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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.
This 1970 Chevy K10 Looks Like an Untouched Survivor; It's a 454 LSX Restomod Bonanza
This 1970 Chevy K10 Looks Like an Untouched Survivor; It's a 454 LSX Restomod Bonanza

22 Dec 2023, 11:19 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The good folks over at Roadster Shop strike again with a second-gen 'Action Line' K10 that inherits its nickname and then adds a lot more modern pizzaz on top – with the old-school pickup truck morphing into a restomod you would lov...

 
2025 Toyota Camry Gets the Slammed Widebody CGI Tuning Treatment and Looks Fab
2025 Toyota Camry Gets the Slammed Widebody CGI Tuning Treatment and Looks Fab

22 Dec 2023, 09:48 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / This year, more than anything else, the Japanese automaker seemed overly busy conquering the world, one major sales region at a time. However, we also noticed it has a big passion for North America. The latter markets were flooded with a tid...

 
BMW M Wants Santa Claus to Swap Its Magic Sleigh for a BMW M5 Touring This Year
BMW M Wants Santa Claus to Swap Its Magic Sleigh for a BMW M5 Touring This Year

22 Dec 2023, 09:01 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Currently, it is a well-known fact that BMW's modern design is a little… wacky, to say the least. It's also quite different across the board if you think about models like the M2, M3 and M4, 7 Series, or XM. Recently, they s...

 
If Pickup Trucks Were a Thing for Ultra-Luxury Brands, Would You Buy Them?
If Pickup Trucks Were a Thing for Ultra-Luxury Brands, Would You Buy Them?

22 Dec 2023, 08:27 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / If you think about it, the automotive industry's landscape is unlike anything we have ever seen before: 1,000+ horsepower EVs are daily drivers, sports cars and sedans like the Porsche 911 Dakar or Toyota Crown have become 'crossovers,�...

 
All-New 2025 GMC Terrain Appears From the CGI Mist Looking Way Cooler Than an Equinox
All-New 2025 GMC Terrain Appears From the CGI Mist Looking Way Cooler Than an Equinox

22 Dec 2023, 07:54 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / They say that Buick has now become General Motors' entry-level brand and that Chevrolet has moved further upscale alongside GMC just below Cadillac. However, we could argue that some GMCs are still way cooler than their Chevy counterparts. ...

 
Revived 2025 Toyota MR2 Gets Stylish Unofficial Design, Low MSRP, and Turbo Powertrain
Revived 2025 Toyota MR2 Gets Stylish Unofficial Design, Low MSRP, and Turbo Powertrain

21 Dec 2023, 23:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Japanese automaker is one of the world's most prolific (aside from little-known Chinese brands, probably) companies – this year, it had a tidal wave of novelties across its most important regions. In America, for example, we h...

 
Arctic White & Silver Rolls-Royce Spectre Rides Clean on 24s Just In Time for the Holidays
Arctic White & Silver Rolls-Royce Spectre Rides Clean on 24s Just In Time for the Holidays

21 Dec 2023, 13:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / If there is ever a good time when you would prefer your car to be white as snow, that's around Christmas, for sure. That point of view is also valid for high-end EV grand tourers. Rolls-Royce is an automotive brand that doesn't hav...

 
All-New 2025 Jeep Cherokee Shows Everything From Inside Out, Albeit Only Digitally
All-New 2025 Jeep Cherokee Shows Everything From Inside Out, Albeit Only Digitally

21 Dec 2023, 10:33 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Jeep, the legendary off-road brand, has been making some changes to its US roster recently. For example, they constantly upgrade some of the most essential nameplates while others will be discarded altogether. This year, the marque has premi...

 
Graphic Designer Ignores Death Knell, Presents a Glorious 2025 Chevy Camaro SS
Graphic Designer Ignores Death Knell, Presents a Glorious 2025 Chevy Camaro SS

21 Dec 2023, 08:59 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The American pony and muscle car sector is preparing to go down like a bomb – soon, only the S650 Ford Mustang will keep the V8-powered banner alive, while the Chevy Camaro, Dodge Charger and Challenger will be no more as we used to know them...

 
Have a Virtual First Look at the Refreshed 2025 Ram 2500 and 3500 Heavy Duty Trucks
Have a Virtual First Look at the Refreshed 2025 Ram 2500 and 3500 Heavy Duty Trucks

21 Dec 2023, 07:52 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Ram Trucks is currently in a precarious position because one of its main rivals has quietly stripped the full-size high-performance pickup truck crown away from its mighty 1500 TRX model. Interestingly, Ram probably had that coming a long wa...

 
The 2025 Chevy Malibu Is Finally Revealed as a Sporty 4-Door, Though Only in Fantasy Land
The 2025 Chevy Malibu Is Finally Revealed as a Sporty 4-Door, Though Only in Fantasy Land

20 Dec 2023, 23:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / December is a sad month for Chevrolet enthusiasts in general and for passenger car fans in particular – the General Motors subsidiary just halted production of the sixth-generation Camaro with no successor in sight. At least not yet. T...

 
All-New 2025 Alfa Romeo Milano Gets Revealed Early, Albeit Only in Fantasy Land
All-New 2025 Alfa Romeo Milano Gets Revealed Early, Albeit Only in Fantasy Land

20 Dec 2023, 12:52 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Back in the day, Alfa Romeo produced a lot of different models, including a four-door saloon called 75 (1985-1992). However, its name was utterly different in North America, where the compact executive car was known as the Milano. Aside from...

 
2024 Lancia Ypsilon and Abarth Fiat Panda HF Meet in the Virtual Realm, Which Is Cooler?
2024 Lancia Ypsilon and Abarth Fiat Panda HF Meet in the Virtual Realm, Which Is Cooler?

20 Dec 2023, 10:19 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / There's a lot of Italian stuff going on for 2024, and it's all flavored with Stellantis treats. However, we must decide- which is our digital favorite: the Lancia Ypsilon or the Fiat Panda and potentially its Abarth HF performance twin? ...

 
2025 Hyundai Pickup Truck Concept Is Just Wishful Thinking, Would It Pose an EV Threat?
2025 Hyundai Pickup Truck Concept Is Just Wishful Thinking, Would It Pose an EV Threat?

20 Dec 2023, 08:48 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Although the United States EV market is currently experiencing the coldness of lackluster demand, many highly anticipated electric vehicles are coming in 2024. Sadly, a Hyundai pickup truck is not among them. Most likely, everything will fal...

 
C8 Chevy Corvette Drags and Wheelies a Camaro, Later Posts an 8.64s Stingray World Record
C8 Chevy Corvette Drags and Wheelies a Camaro, Later Posts an 8.64s Stingray World Record

20 Dec 2023, 08:21 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / For sure, no one can deny the eighth generation of the Chevrolet Corvette – aka 'America's Sports car' – is one of the best two-door models currently available for as low as $68k. Remember, when it first appeared o...

 
Toyota Introduces 302HP Crown Sport Crossover SUV With PHEV Powertrain in Japan
Toyota Introduces 302HP Crown Sport Crossover SUV With PHEV Powertrain in Japan

20 Dec 2023, 07:45 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Japanese automaker recently announced the launch of a new variant of the Crown family - the Crown Sport CUV with a plug-in hybrid powertrain rocking 302 horsepower. Sadly, it's not going to be available in the US. This Japanese carm...

 
Legendary Chevy Monte Carlo SS Gets Digitally Resurrected to Make the S650 Mustang Fearful
Legendary Chevy Monte Carlo SS Gets Digitally Resurrected to Make the S650 Mustang Fearful

19 Dec 2023, 23:00 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Believe it or not, the S650 Ford Mustang is getting lonely in the space occupied by American muscle cars. But that only happens in the real world because the parallel universes of vehicular CGI have other plans. The Blue Oval company is gett...

 
Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Drags Hellcat Charger & Challenger; Someone Gets Obliterated
Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Drags Hellcat Charger & Challenger; Someone Gets Obliterated

19 Dec 2023, 14:33 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The American pony and muscle car landscape will look significantly different in 2024. But until then, let us enjoy a traditional Blue Oval versus Mopar brawl. Or two, or even three! Starting next year, the S650 seventh-generation Ford Mustang...

 
Reborn 2025 Chevrolet Astro Van Is Nothing but Wishful Thinking, Still Utterly Cool
Reborn 2025 Chevrolet Astro Van Is Nothing but Wishful Thinking, Still Utterly Cool

19 Dec 2023, 13:12 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / There are so few minivans left on sale across the US automotive market that we could easily list them as endangered if this were a National Geographic Wild presentation. Alas, we are in the realm of automotive possibilities, so if you are lo...

 
First-Ever 2025 Toyota Corolla Cross Electric Arrives to Show the Future of EVs - in CGI
First-Ever 2025 Toyota Corolla Cross Electric Arrives to Show the Future of EVs - in CGI

19 Dec 2023, 11:07 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The Japanese automaker has found enough time to prepare a tidal wave of novelties this year for the automotive markets is most fond of. But do you think that's enough? Nope, not at all. Consider this. Toyota introduced so many novelties...

 

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