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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.
2024 Toyota Tacoma Drags 4Runner V6 In a Snow Blizzard, a B58 Ineos Grenadier Interrupts
2024 Toyota Tacoma Drags 4Runner V6 In a Snow Blizzard, a B58 Ineos Grenadier Interrupts

22 Feb 2024, 22:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The father and son duo Roman and Tommy Mica from The Fast Lane Car channel (and others, like TFL Truck or TFL EV) dared to fight a snow blizzard and some freezing rain in Colorado to give us this Toyota fight. Not long ago, the great fo...

 
2025 Toyota Camry Goes to 'Barbieland,' Comes Out a Slammed Widebody Pink Hybrid
2025 Toyota Camry Goes to 'Barbieland,' Comes Out a Slammed Widebody Pink Hybrid

22 Feb 2024, 21:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Japanese automaker is currently focusing on the off-road American market with the 2024 Land Cruiser and its new pricing strategy, making it significantly cheaper than the model from 2021. But soon enough, probably a few months after the ...

 
Carlex Will Soon Give Your Cullinan or Purosangue Engraved Silver and Diamond Dust!
Carlex Will Soon Give Your Cullinan or Purosangue Engraved Silver and Diamond Dust!

22 Feb 2024, 14:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Rolls-Royce has always been regarded as the pinnacle of the automotive industry. Even when they go against tradition, they still win big – like when they turned their first ultra-luxury crossover SUV, Cullinan, into their best-selling model a...

 
Fresh 2025 BMW X3 M Competition Gets Revealed From All Angles in Ritzy CGI Colors
Fresh 2025 BMW X3 M Competition Gets Revealed From All Angles in Ritzy CGI Colors

22 Feb 2024, 11:46 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / With the competition not sitting idle, BMW is obviously trying to keep up the good sales work it has done so far – while detractors attract attention to its controversial designs, the 'regular' models get the spotlight and sell like...

 
Our Dream 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Configuration Has Lots of Goodies for $72,155
Our Dream 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Configuration Has Lots of Goodies for $72,155

22 Feb 2024, 10:16 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Because Toyota finally decided to give us the official MSRPs for the 2024 Land Cruiser ahead of starting deliveries this spring, we took a swing at its online configurator tool to create our dream off-road ride. When the returning 2024 Toyot...

 
2026 Kia Telluride and Hyundai Palisade Meet Across Imagination Land, Both Feel Ritzier
2026 Kia Telluride and Hyundai Palisade Meet Across Imagination Land, Both Feel Ritzier

22 Feb 2024, 09:29 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / What if the 2026 Hyundai Palisade and Kia Telluride twins reveal their unofficial designs early? That would be a nice change of pace from the onslaught of upcoming EV apparitions, right? While the Chinese makers and Tesla don't really feel...

 
Ram 1500 Turbo Truck Drags G82 BMW M4 Sports Car, Someone Gets Stunned Twice!
Ram 1500 Turbo Truck Drags G82 BMW M4 Sports Car, Someone Gets Stunned Twice!

22 Feb 2024, 08:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Reviewers in America can't get enough of the refreshed 2025 Ram Trucks 1500 series and some of them also say that maybe some of the variants of the BMW M4 are the closest thing to a European muscle car you can get today. But what's the co...

 
Ford E-Scort Comes Back From the Nether To Act As Mustang Mach-E's Digital Sidekick
Ford E-Scort Comes Back From the Nether To Act As Mustang Mach-E's Digital Sidekick

22 Feb 2024, 07:31 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Looking at the big scheme of things across the EV side of the automotive industry, it seems that unless you are from China or named Tesla, there's a visible market slowdown due to the lower adoption rate. Ford, for example, was quite ad...

 
Next-Gen Audi Q5 PHEV Doesn't Adopt a Split-Headlight Design in Latest Unofficial CGIs
Next-Gen Audi Q5 PHEV Doesn't Adopt a Split-Headlight Design in Latest Unofficial CGIs

21 Feb 2024, 09:45 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Ingolstadt-based automaker is preparing a tidal wave of novelties – and many are not necessarily tied to the new model nomenclature where the odd numbers represent ICE-powered models while the even ones focus on the battery-powered e-tron...

 
2024 Dacia Spring EV Gets Huge Refresh, Stays Cheap
2024 Dacia Spring EV Gets Huge Refresh, Stays Cheap

21 Feb 2024, 09:03 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Romanian automaker under French patronage gets the Spring from overseas, but now the little EV won't be mistaken for anything else other than a Dacia – its looks are now aligned with the Sandero, Logan, Jogger, and especially the all...

 
Tesla Model 3 Highland Looks Like a Virtual Charm, Feels Ready for a Wagon Adventure
Tesla Model 3 Highland Looks Like a Virtual Charm, Feels Ready for a Wagon Adventure

21 Feb 2024, 08:16 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The American EV manufacturer and clean energy company has enjoyed a marvelous year in 2023 with the arrival of the Tesla Model 3 facelift in various regions, the rise to sales fame and delivery power of the Model Y crossover SUV sibling, and the of...

 
2025 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing Tries Digital Widebody Suit for Size, Also Has a Red Cockpit
2025 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing Tries Digital Widebody Suit for Size, Also Has a Red Cockpit

21 Feb 2024, 07:40 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Believe it or not, a big part of Cadillac's worldwide success last year was due to the CT5 sedan rather than its raft of crossovers and SUVs like the XT4, XT5, XT6, and Escalade. Fueled by China's continued love for traditional fou...

 
Tesla Cybertruck Drags Ram TRX and Thrice Loses, But There Are Some Big Catches
Tesla Cybertruck Drags Ram TRX and Thrice Loses, But There Are Some Big Catches

21 Feb 2024, 07:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Of course, everyone wanted to see a massive face-off between the mighty 702-hp Ram 1500 TRX and the new edgy kid on the EV block, the Tesla Cybertruck, but we're still determining if this will turn out controversial. Before Ford updated...

 
Refreshed 2025 Tesla Model Y Renderings Present 'Juniper' In Three Different Guises
Refreshed 2025 Tesla Model Y Renderings Present 'Juniper' In Three Different Guises

20 Feb 2024, 21:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / After more than a decade of selling EV cars, Tesla has shown that it can successfully change the automotive paradigm and compete with legacy automakers – even in terms of sales and pricing, not just performance. They have models like t...

 
2024 Ford Mustang GT With Gen 6 Whipple Supercharger and Full Corsa Exhaust Sounds Divine
2024 Ford Mustang GT With Gen 6 Whipple Supercharger and Full Corsa Exhaust Sounds Divine

20 Feb 2024, 15:22 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Ahem, the neighbors might disagree (wink, wink) if you forget to switch from Track or Sport Mode to Normal when you get back home in this light blue beast. Actually, not even that is silent enough, so it's great that it also comes with a Quite...

 
Volvo Announces EV and HEV Upgrades, Drops Recharge Branding, Meet the Renamed EX40 & EC40
Volvo Announces EV and HEV Upgrades, Drops Recharge Branding, Meet the Renamed EX40 & EC40

20 Feb 2024, 12:10 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / This week has been great for EVs and HEVs plus PHEVs around the world as many brands have unleashed new models, fresh variants, and even some incremental updates – like Volvo. The Swedish automaker Volvo Cars have been on an interesting...

 
Slammed Widebody Tesla Cybertruck V2 Concept Also Hides a Flat-Six Twin-Turbo Surprise
Slammed Widebody Tesla Cybertruck V2 Concept Also Hides a Flat-Six Twin-Turbo Surprise

20 Feb 2024, 11:15 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Tesla, the Apple Inc. of the automotive realm, has had quite a great past few months – with the launch of the refreshed Model 3 both abroad and finally also at home, the surprising reveal that its Model Y crossover was not only a best-seller ...

 
2024 Ford Mustang GT Becomes a Crimson Aero Warrior in Fantasy Land. Do You Approve?
2024 Ford Mustang GT Becomes a Crimson Aero Warrior in Fantasy Land. Do You Approve?

20 Feb 2024, 08:48 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Ford Motor Company had a good year in 2023, especially at home in America, where it retained the title for the F-Series as the most popular nameplate across the automotive market and placed third overall behind GM and Toyota with almost 2 milli...

 
Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing Drags Charger and Tries to Roll All Over Audi, BMW, and Mustang
Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing Drags Charger and Tries to Roll All Over Audi, BMW, and Mustang

20 Feb 2024, 08:12 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Unlike Chevrolet and Dodge, two brands that recently gave up on their two-door pony and muscle car fortunes, Cadillac hasn't abandoned the ways of the high-performance sedan. Chevrolet had to ditch the sixth-generation Camaro due to sev...

 
Reborn Chrysler Aspen Feels Solid as a Jeep and Spacious as a Durango in Unofficial CGI
Reborn Chrysler Aspen Feels Solid as a Jeep and Spacious as a Durango in Unofficial CGI

20 Feb 2024, 07:27 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Chrysler is but a pale shadow of its former self now that even the 300 sedan ceased manufacturing late last year. They only have the Pacifica minivan, and that's not one of their greatest assets of all time. While the Pacifica has less ...

 

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