Fire!
13 Aug 2012, 11:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the battery pack of the Nissan Leaf may not be particularly good at maintaining its capacity in really hot climates, it seems to have no problem in withstanding a massive fire which has burned the rest of the car to a crisp. This particula...
Holden Commodore EV Travels 1,886 Km in 24 Hours
13 Aug 2012, 10:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may remember that a while back we posted an article about the Renault Zoe which had managed to travel 1,590 km (994 miles) in 24 hours, beating the old record by around 300 km (186 miles). Now, however, the record set by the Zoe has been beaten...
US Toledo Factory Almost Ready for Alfa Romeo SUV Production
13 Aug 2012, 09:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Chrysler will be termination production of the Jeep Liberty, at their Toledo North, Ohio factory. The exact date is August 16th, a date which will be followed by a period in which the factory will stay idle, while awaiting the necessary preparation...
Brazillian Inmates Pedal for Electricity and Sentence Reduction
13 Aug 2012, 09:11 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Inmates from a Brazilian prison, near Santa Rita do Sapucai, a town located in the mountains north of Sao Paulo, are now being given the option of lower sentences, by providing ‘clean’ energy, through pedal-power. There are quite a ...
Ben Affleck Improperly Parks His S-Class
13 Aug 2012, 08:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ben Affleck was recently photographed while he was struggling to squeeze through an impossibly small gap between the door of his S-Class Mercedes-Benz, the wall of his garage and the car itself. Good thing thing Ben is keeping fit, otherwise he cou...
Floyd Mayweather Poses Next to His Aventador
13 Aug 2012, 08:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Lamborhini Aventador is arguably one of the prettiest cars to ever roll off the production line at Sant’Agata Bolognese. We say it even looks better than the Reventon, though some may argue against it. Also, thanks to its excellent style ...
Rolls Royce Designs First Ever New Badge to Celebrate Games’ Success
13 Aug 2012, 08:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Rolls Royce is a very conservative car manufacturer, which never strays too far from their tradition, no matter what. So, when they design a completely new badge, stick it onto three Phantom Series II Drophead Coupés, you know it’s som...
UK Car Sales Get 9.3% Boost in July
13 Aug 2012, 07:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Having risen for the last five consecutive months, UK car sales have gotten a big boost in July - 9.3%, to be precise. The main seller of the country is the Ford Fiesta, which comprised 7,533 units, of the 143,884 total number. It is followed by th...
Decent-Looking Lamborghini Murcielago Replica For Sale
13 Aug 2012, 07:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While we have laughed at some efforts of replicating Ferrari and Pagani models, this time we cannot do so, as what we have here genuinely looks like a Lamborghini Murcielago, even though it is not. The owner claims that it is the best of its kind i...
Over 8-Million US Cars to Get Stop/Start by 2017
13 Aug 2012, 07:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The stop/start systems which are now being fitted to most new cars (not necessarily as standard) have a really big impact on fuel efficiency, in town and heavy traffic. Well, the system really seems be finally catching on, as in the US, by the year...
One Lane Causes Discord in Russia
12 Aug 2012, 08:09 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fighting for a lane in traffic is often a frustrating experience for any driver, especially if you were planning to make a right, for instance, yet you are three lanes away and approaching the junction. You will have a very hard time to try to corr...
Non-Violent Road Rage Is Just Better
12 Aug 2012, 08:09 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Wouldn’t it be fun if instead of kicking another driver (and his car), in the event that road rage does occur, one would simply spill water onto his windscreen, and in retaliation, the other driver would not take out his knife/gun/broken vodk...
Fiat Subjects UK 500 Buyers to Colour Therapy
12 Aug 2012, 08:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Adding color to something is always a good thing. Now, based on that rather simplistic outlook, you would expect the ‘Colour Therapy’ version of the Fiat 500 to be a rather pleasant one? Well, it is, because it brings back some very nic...
Feast Your Eyes on the Holden Torana GTR-X Concept from 1970
12 Aug 2012, 08:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you were looking for an excellent looking car, to print out on a large piece of glossy paper and stick on your bedroom wall, your search has ended. Feast your eyes on the stunning Holden Torana GTR-X, a concept car from 1970 which the manufactur...
Skoda Rapid Hatchback Speculatively Rendered
12 Aug 2012, 08:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / To our eyes, the new Skoda Rapid sedan is quite a bland-looking car, which despite adopting the look of the much more eye-pleasing Vision D concept (the Mission L followed it - it was the former which previewed the styling language), it was far les...
Fisker Karma Fire - Take Two
12 Aug 2012, 08:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that Fikser can’t get a break these days. After one of their Karmas mysteriously burst into flames in a Texas garage, leaving a burnt shell and a destroyed garage behind it, now a car from California has caught fire, in a Woodside gr...
Suzuki to Debut S-Cross Concept in Paris
10 Aug 2012, 09:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This year’s Paris Motor Show will be the venue where Suzuki will be unveling a concept which previews a future crossover model, called the ‘S-Cross’. The Japanese has released a teaser picture of the concept, to get people talking...
Russian Driver Narrowly Avoids Getting Robbed at Gun Point
10 Aug 2012, 09:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that Russian drivers use not only their cars and fists as weapons in traffic, but also real weapons - a revolver in this case. The driver of the car with the dash-mounted camera seems to be having a good time, laughing, joking, when all of...
Curiosity Mars Rover Sends Back First Color Pictures!
10 Aug 2012, 09:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It’s been a full five days since NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover landed on the Red Planet’s surface. At first, it sent a few low resolution black and whilte pictures, but now the rover has sent back its first batch of color pictures, ...
Proof That Fiat Will Make All-Electric 500E
10 Aug 2012, 08:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fiat 500 is definitely a phenomenon, and one which seems to be appreciated by both US and European customers, despite the substantial discrepancy in car cultures. Now that Fiat has a 500C and a 500L, it seems like they will be adding another le...