Aurel Niculescu
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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.
2022 NASCAR Cup Series Toyota Camry Adds TRD to Nameplate of Next Gen Racer
6 May 2021, 07:38 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / America’s stock car auto racing sanctioning body and operating company just outed the new rules for the “Next Gen” racers, triggering some of the biggest changes in the history of the sport. Naturally, the OEMs are also doing thei...
Jeep Wrangler 4xe Orders Go Live in Europe Along With Higher 31-Mile EV Range
6 May 2021, 06:58 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / At home in America, the Wrangler 4xe is already trying to prove that electricity is not only good for the environment but also for off-roading (including via Performance Parts). And one can also configure the plug-in hybrid, starting from $47,995 (...
Everglades Green Ford Bronco Heritage Edition Comes to Life in Nocturnal Render
5 May 2021, 13:46 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / That fabled moment when the reinvented sixth generation 2021 Ford Bronco will finally reach dealerships is now fast approaching. And do you think the rumor mill will cease to spin only for a moment? Nope, because there’s more Bronco action to...
Tuned Shelby GT350 Races Challenger Hellcat and It's Very Close, Until It's Not
5 May 2021, 13:19 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / In this day and age, the American muscle car supremacy is well established and timed by two of the traditional foes: Ford and Dodge. As such, we’re usually raising an eyebrow whenever someone tries to pit a Voodoo Shelby Mustang GT350 against...
1968 Ford Shelby GT500 King of the Road Is a True 428 Cobra Jet V8 AACA Senior
5 May 2021, 12:30 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Currently, the 2021 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 thunders its “Predator” domination atop Ford Performance’s lineup with its 760-hp aluminum V8 and imposing supercharger. But let’s face it, if you want the classic pinnacle of Sh...
Ford Reportedly Hikes 2021 Mustang Mach-E Price by $600 Because of BlueCruise
5 May 2021, 11:50 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Labeled as the Blue Oval’s alternative to similar systems such as Tesla Autopilot and GM’s Super Cruise, the unimaginatively named “BlueCruise” is slated for arrival on the 2021 Ford F-150 and Mustang Mach-E, as well as the ...
Digital Lancia Delta Integrale Is the Minimalist Widebody Restomod We Crave For
5 May 2021, 11:41 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Although it was developed and marketed across three full generations and for a period of more than a quarter of century, there’s just one Lancia Delta anyone cares about, the Integrale. It was born from the WRC melting pot to make a huge impa...
Blower SVT Mustang Cobra Exerts Total Stick Shift Domination on Civic and 'Vette
5 May 2021, 10:07 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Earlier this month a huge downpour of monster rides occurred in Thunder Valley, California. It was time for the “Street Car Takeover” event at the Bristol Motor Dragway and the quarter mile aficionados certainly had a good time over the...
Mk1 EV Golf Digitally Becomes a Vintage GTX With Help From 2021 Volkswagen ID.3
5 May 2021, 08:56 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / This isn’t the first time Estonia-based virtual artist Siim Parn (aka spdesignsest on social media) has decided to propose the vision of a world where the original VW Golf (born in 1974) had an alternative life. In it, the ICE powertrains wer...
1968 Ford F-100 Magazine Show Truck Now Has “Dave's Place” to Relax Its Whipple
5 May 2021, 08:08 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / You know when someone is really passionate about cars by the way they talk, walk, dress up and set up their garage. But a car freak is even more obvious when the latter contains all sorts of cool rides, as if we’re getting the automotive vers...
Chevrolet Chevelle SS “Purple Rain” Expects a Princely Build in Quick Rendering
5 May 2021, 06:57 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / If General Motors would have continued the successful Chevrolet Chevelle nameplate to this very day, a widebody option (perhaps combined with 4x4) for the current iteration would be a no-brainer if we consider the popularity of such options within ...
Bugatti's Latest Carbon Fiber Piece of Engineering Marvel Is a $300k Pool Table
4 May 2021, 15:35 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / At the highest level of exclusivity, you can basically get away with just about everything - be it a life-size LEGO Bugatti Chiron or a blinged-out West Coast Customs take on the already murdered-out Mansory Veyron. But we’re still surprised ...
Never Count a Race Over, Probably Said 9s Mustang to Old-School Chevy Chevelle
4 May 2021, 14:56 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / We all know that old saying “it ain’t over till the fat lady sings” and its applications do range extremely wide (no pun intended this time), including when it comes to ETs and trap speeds, apparently. As such, here’s a trio...
Genesis to Reach Europe This Summer, Three Electrics and Dedicated Model in Tow
4 May 2021, 13:53 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Korean premium cars have always been a bit of a tough sell on the rather infatuated and traditional European continent, but this isn’t deterring the Hyundai Motor Group from pushing even further the expansion of its Genesis Motor brand. So, a...
Nitrous Fox Body Ford Mustang Calls Out Wheelie Turbo Sibling for a Grudge Match
4 May 2021, 13:28 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Thunder Valley Raceway Park in Noble, Oklahoma has been overtaken this past weekend by racers in the 405 area (that’s Interstate 405, the one famous for the gridlocks) that were probably looking to vent some steam at the strip. It was als...
2023 Honda Civic Si Digitally Adopts the Eleventh-Gen Attire, Keeps HDMI Exhaust
4 May 2021, 12:22 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Looking more mature than ever, which is probably a consequence of having to abide to no less than ten generations of tradition, the 2022 Honda Civic Sedan officially came out to play in the United States late last month. But just one body style, a ...
Old vs New Tesla Model 3 Battle Shows There’s No Such Thing as Identical Cars
4 May 2021, 11:42 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Both Carwow and Mat Watson himself (on his personal YT channel) have been growing quite fond of encounters that see models from the same make pitted against each other, but at least in the past there was more to differentiate the cars aside from th...
C8 Chevy Corvette Drag Races 6.2-liter V8 Camaro Sibling for Total Annihilation
4 May 2021, 11:12 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Daniel Abt is not only an (in)famous race car driver, but also a very successful automotive vlogger among the German-speaking community. Usually, he’s a fan of presenting the best high-performance models that call the European continent home,...
1965 Ford Mustang Convertible Is Not Exactly Wimbledon White, Comes Very Close
4 May 2021, 09:32 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Automakers are always trying to spice up things within their model lines, and one of the easiest ways to do it would be to add an exotic color choice. Still, many customers don’t go the red way of the Ferrari (or C8 Corvette) and like to keep...
Sandy Munro Finally Drives a Mustang Mach-E, Almost Gets Stuck Behind “Grandma”
4 May 2021, 08:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Although he’s been toying around a white 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E for more than a few days, it’s only in the fifth episode of the Blue Oval series that Sandy Munro finally drives around in the zero-emissions SUV. Well, at least the wait...