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.
Subaru BRZ Gets Mouthwatering Ad in Canada
9 Jul 2012, 07:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Subaru version of the Toyota-Subaru joint-effort sportscar, the BRZ slash GT-86 slash FR-S, has just gotten a very hot commercial for Canada (literally, as things burn and steam up). It features the car (predictable, we know), a lot of slow mot...
Chrysler Adopting ‘EcoDiesel’ Brand Name?
9 Jul 2012, 07:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Chrysler will apparently be adopting a new denomination for its diesel-engined offerings, giving up “CRD” in favour of something which is ‘more 2012’ - “EcoDiesel”, a name chosen to emphasize that Fiat makes some...
Dutch EV Taxi Service Racks Up 250,000 Km
7 Jul 2012, 11:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / At the end of 2011, the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, started its first electric taxi program, with a total of twelve Nissan Leafs, which included such amenities as onboard Wi-Fi and a tablet for browsing the web as you are taken to your destination. ...
Chrome Blue Bugatti Veyron With Lightning Motif
7 Jul 2012, 11:33 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you think your Bugatti Veyron isn’t head turning enough, aside from wrapping it in gold, you can do the next best thing and give it blue chrome wrap, like so many other (lesser) cars these days. While we aren’t really convinced ...
BMW 3-Series ActiveHybrid With 335 HP Launched on US Market
7 Jul 2012, 11:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While fuel saving technology has been integrated into all BMW cars in the lineup, to a point where now all cars, even their V8 powered ones are surprisingly efficient - an effort we can only applaud. However, since the US car market has been on a s...
Fiat 500 - V8 Powered Dragster
7 Jul 2012, 10:48 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While this car is not particularly new, we felt that it was interesting enough to show again. It is a classic Fiat 500 from the 1960s, the golden age of car design, which has been retrofitted with a V8 engine, as well as a wheelie bar on the back a...
Car Rolls Down a Hill in Russia - Save Comes at the Last Moment!
7 Jul 2012, 10:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you ever need a workout, but can’t really motivate yourself to go to the gym, just push your own car off the hill, then try and catch it before it hits anything. Being your own car, it will be motivation enough and it will make you run lik...
Henrik Fisker Tells You to Follow Your Dreams!
7 Jul 2012, 10:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / How many times have you given up on a dream just because people told you it couldn’t be done? Like use, and everybody else in the world, it definitely happened many times for each individual. Well, if you have an idea and need that extra boos...
Swiss Fire Brigade Takes Delivery of 15 Unimog U20s
6 Jul 2012, 15:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Unimog has been making hardy off-road trucks since the 1940s and have acquired vast experience in the field. They now make a range of three vehicles, with the U20 being the smallest of the lot. Acknowledging the Unimog’s awesome capabilit...
Mazda 2 / Demio Goes Electric
6 Jul 2012, 14:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mazda is a manufacturer priding itself on being different, having chosen to do the SKYACTIV program, instead of hybrids, EVs and hydrogen powered cars. Well, not any more, as they have now revealed an electric version of their 2 / Demio, a car unde...
Electric Citroen Berlingo Goes From Berlin to Paris on One Charge!
6 Jul 2012, 14:23 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you thought that the largest battery pack found on the Tesla Model S (85 kWh) was big, then you’ll be very surprised to know that you can safely have nearly twice that capacity, in a car that wasn’t even designed to be electric in th...
Citroen DS3 and C3 Gain New Three-Cylinder VTi82 Engine
6 Jul 2012, 13:55 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / First used on the new Peugeot 208, the 1.2-liter three-cylinder petrol engine, called VTi82, will now be used on both the Citroen C3, as well as its sportier two-door brother, the DS3. As its name suggests, the engine puts out a rather weedy 82...
De Tomaso Goes Bust
6 Jul 2012, 13:22 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Livorno courthouse, on the west coast of Italy, has officially pronounced the famed carmaker De Tomaso, as dead, for the second time in ten years, having previously ‘gone under’ back in 2004. Despite desperate efforts to keep the co...
Tesla Model S Test Driven in Multiple Videos
6 Jul 2012, 12:52 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Tesla Model S is officially here, and everybody seems to love it. So far, no problems have been reported, but then again it’s too soon to judge the car on its reliability. However, taking into account the simplicity of the drive system, t...
2014 Lexus IS to Be a Revolution Rather Than an Evolution
6 Jul 2012, 12:11 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Lexus’ 3-Series rival, the IS, has always been appreciated as a good car for people who don’t want a BMW. It has never really sold that well, so now, Lexus are going to refine the formula, for the upcoming 2014 IS. Perhaps refine is ...
Take a Ride in the Brilliant EV1
6 Jul 2012, 11:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / GM’s EV1 is the main 'protagonist' of one of the saddest stories in the history of the automotive industry. It was heralded as the first commercially viable and mass-marketed electric vehicle in history, only for GM to recall and th...
South African EV Maker Optimal Energy Goes Out of Business
6 Jul 2012, 10:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the number of EVs bought around the world is rising increasingly quickly, not all manufacturers of electric cars are doing well. Sadly, South Africa-based EV maker Optimal Energy has gone out of business - for now. You may have heard of th...
New Breakthrough - Working Spray-On Batteries
6 Jul 2012, 10:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the biggest problem of modern batteries is their capacity, a group of graduate students from Rice University have taken battery tech in a different direction and they have made a rather important breakthrough. They have developed a working...
CODA EV Sedan - More Efficient than EPA Ratings Suggest
6 Jul 2012, 09:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / A New York Times reviewer, who has recently driven the all-electric CODA sedan, has been very impressed with its range, which exceeds the 141 km (88 mile) rating bestowed onto it by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for the estimated ...
Some of the Supercars Present at Goodwood 2012 Fly-By
6 Jul 2012, 09:23 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Goodwood Festival of Speed is by far the best venue of the year for petrolheads to get a chance to see pretty much all the cars they admire year-long in pictures, videos and on automotive news sites. Goodwood is usually also the place where...