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.
In Russia Guardrails Are Redundant
11 Jun 2012, 16:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It’s no secret that Russian road manners are among the worst in the world. It seems that everybody is angry at everybody else and they’re just waiting for the right moment to snap. The driver of this white Lexus GS simply ignores the gu...
Woman Assumes Role of Gandalf in Traffic
11 Jun 2012, 16:04 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Some traffic-related events are easily explainable by driver error, frustration or sheer stupidity. This incident, though, is different as its trigger is unknown and unexplainable. There’s a woman crossing the street and she realizes that she...
Russian Truck Sandwich
11 Jun 2012, 15:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Trucks are extremely dangerous on the road, as we’ve shown you before, more than once. They are dangerous to passenger cars as well as each other. They have limited visibility, poor brakes when compared to those fitted to normal cars and also...
Chinese Driver Attempts to Park But Gives Up
11 Jun 2012, 15:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Many drivers can and drive cars on the road, in traffic, through tight spots and any other more difficult situation they may find themselves caught up in. Yet when it comes to parking of the parallel kind, things get a little trickier. Parallel ...
Lexus LFA Nurburgring Edition with Red Interior for Sale
11 Jun 2012, 15:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The standard Lexus LFA is already a car which neatly fits into the ‘ultra-rare’ category, with a planned production run of just 500 units, at a rate of 20 per month. The rather unimaginatively named “Nurburgring Edition” tak...
Orlando Bloom - Riding His Custom Ducati GT1000
11 Jun 2012, 14:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Orlando Bloom is extremely widely known. You may have seen him in The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Troy, or any number of high budget blockbusters which bring in cash by the truckload - if credit cards hadn’t been invented, we...
Saab Finally Sold?
11 Jun 2012, 14:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The sad story of Saab, a manufacturer we though dead but never gave up hope on is apparently back - sort of. Apparently, National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB, which is, as we had previously reported, “a Swedish-registered company founded by a ...
Young Dro Loses Much Rapped-About Maserati
11 Jun 2012, 13:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Young Dro is an Atlanta-based rapper who, among his many ‘hood-inspired’ tunes also has one in which he raps about his very own Maserati Quattroporte. The car is not merely mentioned in the video - it is about the car itself, and, as yo...
Flat Six Symphony - 993 RUF Turbo R
11 Jun 2012, 13:26 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The 993 was the last old-style 911, with the 996 that followed being longer and having different proportions overall - slightly altering the ‘classic 911’ body shape. If you are looking for a good 911, then the 993 is a great choice, es...
Hydro-Quebec Developing Ultra-Fast EV Charger
11 Jun 2012, 13:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / One of the main reasons cited by the automakers for the rather sluggish introduction of pure EVs are the very long charge time, with some cars taking up to 8 hours to be fully charged from a standard home socket. All but the best fast chargers curr...
Awesome Ride in a Maserati GranSport
11 Jun 2012, 11:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Maserati GranSport, the replacement of the prettier 3200GT, was never regarded as being ‘top of its class’ at anything in particular, being just good at everything it did (except reliability which was doubtful). It did, however, ...
French Automaker PGO to Get BMW Engine Technology
11 Jun 2012, 10:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While also testing out a range extender EV/hybrid version of the Hemera, independent French automaker PGO will be getting a big boost in their technology credentials with the help of BMW. They have recently signed and agreement with the Germans to ...
Mazda Wankel Rumored to Become Hydrogen-Powered Range Extender
11 Jun 2012, 10:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mazda have been using the Wankel rotary engine since the 1960s and have steadily improved the concept over the past five decades, having used it in racing and road cars with varying degrees of success. It does, however, have a problem: it uses way ...
PGO Shows e-Hemera Hybrid
11 Jun 2012, 09:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Not may people know of PGO, but they are a small and independent French car manufacturer - a rare thing these days. They are best known for their Hemera sports car - an automobile which looks very much like a Porsche 356 - in a very neo-retro kind ...
Mercedes C-Class to Receive 1.6 Turbo
11 Jun 2012, 08:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Not to be outdone by BMW, who have released, along with their new 3-Series, a turbocharged 1.6-liter engine to power their 316i, with a power output of 136 hp and a torque figure of 220 Nm (162 lb-ft), Mercedes-Benz are fighting back with their own...
Citroen 2CVs Making Babies
11 Jun 2012, 07:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Citroens were are special among cars, as they had ‘something’ which you couldn’t find in any other car. They are mythical, like Santa Claus or the Huldfolk of Iceland - nobody has seen them, but everybody is sure they exist. W...
Lewis Hamilton Wins Canadian GP
11 Jun 2012, 07:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With this F1 season being by far the strangest of recent years, six different drivers winning the first six races of the season. Now, after Sunday’s race which took place on the Gilles-Villeneuve Circuit, in Montreal, Canada, a seventh name n...
EVs Are Our Future – They’re Also Our Past
10 Jun 2012, 18:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It is strange how, back in the early 1900s, when the fancy new automobile was slowly replacing animal drawn carriages, the electric car was losing ground to the petrol-powered one. Low oil prices and various interests made sure that the EV, despite...
Ferrari California Turbo Spied – Turbo Whistle Clearly Audible
10 Jun 2012, 18:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / When the California first came out, back in 2008, some people argued that it was not quick enough to be a proper Ferrari, and that its 4.3-liter V8 wasn’t powerful enough for the car to merit the Prancing Horse badge. At first, the car had 45...
Alfa Romeo to Reveal Production 4C Next Summer
10 Jun 2012, 11:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / According to autocar.co.uk, the stunning Alfa Romeo 4C will make its public debut in production form much earlier than previously reported. The car was expected to be shown at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, but apparently the date has been pushed forw...