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.
MG Parent Company SAIC Opens Stateside Operation
4 Jul 2012, 07:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back in 2005, a Chinese company called SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) bought rights to the MG name, and after 6 years of development, in 2011, they launched their first new car, the all-new MG6 GT, to a less than enthusiastic audie...
Fiat 500L European Order Books Open - Deliveries Start in October
4 Jul 2012, 07:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fiat 500L, a longer and more practical version of the popular 500 two-door, first broke cover back in February, with a couple of official pictures. Well, with its October delivery deadline looming, and the European order books opening this mont...
GM May Resume Facebook Advertising
3 Jul 2012, 15:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After withdrawing roughly €8 ($10) millions’ worth of ads from Facebook, back in May, citing the fact that they don’t reach enough people as their main reason for giving up, rumors spread around the web that they may be looking int...
Eggasus: Egg-Shaped EV Pod
3 Jul 2012, 15:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may have noticed that city folk drive cars which are too big for their purpose, as the driver usually isn’t accompanied by anybody else, thus wasting space on the road, fuel as well as money. The Eggasus will rid you of all the unwant...
Future Toyota Supra May Be Underpinned by BMW 6-Series
3 Jul 2012, 14:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that 2012 is the year of collaborations between European and Japanese automakers, for the development of sports cars. After Mazda and Fiat, it’s now time for BMW and Toyota to take the spotlight. As you may have read in our recent...
New Pictures of the Renault Clio IV, Including Interior
3 Jul 2012, 13:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After showing you one leaked picture of the new Renault Clio IV, it’s time for six more, one of which being of the car’s interior. First off, we clearly need to state that the new Clio is an excellent looking car and a considerable impr...
Holden Volt Receives Price Tag for Australia - $59,990
3 Jul 2012, 12:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Holden Volt is no longer ready for the Australian market, it’s here. Sporting a price tag of $59,990 AUD, it is about $8,500 AUD more expensive than its only real rival on the market, the very appreciated Nissan Leaf, which has a price ta...
Japan New Car Sales Increase by 40.9%
3 Jul 2012, 12:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Japan is a very special country. Very few, if any of the world’s peoples would have made such a speedy recovery from a nation-wide disaster on the scale of the one that it endured. Well, apparently, things are back on track, and this is clear...
Sergio Pininfarina Passes at Age 85
3 Jul 2012, 11:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Born in 1926, Sergio Pininfarina who was chairman of Pininfarina from 1966 onward, and as of 2006, Honorary Chairman of the group, has died at the age of 85. He has been responsible for overseeing the design process of many (now) iconic cars over t...
250 Nissan Leafs to Be Used for Free in Osaka, Japan
3 Jul 2012, 11:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Osaka is Japan’s second largest industrial and manufacturing center, after Tokyo, and it is home to as many as 8.8 million people. However, new and stricter emissions regulations for the area will require a 15% drop in total emissions, and ha...
VW and Audi - Favourites of Chinese Buyers
3 Jul 2012, 10:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As China’s economy keeps growing, there will be more and more people who will be able to afford increasingly luxurious cars. Audi is a brand well aware of this fact, offering many China-specific versions of their cars to cater for the local n...
Fiat Records Excellent Sales in Spain
3 Jul 2012, 10:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Spain may have beaten Italy at football, the country from the Iberian Peninsula still loves most of Fiat and Lancia’s offerings on sale there. As a result, while the Spanish car market total car sales decrease by 8.2%, Fiat’s sale...
Fiat Starts Business in Bolivia
3 Jul 2012, 09:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fiat has been very successful in South America for many years now, selling cheap cars which had gone out of production in Europe years earlier. That’s why, cars like the Brazilian-built Palio, sold on for much longer in South America than in ...
Nissan Leaf Receives Updated Range and Route Calculating Applications
3 Jul 2012, 09:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While things may not be going so well for the Nissan Leaf in warm places, like Texas and Arizona, customers in areas with milder climates are still enjoying their EVs without any loss of battery capacity or any other problem for that matter (turns ...
Tata Working With French Company to Create Sub- €16,000 / $20,000 EV
3 Jul 2012, 08:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After recently showing off the plug-in hybrid version of the Jaguar XJ, Tata Motors (owners of Jaguar-Land Rover) are continuing their green plans with something at the opposite end of the scales - a sub- €16,000 (-$20,000) EV, called the eMO,...
Axe Beats Baseball Bat in Russia
3 Jul 2012, 08:21 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We are all for the enforcement of traffic laws, in order to commute from one place to another in a civilized fashion, as we should. We also agree that cutting the line, regardless of whether it’s the line at the ice cream stall or a line of c...
Ferrari Enzo With Custom Exhaust
3 Jul 2012, 08:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Ferrari Enzo, successor to the F50 and F4, is still at the forefront of automotive technology, despite the fact that it is being replaced by a new flagship Ferrari within the year. Sadly, it is the last of its kind, as the new car will probably...
Fiat 500 Abarth Driven Flat Out Around Imola
3 Jul 2012, 07:46 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may know Marchettino for uploading lots of excellent supercar videos, mainly from Italy. Well, he has just uploaded a video of him driving around the famous Imola track, or, to give its full name, Autodromo Internazionale "Enzo e Dino Ferr...
Infiniti Emerg-e Breaks Down During Goodwood Run
3 Jul 2012, 07:34 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As we had previously reported, the Infiniti Emerg-e range-extended hybrid supercar made its appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and we must admit that we think it looks very good, a trait which may owe something to the fact that it was Bri...
Koenigsegg Agera R Brutal Acceleration and Sound
3 Jul 2012, 07:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Koenigsegg Agera R needs no introduction. It is an even faster version of the standard Agera, which can and does run very well on ethanol-based biofuel, boosting its power from 930 hp, to an extreme 1,100 hp, while slashing its 0-100 km/h (0-62...