Daniel Patrascu
18,861 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.
New Yamaha Bike Transmission Needs Only Hand Controls to Shift Gears
26 Jun 2024, 11:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Because they technically are the hearts that animate vehicles, engines, motors, and other types of drivetrains often steal the spotlight whenever a new one comes into the world. That's why talking about a new transmission, especially one meant...
Aston Martin Valiant Spins the Valour Around, Turns It Into an Extreme Road Legal Race Car
26 Jun 2024, 06:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Finding an Aston Martin to suit one's needs is not that difficult, provided one has the cash to spend on perhaps the most luxurious, yet driving-oriented British luxury cars around. But if one truly wants to stand out in the crowd, then going ...
Skyjacker Is the Perfect Name for an Invisible Drone Killer, To Protect the Paris Olympics
25 Jun 2024, 11:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There was a time a couple of decades ago when the world realized the future of warfare would be dominated by drones. But the world believed back then they would come in the form of bulky, aircraft-like contraptions that were controlled from afar. I...
China Went to the Far Side of the Moon, Came Back With 4 Pounds of Rocks From There
25 Jun 2024, 10:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We're at a point in our history when bringing back pieces of alien worlds, be them planets, asteroids, or satellites, no longer surprises anybody. But we're generally used to American NASA being responsible for such feats, so when another...
Runway-Independent Fixed Wing VTOL Flies With New Heavy-Fuel Engine
25 Jun 2024, 07:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When one thinks of a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, the first thing that comes to mind is a helicopter-like contraption that can lift off from pretty much everywhere. But the various needs of their operators, especially the ones in ...
1959 Ford Fairlane Is All the Right Shapes of Unspoiled American Classic
25 Jun 2024, 07:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / What comes to your mind when you think about classic American cars? Is it some Chevy, the muscle cars of the 1960s, or perhaps the luxurious Cadillacs of old? For some, it may very well be the Ford Fairlane. The moniker, borrowed from the estate...
This Is America's First-Ever Supersonic Airliner Factory, Boom Overture to Be Made Here
25 Jun 2024, 06:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It will soon be 21 years since the world's first and only supersonic passenger aircraft, the Concorde, made its final flight. Enough time for some people to start missing the thrills of traveling faster than the speed of sound and start lookin...
The Perfect 1974 De Tomaso Pantera GTS Doesn't Exist, This One Comes Pretty Close
24 Jun 2024, 11:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are some cars in this world that far exceed the status of classic, cult, or collector's vehicles. Briefly transiting our world, these vehicles are so rare and exquisite that to many people in the business of collecting rare machines, the...
A Star in Our Sky Could Go Thermonuclear Soon, Earth Getting Ready for the Action
22 Jun 2024, 21:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The sky as seen from our planet is a fascinating place if you don't give it much thought, but if you really think about it, there's not much going on up there. The multitude of stars visible from Earth has occupied the same place for eons...
Harley-Davidson Dark Hopper Is the Perfect Softail Anniversary Bike
21 Jun 2024, 22:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's hard to believe it's been four decades already since Harley-Davidson introduced the Softail platform for two-wheelers. Four decades of several extraordinary motorcycles coming to light, almost all of them incomplete enough, on some l...
Almost Original Buick Riviera Gran Sport Brings Back All the Right 1960s Vibes
21 Jun 2024, 11:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you have a soft spot for vehicles from decades ago that still make the headlines, then there's a great chance you either like them more in stock form, or customized. There's technically no real middle ground here because, often, the cu...
Radar So Small It Can Fit on a Pickup Truck Gets a Foldable Antenna Kit
21 Jun 2024, 10:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When one thinks of a radar, especially the ones meant to be used by the military, the image of large, spinning antennas propped on top of bulky structures is what comes to mind first. But the reality of our day is that radars, or at least some of t...
Long-Gone KTM Junior Enduro Bike Makes a Comeback in the Refreshed 2025 EXC Lineup
21 Jun 2024, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the world of motorcycles, as soon as you think of Enduro you immediately think about Austrian bike maker KTM. The bikes in orange made by them have climbed to the top of international competitions so many times over the past three decades (126 w...
BMW R 1300 GS Trophy Revealed as the Sole Weapon for the 2024 GS Namibia Race
21 Jun 2024, 08:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Every year for a while now German bike maker BMW Motorrad takes talented riders and their impressive two-wheeled machines out for an adventure during something it likes to call the International GS Trophy. This year, the place where all the action ...
NASA Is Working on a Telescope Meant to Spot Signs of Aliens on Distant Worlds
20 Jun 2024, 14:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is a very high probability that in the very near future our species will have confirmed the potential for life to exist in other worlds. Granted, we'll probably not know for sure if aliens in whatever shape or form exist, but we will kno...
U.S. Navy Spends $677 Million More on Radars That Can See Everything
20 Jun 2024, 10:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Somehow, in the span of just two short years, our world has transitioned from being a relatively peaceful and stable place to standing on the edge of global war. And you can't get a better sense of what's going on than by looking at how m...
Ryvid Sosa Anthem Is What Happens When Custom Builders Switch From ICE to Electric
20 Jun 2024, 09:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There will come a time, soon enough, when the number of new custom electric motorcycles will be larger than the one of ICE-powered two-wheelers, and when that happens our world will be entirely different. One only needs to look at the Ryvid Sosa An...
NASA Says It Found Popcorn on Mars
19 Jun 2024, 14:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not every day that the American space agency NASA says something shocking. A respectable organization by trade, the organization generally steers clear of sensational titles. Not this week, though, when it announced plain and simple that ...
Harley-Davidson Norma Jean Is More Bombshell Than Road King
19 Jun 2024, 12:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you look at the dull words Harley-Davidson uses to advertise the Road King you'd probably be fooled into believing it doesn't really care if people buy it or not. Yet the rather simplistic "custom bagger with top-of-the-line power...
Someone Smashed a 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite to Dust to Make LEGO-Like Bricks
19 Jun 2024, 11:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is probably not a single human on this planet who doesn't know what LEGO is and what it can do. On the market since 1949, the company has been in the business of producing small plastic bricks that can be assembled to form literally anyt...