Daniel Patrascu
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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.
World's Only 1965 Shelby Cobra Dragonsnake Factory Stage III Gunning for $1.7M at Auction
4 May 2024, 22:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Car auctions are events so common on the American automotive scene that the world at large rarely pays them a lot of attention. Yet from time to time a vehicle so special shows up that it makes such events the talk of the day in the industry. And t...
Harley-Davidson Grand American Touring Bikes: The Top of the Food Chain
4 May 2024, 21:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not an easy thing for a company playing in the automotive industry (be it a maker of four- or two-wheeled vehicles) to be able to invent new segments, and it's equally hard to invent new names for existing segments. Yet such things d...
Rare Grabber Yellow 1969 Shelby GT500 Fastback Once Owned by Carroll Shelby Hits the Block
3 May 2024, 22:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Few people are as important for the American (but also larger) automotive industry as Carroll Shelby. The American is no longer among us, but the huge shadow he cast during his lifetime will probably still be noticeable for decades to come, and it ...
China Sent Something to the Far Side of the Moon to Bring Back Samples for the First Time
3 May 2024, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Moon is a peculiar thing in the skies of our world. A companion to Earth since times immemorial, it always shows us the same face, meaning there's an entire half of the satellite we know very little about. And China just sent a probe there...
This Is America's First Large Cargo Drone to Get an FAA Flight Corridor Approval
3 May 2024, 09:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Flight corridors are, if you will, roads in the sky. They're the invisible freeways aircraft follow to get from point A to point B while keeping safe and well away from other planes and helicopters. Flight corridors are mostly reserv...
Custom 1950 Chevrolet Bel Air Copies a Ride George Barris Made for a Car-Loving Priest
3 May 2024, 08:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Custom cars are always head turners, and depending on who made them and why, they can even turn in very valuable possessions. In this respect, you can't get anything better than a Chevrolet Bel Air that was touched, even marginally so, by an i...
Mario Andretti's IndyCar Winning Lola T800 Cosworth Could Have One Pay $450,000 for It
2 May 2024, 13:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Car racing is one of the most challenging (and, at the same time, rewarding) activities humans can engage in. Many have given it a shot over the years, but very few have climbed to the top of this exciting world. For many, Mario Andretti is the dri...
C-130J Super Hercules Makes Historic First Flight With External Fuel Tanks Under Its Wings
2 May 2024, 11:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / External fuel tanks, or drop tanks as they are sometimes called, are common in military aviation. Dating back to 1923, when the pilots of the Spanish Civil War used them to extend the range of their airplanes, external fuel tanks have become must-h...
USMC Gets Its First Extended-Range Reaper Drone
2 May 2024, 11:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of military drones is a very diverse one at the time of writing, and chances are the offer will continue to diversify as conflicts become more and more complicated. But many of today's drones owe their existence to the pioneers of th...
Humanoid Robot With AI Mind Is Meant to Think Just Like People, And It’s Learning
2 May 2024, 09:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Like it or not, robots of all shapes and sizes have been with us for decades now. They are meant to help us in factories, aid us in dangerous circumstances and environments, and overall make our lives easier. We like all these robots, and we’...
The Race Is On to Snatch a 2024 Dodge Durango SRT 392 AlcHEMI, Here's How to Get One
2 May 2024, 07:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American carmaker Dodge started 2024 with a very exciting piece of news for fans of HEMI-powered SUVs: it let loose the Durango SRT 392 AlcHEMI Last Call. The news did have a darker side to it, though, as the model is to mark the final year of the ...
1953 Dodge Power Wagon Shares a Strange Thing With the Rolls-Royce Spectre: Its Price
1 May 2024, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Rolls-Royce Spectre is the most recent luxury land yacht made over in Britain. On the market for less than a year, the model is at the top of its game in terms of everything, and that's reflected in the thing's sale price: about $422,...
Aston Martin Reveals New V12 Engine, Brand New Vanquish First to Get It
1 May 2024, 09:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The way things are going these days with all the electrification push means that in a decade or so the carmakers of the world will completely stop investing in internal combustion engines – if fact, fewer and fewer of them are announced with ...
Honda Gives Fireblade Styling to the CBR500R, Two More 500cc Bikes Get Updated
1 May 2024, 07:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It’s the fifth month of 2024 already, and usually this time of the year, when everyone is preparing for the summer months ahead, the number of new product launches in the motorcycle industry drops dramatically. There are a number of industry ...
Pininfarina's Gotham and Dark Knight Hypercars Sound a Lot Better Than They Actually Are
1 May 2024, 06:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I bet every single one of you now reading this knows that the vehicles the mighty Batman drove over the years in his many crime-fighting adventures are called, how else, Batmobiles. And I also bet that if I ask you to name a single car type his eve...
Pitch Black 1958 Cadillac DeVille Is Where Light Goes to Die
30 Apr 2024, 11:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Cadillac DeVille was born over in GM's stables in 1958 as a luxury car. It officially died out in 2005, and in the years it has been on the market it seems to have convinced people that some of its incarnations, especially the early ones, ...
Seven Never-Made Boeing Rocket Concepts Shown in Stunning Video as Starliner Launch Looms
30 Apr 2024, 09:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Monday, May 6, American aerospace giant Boeing will enter a new era as its Starliner spacecraft will lift off from a pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, taking to the ISS, for the first time, a crew of two. What better time...
NASA Shows a Jet Engine Small Enough to Fit on a Kitchen Table
30 Apr 2024, 09:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Have you ever wondered just how big a jet engine used on a commercial aircraft is? In single-aisle airliners, for instance, the jet engines that dangle from their wings are a little under three meters long. That's not as big as these things ap...
20 American Pilots Fly Test the Most Un-USAF Aircraft Ever, It's Electric
30 Apr 2024, 08:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When you think about military airplanes your mind immediately imagines powerful machines with a streamlined design, capable of flying fast and delivering a mighty punch. And the mind probably always pairs these images with jet engines of some kind ...
Boeing Tortures the Hell Out of USAF's New Trainer Aircraft to See What Gives
30 Apr 2024, 07:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the very near future, America's fighter pilots will no longer be trained on the T-38 Talon. The Northrop two-seater supersonic aircraft, already 63 years old, will be replaced by a brand new piece of engineering marvel that should take Amer...