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.
Kia CUB Concept to Show Its "Cheerful Face" in Seoul
25 Mar 2013, 12:35 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Korean automaker Kia will reveal an all-new concept car at the Seoul International Motor Show later this week. Named CUB, the new concept car is described as compact four-door coupe designed to "appeal to trend-setting urban dwellers". Wh...
Vettel Wins Malaysian GP, Angers Webber
25 Mar 2013, 11:33 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Have you ever heard of a Formula One heist? Then you must have missed Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix, where Sebastian Vettel robbed his team-mate Mark Webber in broad daylight. Driving in second place with only ten laps to go, Vettel ignored...
Chrysler Considering Ford SVT Raptor Rival
25 Mar 2013, 10:56 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / In term of high-performance off-road vehicles, the Ford SVT Raptor is probably the best factory truck you can buy nowadays. However, Chrysler is fed up with it and plans on offering a strong rival. While the Auburn Hills-based company has the co...
SEAT Needs to Sell More Cars To Survive
25 Mar 2013, 10:20 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Spanish automaker SEAT needs to sell more cars in order to be sustainable in the future, company president James Muir has revealed. Having sold 320,000 vehicles last year, SEAT needs to double their sales in order to survive and sell near one mi...
Chrysler Reveals New 300C John Varvaros Limited Edition with Iggy Pop Ad
25 Mar 2013, 09:54 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / If you're looking to buy a very special four-door, or if you're just bored with your usual Chrysler 300C, you can now order the car in the John Varvatos Limited Edition. Built in just 2,000 units, the John Varvatos Limited Edition 300C...
Tensostruttura Is Yet Another LaFerrari Prototype
25 Mar 2013, 09:41 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Late last week, we were showing you the Ferrari Concept Manta, one of the nine LaFerrari prototypes design by Maranello before deciding how the hybrid hypercar will eventually look like. We were also telling you that only two of the nine prototy...
Toyota GT 86 / Scion FR-S Sedan, Shooting Brake Rendered
25 Mar 2013, 09:01 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / It's been less than two weeks since we reported about Toyota engineers being caught working on a sedan and shooting brake version for the GT 86 ahead of the car's launch. The story came via the company's product chief Tetsuya Tada...
2014 Cadillac CTS Exposed by Leaked Images
25 Mar 2013, 08:30 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2014 Cadillac CTS is about to make its official debut at the 2013 New York Auto Show later this week, but thanks to a bunch of leaked images we are able to see the mid-size luxury car ahead of time. We've already seen the first ph...
2015 Ford Mustang Design Prototype Model Leaked
23 Mar 2013, 20:51 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / It's been almost a year since speculative renderings about the way the all-new, restyled 2015 Ford Mustang is going to look like started to surface the web. All of them were based on the Evos Concept, and, starting today, we might say that thi...
Renault to Introduce Two New Concept Cars at Goodwood
23 Mar 2013, 11:27 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / French automaker Renault has announced plans to introduce two new performance concept cars at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. Renault did not reveal any other details in their press release, but said that one of the two vehicles whi...
Fisker's Chinese Bailout in Trouble
23 Mar 2013, 10:47 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Fisker's hopes in getting rescued by the Chinese have collapsed this week, after both Geely and Dongfeng backed out of the bidding process. Just four days after Geely Holding Group decided not to follow their plans to acquire the US automak...
Aston Martin Releases New Rapide S Footage
23 Mar 2013, 10:09 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Revealed exactly two months ago through a bunch of photos and an inaugural official video, the Aston Martin Rapide S is headed to its global media launch with a new clip showing the car in action. Described as "the world's most beautif...
Shelby Unveils The World's Most Powerful Production Musclecar
23 Mar 2013, 09:53 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Remember the 1,100 HP-packing Shelby 1000 introduced by Shelby American at last year's New York Auto Show? Well, the Nevada-based company thought that "the world's most powerful production musclecar" needed an update to be becom...
2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Plug-in Hybrid Confirmed by Mistake
22 Mar 2013, 17:20 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / German automaker Mercedes-Benz has unwilingly confirmed the existing rumors about introducing a plug-in hybrid version of the 2013 S-Class. According to CarAdvice, the Stuttgart-based company has revealed the future to be introduced hybrid S-Cla...
635 HP BMW M7 Envisioned
22 Mar 2013, 17:09 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / For some reason, we're 100 percent certain that all of you Bimmer freaks out there have fantasized at least once about the BMW M7. Now don't worry about having to go and see the doctor for a fetish-curing recipe, because the guys over ...
BMW M7 Rendering Released
22 Mar 2013, 16:34 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Still wondering if we'll ever get to see a beefed up 7 Series coming out of BMW's M division? Probably never, though Bimmer's performance-packing specialist pondered the idea. Of course, there's a 7 Series M Sport pack up for...
F150 Prototype - This Is How LaFerrari Could Have Looked Like
22 Mar 2013, 15:55 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / We've all seen (some eventually drooled over) the LaFerrari being introduced in Geneva, but very few car enthusiasts actually know that Maranello has developed nine different concepts for it. Before the mystery was solved in Switzerland ear...
2014 Dodge Durango Teased Ahead of New York Debut
22 Mar 2013, 15:07 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / With the 2013 New York Auto Show to open its doors in less than a week, more and more teasers are being released by automakers set to debut a thing or two at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. We've already seen teaser shots for the Range ...
The Ghost of 2013 Saab 9-3 Is Back to Haunt Again
22 Mar 2013, 14:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / It's been about a year since Saab went bankrupt and the 2013 9-3 project moved to the recycle bin, and the "what could have been car" keeps coming back to haunt us. Though it won't get too see the inside of a production line,...
Alpine Reveals Nissan-Powered Le Mans Prototype
22 Mar 2013, 13:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Racing and sportscar manufacturer Alpine has unveiled its endurance prototype that will be entered in this year's Le Mans 24 Hours and the 2013 Le Mans Series season. Powered by a 500 HP Nissan V8 engine mated to a six-speed sequential X-Tr...