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.
This is the Most Insulting Ford GT40 Replica Ever Made
27 Feb 2013, 16:00 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / We've shown you all kinds of unfortunate famous car replicas lately, including the weird Suzuki-based Bugatti Veyron or the utterly ugly Gallardo. Well, none of them were quite insulting, but we finally found one. Actually we didn't ex...
Mercedes Goes Bling-Bling with Shiny Star
27 Feb 2013, 15:20 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Some say Mercedes-Benz has already taken the bling-bling path, but we think their latest gizmo offering takes the cake. In order to celebrate the company's success, which we don't need and don't want to argue, the Germans have dec...
2013 SRT Viper Gains Track Pack, Loses Weight
27 Feb 2013, 15:09 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2013 SRT Viper is now available with an optional Track Pack for both the regular and the GTS version. The newly introduced package, which includes several weight saving updates, makes the regular Viper 32 lbs (14.5 kg) lighter, while the mor...
Ford Mustang Takes Off on Drag Strip
27 Feb 2013, 14:13 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / We've seen a lot of crazy things happen on the drag strip, but what you're about to see is probably the weirdest run that didn't end up badly for the car or the driver. When using the gas pedal to transfer a lot of horsepower from...
Police Car Disguised as Yellow Cab in Manhattan
27 Feb 2013, 13:55 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / You'd probably expect something like this to take place in Russia, but this taxi-look-alike police car was spotted in Manhattan all flashy and in a hurry. Otherwise we wouldn't have known it was a New York City cop car anyway, since it...
Is Your Car Slippery in Winter Conditions? Grab Some Snow Socks
27 Feb 2013, 13:22 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Although spring is almost here, with only some parts of the US still covered in snow, Shark Industries has just introduced their latest Snow Socks across the Pond. Yes, you're right, we're talking about tire socks. They're suppose...
Nissan Leaf Gains New Look and Longer Range
27 Feb 2013, 12:57 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Japanese automaker Nissan has revealed the updated version of its all-electric Leaf model to be sold in Europe starting June 2013. Built at Nissan's plant in Sunderland, the facelifted Leaf gained a few design tweaks, including a more aerod...
Chevrolet Preparing Low-Cost Corvette for 2015
27 Feb 2013, 11:02 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / If you're eager to park the new C7 Corvette into your garage but you can't really afford one, Chevrolet might give you a helping hand in the near future. According to a Motor Trend report, the "bow-tie" company is preparing a...
Alfa Romeo 6C Concept - the Italian Musclecar
27 Feb 2013, 10:14 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The musclecar was born in good ol' US of A about fifty years ago, and, with very few exceptions, we can still describe them as "a group of American-made 2-door sports coupes with powerful engined designed for high-performance driving"...
Citroen DS4 Electro Shot Coming to Geneva
27 Feb 2013, 09:48 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Looks like the 2013 Geneva Motor Show will be quite busy for Citroen, who announced the introduction of a new limited edition DS4 model at next month's Swiss event. Based on the DStyle trim package, the new version was called Electro Shot a...
2014 Jeep Compass to Make European Debut in Geneva
27 Feb 2013, 09:19 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / After having its world premiere in Detroit last month, The 2014 Jeep Compass is getting ready for an European-spec debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. The new Compass will cross the Pond to Europe with very few visual changes compared to its Am...
This is the 2013 Volkswagen Golf GTI
27 Feb 2013, 08:50 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / With just one week left until the Geneva Motor Show, Volkswagen has published the first photos and production details of the seventh-generation Golf GTI. For the first time in its history, the Golf GTI will be offered in two versions, meaning a ...
Volkswagen to Unveil Golf Plug-In Hybrid in Geneva
26 Feb 2013, 17:22 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / German carmaker Volkswagen has announced that the 2014 e-Golf EV will share its 2013 Geneva Motor Show stand with a Plug-In Hybrid version of the hatchback. The Wolfsburg-based company says its new hybrid car will share Audi's A3 e-tron dri...
Timo Scheider Gets Dirty with the Audi A1 quattro
26 Feb 2013, 16:34 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Driving the Audi A1 quattro on snow does seem like a lot of fun, and you've acknowledged that about a month ago, but getting double DTM champions Timo Scheider behind the wheels makes it even more exciting to watch. The two were paired by A...
Zagato Makes One-Off Porsche Carrera GT
26 Feb 2013, 15:50 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / For some reason, whenever we heard the Zagato name we ended up thinking about Alfa Romeo, Lancia or Aston Martin. They never were into German cars, except a few BMW's, and suddenly decided to do a Porsche. So how did Zagato end up customizi...
2014 BMW 5 Series Facelift Spotted Undisguised in China
26 Feb 2013, 15:16 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / 2014 BMW F10 5 Series related stuff just keeps on coming along these days. We've had M5 spyshots, a 5 Series sedan rendering, and now, out of the blue, two photos with the undisguised car have turned up in China. It's not like there�...
Volar-E 800 HP Electric Supercar Teased
26 Feb 2013, 14:57 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The number of electric supercar concepts seems to be constantly growing lately, but only a few of them get to eventually see some road or track action. Fortunately, the promising 2013 Volar-E is one of those high-performance EVs that will become...
Toyota i-Road Concept Teased Ahead of Geneva
26 Feb 2013, 13:55 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Toyota's i-Road zero-emission concept is ready for the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and the Japanese automaker decided to stir up the water with a teaser video. Besides being emissions-free, the small vehicle promises to be "fun" and &q...
New York Times Fake Test Cost Tesla $100 Million, Says Elon Musk
26 Feb 2013, 13:19 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / When the New York Times admitted the editor's lack of "good judgement" in the Model S review last week, we thought the two would finally bury the hatchet. Well, we couldn't be more wrong! Tesla Motor's boss Elon Musk cam...
750,000 Ford, Mercury Vehicles Under NHTSA Investigation
26 Feb 2013, 12:48 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation concerning engine issues for about 750,000 Ford and Mercury vehicles. According to an NHTSA press release, the investigation is related to a malfunctioning th...