Daniel Patrascu
18,928 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
"I truly believe men and fish can coexist peacefully" – George W. Bush
Following several years off the grid, Daniel is back at autoevolution, and seeing how the great crisis of the past decade made the auto industry boring, he grew bored with it too, so he slowly shifted his focus to custom cars, custom motorcycles, and other weird stuff. He also loves ranting about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
During his time at autoevolution, Daniel put his name on more news articles, coverstories, auto guides, reviews, and editorials than we care count. To slow him down a bit, he was given more responsibilities not long ago, so he is now also in charge with coordinating the editorial team on autoevolution.com.
Long time ago, Daniel also translated Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “The Fountains of Paradise” to Romanian for Paladin Publishing.
Harley-Davidson Undertaker Will Put Rival Cruisers Into the Ground
17 May 2024, 21:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Harley-Davidson Fat Boy is one of the most appreciated bikes that presently roll off the lines of the Milwaukee bike maker. Testimony to that reality are both the many examples that roam the streets in stock form, but also the literal flood of ...
1935 Ford Salt Flat Racing at Bonneville Must Have Looked Like a Mad Max Ride Running Amok
17 May 2024, 11:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you are a speed junkie and you've never been to the Bonneville Salt Flats, then you're probably not speed junkie enough. Or you maybe are, but you never had the tool to go racing over the troublingly white surface in the state of Utah....
NASA Starts Walking the Long Paper Path That'll Put Its X-59 Supersonic Plane in the Air
17 May 2024, 10:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Before proving that commercial supersonic flight over land is possible without breaking the law, NASA's experimental supersonic aircraft, the X-59, has to travel the long path of bureaucracy. But unlike the sometimes useless bureaucracy we...
Maker of Space Shuttle Engines to Power America's Next-Gen Ballistic Missile Interceptors
17 May 2024, 09:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The name Aerojet Rocketdyne is one of the best known in the space exploration business. On the market in one form or another since 1915, when it used to make rubber products, the company has grown into a powerhouse that helped deliver some of Ameri...
Ducati Monster Senna Honors Three Decades Since the Legendary F1 Driver's Passing
17 May 2024, 08:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of Formula 1 drivers is filled with great names, past and present, but a very limited number of them are so great they will probably be remembered forever. The name of Ayrton Senna da Silva is among them. The Brazilian-born managed to ...
Special Edition Scale Bugattis Cost Muscle Car Money and You Can’t Have One
16 May 2024, 13:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Exactly 100 years ago one of the most celebrated race cars in human history made its big entrance at the French Grand Prix in Lyon. The year was 1924, and the car would go on to be known as the Bugatti Type 35, a model that would win or finish on t...
Jaguar F-Pace 90th Anniversary Is the Sad Swansong of the Luxury SUV Before EVs Kill It
16 May 2024, 12:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although this was something that occurred on a regular basis some decades ago, it doesn't happen all that often in our time for a carmaker to retire a new model less than a decade after it was introduced. And yet that's exactly what Jagua...
Morgan-Pininfarina Midsummer Revealed as the Pure Beauty of a Turbocharged Barchetta
16 May 2024, 11:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Coachbuilders have always been perceived as the Michelin-star chefs of the automobile world. Established at first because of a need people had decades ago, each of these niche carmakers is currently cooking motorized dishes so delicious people will...
Testing Begins on Combined Cycle Engine That'll Grow to Challenge SR-71 Blackbird Record
15 May 2024, 07:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 1976, at the height of the Cold War, one of America's most secretive planes, the SR-71 Blackbird, managed to achieve a tremendous feat: it traveled at a speed of Mach 3, which is 2,193.2 mph (3,529.6 kph). That's the fastest speed...
Blue Origin to Send Humans to Space in First Mission in Two Years
15 May 2024, 06:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A couple of years ago the world was engulfed in a space race the likes of which it had never seen before. For the first time in history, three private companies were competing to send civilians with no long-term astronaut training into space. Since...
1966 Chrysler Imperial Black Beauty Wannabe Seems Like a Green Hornet Bargain at $33K
15 May 2024, 05:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Like it or not, the age of superheroes (or, at least, masked heroes) seems to have passed. Although there are still plenty of movies centered around such characters being made today, the hype seems to have subsided, for now, and this probably expla...
2025 Toyota Corolla Hatchback Comes in the Same Three Grades, Pricing Stays Put
14 May 2024, 13:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There was a time when America's love for hatchbacks ran a lot deeper than it does today, when trucks and SUVs rule the industry. Yet even today there are quite a lot of models with such bodywork being offered in the States, some more successfu...
Harley-Davidson Silver Streak Is How You Call a Custom Sportster with One Exhaust Pipe
14 May 2024, 12:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Not long ago, American bike maker Harley-Davidson reinvented its offering in a segment it likes to call sport with the release of the new Sportster and later the accompanying Nightster. Both these bikes have quickly become favorites of the many cus...
Ducati Multistrada V4 Pikes Peak Desert Is a Two-Wheeled Treat for a 3-Star Michelin Chef
14 May 2024, 11:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In some sense, chefs are the (mostly) unseen forces that drive our world. Most of the time hidden in the kitchens of their restaurants, they roll out dishes that delight our senses and fuel our imagination with superhuman talent. But even the super...
This 1956 Ford Thunderbird Was Used to Ressuply Plane That Spent Two Months in the Air
14 May 2024, 07:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Most of us quickly get all worked up at the news of some aircraft being capable of spending a long time in the air. After all, who doesn't like a machine that can be pushed to its limits and not break? But did you know the world record for the...
NASA Invents a New Super Alloy, Gives Green Light to American Companies to Make It
13 May 2024, 14:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Our world is advanced enough for us to believe we've pretty much uncovered all there is to uncover in the realm of materials. Yet, with the recent arrival of new technologies, including the almighty 3D printing, the building blocks of our worl...
Military Drone With Northrop P-61 Black Widow Vibes to Fly for the U.S. Army
13 May 2024, 13:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the drone race in the military sector heats up historic adversaries are trying to get an upper edge over their foes by learning from past and present conflicts. Most of them do this behind closed doors and away from prying eyes, but not the U.S....
Skillful Pilot Makes the Perfect Belly Landing of a Beechcraft Super King Air with No Gear
13 May 2024, 08:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We all know flying an aircraft is not for the weak of heart, but, used as we are to be taken safely from place to place, most of the time we tend to take the people in the cockpit for granted. That’s probably not what two passengers will do w...
This 1923 Ford Koach Is the Perfect $100,000 Ride for a Family of Wannabe Munsters
13 May 2024, 07:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's hard to pinpoint exactly when humanity's love for on-screen monsters and monstrous creatures that have nothing truly evil in them began. It might have been way back in the 1960s when TV shows the likes of the Addams Family and Munste...
6 Crazy Space Tech Ideas NASA Just Decided to Pump More Money Into
11 May 2024, 22:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the beginning of each year American space agency NASA announces something called the Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) awards, the culmination of a program meant to "nurture visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missi...