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.
AC Cars - New Start Under ‘Military’ Supervision
28 May 2012, 11:48 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / AC Cars, a company founded in 1901 by the Weller brothers, is Britain’s oldest surviving car brand, and with a history of ‘ups and downs’, this is not the first announcement of this type, with the company having passed through num...
EVs Accounting for Only 0.2% of New Car Sales in France
28 May 2012, 10:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite Renault being all for the development of EVs and getting them onto the market as quickly as possible, and their group partners, Nissan with their Leaf being already there, its a tad strange that electric is not yet in fashion in France. ...
Low Emission Vehicle Market Will Be Worth €82 / $103 Billion
28 May 2012, 10:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The market for EVs, hybrids and all other forms of low emission, alternative means of propulsion are slowly gaining ground, with hybrids currently being the most common amongst them. According to a study by Markets&Markets, the value of the ent...
Brammo Empulse R - First Commercial
28 May 2012, 10:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The awesome Brammo Empulse R superbike, which was launched over a month ago, has now gotten its first ad, which, unlike the bike itself, is quite classic, one could say. It features the rider, on the bike, going to pick up his girlfriend. Despit...
Drunk Driver in GT-R Causes Fatal Accident in China - EV Taxi Catches Fire
28 May 2012, 08:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Nissan GT-R is a great handling car. It’s partly down to its excellent chassis with all-wheel drive traction and partly down to its very clever electronic brain which always manages to keep it on the road and pointing straight, regardless...
Nissan’s Clever Tire Pressure Monitoring System
28 May 2012, 07:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Are you the kind of guy for whom bar, atm or psi don’t really mean anything, and you tire not being inflated means that the rim is touching the ground? Well Nissan has the answer for you, with their new and quite clever tire pressure monitori...
Ford’s 1.0 ECOboost - Off to a Flying Start in Europe
28 May 2012, 07:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / When Ford announced that they would be introducing a 1.0-liter engine in the Focus, C-Max and B-Max ranges, many people nodded in disapproval, but all the skeptics have been proved wrong by the excellent European sales of the ultra-efficient petrol...
Jay Kay's Cool Maserati A6G/54 for Sale
27 May 2012, 14:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Jamiroquay frontman Jay Kay is very well known in the UK, both for his musical talent and flair, and his undying passion for automobiles. Of his car collection, we need to mention his Lamborghini Miura which was featured on an older episode of Top ...
Mitsuoka Launch Micra-Based Viewt
27 May 2012, 13:52 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The first generation Viewt was launched back in 1993, and it tried (and succeeded) to mimic a 1960s Jaguar Mk II, but using a substantially smaller chassis as a base for the car, and fitting it with 1.0- and 1.3-liter engines. Mitsuoka have rece...
The Truck Driver Who Makes All Other Drivers Insecure
27 May 2012, 13:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Truck driving can be a lonely, but rewarding line of work. You get to drive monstrously powerful trucks, hauling dozens of tons of cargo across vast distances, usually on highways. Driving a big rig gets interesting, however, when you find yours...
Fiat Halts Exports to Iran due to Nuclear Program
26 May 2012, 15:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The problem of Iran’s nuclear program seems to be bugging everybody. A number of automakers have already pulleoud out of the market, including most recently Porsche. But from now on, the Iranian consumers, the car buyers, will be unable to...
Meet the Best Looking Modern BMW - The Z4 Zagato
26 May 2012, 14:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The official world premiere of the BMW Z4 Zagato coupe was planned for this weekend’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, in Italy, however, BMW presented the concept just before its debut. First things first, the car looks stunn...
Aston Martin Preview New DBS with Project AM 310
26 May 2012, 14:22 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In 2009, Aston Martin revealed their ultra-exclusive (and expensive) One-77 at the Villa d’Este Concours d’Elegance, an event usually reserved for pre-1970s cars. This year, they’ve done it again, by revealing yet another stunning...
Dog Crossing the Road on the Crosswalk
25 May 2012, 16:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The dog has always been man’s best friend - this has now turned into a cliche, however we weren’t expecting them to be this disciplined and cross the road with such elegance, and grace, as if it’s normal for a do to cross the road...
Cat Crossing the Road Properly: on the Crosswalk
25 May 2012, 15:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We now realize why those Russian workers were chiseling away at that crosswalk. They were preventing cats from crossing that very wide avenue, so that they wouldn’t get hurt. There has been a multitude of videos posted online, with cats do...
Volkswagen Planning Crossover All-Terrain Golf
25 May 2012, 15:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As if there weren’t enough variants of the Golf and cars based on its platform, Volkswagen are apparently going to make an all-terrain crossover Golf. According to Autocar, its styling and philosophy will be in line with the recently-revealed...
Buick Encore Coming to China in November
25 May 2012, 15:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Buick’s new semi-luxurious compact crossover, the Encore, will go on sale in China near the end of the year, in November. With the Regal and LaCrosse already on the market, this will be Buick’s third addition to its Chinese range. It...
Citroen DS4 and DS5 to Be Launched in China on June 28
25 May 2012, 14:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Citroen’s DS, despite its historic name suggesting the iconic DS of the 1960s, has absolutely nothing to do with the old car, and it cannot be associated with it in any way. That is generally a bad thing for Citroen aficionados and a good thi...
VW Officials Apologize for Faulty DSG Gearbox in China
25 May 2012, 14:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite Volkswagen’s DSG gearboxes being generally bulletproof, Chinese customers have had problems with their DSG-equipped cars since last year. VW officials have acknowledged the faults, have apologized for the inconvenience and have increa...
Automakers Show Off their Cars Ready For Chinese Police Duty
25 May 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Unlike their counterparts in Europe, who usually get really rather bad cars as their standard-issue transportation, in China all the major automakers make a police version of one (or more) of their cars and bring it to an event called ‘China ...