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.
Guy Buys Himself Two Pininfarina Battistas, Styles One to Be the Twin of the Other
11 Apr 2024, 06:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are carmakers in this world that are constantly in the news, and then there is Pininfarina. The Italians are so special that they rarely make the headlines, but when they do they come packing a mighty punch. After all, not everyone can brag a...
America's Best Boardgame Has 12 Badass Mini Cars and an Infinite Road to Race Them On
10 Apr 2024, 11:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With all the screens that are presently part of our lives, it's easy easy to find distraction and fun in more or less complex video games. Almost all of us do this, and you'd think that would have driven the boardgame industry into the gr...
America Is Teaching Drones to Ressuply Ships at Sea and Get Out of Sticky Situations
10 Apr 2024, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Slowly but surely drones are taking over the world. They started by conquering our skies, are now moving to take over land, and will soon become a common sight on and under the waters of the world. So, if you fear a drone-flooded (and partly contro...
What's That We See in Colorado Springs? Did the James Webb Telescope Return to Earth?
10 Apr 2024, 07:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / All of us with the slightest bit of knowledge about what's going on in the world around us knows that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is floating in space at a distance of one million miles (1.5 million km from Earth). And that makes it ...
Gordon Murray T.50s Niki Lauda Will Roll in Public for the First Time This Weekend
10 Apr 2024, 07:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not every day one can head over to the website of a carmaker and be greeted by a message reading "the exclusive production run [for all vehicles] has all been secured and allocated." Yet that's exactly what one faces over a...
Lamborghini Getting Into the Sports Equipment Business, Starts With Padel Racquets
10 Apr 2024, 06:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since forever carmakers have loved tying their names to some of the world's most renowned sport competitions. The most obvious choice for them was to get involved with car racing, but some don't shy away from less adrenaline-packed c...
America Readies a Deep Dive, Long-Range Underwater Drone Called Manta Ray, This Is It
9 Apr 2024, 15:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Four years ago the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a program aimed at creating a multi-use underwater drone capable of operating on "long-duration, long-range missions in ocean environments." The agency call...
KTM Gives a Mild Revamp to the 2025 SX and SX-F Motocross Kings
9 Apr 2024, 13:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the motocross world, few names are as important as that of KTM. The Austrians have positioned themselves at the top of the food chain in this segment for years now, and they won't let go no matter what. On the contrary, they are even trying...
Millions Saw America’s Total Eclipse From Earth, But Here’s How It Looked Like From Space
9 Apr 2024, 13:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Monday, April 8, will forever remain in history as the day when large chunks of North America plunged into darkness in the middle of the day. A natural occurrence, but rare and spectacular nonetheless, witnessed firsthand by around 32 million peopl...
U.S. Marine Corps Spending $2.7B on New Armored Transport Vehicles That Can Drive in Water
9 Apr 2024, 12:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Amphibious vehicles are, thanks to their ability to work both on land and on water, a special breed of machines, but they tend to become even more so at the hands of the military. And the U.S. Marine Corps seems determined to show us all how good i...
2024 MV Agusta Enduro Veloce Is the Adventure Bike That Screams Like a Superbike
9 Apr 2024, 11:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A little more than half a year ago Italian bike maker introduced to the world something called the LXP Orioli. It was a limited-series production bike meant to honor one of the best rally racers that ever lived, four-time Dakar winner (1988, 1990, ...
America’s F-15s on Track to Becoming the Kings of Electronic Warfare
8 Apr 2024, 16:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The American F-15 aircraft family is one of the oldest of its kind in the skies of the world. Originally born in the early 1970s in the hangars of a company called McDonnell Douglas, it was repeatedly upgraded to keep up with the times and work on ...
Pitch Black 2024 Jeep Gladiator NightHawk Only Comes Out During Solar Eclipses
8 Apr 2024, 13:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the time I'm writing this only a few hours separate us from the moment when the Great North American Eclipse starts somewhere on Mexico's Pacific Coast. From there, it will move up the United States and all the way to Canada, covering ...
2024 BMW Motorrad Days Americas Coming Back to the Barber Vintage Festival This Fall
8 Apr 2024, 13:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2023 German bike maker BMW Motorrad celebrated the 100th anniversary of its existence on this planet. As all other companies of its size do on such occasions, the celebratory moves manifested themselves as both new model releases and events...
DMV Examiner Who Failed Thousands Would Give the Hyundai Ioniq 5 a Driver's License
8 Apr 2024, 12:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For humans to be able to drive a car on public roads certain steps must be completed. First, people must learn how to operate a vehicle, and for that special practical courses must be held. Then, they must learn the rules and laws of the road. In t...
NASA Needs New Space Shuttle Engines Despite No Space Shuttle Still Flying
8 Apr 2024, 10:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Space Shuttle, despite two very traumatizing accidents, is without a doubt one of our species' most successful family of otherworldly vehicles. Introduced in 1981, the family flew a total of 135 space missions, carrying off this planet and...
Unique Revuelto "Arena” Celebrates the Largest Cavalcade in Lamborghini's History
7 Apr 2024, 14:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you are not a true Lamborghini fan, then you probably don't know exactly what the Lamborghini Arena is. Judging by how the Italians do things, it could have very well been a new or exciting model wearing the Raging Bull logo, or perhaps som...
Special Radar for the Aegis Combat System Can Live-Track Objects in Space
7 Apr 2024, 14:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / About half a century ago the United States started fielding a naval defense technology described as the "first fully integrated combat system." Officially called Aegis Combat System, the technology still is the U.S. Navy's most advan...
6x6 Van Is the Perfect Mothership for a Flying Passenger Car, China to Launch Both in 2025
6 Apr 2024, 12:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Say what you will about China, but the place certainly has been a hotbed for innovation in recent years, especially in the field of transportation. The world's largest car market is leading the charge in electrification (at least in terms of n...
Never-Made Russian Moon - Mars Rocket Takes Flight for the First Time in Glorious Sim
6 Apr 2024, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you really look at space exploration objectively, you'll realize there are more failures and unfulfilled dreams than successes and reasons to be proud. In any other industry that would be very bad, as it would be an indicator things are not...