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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.
India Turns Into Major 4-Meter SUV Battleground, Renault Kiger Makes HALO Jump
India Turns Into Major 4-Meter SUV Battleground, Renault Kiger Makes HALO Jump

18 Nov 2020, 14:44 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / With the current state of the automotive world, no wonder automakers are clinching with “excessive force” to every market they can lay their wheels upon. And with India exhibiting an incredible appetite for very compact SUVs, there&rsqu...

 
BMW Probably Hopes Christoph Waltz' Star Power Will Save the iX, We Bet It Won't
BMW Probably Hopes Christoph Waltz' Star Power Will Save the iX, We Bet It Won't

18 Nov 2020, 13:56 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / This year isn’t especially great for BMW, and it could be their own doing entirely. The German carmaker is seemingly jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire of its own free will. Unless you’ve been living under a Lunar rock, you...

 
TT RS 40 Years of quattro Makes Audi and a TT RS Roadster Proud on the 'Ring
TT RS 40 Years of quattro Makes Audi and a TT RS Roadster Proud on the 'Ring

18 Nov 2020, 13:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Audi is well known for a few things – it's one of the proud members of the premium German “Holy Trinity”, loves technology above anything else (hence some of its bland styling choices), and its legendary all-wheel drive syste...

 
GT500 CF Track Pack Wins Two, Loses One Against Tuned Camaro ZL1 and C8 Corvette
GT500 CF Track Pack Wins Two, Loses One Against Tuned Camaro ZL1 and C8 Corvette

18 Nov 2020, 12:16 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Although drag strip racing is a lot more common, America also loves its half-mile top speed racing events where even cars that are more inclined towards actual track racing can have a chance at straight-line glory. For example, the Ford Mustang GT5...

 
2022 Infiniti QX55 to Reach U.S. Next Spring With “Decadent” Interior, VC-Turbo
2022 Infiniti QX55 to Reach U.S. Next Spring With “Decadent” Interior, VC-Turbo

18 Nov 2020, 11:03 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Here we are in 2020 and “coupe SUV” models have become all the rage – BMW must be thinking back with pride to that moment in 2008 when the original X6 was being presented to a bewildered world. Now, just about every premium brand ...

 
Tupac's 1961 Chevrolet Impala Has Resurfaced as a Hopping Long Beach Lowrider
Tupac's 1961 Chevrolet Impala Has Resurfaced as a Hopping Long Beach Lowrider

18 Nov 2020, 09:59 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / One of Tupac Amaru Shakur’s classic music videos, the one for the 1996 song “To Live and Die in LA,” featured a very appropriate yellow-colored Impala – which further enhanced Chevrolet's moment of glory that year after...

 
2022 Honda Civic Prototype Feels the Twitch, Prepares Our Game for Eleventh-Gen
2022 Honda Civic Prototype Feels the Twitch, Prepares Our Game for Eleventh-Gen

18 Nov 2020, 08:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Honda has decided the best way to reveal its all-new 11th generation of the 2022 Civic was to present the prototype on Twitch, a well-known live video streaming service (and subsidiary of all-mighty Amazon) focused on gaming, esports competitions, ...

 
MINI Seeks to Lead an Unrestrained Digital Life, Implies the Vision Urbanaut
MINI Seeks to Lead an Unrestrained Digital Life, Implies the Vision Urbanaut

17 Nov 2020, 14:47 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The BMW Group is on a premiere spree this month, having revealed the Definition CE 04 futuristic electric scooter, and its dry-named iX flagship electric vehicle. Now it’s time for MINI to join the party with a digital concept from the Vision...

 
Not Even Mansory Can Shake Up the Boringly Understated Looks of the Audi RS Q8
Not Even Mansory Can Shake Up the Boringly Understated Looks of the Audi RS Q8

17 Nov 2020, 14:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / While the RS Q8 is Audi’s flagship luxury crossover SUV, there’s no denying that its inconspicuous looks sometimes leave a little something (or more) to be desired. That’s the way the Ingolstadt-based automaker rolls, and those wh...

 
Ford Kuga Hybrid Can Also Be Had With AWD, Promises Over 620 Miles of Range
Ford Kuga Hybrid Can Also Be Had With AWD, Promises Over 620 Miles of Range

17 Nov 2020, 13:06 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Blue Oval company is leaving no powertrain stone unturned for its compact SUV offering, with the Kuga (Escape in the United States) premiering its “self-charging, full hybrid” option for the Old Continent. It’s already in prod...

 
Very Rare and Very Turquoise Tri-Five 1957 Chevy Nomad Costs Almost $100k
Very Rare and Very Turquoise Tri-Five 1957 Chevy Nomad Costs Almost $100k

17 Nov 2020, 12:19 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / A proud member of the Tri-Five club, the Chevrolet Nomad – alongside other legends like the Bel Air – shows without a doubt why the ‘55, ‘56, and ‘57 representatives of the family achieved the renowned cult status. Rev...

 
GM's HD Trucks Jump Over the Ford F-150 Hybrid With Third-Party PHEV Solution
GM's HD Trucks Jump Over the Ford F-150 Hybrid With Third-Party PHEV Solution

17 Nov 2020, 11:01 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Blue Oval company is just about ready to start selling the F-150 Hybrid, while its best-selling pickup truck is not going to be available as a full battery electric model until the second part of 2022. But customers looking for a plug-in hybrid...

 
Clean Looking 1952 Chevrolet 3100 Custom Pickup Needs Just a Little Cockpit TLC
Clean Looking 1952 Chevrolet 3100 Custom Pickup Needs Just a Little Cockpit TLC

17 Nov 2020, 10:18 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Chevrolet’s Advance-Design series came to the market right after the dark years of the Second World War, so General Motors naturally wanted to make a bold statement with the successor models to the AK Series. An automotive way of stepping int...

 
Sasquatch 2021 Ford Bronco Looks Taller When Compared to Lifted Jeep Wrangler
Sasquatch 2021 Ford Bronco Looks Taller When Compared to Lifted Jeep Wrangler

17 Nov 2020, 09:16 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Blue Oval recently revealed it has reached almost 200k reservations for the 2021 Ford Bronco, a great achievement considering the reinvented rock-crawling SUV was first showcased just a few months ago. It’s also interesting to note that m...

 
UPDATE: Leaked 2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 Shows V8 HEMI Glory With 470 HP
UPDATE: Leaked 2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 Shows V8 HEMI Glory With 470 HP

17 Nov 2020, 08:24 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / So, the Blue Oval introduced the reinvented Bronco back in July and just prior to the official reveal Jeep ingloriously attempted to divert attention towards its own series of rock crawlers. Of course, everyone saw through the teaser as a feeble at...

 
2021 Nissan Micra Rides "Genki" and Feels N-Design or N-Sport, According to Mood
2021 Nissan Micra Rides "Genki" and Feels N-Design or N-Sport, According to Mood

16 Nov 2020, 15:03 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / While it can’t compete in terms of star power with its Groupe Renault Alliance sibling, the Renault Clio, Nissan’s Micra subcompact hatchback is actually the older representative in the segment. Its current generation has been out and a...

 
Subtly Refreshed, the 2021 Audi SQ2 Arrives With the Same 300 PS for €45,700
Subtly Refreshed, the 2021 Audi SQ2 Arrives With the Same 300 PS for €45,700

16 Nov 2020, 14:19 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Ingolstadt-based automaker presented the fashionable Q2 as its smallest addition to the crossover / SUV range around four years ago. Two years later, in 2018, they were spicing up the series with the SQ2. Earlier this year we saw the facelifted...

 
That Moment When Dwayne Johnson Sees He's Too Big of a Rock for Porsche Taycan
That Moment When Dwayne Johnson Sees He's Too Big of a Rock for Porsche Taycan

16 Nov 2020, 13:48 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / While Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a mountain of a man, we have come accustomed to his great persona going for as much action as laughs in many of his gigs. He’s also a car guy, so we like him even more, which is why we’ve t...

 
This 1965 Mini Cooper Packing Honda K20 and Turbo Drops Jaws at the Drag Strip
This 1965 Mini Cooper Packing Honda K20 and Turbo Drops Jaws at the Drag Strip

16 Nov 2020, 12:20 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Because of the current worldwide health situation and the special conditions for events, some of them had to be postponed, others were canceled entirely, and a select few morphed into something... else. Case in point, the 25th annual Haltech World ...

 
Jeep Officially Teases Something Roaring for the Wrangler, HEMI V8 in Tow?!
Jeep Officially Teases Something Roaring for the Wrangler, HEMI V8 in Tow?!

16 Nov 2020, 12:19 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / While the U.S. automaker is trying to look all environmentally friendly and boasts about the 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe receiving the Green SUV of the Year title from the Green Car Journal, something V8 is lurking in the shadow. Or rather throwing up i...

 

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