Andrei Nedelea
3,618 ARTICLES
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.
Extreme Super GT Crash - Driver Wounded
7 May 2012, 16:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / During the latest Super GT race held at the Fuji racetrack, Tim Bergmeister’s Porsche can be seen going into the wall just outside the pit lane much too quickly. The strangest thing is that the accident occurred on the straight at Fuji, a ...
Volvo Starts Selling V60 Hybrid Exclusively in Europe
7 May 2012, 16:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite the main market for hybrids being the US, Volvo has decided to sell its new V60 hybrid exclusively in Europe. The plug-in hybrid was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, last year. The car features Volvo’s familiar 2.4-liter 5-cylind...
BMW Recalls 24,000 Cars in the US
7 May 2012, 15:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After the massive recall of 1.3-million vehicles earlier this year, of which 368,000 were in the US, BMW has done it again. Now, they’re recalling 24,340 vehicles sold in the US between 2009 and 2012. Out of the total of 24,340, most of th...
Manx Grand Prix Revamp Announced
7 May 2012, 15:21 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The prestigious Manx GP is a motorbike racing event which has been held on the Isle of Man’s TT (Tourist Trophy) Course since 1923. The circuit itself is very long at 60.7 km (37.7 miles), with towns and rural roads dotted along the way. The ...
Proper Tree Cutting Machines for Real Men
7 May 2012, 14:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The days of the lumberjack are over. Nowadays, machines have made us redundant in the forest as they are designed specifically to fell trees whereas we, after thousands of years of asking and chopping down trees, still don’t know our true pur...
Best Driving Lesson Ever - Kid Drives Veyron
7 May 2012, 14:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Most of us learnt to drive in crappy cars, that’s a fact. However, some kids are lucky enough to have a daddy with a Veyron in the garage, and benefit from his willingness to let the little kid take the wheel, despite the fact that he is neit...
Jennifer Lopez Rides in a Rolls Royce Ghost
7 May 2012, 13:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Once one gets high enough on the social and fame ladders, one tends to start not to renounce driving, considering that it’s just a way to get from A to B. While we consider that point of view as wrong, we can understand it, to an extent. ...
Ladies Don't Like Suge Knight and His Camaro
7 May 2012, 13:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After the unfortunate killing of 2Pac in his old German 5-Series BMW in the early 1990s, Suge Knight has apparently switched back to an all-American car - a Convertible Camaro, to go along with the Bentley Continental he aleady has in his garage. ...
Candy-Red ‘Tzunamee’ Nissan Juke by Senner
7 May 2012, 12:32 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite them usually choosing to do up Audis, this time it’s the turn of the funky Nissan Juke to get the Senner treatment. They have created the Tzunamee Juke thanks to candy-red paint and matching 20-inch alloys while also slightly increasi...
Eating while Driving Deadlier than Using the Phone
7 May 2012, 12:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In an effort to make people aware of the dangers of doing, well, anything while driving, apart from driving, the University of Leeds has recently published a study called “Two Hands Better Than One”. Its aim is to raise awareness to...
Audi Takes First 4 Positions at Spa 2012
7 May 2012, 11:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It was only a few years ago that diesel-engined racing cars were unfathomable, but both Audi and Peugeot set out to prove that it can be done. While Peugeot’s success rate was average, Audi’s racing diesels kept getting smaller, more fu...
Drag Race: US Army H Humvee vs Korean Army Kia KM131
7 May 2012, 10:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Yes, apparently Army personnel do have fun with their (usually) very expensive and high-tech vehicles, in this case a Humvee and a not-so-high-tech South Korean Army’s Kia KM131. The two vehicles are waiting at a set of traffic lights side...
Chevy Camaro Transformers Edition by O.CT Tuning with 630 HP
7 May 2012, 09:33 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If the 2012 Camaro Transformers Edition is no powerful enough, O.CT Tuning may have an answer for you, in the form of a power-boosting kit for last year's robo-themed 'movie prop'. The kit adds a supercharger and a special stainle...
Renault’s First Three-Cylinder Turbo Engine Explained
7 May 2012, 08:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The downsizing of engines is a trend which has now been adopted by most car manufacturers. First, we had Fiat’s lovely little turbocharged V-twin and then came the 1.0-liter ecoBoost from Ford, and now Renault has decided to join the club wit...
Nico Rosberg Explains Strange F1 Driving Position
7 May 2012, 08:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In this video, Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team driver Nico Rosberg explains the awkward seating positing he has to adopt in order to get the balance between comfort and supportiveness from his F1 ‘seat’. As he explains it, we can see t...
US Army Hybrid Diesel Concept
6 May 2012, 22:04 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Apparently, the US military-industrial complex is going green. The Army have recently unveiled a hybrid-diesel concept called the Bravo FED (Fuel Efficiency Demonstrator). It was designed by a team of students from the College for Creative Studies,...
Average Efficiency of US-Bought Cars Declines in April
6 May 2012, 22:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / According to a recent study by the Transportation Research Center of the University of Michigan, the fuel economy of new vehicles has slightly dropped in April, to a number similar to the average of February. The Research center has been monitor...
Drifiting Audi R8 Crashes into Lada and Rolls It
6 May 2012, 21:58 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Russian kids, whose parents have more money than sense, have been buying very expensive supercars for a good few years now. Unfortunately, supercars require a decent amount of driving experience that an 18-year-old just doesn’t have, so most ...
Pagani Zonda R Spotted on the Street in China
4 May 2012, 16:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Pagani Zonda R is one of the rarest cars in the world, with only 15 built. The odds of ever seeing one are extremely slim, also due to the fact that they are not road legal in any country in the world. Or are they? Luckily, China has benefit...
Old Mercedes Diesels with Huge Turbos Equal Fun
4 May 2012, 16:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / How far can you go with an old 3-liter Mercedes diesel engine? The answer is comfortably over 400-hp and 750 Nm (553 lb-ft) of torque. Then all you need is an equally old Mercedes body, some big rims with decent tires, stiffened suspension and you&...