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.
Lola-Drayson EV Le Mans Prototype Breaks Record at Goodwood
6 Jul 2012, 09:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Do you want to hear the roaring racing engine of this Le Mans prototype, built around a Lola chassis? Well, sadly, all you will be able to hear is the sound of pebbles, hitting the inside cover of the wheelarch, because this LMP car is very special...
Nissan GT Academy Europe 2012 Gathers 830,000 Entrants
6 Jul 2012, 08:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Over 830,000 attempted to gain entry into the last 16 for the 2012 edition of the Nissan GT Academy online competition. The participants were required to download the competition demo, based on Sony’s excellent driving simulator for the PS3, ...
Mercedes-Benz Reports Record-Breaking Number of UK Registrations
6 Jul 2012, 08:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While all manufacturers seem to be on a roll, if we were to take a look at recent sales, production and revenue figures, so Mercedes-Benz would naturally exhibit the same trend. In the UK, this is reflected in a record-breaking six-month time frame...
Unconscious Driver Accelerates Uncontrollably in Korea
6 Jul 2012, 07:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While you may have heard about the problem of sudden acceleration caused by malfunctioning cruise control systems, well now the cause of this incident was actually a malfunctioning person. Apparently, the driver of this Golf suffered a heart attack...
Arab-Style Drift on Russian Highway
6 Jul 2012, 07:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you thought that Arab-style drifting and ‘car control techniques’ are confined to the Arab countries, you’d be very wrong. It seems that similar driving techniques have been adopted in Russia, where drivers risk it all for a fe...
19 Year-Old F2 Driver Avoids Crash Like a Boss
6 Jul 2012, 07:05 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Belgium’s Spa Francochamps was the venue where an amazing demonstration of driving skill and reflexes was caught on camera, during a very rainy F2 race. While 19 year-old driver Dino Zamparelli was just driving along (at 250 km/h / 155 mph) o...
Ferrari Reveals F12 Berlinetta Pricing Details - Cheaper than 599
5 Jul 2012, 15:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Many jaws were dropped when Ferrari first unveiled the spectacular F12 Berlinetta, at the Geneva Motor Show, and the unanimous verdict was that it is a great looking machine. However, people were anxiously awaiting the pricing details to see whethe...
Brammo Empulse RR Takes on 600cc Superbikes
5 Jul 2012, 14:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Brammo Empulse RR, the racing version of the standard Empulse was recently put up against some 600cc superbikes, during a practice session at Portland International Raceway. Despite being ridden by an ex-superbike rider (Steve Atlas), while...
89 Ford Focus EVs Find Owners in June
5 Jul 2012, 14:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Ford Focus EV, which we praised for not being EV-like in any way aesthetically, looking even better than the regular conventionally-powered variant, to our eyes has now been on sale for only two months and it needs to get off to a good start wh...
Another Brutal Head-On Collision in Russia
5 Jul 2012, 13:55 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / So you’re just driving along, minding your own business, when all of a sudden, a car swerves towards you much too quickly. You have no time to reach, just contemplate as time slows down around you and brace for impact. This is exactly what th...
Toyota 2000GT EV On Display in Paris
5 Jul 2012, 13:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / January of this year marked the revealing of a new EV concept from Toyota. However, it wasn’t cutting edge modern car, but an extremely rare 2000GT, of which only 337 were ever made. Toyota engineers collaborated with many different companies...
Ford C-Max Hybrid Gets Official Economy Figures
5 Jul 2012, 13:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you were looking to buy a Prius V, you should stop and consider the Ford C-Max Hybrid. It has a lower acquisition price and better economy as well as considerably better looks and interior. Ford announced today that the C-Max Hybrid should achie...
Facelifted Suzuki Splash Launched in UK
5 Jul 2012, 12:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After having commenced an interesting ad campaign, to boost their popularity, and launched the cheapest car in Britain, Suzuki strike yet again, with the UK launch of the freshly facelifted Splash, available from £7777. While you will be hard...
MINI Clubvan Allegedly Designed by 12 Year-Old
5 Jul 2012, 12:09 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This recent article, posted by autoexpress.co.uk, claims that the designer of the recently unveiled MINI Clubvan is in fact a 12 year-old from East Sussex, called Alexander Goldsmith (now 15). The young man claims to have sent a letter to MINI, bac...
Toyota Launches COMS Twizy-Rival
5 Jul 2012, 11:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Since Renault currently have the small electric quadricycle market sector covered all on their own, with the excellent Twizy EV, the world leader in the production of ‘green’ cars could not back down, and so, they have launched the COMS...
Trafficmaster Smartnav with E-Call: Standard on Citroen Vans
5 Jul 2012, 11:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you were in the market for a panel van, you might be interested to know that from now on, all Citroen vans (Berlingo, Dispatch and Relay) will come with Trafficmaster Smartnav as standard. The system is basically the same as regular sat-nav, but...
BMW M6 F13 Convertible Shown in Detail
5 Jul 2012, 10:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The new 6-Series by BMW is a considerably more toned-down car in terms of design, than its predecessor, which in M6 guise was properly mean-looking. The F13-based M6 (the new one) is far less in-your-face than the previous one, and while this may b...
Renault Using Dance-Power to Charge Twizy at Covent Garden Event
5 Jul 2012, 10:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite the fact that people have really taken a liking to Renault’s smallest electric offering, the Twizy, which is selling well in Europe and even getting a tuning pack, the French automaker has decided to go one step further, and include i...
Bill Gates’ Porsche 959 Spotted in Bellevue
5 Jul 2012, 09:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Bill Gates, a figure to which needs no introduction, mainly for the creation of Microsoft, but mostly for the fact that he is extremely wealthy - at one point, he was the wealthiest person in the world. So with a fortune somewhere in the region of ...
Renault-Nissan and Danone Partner Up
5 Jul 2012, 09:21 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Renault Nissan Alliance have signed a partnership with Paris-based food corporation, Danone. The partnership requires the Alliance to provide 15,000 vehicles for fleet use, over the next five years. With a wide range of vehicles on offer, Da...