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.
Tesla Expects 20,000 Sales in 2013
8 Jun 2012, 08:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the official deadline for first customer deliveries drawing ever nearer, and with the first car already delivered to a board member, Tesla are aiming high with their Model S. Despite requiring only 8,000 sales per year to stay in business, the...
Icon 4x4 to Make Modernized Topless Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
8 Jun 2012, 07:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We here at autoevolution think that car design peaked in the 1960s, an era when cars were curvy and designers weren’t constrained and held back, as they are today. One of the most beautiful cars the world has ever seen is the Aston Martin DB4...
Extreme Truck-Car Crash on Highway
7 Jun 2012, 17:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Highways can be a dangerous place, especially if they are above ground. However, even when they aren’t above ground, things can go horribly wrong really quickly. It seems that in this video, a car is driving the wrong way and hits a truck ...
MPV Falls off the Highway in South Korea
7 Jun 2012, 16:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We’ve always appreciated the grace and architectural beauty of suspended highways, but we’ve always wondered what happens when people fall off the road surface. Well, this latest video satisfies our curiosity and thankfully, nobody got ...
Honda Elysion MPV Launched on Chinese Market
7 Jun 2012, 16:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Honda’s Chinese joint venture with local manufacturer Dongfen has produced its second MPV, the new (and slightly awkward-looking) Elysion. The car will go up against other large MPVs, though its main rival on the domestic market will be the h...
Chevy Volt Gets Minor Improvements for 2012
7 Jun 2012, 16:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Environmental Protection Agency has released the new EPA sticker for the mildly-refreshed Chevrolet Volt. The main highlights are a small increase in the car’s all-electric range, courtesy of a 0.5 kWh increase in the battery capacity whi...
Unlucky Biker Offering Reward for Stolen KTM Bike
7 Jun 2012, 15:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Some people just seem to attract bad luck, seemingly for no reason. So too is the case with a man from the Tyne and Wear town of Gateshead, in England. The owner of the bike has posted two videos showing CCTV footage from the camera he installed...
Brit Smashes Old Nordschleife Moto Record by 7 Seconds
7 Jun 2012, 15:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Andy Carlile is a 33 year-old who is, let’s say, keen on riding his bike around the famed Nurburgring Nordschleife. He is so keen, in fact, that in 2007 he left his island-nation home, preferring a more continental location, but not just any ...
Touratech Gives Husqvarna Nuda 900R the X-Cross Treatment
7 Jun 2012, 14:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Husqvarna Nuda 900R is a two-cylinder street bike with 100 hp and 100 Nm (73 lb-ft) of torque, and it was launched near the end of 2011. It features a 898cc parallel-twin engine which gives all the benefits of a vee-twin (sound and feeling) but...
Police Wrongly Inform Woman of Spouse's Motorcycle-Related Death
7 Jun 2012, 13:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The moment all North Americans are taught to dread by ‘cop movies’ happened to a woman from Southern Alberta, Canada, when police officers came to her doorstep to inform her that her boyfriend had passed away in a motorcycle accident. ...
ZAP Xebra EV Re-Recalled
7 Jun 2012, 13:23 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Xebra is an all-electric three-wheeled EV produced between 2006 and 2009, by Santa Rosa, California-based ZAP, a name which stands for ‘zero air pollution’ - a rather witty name for a company with a vehicle called ‘Dude’...
Fiat-Mazda Partnership Has No Top Priority, Says Mazda CEO
7 Jun 2012, 12:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fiat-Mazda joint venture is one of the most promising endeavors of its kind, and in terms of actual good cars, we think it offers substantially more to Fiat than Chrysler ever could. Since the paperwork between the two car makers is done, ac...
Fiat 500 Coupe Zagato Rumored to Reach Production in 2013
7 Jun 2012, 12:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Great news for car lovers across the world! The stunningly pretty Fiat 500 Zagato Coupe may start rolling off the assembly line next year, according to a production schedule for the entire Fiat-Chrysler gorup, made available at automobilemag.com ea...
Toyota Showcase Stylish New Yaris Hybrid in Promo Videos
7 Jun 2012, 11:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Yaris Hybrid is arguably one of the prettiest cars to be made by Toyota in recent years, excluding the GT-86, which is a sports car and you’d expect it to be sleek, well designed and focused on aesthetics. Why have we chosen looks as t...
Ford Focus 1.0 ECOboost Breaks 16 World Records
7 Jun 2012, 11:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With Ford’s excellent 1.0-liter ECOboost engine gaining popularity rapidly in Europe, it was bound to attract attention. Now, some European and American motoring journalists have put the 1.0 ECOboost-equipped Focus through a series of tests, ...
Robert Llewellyn Tests 5 EV Bikes
7 Jun 2012, 10:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Similarly to these 32% of Americans, we think that pure EVs have a good chance of powering us into the future. However, electric motors and all that regenerative stuff is genuinely better suited for use on a bicycle. In this video, Robert Llewel...
Americans Say EVs Are the Way to Go, According to Honda
7 Jun 2012, 09:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you thought the American public was generally misinformed and ignorant, you’d be wrong, as according to a recent video posted online by Honda, they have strong opinions and are generally informed about ‘green tech’ and the futu...
US Dealers Pursue Legal Action Against Mahindra
7 Jun 2012, 08:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Indian brand, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, a maker of rugged 4x4s, made announcements, back in 2004 that they would begin to bring their products to the US. So, in an effort to set up a dealer network, they made commitments to various deale...
Russian Guy Buys Fast Food in a Tank
7 Jun 2012, 08:14 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This is by far the coolest and most amusing thing we’ve seen in a while, now. This guy (FPS Russia) usually demonstrates the power of all sorts of weapons in a Russian accent, but in the latest video, he takes a tank to White Castle. ...
BMW Also Developing 7-Speed Manual Gearbox
7 Jun 2012, 07:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It’s clear that the German manufacturers have gone gear-crazy adding more and more cogs to their gearboxes, both automatic ones and manuals, as well. A few people may not have known what to make of the 7-speed manual gearbox fitted to the new...