Ciprian Florea
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Personal motto:
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough horsepower." - Mark Donohue
You'll never catch him drooling over the latest supercar but he could spend hours talking about why he loves 1940s windshield visors, Mopars, and Studebakers. Naturally, most of his stories are about barn finds and rare classics.
He can give you several reasons why speed and power are more about motorsport than silly street wandering, and Can-Am machinery tops his ridiculously fast all-time favorite car list. He claims he could die happy after a Rattlesnake Raceway ride in a Chaparral and a cup of coffee with Jim Hall on the other side of the table.
Before landing on these pages, Ciprian's work has been published on outlets like TopSpeed, AmericanMuscle, and ThisWeekInMotors.
Ford Reveals 2014 SVT Raptor Special Edition
10 Apr 2013, 07:46 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Hey there pickup truck enthusiasts, we’re back with a piece of hardcore news from Ford, who has just unveiled its 2014 F-150 SVT Raptor Special Edition model. Designed to “answer customer calls for more exclusivity”, the Specia...
Ford to Unveil All-New Concept Car in Shanghai
10 Apr 2013, 07:15 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Ford Motor Co. has announced plans to unveil an all-new concept car at the 2013 Shanghai Motor Show scheduled later this month. The American automaker refrained from revealing any details about this new “global concept” vehicle, so w...
Ford Focus Is the Best-Selling Car in the World in 2012
9 Apr 2013, 16:37 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Ford Focus is the best-selling car in the world in 2012 with 1,020,410 units sold, the Blue Oval company announced today, quoting Polk's global new vehicle registration data. China and the United States were the best markets for the Ford Fo...
2014 Ford Fusion to Gain 3-Cylinder Engine
9 Apr 2013, 15:42 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Already available with five engine options for the 2014 model year, the Ford Fusion mid-size sedan will gain a 1.5-liter three-cylinder EcoBoost as well. According to Ford Inside News, quoting “an internal document”, the 2014 Ford Fu...
Rare Ford SVT Mustang Cobra R Offered on eBay
9 Apr 2013, 15:20 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Built from 1979 from 1993, the third-generation Mustang was retired in style, with Ford offering the SVT Cobra and the Cobra R in the musclecar’s last production year. Sharing the SVT’s 302 (5.0-liter) V8 engine, the track-focused Co...
Porsche to Debut New Turbocharged Flat-Four Engine Within the Year
9 Apr 2013, 14:22 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / German automaker Porsche will introduce a new turbocharged flat-four engine for its entry-level Boxster and Cayman sportscars within the next year. Expected to be based on the current 3.8-liter flat-six unit, the 2.5-liter turbocharged flat-four...
Holden to Cut 500 Jobs
9 Apr 2013, 14:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Holden will axe 500 jobs from two of its Australian plants as the company tries to adjust to the high dollar and fierce competition from foreign rivals. After laying off 170 employees just five months ago, Holden will dismiss 100 workers from it...
Hyundai Appoints Former Citroen, Peugeot & Toyota Key People for WRC Project
9 Apr 2013, 13:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / South Korean carmaker Hyundai is getting ready to return to the World Rally Championship (WRC) next year by appointing a number of key people, formerly involved with brands such as Citroen, Peugeot, Subaru or Toyota. According to Autocar, experi...
Lamborghini Ganador Design Study
9 Apr 2013, 12:49 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Very popular with car designers starting with the early 1970s, the wedge design was brought into the 21st century by Mohammad Hossein Amini Yekta with its Lamborghini Ganador concept. Developed in collaboration with the Italian automaker during ...
Jaguar Could Build More XKR-S GTs
9 Apr 2013, 11:53 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The limited-edition Jaguar XKR-S GT production run could be extended if there’s enough demand for the V8-powered coupe, the British company announced. Originally slated to be built in just 30 units, the track-focused XKR-S GT production might...
2014 Maserati Ghibli Official Photos, Details Released
9 Apr 2013, 11:36 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Just a few hours after the first photos were leaked, Maserati has released a first batch of official images and preliminary details about the Shanghai-debuting 2014 Ghibli. “Set to break new ground for Maserati”, the Ghibli will be a...
Toyota to Pay $16M Settlement in Unintended Acceleration Lawsuit
9 Apr 2013, 11:13 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The “unintended acceleration lawsuit” will cost Japanese automaker Toyota no less than $16 million (€12.3 million), the company and Orange County prosecutors said last week. According to Detroit News, Orange County District Atto...
Peugeot RCZ Races Mountain Bike Downhill
9 Apr 2013, 09:52 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The guys over at Peugeot are doing their best to promote the new RCZ model. This time, they’ve decided to pair the sports compact with a mountain bike and set a spectacular downhill race. Italian rally champion Paolo Andreucci was given th...
Alpine A110 Revived in Mexico?
9 Apr 2013, 09:17 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Alpine plans to revive the legendary A110 model in 2015, but another successor for the rally-winning vehicle could be created in... Mexico. The original Alpine A110 sportscar was built in Mexico as well, under the Dinalpin name, from 1965 to 197...
Opel Adam Rally in Action
9 Apr 2013, 09:08 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Introduced at last year’s Paris Motor Show, the Eisenach-built Opel Adam city car has hit the market in early 2013. Though powered by a couple of small displacement four-cylinder powerplants, the puny Adam gained a 1.6-liter engine to become ...
Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse World Record Convertible Photos Surface
9 Apr 2013, 08:26 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Yesterday we had big news from Mulsanne. The Bugatti Veyron SS was stripped of it world speed Guinness record and the company later released a teaser announcing a new “example of exceptional performance”. As expected, Bugatti’s...
2014 Maserati Ghibli Official Photos Leaked
9 Apr 2013, 07:51 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Set to debut at the 2013 Shanghai Motor Show, the all-new Maserati Ghibli was revealed ahead of time by a few alleged official photos that have surfaced on the web. We’ve only seen the new Ghibli in the spyshots released a month ago, but t...
Mercedes C-Class “Edition C” Announced
8 Apr 2013, 16:34 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / German automaker Mercedes-Benz is preparing to exit the current C-Class model from the market with a new special edition available for all of its versions, called “Edition C”. Introduced on the sedan, coupe and wagon variants, the &l...
Classic Oldsmobile Cutlass Crashed Into Walmart
8 Apr 2013, 15:52 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / While some people are having fun restoring classic cars for some weekend cruising, others like to smash them into Walmarts. It sounds ridiculous, but a 33-year old man drove his 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass into the San Jose Walmart. According to wit...
Chrysler 300C SRT8 Becomes 1969 Dodge Charger
8 Apr 2013, 15:18 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Dropped back in 1978, the highly acclaimed Charger was unsuccessfully revived in 1983 as the L-body and then in 2006 as a full size four-door sedan. What’s the most annoying part of the new Charger? The four-door part, of course. Purists f...