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.
Ferrari Reveals More LaFerrari Goodness
5 Mar 2013, 15:07 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / We bet you barely had enough time to chew on Ferrari's latest Geneva-revealed hypercar, but Maranello seems to enjoy throwing us bone after bone about the almighty LaFerrari. If you haven't been checking the FerrariWorld Youtube channe...
Ford Unveils New "People-Mover" Fleet in Geneva
5 Mar 2013, 14:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / After seeing a bunch of totally awesome, albeit useless, sports and supercars in Geneva today, we think it's time to take a break and get into the more practical side of the automotive industry. So leave the gas-guzzling, utterly fast "...
Production Alfa Romeo 8C-Based Disco Volante Shows Up in Geneva
5 Mar 2013, 14:02 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / We don't know about you, but we've almost ran out of fingernails to chew while waiting for the Touring Superleggera Disco Volante production version to be unveiled. This Alfa Romeo 8C-based sportscar has been making our gaskets leak si...
Alpina B3 Sedan, Wagon Revealed in Geneva
5 Mar 2013, 13:05 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Alpina latest B3 sedan and touring wagon versions have been unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show today. Sharing the same twin-turbo 3.0-liter six-cylinder engine and a ZF eight-speed automatic transmission, both of them have a whooping 410 HP ...
Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Venet Is a Rusty Piece of Geneva Art · Live Photos
5 Mar 2013, 13:02 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Bugatti has revealed the Veyron Grand Sport Venet special edition, developed with French artist Bernar Venet, at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. While Bugatti's strategy in releasing more and more special edition Veyrons is getting a little too...
2013 Nissan Frontier is Cheaper, Has Better Fuel Economy
5 Mar 2013, 11:34 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / While the compact pickup market is getting narrower every year, Nissan still doesn't want to let the Frontier go and decided to continue with a mildly refreshed vehicle for 2013. With Nissan North America Inc. still hoping to sell some Fron...
Dacia Introduces Limited Edition Duster Adventure
5 Mar 2013, 10:48 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2013 Geneva Auto Show wasn't supposed to offer too many surprised considering the great number of teasers and unveilings that took place until yesterday, but Romanian automaker Dacia still had a trick up its sleeve. After announcing two...
Subaru Viziv Concept Revealed
5 Mar 2013, 10:28 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The Subaru Viziv Concept has finally arrived for its debut in Geneva, with the Japanese automaker releasing the first official photo and details of the car. Subaru's newest "Vision for Innovation" designed crossover SUV comes with...
ItalDesign Giugiaro Parcour is a Lamborghini-Powered Crossover SUV
5 Mar 2013, 09:46 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / If you find the title to be confusing to say the least, all we can say is welcome to our world. And the controversial ItalDesign Giugiaro Parcour design world as well… The Volkswagen Group-owned company showed up in Geneva with "a ty...
The All-New Volkswagen Golf Variant Bows in Geneva
5 Mar 2013, 09:08 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf Variant has been revealed by the German automaker at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. Quoted as being more versatile and roomier than its predecessor, the new station wagon is 232 pounds lighter and, according t...
Rolls-Royce Wraith Officially Unveiled in Geneva
5 Mar 2013, 08:27 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The long-awaited Rolls-Royce Wraith Coupe, or Fastback if you want, was finally unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. Basically a GT coupe version of the Ghost sedan, the Wraith aims at the Bentley Continental, though it's much more expen...
Ferrari Enzo Successor Shows Up in First Geneva Photo
4 Mar 2013, 17:28 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / If the last two Ferrari teasers we wrote about two days ago got you really excited ahead of the Enzo successor's unveiling at Geneva, then you might want to stick around because there's more F-150 goodness surfacing the web. The latest...
Volkswagen Golf Is the 2013 European Car of the Year… by Far
4 Mar 2013, 16:33 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The Volkswagen Golf has been named the European Car of the Year 2013, winning the award by crushing the opposition. The finalists were no match for the seventh-generation Golf in the eyes of this year's ECOTY judging team, receiving 414 vot...
Mansory Presents a High-Performance… Golf Cart
4 Mar 2013, 16:29 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Wait, what? Exactly our thoughts. No boys and girls, it's no Lamborghini and it's no Ferrari. It might be a case of fever over at Mansory, but who are we to judge? So, in case you like golfing and you want to travel between holes in st...
2014 Corvette Stingray Convertible Shows More Skin
4 Mar 2013, 15:58 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Just when we thought Chevy was done showing the 2014 Corvette Stingray Convertible ahead of its Geneva debut, the bow-tie company released three more photos. This time we get to see some of the car's rear from a high angle, with and without...
Danica Patrick Slams Into Wall at Phoenix
4 Mar 2013, 15:06 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Just one week after becoming the first woman to lead the Daytona 500, Danica Patrick had to drop out of Sunday's Phoenix NASCAR race after a hard encounter with the wall. Struggling in the mid-pack all through the race, Patrick eventually b...
Chevrolet Camaro, Ford Mustang to Get Four-Cylinder Engine
4 Mar 2013, 14:36 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / America's most popular musclecars, the Chevrolet Camaro and the Ford Mustang, are bound to be redesigned with standard four-cylinder engines. Nothing new regarding the Ford Mustang, because we already knew that, but a four-cylinder-engined ...
Unique Carbon Fiber, 24 Carat Gold Koenigsegg Coming to Geneva
4 Mar 2013, 14:16 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2013 Geneva Motor Show will be a truly special event for Swedish automaker Koenigsegg, who will be introducing the company's 100th car built. It's been just 11 years since Koenigsegg delivered its first car to a customer, and the A...
Court Approves Suzuki US Bankruptcy Plan
4 Mar 2013, 13:41 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Suzuki's auto sales in the United States are now closer to coming to an end, after a Californian court accepted the American Suzuki Motor Corporation's bankruptcy plan. According to the company's Chapter 11 reorganization scheme, ...
Chevrolet Camaro Edges Ford Mustang in February 2013 Sales
4 Mar 2013, 13:41 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / After taking the sales title ahead of Ford's Mustang last month, the Chevrolet Camaro came on top in February as well, being America's best selling musclecar. According to the latest General Motors report, Chevrolet sold 6,171 units of...