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.
Indian Car Manufacturers Facing Poor May Sales
1 Jun 2012, 16:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / High taxes and rising fuel prices have been cited as being the main reason for India’s poor May auto sales. The January-March figures showed that India’s usually rapidly expanding economy has slowed its pace to the worst level of the la...
The Tiny Kingdom of Bhutan Introduces Weekly “Pedestrian Day”
1 Jun 2012, 16:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may not have heard of the Kingdom of Bhutan, a small landlocked country bordered by India to the South and China to the North, famous for the adoption of ‘Gross National Happiness’ as a development goal (do you see this in ‘We...
Ice Karting in Finland and Sweden - Onboard Footage
1 Jun 2012, 14:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Finland is a special place, which, despite most of its border being with Russia, couldn’t be more different. It is a stereotype (albeit a positive one) that Fins can and do drive rather well, while having a lot of fun doing it. Sweden isn&rsq...
Toyota Developing PlayStation-Compatible Black Box for the GT-86
1 Jun 2012, 14:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / For those geeky GT-86, BRZ or FR-S owners (and we don’t mean that in a bad way), Toyota and Subaru are working on a track telemetry system. The system will work the old fashioned way, by placing a black box in the car and connecting it up....
Renault Fluence ZE Is Samsung SM3 ZE in Korea
1 Jun 2012, 13:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Following the launch of the Renault Fluence ZE, now it’s Samsung’s turn to showcase their version of the car (the orignal version, in fact), the SM3 ZE. We always noticed that the Fluence ZE had an extremely ugly front grille, and that&...
Extreme Crash, But Surprisingly No Casualties
1 Jun 2012, 12:48 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As with most ‘civilized’ countries, we’re pretty sure that Russian roads don’t offer sufficient opportunities to park safely while you’re driving somewhere, and want to stop, for some reason. These people are standi...
Toyota Prius C Fails to Impress Consumer Reports
1 Jun 2012, 12:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the Prius family now being the 3rd best selling in the world, Consumer Reports took the baby of the range for a spin. The Prius C is a small hybrid offering from Toyota which is based on the Yaris platform. Despite Consumer Reports claiming...
US Used Small Car Prices Drop Along With Fuel Prices
1 Jun 2012, 12:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite the downsizing trend sweeping the US along with the rest of the world, apparently, due to the 3.5% drop in fuel prices when compared with 2011, small car values on the used market are steadily falling, as buyers are (strangely) still intere...
Renault to Start EV Test Drive Tour of the UK in June
1 Jun 2012, 11:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the Twizy, Fluence Z.E. and the Kangoo Z.E. already in production, the Zoe on its way in Q3 2012, Renault officials have decided that it would be a good idea to have an EV awareness tour of the UK, to lure prospective buyers into one of their ...
Lexus ES and ES300h Performance and Economy Details Released
1 Jun 2012, 10:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Having yet to price their new ES sedan, the Japanese manufacturer has made the fuel-economy and performance figures available and they are more than adequate for a car of this size, with a 3.5-liter V6 under the bonnet. Lexus claim to have impro...
Departed 1980s Sitcom Star's RV Now for Sale
1 Jun 2012, 10:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you were around (and aware) in the early-to-mid 1980s, you may remember a sitcom called Diff’rent Strokes (back then, sexual references were less well hidden than they are in today’s TV programs and movies). One of the main roles, th...
Small Brazillian 4x4 Gets the EV Treatment
1 Jun 2012, 10:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The TAC Motors Stark is a Brazilian-made small plastic off-roader, currently powered by a Euro IV-compliant Fiat sourced 2.3-liter diesel engine. It has been on sale since mid-2009 and the company now wants to go green with its pint-sized 4x4. E...
Colorado-Based Company Developing 1,000x More Powerful Battery
1 Jun 2012, 09:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite saying that an improved version of the Lithium-Ion battery was at least 10 years away, apparently, it may not be the case, as a Colorado-based company founded in 2010, Prieto Battery, aims to make batteries which are 1,000 times more powerf...
Buy a House, Get a Free Tesla Model S Thrown In
1 Jun 2012, 09:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / There was this guy once, who was trying to sell his two-story house in Neville's Cross, Durham, UK. It had been on the market for quite some time, with very little interest, despite several price drops, so the guy decides to throw in his 1998 ...
BMW M Club Drive Goes Bad · Video
1 Jun 2012, 08:04 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We always thought that people who were part of car clubs were also good drivers. We figured that since you are into cars, you drive them passionately, you’d also do it well. Apparently, in Russia, it’s not so. At a recent BMW M Club ...
Volkswagen's Chattanooga Plant Produces Its 100,000th US Passat
1 Jun 2012, 08:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The North American VW Passat was launched back in April 2011, hitting the 10,000 sales mark in September of 2011, with 50,000 coming up in February of this year. It is quite a bit different to the European version of the Passat, being larger and fe...
Awesome RC Truck Makes Huge Jumps
31 May 2012, 15:58 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you’ve got around $2,200 (€1,800) to spend on something with which you will have a lot of fun, don’t hesitate to buy a Losi 5IVE 4WD off-road truck. From what we can see, it’s based on Baja-type trucks and it features i...
Jaguar-Land Rover’s Excellent China Sales Drive Up Profits
31 May 2012, 15:48 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Apparently, nowadays, every car manufacturer and their dog want a piece of the China action. And it has proven to be very good action for all the manufacturers who pushed for the opening of dealerships in the PRC, and who did a good job of promotin...
Patrick Dempsey’s New G-Wagon - The Perfect Addition to His Garage
31 May 2012, 15:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” runner up in 2006, Patrick Dempsey definitely has a very busy life. Between filming episodes for Grey’s Anatomy and racing his LeMans prototype, one would expect him not to have time to buy his o...
British Celebs Travel in Crystal-Encrusted Peugeot RCZ
31 May 2012, 14:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We thought the epitome of kitsch for this year was reached when a Russian tuner wrapped a Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG in reptile skin. We were so wrong! Apparently, “The Only Way Is Essex” stars Billi Mucklow and Cara Kilbey were photograp...