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.
Truck Catches Fire After Russian Intersection Crash
8 Mar 2013, 12:40 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / In case you were missing our Russian-based crash news section, here's the latest unfortunate accident to hit the web. Some people don't seem to care that we're 12 years into the 21st century, and prefer to use an outdated vehicle ...
Renault Frustrated Over Lack of Recognition After Beating Ferrari, Mercedes in F1
8 Mar 2013, 11:05 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Renault boss Carlos Tavares says the French company is frustrated for not getting enough recognition for its F1 success along with Red Bull Racing the past three years. "We are frustrated by the lack of recognition we get for beating the li...
NASCAR Pit Stop Footage Shows Flaming Brake Rotor
8 Mar 2013, 10:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Being part of a NASCAR pit crew requires a lot speed, but skills are mandatory as well, especially when you have to deal with a lot of hot stuff. And when we say hot, we mean flaming hot. No, it's not necessary for a car to catch fire to se...
Hydrogen-Powered Aston Martin Rapide to Debut in 2013
8 Mar 2013, 10:11 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / British automaker Aston Martin will celebrate its centenary with two very special models, one of which is a hydrogen-powered Rapide version. The car is set to debut at this year's 24 Hours of Nurburgring race, where it will attempt to set t...
Chevrolet Camaro SS Gets More Power, Scissor Doors from "zee Germans"
8 Mar 2013, 09:36 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / How many time do you get to see an all-american musclecar being prepared by a German company? Probably not to often, but this SchwabenFolia wrapped Camaro makes us want more of these kind of machines. The SchwabenFolia Camaro is not just about l...
Toyota Unveils Amazing 1:5 Scale Models Collection
8 Mar 2013, 09:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / How many times have you dreamed about having a classic car-packed garage? Yeah, we know, countless times… We do that too, but then we have to wake up and come to work. And since collecting real cars is overwhelmingly expensive, most of us...
Subaru Recalls "Zombie" Cars That May Start on Their Own
8 Mar 2013, 08:35 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / A remoter starter malfunction is causing certain Subaru model's engines to start on their own and "run for up to fifteen minutes". Good grief, is this Stephen King's new "Maximum Overdrive 2" movie? Unfortunately it...
Ferrari 458 Crashed After Failed Overtaking Maneuver
7 Mar 2013, 17:41 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Having a Ferrari doesn't make you a better driver, and that's a fact we've already established on several other occasions. The trouble with these expensive supercars is that they can turn into a pile of useless metal (or carbon fi...
What You Might Have Missed in Geneva: Morgan · Live Photos
7 Mar 2013, 17:28 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / With so many production cars and concepts on the Geneva stands, it's very likely for a lot of cool vehicles or brands not to be showcased properly. This is exactly what happened to Morgan, who showed up with its entire lineup, including som...
Musclecars at Geneva 2013 · Live Photos
7 Mar 2013, 16:49 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / For obvious reasons, this year's Geneva Motor Show was mostly about supercars, Ferrari, Lamborghini and McLaren being the main "poles d'attraction". As expected, the musclecar segment didn't spark to much interest, aside...
Volvo is Out to Save the Cyclists with Revolutionary Braking System
7 Mar 2013, 16:11 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / A few days ago we were telling you about Volvo introducing its new Active High Beam Control technology at Geneva. That already happened, but the Swedish automaker didn't tell us it had something else up its sleeve. If the Active High Beam C...
2013 Chevrolet COPO Camaro - Last Chance to Get One
7 Mar 2013, 15:32 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / If you missed last year's batch of 69 Chevrolet COPO Camaro factory drag-racing cars, you can still have one in 2013, as GM is preparing a few more of these quarter-mile record-setters. But be sure to hurry up, because today is your last ch...
Roush Launches 675 HP Mustang Supercharger
7 Mar 2013, 15:32 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / We knew Roush was up to something since last year's SEMA Show in Las Vegas, but no power figures have been announced until recently. The new Phase 3 Supercharger is finally ready to power your 2011-2014 5.0-liter Mustang up to an amazing 67...
2014 Hyundai Equus Teased Ahead of New York Debut
7 Mar 2013, 14:48 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / South Korean automaker Hyundai has published the first teaser photo of the US-spec 2014 Equus set to debut at the 2013 New York Auto Show. After receiving a mild facelift for 2013, the luxury sedan is looking to make its way to New York with sev...
Audi Still Pondering "The Absolute Best Supercar"
7 Mar 2013, 13:43 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Here we are writing again about that mind-blowing LaFerrari that made a lot of people drool over Geneva Motor Show's floors, but this time we need to turn our heads over to Germany's Ingolstadt. Why? Because something very interesting...
Four-Cylinder Engine Mustang Not Coming to US
7 Mar 2013, 13:28 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / There's been a lot of talk about the next-generation Ford Mustang getting a turbocharged four-cylinder engine and we were expecting to see the 2.3-liter replace the V6 in the United States. Well, it seems like the blue oval has different pl...
Toyota GT86 to Gain Hybrid Version
7 Mar 2013, 12:43 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Toyota has recently announced plans to create a hybrid version for their rear-driven two-seater GT86 sportscar. The company's chief engineer Tetsuya Tada told Autocar that Toyota is planning to develop high-performance turbocharged and supe...
LaFerrari to Sell Out in No Time
7 Mar 2013, 11:23 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Like the McLaren P1, which is supposed to be sold out within weeks, Ferrari's latest weird-named supercar is said to sell all of its 499 cars in no time. Undoubtedly the most awaited 2013 Geneva Motor Show car, the LaFerrari attracted huge ...
Misha Designs Reveals New Wide Body Porsche Cayenne
7 Mar 2013, 10:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Some of us like a little junk in the trunk, so to speak, and Misha Designs is always ready to quench our thirst for wide-bodied cars, at least for Porsche and Mercedes-Benz models. Specialists from America have designed a new styling kit for the...
Skoda Roomster Noire is Not Necessarily Blacker than Dark
7 Mar 2013, 10:00 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / We know Darth Vader likes to stroll in an all-black Buick GNX, but he must need a multi-purpose vehicles as well. Villains have stuff to move around too, you know? Well, Lord Vader should take some of his dark side over at the 2013 Geneva Motor ...