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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.
2025 Toyota GR Celica Sport Digital Rebirth Shows Its Potential in Fantasy Land
2025 Toyota GR Celica Sport Digital Rebirth Shows Its Potential in Fantasy Land

31 Dec 2023, 02:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Japanese automaker is about to conclude a year full of tidal waves of introductions. However, no one really wants them to stop – especially the rumor mill and the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. A lot of reports ...

 
Digital 2025 Nissan Altima Joins the Virtual 2025 Ford Fusion to Fight the 2025 Camry
Digital 2025 Nissan Altima Joins the Virtual 2025 Ford Fusion to Fight the 2025 Camry

30 Dec 2023, 23:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / One of the biggest automotive reveals for the passenger car sector towards the end of the year was Toyota's introduction at the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show in November of the 2025 Camry. The ninth generation, unveiled in the United State...

 
2025 Ford Bronco Sport Gets Revealed Early, Albeit Solely Through the Power of AI
2025 Ford Bronco Sport Gets Revealed Early, Albeit Solely Through the Power of AI

30 Dec 2023, 22:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Because sometimes it pays off to be patient, the Ford Motor Company might soon get down in automotive history for producing the most powerful ICE-powered truck ever. But how about the most rugged little SUV? The Blue Oval automaker is ending ...

 
Here Is a Personal Choice for My Favorite Cars, SUVs, and Trucks Launched in 2023
Here Is a Personal Choice for My Favorite Cars, SUVs, and Trucks Launched in 2023

30 Dec 2023, 16:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Subjectivity is a big thing when selecting a favorite - so please feel free to write in the comments if you agree or not with the choices I just made for 2023. If you're trying to meet the New Year appropriately with new wheels, and you...

 
2025 Tesla Model 3 Plaid Tri-Motor Aims to Become the Fastest Sedan in the Virtual World
2025 Tesla Model 3 Plaid Tri-Motor Aims to Become the Fastest Sedan in the Virtual World

30 Dec 2023, 02:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / If you look at what's next in 2024 for electric passenger cars, SUVs, and trucks, you will easily find many interesting things from Tesla, the brand that dominates worldwide sales without argument (save for China, perhaps). As far as we...

 
2025 Mazda6 Hybrid Steps Out Stylish From the CGI Shadows to Fight Toyota's 2025 Camry
2025 Mazda6 Hybrid Steps Out Stylish From the CGI Shadows to Fight Toyota's 2025 Camry

29 Dec 2023, 23:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The tiny Japanese automaker has become quite small in the United States, where it gave up on its MX-30 electric CUV ambitions with no zero emissions alternative in sight and also retired the CX-9 three-row mid-size crossover in favor of the all-new...

 
Chevrolet Camaro EV SUV Meets Corvette EV SUV, They Have a 'Chat' in Fantasy Land
Chevrolet Camaro EV SUV Meets Corvette EV SUV, They Have a 'Chat' in Fantasy Land

29 Dec 2023, 22:04 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Right as we are heading into 2024, the American pony and muscle car realm seems like Stranger Things' in real life. That's because some models are now ghosts while others are transforming into something else entirely. For example, ...

 
End the Year on a High Note With This New vs. Old Muscle Cars Drag Racing Compilation
End the Year on a High Note With This New vs. Old Muscle Cars Drag Racing Compilation

29 Dec 2023, 13:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / There aren't a lot of hours left in 2023, and – for better or worse – it's time to wave goodbye. Luckily, if you think about what perspired across the realm of quarter-mile dragstrips, we are ending the year on a mostly positi...

 
2026 Scout EV Pickup Truck Arrives Early Across Imagination Land to Fight the Cyberbeast
2026 Scout EV Pickup Truck Arrives Early Across Imagination Land to Fight the Cyberbeast

29 Dec 2023, 10:52 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Volkswagen Group can't be too proud of its namesake VW brand for its (lackluster) performance across the significant North American market. Luckily, there's a chance to redeem themselves. VW AG recently decided that now is the ...

 
2028 Fiat Titano & Peugeot Landtrek Seem Virtually Ready to Attack the US Establishment
2028 Fiat Titano & Peugeot Landtrek Seem Virtually Ready to Attack the US Establishment

29 Dec 2023, 09:25 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Because there were a lot of new models in the pipeline, General Motors took the opportunity to establish its all-new Chevrolet Colorado as the king of the American mid-size pickup truck market during the third quarter of 2023. While there is...

 
Model 2 May Become Tesla's Cheapest EV but Doesn't Look the Part in Unofficial CGIs
Model 2 May Become Tesla's Cheapest EV but Doesn't Look the Part in Unofficial CGIs

29 Dec 2023, 08:02 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Although it's one of the newest significant carmakers in the world, there is always a lot of talk about Tesla across the automotive industry and new energy sector. This year, however, the chatter has exploded. For example, aside from th...

 
Steel Gray on Blue Rolls-Royce Cullinan Is 'Allergic to Failure,' Shows That Everywhere
Steel Gray on Blue Rolls-Royce Cullinan Is 'Allergic to Failure,' Shows That Everywhere

28 Dec 2023, 14:08 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / There are a lot of exciting new cars, crossovers, SUVs, and trucks coming out in 2024 that you can look forward to. Curiously, the Rolls-Royce Cullinan is also among them. The ultra-luxury crossover SUV is getting into this select company be...

 
Aston Martin Vantage F1 Drags Ford Explorer & Subaru Legacy; Obliteration Doesn't Follow
Aston Martin Vantage F1 Drags Ford Explorer & Subaru Legacy; Obliteration Doesn't Follow

28 Dec 2023, 13:37 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The good folks over at the racing-focused ImportRace channel on YouTube have a nice set of brawls featuring a limited-edition Aston Martin Vantage, an Explorer SUV from Ford, and an old Legacy from Subaru. That certainly isn't your usual ...

 
2025 Chevrolet Impala and Prizm Arrive in the Virtual World to Help Malibu Build a Family
2025 Chevrolet Impala and Prizm Arrive in the Virtual World to Help Malibu Build a Family

28 Dec 2023, 10:52 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Just in case you lived under a Mars rock for a while and didn't get the memo, Dodge and Chevrolet abandoned three significant nameplates that have been around for decades this month. According to the rumor mill, the Dodge Challenger and...

 
Rendering Artist Doesn't Care About Ypsilon; He Wants a 'Nuova' Lancia Delta Integrale
Rendering Artist Doesn't Care About Ypsilon; He Wants a 'Nuova' Lancia Delta Integrale

28 Dec 2023, 09:14 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / While their cars are nowhere near as reliable as Japanese automobiles, for example, Italians do take pride in the fact that their four-wheeled products are often some of the prettiest in the world. Or at least some of the most exotic. Thinki...

 
2025 Subaru Baja and Toyota Stout Hybrid Pocket Trucks Meet Across Imagination Land
2025 Subaru Baja and Toyota Stout Hybrid Pocket Trucks Meet Across Imagination Land

28 Dec 2023, 07:55 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The end of the year is near, and everyone – including the imaginative realm of digital car content creators – is making plans for what they want to achieve in 2024. The automotive industry is only taking a very small break from t...

 
993-Series Porsche 911 Gets the Dakar Version Immediately, Albeit Only in CGI
993-Series Porsche 911 Gets the Dakar Version Immediately, Albeit Only in CGI

27 Dec 2023, 23:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Porsche 'Nine Eleven' two-door 2+2 high-performance rear-engined sports car has been around since late 1964 and has turned into a veritable living icon thanks to its continuously enhanced yet little-changed basic concept. In fa...

 
Revived Honda Prelude Ideation Sketches Positively Ignore the Bland OEM Concept
Revived Honda Prelude Ideation Sketches Positively Ignore the Bland OEM Concept

27 Dec 2023, 21:34 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / If you're in America, it's pretty safe to say that a safe bet for a very safely designed automobile would involve something from Honda's current roster of vehicles. The 2024 HR-V is now larger than before and clashes with the ...

 
Lamborghini Lanzador Concept Awkwardly Morphs Into a Macan-Style Compact Crossover SUV
Lamborghini Lanzador Concept Awkwardly Morphs Into a Macan-Style Compact Crossover SUV

27 Dec 2023, 12:08 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / It has been a while since we discussed anything from Lamborghini concerning the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. Well, now the draught has ended, though I am not sure that's for the better. The last time that we searched ...

 
First-Ever 2025 Honda Pilot Type R Breaks New Performance Ground Across Imagination Land
First-Ever 2025 Honda Pilot Type R Breaks New Performance Ground Across Imagination Land

27 Dec 2023, 10:09 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Japanese automaker hasn't done much in December in the United States – they launched Honda Racing Corporation USA, talked about their award-winning riders, or opened the reservation process for the all-electric 2024 Acura ZDX and ZDX...

 

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