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.
Dodge Dart Production Starts
9 May 2012, 08:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The first Dodge Dart rolled off the production line in the Belvidere Assembly plant in Illinois, the same factory which has been making the Jeep Patriot since 2006. If it weren’t for the Fiat-designed Dart, the plant would have probably be...
Aston Martin DBS Ultimate Revealed Online
9 May 2012, 08:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / All Aston Martins are special cars, but if you want to go that little bit further with the exclusivity of your Aston, yet you can’t get a One-77? That little bit of extra exclusivity has been added to the range in the form of the DBS Ultimate...
Nissan Juke-R Price Announced
9 May 2012, 07:33 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We happily announced last week that the bonkers Nissan Juke-R was going into limited production. The 545hp crossover will priced around €450,000 ($590,000) as Nissan finally gives in to public pressure to build the Juke-R, after quite a few pe...
Nevada DMV Issues First Ever Autonomous Vehicle License
8 May 2012, 17:09 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has just issued the first ever autonomous vehicle license to one of Google’s self-driving Prius. This is truly a large step towards the future of the automobile and our understanding of the ‘auto phen...
Couple Achieve Extreme Economy in a VW Passat TDI
8 May 2012, 16:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volkswagen TDIs are the most highly appreciated diesels in the States, and with good reason. John and Helen Taylor, about whom you may have heard back in 2009 when they achieved a record of 67.9 US mpg (3.4l/100km) in the Jetta TDI, have decided to...
Fiat 500 - Selling Very Well in Texas
8 May 2012, 15:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / American city-dwellers have fallen in love with the Fiat 500. It's almost the hit that Fiat expected it to be when they launched it in the US in late 2010. The numbers are not bad, with 3,849 cars sold in April, around 150 more than the previo...
Brilliant Home-Made Radial Engine
8 May 2012, 14:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We love DIY engines, and this has to be one of the best! Making an engine yourself gives it a whole new character - it’s your creation onto which you breathe life. Russel Stutton has spent the last four years of his life designing and buildin...
Quickest EV in the World is a Drag Bike
8 May 2012, 13:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Lawless Rocket is an amazing machine. The Orange County Choppers built bike’s motor pumps out a staggering 1,610hp and the acceleration it can achieve is mind-boggling by any standards. Last Friday, at Virgin Motorsports Park quarter-m...
Kia Sedona Production to Be Discontinued
8 May 2012, 13:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite it being a decent family-carrying machine, the Kia Sedona is looking rather outdated, both inside and out. Kia have announced that they will be discontinuing it, probably mainly due to its styling and the fact that it reminds everybody what...
Two Twin Turbo Gallardos Race Against Alpha Omega GT-R
8 May 2012, 12:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / More and more Texas supercar owners turbocharge their rides nowadays, and where else would such machines turn up than at a recent Texas Speed Syndicate simulated street racing event, called King of the Street. Exactly the kind of cars you, and u...
Proper Bus Driving Simulator For Real Men - OMSI Bus Simulator
8 May 2012, 12:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / For us, OMSI Bus Simulator is the simulator we was waiting for. It came out last year in March and it has been talked about and praised while still maintaining a low profile on the web. It was developed by only two, very passionate people over a p...
Price of Lithium-Ion Batteries Set to Drop by 2015
8 May 2012, 11:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Ronald Berger Strategy Consultants (RBSC) - as their name suggests, a consultancy firm - have released their updated study on the lithium-ion battery industry for the automotive world. The segment is expected to grow from its current value of $...
Michael Schumacher - World's Second Richest Sportsperson
8 May 2012, 11:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Michael Schumacher is officially the world’s second-highest paid sportsperson. He trails American golfer, Tiger Woods, by $43(€33) million with a total earnings-spree of $823 (€631) million to Tiger Woods’ $869 (€667) mil...
CODA Sedan Finally Available for Purchase
8 May 2012, 09:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Though not a familiar name to most, Coda Automotive had officially announced the first deliveries of its electric sedan two months ago, but apparently, due to damaged parts being shipped from China, the deliveries have had to be postponed. Sourc...
KB Rossocorsa Ferrari Gathering in Paris
8 May 2012, 09:48 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ferrari owners, apparently, do like how to gather from time to time and bore each other with laptime nonsense and their 100-way adjustable suspension and traction control settings. At a recent event held in Paris, called the KB Rossocorsa, whic...
Jay Leno Drives His 1917 Fiat Botafogo Special
8 May 2012, 09:14 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Jay Leno’s collection of cars is legendary and so to is his passion for cars. He was recently spotted in public, driving his 1917 Fiat Botafogo Special and answering a few questions about it. As we can see in the video, Jay doesn’t r...
Mark Wahlber Drives a Purble Lamborghini Diablo
8 May 2012, 08:58 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mark Wahlberg was recently spotted driving a pink-ish-purple Lamborghini Diablo. It appears to be the roadster model with a detachable hardtop, probably an Euro-spec VT model, though we are not sure. He was spotted driving the car on the set of ...
Toyota RAV4 EV - US Pricing and Details
8 May 2012, 07:48 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Toyota has finally given us more details, and a launch date for its electric RAV4. It will be revealed today, at the 26th Electric Vehicle Symposium in LA, nearly two years after being announced. The car features a 154 hp electric motor which ha...
First Try: Driving a Car on Two Wheels Around Laguna Seca
8 May 2012, 07:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Laguna Seca is a notoriously difficult circuit to go around, even on a car’s all four wheels, but when someone went round on two wheels, we were interested. James ‘Ski’ Smith recently attempted to take an old Mustang around what i...
Two Ferrari Enzos Tear Up Historic Racetrack
7 May 2012, 16:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Seeing one Ferrari Enzo is a privilege. Seeing two in the same place, racing around a historic racing track? Truly special! The two Enzos tear up the Autodrome de-Linas-Montlhery in France, at the GT Prestige event held there and they do it like no...