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Aurel Niculescu

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Once upon a time there was a little boy that didn't know his age but dreamed of reaching high in the sky alongside the absolute best aviators. He was passionate about reading books (action and Sci-Fi), grew up with many great authors and soon discovered the mirage of cinema.

There he understood anything is possible if you work hard and passionately strive to follow your imagination. This is how at the age of 16 he managed to fulfill the first dream – flying alone in a glider plane. He was no Tom Cruise, of course, so young adulthood brought him back to reality.

With every kick in the familiar *utt comes a chance to step forward, so a seemingly unimportant ad in one of his favorite automotive magazines brought a dilemma - follow through with the current job or dare to achieve greatness by deploying (previously) unknown literary skills.

Since 2006, he’s been perfecting them at Automondial, Supercar, Cox, Autoshow, Autopro, Auto Motor & Sport, and more magazines plus their online versions. After driving some of the best and worst cars in Europe and around the world, he’s part of the autoevolution team, where he aims to develop his best-ever form.
Digital Toyota 4Runner Trailhunter 3-Door Looks Ready for the Short Bronco and Wrangler
Digital Toyota 4Runner Trailhunter 3-Door Looks Ready for the Short Bronco and Wrangler

12 Apr 2024, 06:11 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Just recently, Toyota came full circle on its mid-size endeavors in America with the announcement of the 2025 Toyota 4Runner coming to market later this year during the fall season. It all started with the arrival of the N400 Tacoma, the nex...

 
2027 Toyota GR86 Four-Door Sports Car Gets Rendered With Hybrid GR Corolla Oomph
2027 Toyota GR86 Four-Door Sports Car Gets Rendered With Hybrid GR Corolla Oomph

11 Apr 2024, 20:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Most Asian carmakers thrived in America, reporting greatly advanced first-quarter deliveries across the board. Naturally, Toyota was chief among them and hot on the heels of General Motors. The worst-performing Japanese automaker was Mitsubi...

 
IED Students and Pagani Automobili Collaborate to Celebrate 25 Years of Zonda With Alisea
IED Students and Pagani Automobili Collaborate to Celebrate 25 Years of Zonda With Alisea

11 Apr 2024, 11:41 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Pagani and the Istituto Europeo di Design present Alisea, a hypercar concept made in collaboration and acting as a thesis project for IED's master class - the 24 students of the Master Course in Transportation Design at IED Torino. Let&...

 
Hey America, Would You Buy the Mitsubishi Pajero If It Came Back With QX80 DNA?
Hey America, Would You Buy the Mitsubishi Pajero If It Came Back With QX80 DNA?

11 Apr 2024, 08:37 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / While most other automakers thrived, one particular Asian carmaker barely reached 28k deliveries in America during the first three months of the year. And I think we all know the brand's name – Mitsubishi. This is one of the world&...

 
Dreamy G90 BMW M5 Touring Looks Even Better in CGI Than Its Business Saloon Counterpart
Dreamy G90 BMW M5 Touring Looks Even Better in CGI Than Its Business Saloon Counterpart

11 Apr 2024, 07:06 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Bavarian automaker recently signed a battery supply deal with Rimac, but that's not the electrifying news M GmbH fans were looking for. Instead, they can't wait to get their hands on the latest products like the M5 saloon and Touring,...

 
Shelby GT500 Drags Challenger Hellcat and Camaro SS, Someone Gets a Nasty Surprise
Shelby GT500 Drags Challenger Hellcat and Camaro SS, Someone Gets a Nasty Surprise

11 Apr 2024, 06:40 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Ford, Mopar, and GM – these Big Detroit Three automakers were once the epitome of muscle car madness. Now, all that is left is the craziness rather than the muscle car part. Still, we hope for the best, right? Let's face it –...

 
2025 Acura ADX Showcased Across Imagination Land: Do You Dig the Shiny CGI Look?
2025 Acura ADX Showcased Across Imagination Land: Do You Dig the Shiny CGI Look?

11 Apr 2024, 06:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Most Asian carmakers thrived in America across the automotive industry during the year's first quarter. However, it wasn't all roses and daffodils in terms of sales, especially for some pretentious brands. Toyota – with 565,0...

 
2024 Morgan Plus Four Gets Upgraded With Subtle Design Tweaks, 21st Century Features
2024 Morgan Plus Four Gets Upgraded With Subtle Design Tweaks, 21st Century Features

10 Apr 2024, 13:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / While over in the United States, Toyota was busy showing its rivals how a proper mid-size off-road SUV is done with respect for its 4x4 heritage and tradition - in the form of the 2025 sixth generation 4Runner, over in the UK, another historic mode...

 
Ford Mustang Mach-E GT Drags Pontiac G8 GT, This Awkward Meeting Ends Unexpectedly
Ford Mustang Mach-E GT Drags Pontiac G8 GT, This Awkward Meeting Ends Unexpectedly

10 Apr 2024, 10:50 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / After extensively covering various racing events like Street Car Takeover (Bradenton) and the spectacular 2024 edition of TX2K at Texas Motorplex, the good folks over at the racing-focused ImportRace channel on YouTube are back to their usual motor...

 
Redesigned 2025 Toyota Sequoia TRD Pro Already Spills the CGI Beans Inside and Out
Redesigned 2025 Toyota Sequoia TRD Pro Already Spills the CGI Beans Inside and Out

10 Apr 2024, 10:08 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Toyota did great during the first quarter of 2024 across the US automotive market - it's hot on the heels of GM, which slipped by 1.5% on the account of very low fleet sales, with a big increase in deliveries to over 565k units. Compare ...

 
Dodge Durango EV Is Joined by Revived Journey CUV and Grand Caravan MPV in a Fantasy Realm
Dodge Durango EV Is Joined by Revived Journey CUV and Grand Caravan MPV in a Fantasy Realm

10 Apr 2024, 09:03 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The American automaker Dodge is at the cusp of a veritable revolution – its L-bodied Challenger coupe and Charger sedan have ceased production, and the Hemi V8 is going away from the Durango SUV, too. Sure, the S650 seventh-generation ...

 
Uncamouflaged 2025 Cadillac Escalade-V Leaks While Testing, Gets Rendered Pronto
Uncamouflaged 2025 Cadillac Escalade-V Leaks While Testing, Gets Rendered Pronto

10 Apr 2024, 08:22 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The luxury US automaker is preparing for an all-out assault on the fashionable EV lifestyle with the 2025 Optiq, 2024 Lyriq, 2026 Vistiq, 2025 Escalade IQ, and Celestiq, but that doesn't mean it has forgotten about its ICE-powered goodies &nda...

 
2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E Undercuts Model Y, Adds Flagship $59,995 Rally Version
2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E Undercuts Model Y, Adds Flagship $59,995 Rally Version

10 Apr 2024, 07:43 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Blue Oval company knows who they're fighting. So, it naturally takes quite a few jabs at the best-selling Tesla Model Y crossover but also at a Porsche – the Macan Electric. Donna Dickson, the Chief Engineer of the Mustang Mac...

 
2025 Toyota 4Runner: These Might Be the SUV's Coolest Facts, Figures, and Features
2025 Toyota 4Runner: These Might Be the SUV's Coolest Facts, Figures, and Features

10 Apr 2024, 06:55 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The all-new, TNGA-F-based sixth generation 4Runner sure feels already like a match made in off-road SUV heaven between the N400 Tacoma's freshness and the N280's tough 4Runner persona, right? If we also count the 1981 to 1983 Toyot...

 
2025 Toyota 4Runner: This Is It, Complete With 326-HP i-Force Max and Trailhunter
2025 Toyota 4Runner: This Is It, Complete With 326-HP i-Force Max and Trailhunter

10 Apr 2024, 06:07 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Here's a veritable match made in traditional off-road SUV heaven - the old-school N280 Toyota 4Runner SUV married the new-age N400 Tacoma mid-size pickup truck and quickly spawned this TNGA-F offspring. There's just one problem – th...

 
Mercedes-Benz Will Grace Auto China 2024 With Its G-Class EV and AMG GT 63 S E Performance
Mercedes-Benz Will Grace Auto China 2024 With Its G-Class EV and AMG GT 63 S E Performance

9 Apr 2024, 09:47 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Auto China 2024 - also known as the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, will be held between April 25 and May 4, 2024, at New China International Exhibition Centre. A lot of big automakers are trying to reassert their focus on China...

 
All-New 2024 Opel Frontera Is Smaller Yet Spacious, Fun But Also Available as an EV
All-New 2024 Opel Frontera Is Smaller Yet Spacious, Fun But Also Available as an EV

9 Apr 2024, 09:05 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Japanese automaker Isuzu produced the funny-named MU mid-size SUV between 1989 and 2004. Luckily, few got to make any cow-related jokes about it because it was also called Isuzu Ascender, Chevrolet Captiva, or Opel and Vauxhall Frontera. The...

 
Virtually Refreshed Infiniti QX55 Coupe-SUV Gets Inspired by the Monolithic QX80
Virtually Refreshed Infiniti QX55 Coupe-SUV Gets Inspired by the Monolithic QX80

9 Apr 2024, 07:56 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / When the Nissan Group reported its first-quarter US sales, it turned out that it fared a lot better than its Alliance partner Mitsubishi – which only saw 28k deliveries during the first three months of 2024! Toyota, with 565,098 vehicle...

 
Dodge Challenger Demon 170 Drags Mustang and Classic Muscle Cars, Gets a Nasty Surprise
Dodge Challenger Demon 170 Drags Mustang and Classic Muscle Cars, Gets a Nasty Surprise

9 Apr 2024, 06:49 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The good folks over at the racing-focused ImportRace channel on YouTube are back to their usual motoring venue - Island Dragway in Great Medows, New Jersey - for another Test & Tune Day of quarter-mile dragstrip action. It has been...

 
Reimagined Ford Taurus Graces Imagination Land In Search of Malibu, Camry, Accord Trouble
Reimagined Ford Taurus Graces Imagination Land In Search of Malibu, Camry, Accord Trouble

9 Apr 2024, 06:11 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / During the first quarter of the year, automotive sales in America didn't change all that much from last year or the same quarter of 2023 – Ford's F-Series was still on top, followed by another pickup truck series and three compact c...

 

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