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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.
Audi Q6 e-tron and SQ6 e-tron Against the Luxury EV Competition: Will It Prevail?
Audi Q6 e-tron and SQ6 e-tron Against the Luxury EV Competition: Will It Prevail?

23 Mar 2024, 16:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Ingolstadt-based automaker has just revealed its latest offering in the electric SUV market - the stylish Q6 e-tron compact luxury crossover and the Porsche Macan EV cousin uses the long-delayed PPE architecture with up to 510 horsepower on tap...

 
It's a Ford Mustang Thing: Mayhem and Big Nerves Follow a Slide-Out Crash at TX2K24
It's a Ford Mustang Thing: Mayhem and Big Nerves Follow a Slide-Out Crash at TX2K24

23 Mar 2024, 07:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Internet is abuzz with loads of memes, and of course, the automotive industry has its fair share of drama queens. Naturally, one of the biggest is Ford Mustangs' tendency to defy all laws of gravity and (sometimes also) common sense. ...

 
Stylish Mazda 6e Gets Revealed Early Across Imagination Land After Trademark Leak
Stylish Mazda 6e Gets Revealed Early Across Imagination Land After Trademark Leak

23 Mar 2024, 02:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Mazda6 (also known as Atenza) is a tragic story underlying the perils for classic passenger cars across the new landscape of the current automotive industry, which is focused mostly on crossovers, SUVs, and trucks. Introduced in 2002 as ...

 
Unofficial Ferrari Testarossa EV Concept Is Real Only as a Mockup Thanks to 3D Printing
Unofficial Ferrari Testarossa EV Concept Is Real Only as a Mockup Thanks to 3D Printing

22 Mar 2024, 23:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Ferrari is currently doing great thanks to its classic blend of luxury and high performance, but it has also subtly embraced the latest technologies of our time. For example, its SF90 series has rocked the perception of hypercars with a grea...

 
2025 Lamborghini Urus Undergoes a Widebody Facelift Procedure Across Fantasy Land
2025 Lamborghini Urus Undergoes a Widebody Facelift Procedure Across Fantasy Land

22 Mar 2024, 22:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The automotive world is a place full of exceptions and excesses. In fact, we have recently gotten acquainted with possibly the world's most expensive and outrageous SUV – a Ford F-550 gone crazy and renamed as the Karlmann King for the p...

 
The First Dutch-Bound Rimac Nevera Is a Red, White, and Blue Festival of EV Speed
The First Dutch-Bound Rimac Nevera Is a Red, White, and Blue Festival of EV Speed

22 Mar 2024, 12:41 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / An example of the "ultimate record-breaking (EV) hypercar," the Rimac Nevera, has been reunited with the first customer in the Netherlands - and it clearly shows where its allegiance belongs. Mate Rimac, founder and CEO of Rimac Au...

 
All-New 2025 Infiniti QX80 Looks Stately With Two Types of Digital Aftermarket Wheels
All-New 2025 Infiniti QX80 Looks Stately With Two Types of Digital Aftermarket Wheels

22 Mar 2024, 10:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / After years of promises, teasers, spies, and renderings, the Infiniti QX80 Monograph concept has finally transformed into the all-new 2025 Infiniti QX80. The good news is that we're looking at almost the same vehicle as the preview prototype, ...

 
2026 Ferrari F725 Arrives as the F8 Tributo Successor, but Only in Fantasy Land
2026 Ferrari F725 Arrives as the F8 Tributo Successor, but Only in Fantasy Land

22 Mar 2024, 09:45 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / After another record-breaking year – it delivered 13,663 vehicles worldwide in 2023 – Ferrari is set to launch three new cars this year, quite a big and commendable effort from the storied exotic brand. The Italian automaker is sin...

 
This Audi Pickup Truck Concept Is a Work of Digital Art Rather Than a Real Workhorse
This Audi Pickup Truck Concept Is a Work of Digital Art Rather Than a Real Workhorse

22 Mar 2024, 08:10 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / After years of everyone feeling like Audi crawled into a corner to watch the clash of BMW and Mercedes-Benz titans, the Ingolstadt-based automaker is finally attacking the automotive market with all its might once again. However, it's not all ...

 
Audi TT RS Drags McLaren and Porsche at TX2K24, Someone Gets Stunned Easily
Audi TT RS Drags McLaren and Porsche at TX2K24, Someone Gets Stunned Easily

22 Mar 2024, 07:26 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The good folks over at the racing-focused ImportRace channel on YouTube were on point during TX2K's 2024 edition, which took place between March 12 and 17 in Texas at the Texas Motorplex outside Dallas, and they're continuing their e...

 
Dodge Challenger Hellcat Luxury Sport 4-Door Sedan Looks Marvelous, Albeit Only in CGI
Dodge Challenger Hellcat Luxury Sport 4-Door Sedan Looks Marvelous, Albeit Only in CGI

21 Mar 2024, 10:18 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / As promised, following the seven 'Last Call' special editions of the 2023 Dodge Challenger and Charger, which culminated with the introduction of the 1,025-hp (on E85) Demon 170, Stellantis has moved the eighth-generation Dodge Charger to...

 
Volkswagen Announces ID. Buzz GTX With 335 HP as the Most Powerful Bulli Ever
Volkswagen Announces ID. Buzz GTX With 335 HP as the Most Powerful Bulli Ever

21 Mar 2024, 09:43 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Hopefully, there won't be too many memes about the ID. Buzz turning into Volkswagen's latest bully - it's too cute for all that, right? Anyway, as promised in a teaser last week, Volkswagen premiered the new GTX version at the annual...

 
400-HP 2025 Ford Maverick ST Would Be a Great Virtual Idea If Not for the CUV Looks
400-HP 2025 Ford Maverick ST Would Be a Great Virtual Idea If Not for the CUV Looks

21 Mar 2024, 09:03 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / It's been a minute since we last talked about the popular Ford Maverick unibody compact pickup truck. But it's all coming back to us now because at the New York Auto Show later this month, its only rival, the 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz, is g...

 
'Sleeper' BMW M240i Drags Three Toyota GR Supras, Obliteration Follows Only Twice
'Sleeper' BMW M240i Drags Three Toyota GR Supras, Obliteration Follows Only Twice

21 Mar 2024, 08:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / With the Toyota GR Supra sharing its underpinnings and more with the BMW Z4 (G29), it's obvious that everyone will draw many comparisons with models from the Bavarian automaker. However, we didn't know those would include more quar...

 
Ninth-Gen Mercury Cougar Digitally Revives the 2-Door Hardtop Personal Luxury Car
Ninth-Gen Mercury Cougar Digitally Revives the 2-Door Hardtop Personal Luxury Car

21 Mar 2024, 07:42 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Blue Oval Company, although the second-largest US automaker and third in terms of overall sales last year, almost doesn't have a (passenger) car culture anymore. Instead, it's all about the Benjamins via crossovers, SUVs, and trucks. ...

 
All-New 2025 Infiniti QX80 Keeps the Monograph Looks, Gets New 3.5L TT V6 With 450 HP
All-New 2025 Infiniti QX80 Keeps the Monograph Looks, Gets New 3.5L TT V6 With 450 HP

21 Mar 2024, 07:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The all-new 2025 Infiniti QX80 reimagines the luxury body-on-frame full-size SUV for its third outing and switches to a contemporary styling, and packs a downsized powertrain that's still more capable than the old-school 5.6-liter V8 it replac...

 
Rolls-Royce Ghost and Ford F-450 Are Like Beauty and the Beast on White-Orange Forgis
Rolls-Royce Ghost and Ford F-450 Are Like Beauty and the Beast on White-Orange Forgis

20 Mar 2024, 12:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / A lot of aftermarket outlets and parts providers love to play with the looks of Rolls-Royce vehicles, but very few of them dare to make them compatible with a Ford, let alone a heavy-duty pickup truck! Usually, an ultra-luxury four-door saloo...

 
Isuzu Enters the EV Pickup Truck Sector, Tesla's Cybertruck Won't Worry About D-Max BEV
Isuzu Enters the EV Pickup Truck Sector, Tesla's Cybertruck Won't Worry About D-Max BEV

20 Mar 2024, 11:06 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The third-generation Isuzu D-Max mid-size pickup truck will soon gain an all-electric version previewed by a concept on display at the 45th Bangkok International Motor Show held between March 27 and April 7 in Bangkok, Thailand's capital and l...

 
Imagined Range Rover Pickup Feels Ready to Conquer the Mid-Size Truck Establishment
Imagined Range Rover Pickup Feels Ready to Conquer the Mid-Size Truck Establishment

20 Mar 2024, 09:11 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Land Rover invented the Range Rover in 1970, back when it was a British Leyland brand, and didn't intend it as the premium 4x4 SUV we know today – a model that can easily reach quotations in excess of $200k for its fancier versions. ...

 
Charger Hellcat Drags Demon, Challenger, Camaro, Stomps All, and Posts a New World Record
Charger Hellcat Drags Demon, Challenger, Camaro, Stomps All, and Posts a New World Record

20 Mar 2024, 08:26 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / While Lady Winter hasn't completely left from the Northern Hemisphere, that doesn't mean it still has enough strength to impede some of the traditional spring events – especially in the traditionally sunnier places across the greate...

 

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