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Bogdan Popa

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Personal motto:

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow" - Jeff Valdez, Stand-up Comedian.

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Bogdan keeps an eye on how technology is taking over the car world, and more often than not, you’ll see him writing about the whole thing with a typing speed that a traffic camera could easily issue a ticket for.

He typically carries both an iPhone and Android device because there’s no such thing as the perfect phone, and he drives a car that some say is blue, others say is green.

His guilty pleasure is finding bugs in Android Auto (cc @Google, you’d better keep an eye on his reports, as these could actually help you refine the experience behind the wheel), and he occasionally tries out all kinds of weird gadgets that many people didn’t even know they exist.

His daily tech arsenal also includes a smartwatch and earbuds because that’s how geeks rock, as well as a laptop that has nothing in common with fruit.

Bogdan’s long-term goals are buying an 18-wheeler because he needs more space in the trunk for his kid’s toys, as well as convincing Google and Apple that Android Auto and CarPlay deserve at least as much attention as the phones that these two companies build.

When he’s not writing about cars, Bogdan’s probably trying to fit a bike in the 375-liter trunk of his car or posting tech stuff for autoevolution’s sister site Softpedia.
Kubica Gives First Interview After Crash
Kubica Gives First Interview After Crash

11 Feb 2011, 13:26 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Things are getting better for Polish F1 driver Robert Kubica and, after being released from intensive care, he offered his first interview after the rally crash he suffered almost two weeks ago. Kubica spoked to Gazzetta dello Sport's Pino All...

 
Jerry Seinfeld's Porsche Carrera GT Up for Sale
Jerry Seinfeld's Porsche Carrera GT Up for Sale

11 Feb 2011, 11:44 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / We don't really know why on Earth would anybody do such a thing, but Jerry Seinfeld is selling his Porsche Carrera GT. And as if that wasn't enough, the car seems to be in perfect condition, with only 3,175 (approximately 5,000 kilometers...

 
Hyundai to Launch Six New Models by End-2013 in India
Hyundai to Launch Six New Models by End-2013 in India

11 Feb 2011, 11:16 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Just like China, India is currently experiencing what could only be described as its biggest boom in history, with millions of dollars coming from overseas manufacturers looking to benefit from the growing market. Hyundai is the latest big name in ...

 
Four-seater smart for India
Four-seater smart for India

11 Feb 2011, 10:51 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After so many companies announced their optimistic investment intentions to spend money on Indian operations, Mercedes-Benz does nothing more than to follow the trend, so it sketched its very own plan for this particular market. The smart brand is ...

 
Saab Hopes to Rise from Its Own Ashes
Saab Hopes to Rise from Its Own Ashes

11 Feb 2011, 10:37 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / 2011 is likely to be the year when Saab will come back in the auto business with much better sales than in the previous years. At least, this is what the Swedish executives hope for the next 10 months of the year, predicting sales of 15,000 to 20,0...

 
Renault Establishes EV HQ in France
Renault Establishes EV HQ in France

11 Feb 2011, 10:16 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Renault will launch its first electric vehicles during the course of this year and, although most of us have already seen the models, it will definitely be one of the major moments of the automotive industry. And the French executives really know t...

 
First Chinese Model Launched Down Under
First Chinese Model Launched Down Under

11 Feb 2011, 10:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The fact that Chinese automakers are hoping to conquer the whole world with their incredibly affordable models is not a new thing anymore, so you shouldn't be too surprised to find out that the first Geely arrived in Australia. On sale at ...

 
2011 World Car of the Year Finalists Announced
2011 World Car of the Year Finalists Announced

11 Feb 2011, 09:45 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After Nissan's all-electric vehicle Leaf managed to win the European Car of the Year award, everybody's expecting for the jury of the World Car of the Year competition to announce the big winner. Well, before the moment we're all...

 
SEAT Loans Two Leon Hybrids to Madrid Authorities
SEAT Loans Two Leon Hybrids to Madrid Authorities

11 Feb 2011, 08:30 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Spanish carmaker SEAT has just announced that it hsa agreed to loan two electric hybrid vehicles to the Madrid City Hall, in what the company calls a "reaffirming of the commitment to environmental protection and low-emission cars". T...

 
Renault to Launch New SUV for India in 2012
Renault to Launch New SUV for India in 2012

11 Feb 2011, 07:57 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Renault yesterday presented what it calls "Renault 2016 - Drive the Change", a five-year plan that's supposed to give us a glimpse into how the French carmaker intends to become much more powerful than it currently is. Besides inf...

 
All-New Kia Rio First Photos Released
All-New Kia Rio First Photos Released

11 Feb 2011, 07:34 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Kia has just released the first two photos with its new Rio model that will be on display at the Geneva Auto Show in March. The car will come in three different body styles, with 3, 4 or 5 doors, depending on the market, and will be sold in most co...

 
Spyshots: 2013 Kia Cee'd
Spyshots: 2013 Kia Cee'd

9 Feb 2011, 15:22 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Kia's Cee'd was undoubtedly the most popular model ever released by the South Korean manufacturer and that's not a surprise at all. The compact offered good reliability, advanced efficiency and pretty decent equipment trim levels, al...

 
Ford Promises "Groundbreaking" Car for 2011 Geneva
Ford Promises "Groundbreaking" Car for 2011 Geneva

9 Feb 2011, 14:47 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The 2011 Geneva Motor Show will be really important for US-based carmaker Ford, as the manufacturer intends to introduce an all-new vehicle which company officials say it will be "groundbreaking". Not much is known about what's hidde...

 
Fiat 500 EasyPower LPG Released
Fiat 500 EasyPower LPG Released

9 Feb 2011, 14:05 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / If any of you thought that Fiat 500 can't get more fuel efficient and more environmentally friendly than that, well, guess what? The guys over at Fiat have just announced the so-called EasyPower version that comes with a bifuel unit able to ru...

 
Peugeot Citroen Develops Mid-Sized Sedan for India
Peugeot Citroen Develops Mid-Sized Sedan for India

9 Feb 2011, 13:28 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Peugeot Citroen group will launch several new models in India in an effort to benefit from the local growth, with the first project to hit the market to come in the form of a mid-size sedan. The French alliance hasn't provided too many det...

 
2012 VW Beetle to Debut at New York Auto Show
2012 VW Beetle to Debut at New York Auto Show

8 Feb 2011, 15:39 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Volkswagen presented during the Super Bowl a commercial through which it offered us a hint into how the future Beetle will look like, thus making us believe that we're pretty close to the debut of the new model. Not much is known though, but a...

 
Renault Launches Megane, Laguna, Scenic and Koleos Bose Editions
Renault Launches Megane, Laguna, Scenic and Koleos Bose Editions

8 Feb 2011, 14:38 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / As many of our readers know by now, Renault has signed an agreement with Bose in 2008 to equip some of its top-of-the-range models with premium audio systems. Well, the French manufacturer has decided to push the partnership one step further by lau...

 
Next Mercedes Vaneo Could Be Based on Renault Kangoo
Next Mercedes Vaneo Could Be Based on Renault Kangoo

8 Feb 2011, 11:43 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The fruits of the Daimler - Renault - Nissan tie-up could be seen as soon as next year, as the Germans are looking into ways to introduce the new Vaneo using some technology provided by its partners. A report by Autobild suggests that the Vaneo, wh...

 
Renault Sandero Pick-up Coming in 2012?
Renault Sandero Pick-up Coming in 2012?

8 Feb 2011, 08:59 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Renault's Dacia has grown a lot in the last few years and that only means it could grow more in the near future. At least, this is what the French parent manufacturer believes so, in order to support this goal, it has prepared some new project...

 
VW Golf VIII to Achieve 100 mpg / 2.3 l/100km
VW Golf VIII to Achieve 100 mpg / 2.3 l/100km

8 Feb 2011, 08:36 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Volkswagen recently presented at the Qatar Auto Show the concept that's supposed to change the whole auto industry. At least, from the Germans' point of view, the XL1 prototype will change a lot of things in the way the VW models will be ...

 

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