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.
Fiat Viaggio Gets Chinese Name ahead of its September Debut
14 May 2012, 17:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fiat’s Viaggio, which is largely based on the Dodge Dart, has been given a proper Chinese name ahead of its September debut on the Chinese market. It will be called ''Fei Xiang'', though we have no idea what it means, yet....
Kamikaze Driver Crashes Through Several Cars
14 May 2012, 17:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Why isn’t getting a driver’s license a stricter affair? It is becoming ever more apparent that some people, despite being legally allowed to drive, do it very badly. In this video, people are driving their cars normally, when all of ...
Scooter Rider Hit by Car
14 May 2012, 17:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Riding a scooter or moped is often a dangerous affair. You are driving a small vehicle which could be hit from any side and when you grab the handlebars you're probably thinking "nothing can happen to me", but this is not true and we...
GM to Start Building Chevrolet Cruze in Europe
14 May 2012, 16:58 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With Opel’s disastrous start to the year, counting losses of over€250 million in the first quarter, GM execs are pondering the idea of moving some of their Chevrolet production from South Korea to Opel factories in Europe. At the curr...
Fiat Uses Large Breasts Commercial for New Palio
14 May 2012, 15:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / I’m sure we’re all familiar with the fact that the more you show, the more you sell. So, in the latest Argentinean Fiat ad, for the new Palio, there’s a man who has a girlfriend and he is simply overjoyed when she tells him she wi...
Marussia B2 Sold Out, Production Moving to Finland
14 May 2012, 15:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The first car Marussia Motors produced, the Marussia B1 was a decent looking and performing car which never really sold as its creators intended. However, Marussia are back with a new (and substantially better-looking) car, the B2. Apparently, t...
Forest Whitaker and His All-Black Porsche Panamera
14 May 2012, 14:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Paparazzi and privacy are two really big issue for famous people. Most of us crave attention and we want to be seen and heard, whereas movie stars and such don’t really care for too much public exposure. This is why so many ‘famous&r...
Mariah Carey Spotted in Her New Mercedes SLK
14 May 2012, 14:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After her dreadfully hideous Pink Porsche Cayenne, Mariah Carey has apparently moved to something a bit sleeker, but still German - a Mercedes Benz SLK, in black. Her husband, American actor, comedian, rapper and TV personality Nick Cannon, appa...
Renault Zoe Expected to Outsell Nissan Leaf in Europe
14 May 2012, 13:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Nissan Leaf has established itself as the reference vehicle in the sector, and with good reason, as it’s genuinely a good and well engineered car. Renault, however, have announced that they expect the Clio-sized EV to dramatically outsell...
Egret One - Light-Weight Compact Electric Scooter
14 May 2012, 13:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The kick-scooters have been around for around 100 years. First they were hand made out of wood and rudimentary components. Nowadays, they are motorized and much more advanced also moving into the electric propulsion area. A German manufacturer, ...
Roskva Electric Motorbike Coming from Norway
14 May 2012, 13:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you thought that modern bikes, even electric ones, are too conventional-looking, you’ll be glad to know that a team from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences is developing a very interesting-looking electric motorbike. It’s c...
Tata Motors to Launch Compressed-Air Car by the End of the Year
14 May 2012, 12:23 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Aside from ‘free energy’ devices which some claim are myths (even though the information is just being suppressed so that we use more oil), creating power out of nothing is next-to-impossible. The first step down from the idea of &lsquo...
Stunning 1962 Custom Ghia L6.4 Owned by Dean Martin Up for Sale
14 May 2012, 12:09 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / There have been very few true superstars throughout our recent history, but the category was created for people like Dean Martin. He was, is and will always be undeniably cool and so are the cars that he drove. A perfect example of ‘cool o...
Pastor Maldonado Wins Spain GP for Williams
14 May 2012, 11:11 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Williams driver, Pastor Maldonado, took the crown in Sunday’s F1 race held at the Circuit de Catalunya, in Spain. Being raised onto on to Alonso and Raikkonen’s shoulders is definitely a fitting end to what was probably the most importa...
Tommy Lee and Ken Block Switch Seats
14 May 2012, 09:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ken Block is a driving god. Tommy Lee is a legend, and together they form a huge ball of ‘awesomeness’, which if you want to see you need dark glasses or a welding mask as otherwise it will burn your retinas. Being the immensely tal...
Volvo to Add Long Wheelbase S60 to China Line-Up
14 May 2012, 08:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Chinese really love their rear legroom and with the rapidly expanding car market there, every manufacturer is keen to capitalize on it. Volvo, now being Chinese-owned, will surely attempt to benefit from the ‘long wheelbase craze’ w...
BMW Reveals 1-Series Three-Door Hatchback
13 May 2012, 17:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Were we to photoshop in an extra pair of doors to it, you’d never know it’s a new BMW. But it is, the new 1-Series 3-door hatchback is here. With exactly the same dimension as the 5-door version, there’s very little to distinguish...
Toyota Knocks GM off the Top Spot as The World's Largest Automaker
13 May 2012, 17:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back in 2011, Toyota was knocked off the top spot as the world’s largest automaker, by GM. This was due in part to the recession which had also hit Japan and its industry, coupled with the destructive tsunami which hit Japan last year in Marc...
New US-Bound BMW 3-Series Touring Revealed
13 May 2012, 17:34 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The new BMW 3-Series Touring (F31) is here, boasting the F30 sedan's top-notch interior with an extra dash of practicality! Design-wise, the new 3-Series Touring continues BMW tradition of the Touring, looking very similar to the four-door ver...
Toyota Launches Pixis Epoch in Japan
11 May 2012, 15:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Kei cars are very appreciated in Japan, they are ideal with their small proportions and small engines for city driving and also exempt from paying for parking and thus many people will be happy to find out that there's a new one out there. ...