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.
BMW M Hybrid V8 and BMW M4 GT3 Go the LEGO Way, Are Now Part of the Speed Champions Line
5 Mar 2024, 06:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In just a few short months the 2024 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France will kick off. As usual this time of the year, the carmakers who will be attending are doing their best to prepare for the moment of the ultimate endurance race. ...
Rolls-Royce Arcadia Droptail Is an Amazing Car and All, But Have You Seen Its Clock?
4 Mar 2024, 11:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / And now there are three. As the eyes of the world were turned to Daytona Beach, where a full week of celebration of all things motorcycle was starting, across the world, in Singapore, Rolls-Royce pulled the wraps off a car unlike any other on this ...
Tobacco Fade Treatment Makes These Harley-Davidson Bikes Look Like Old Guitars on Wheels
4 Mar 2024, 07:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the Daytona Bike Week kicking off in Florida last week, bike makers across America are having a pretty busy time. That applies to the country's most prominent representative in this industry, Harley-Davidson, which didn't miss the op...
2024 Harley-Davidson Hydra-Glide Revival Is a Retro Tribute to an Upcoming Tom Hardy Movie
4 Mar 2024, 06:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is a very big chance you blink and miss out on perhaps one of the most exciting things Harley-Davidson does each year: the release of one of its Icons collection bikes. It's something that happened in 2024 as well, more specifically at t...
1961 Chevrolet Swansong Is Revenge for All the Abandoned Impalas of the World
3 Mar 2024, 00:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When production of the Chevrolet Impala ended in 2020, history books noted that about 16.8 million of them had been made in a little over six decades of production. That's impressive by any standards, and it's a number large enough that t...
TRP-Pro Could Be the Birth of a Series of German-Bred Performance Harleys
2 Mar 2024, 23:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Yesterday's custom Harley-Davidson story brought us face-to-face with something called the Pro Performance ST. That would be a Low Rider ST successfully modified to be a blend between a racing bagger motorcycle and a club style project, all wr...
How Enduro Motorcycles Came To Be and Some Prime Examples
2 Mar 2024, 11:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The motorcycle was born in the late 1800s as a result of some people over in Germany named Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach creating something that we now know as the Reitwagen. Technically there were others before it, made to run on steam, bu...
$195K Chevrolet C10 Looks Like It Was Stepped On by a Giant
2 Mar 2024, 00:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I have to admit, although I generally stumble upon a lot of custom Chevrolet C10s in my travels, the two months that have passed in 2024 have so far been very poor in this respect. Luckily, this week marked a change in my luck, as I came across an ...
Harley-Davidson Pro Performance ST Mixes Racing Bagger With Fancy Club Styler
1 Mar 2024, 23:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When the Americans introduced the world's first proper racing competition for baggers (King of the Baggers), many said they were probably crazy. But seeing these touring machines take each other on, complete with fairings and bags, on circuits...
Maserati GranTurismo Gets a Brother, Open-Top GranCabrio Is Here Just in Time for Spring
29 Feb 2024, 11:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Even if the weather in various parts of the world would have you believe otherwise, the spring of 2024 is nearly upon us, bringing with it all the hopes and expectations that torment us all after what turned out to be a very long winter. What bette...
Could This Plastic Brick Set Become LEGO's First Tesla Toy?
29 Feb 2024, 09:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For all the passion it generates in people, Tesla doesn't go out of its way to advertise itself through related merch. Granted, we do have stuff like vehicle accessories, clothing, and even tequila, but there seem not to be enough toys, diecas...
American Cameras Capture the First Images of the Moon's Surface in Half a Century
29 Feb 2024, 08:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On February 22 the first American mission to the Moon in over 50 years reached its destination, setting down the Nova-C Odysseus lander in the Malapert A region of the satellite's South Pole. It was not a perfect landing, but it was good enoug...
Honda Uni-One Coming to SXSW 2024 to Give Americans a First-of-Its-Kind VR Experience
29 Feb 2024, 08:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A little over a year ago the world got to meet something called the Uni-One. Made by Honda, it is not a car, or a motorcycle, but a sort of wheelchair the Japanese carmaker describes as "a hands-free, personal mobility device." You cou...
Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator Get 2024 Beach Versions Ahead of Huge Gathering in Daytona
29 Feb 2024, 06:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's a saying going around stating that many things in our lives have to do with being in the right place at the right time. And it's exactly this "location, location, location" deal that popped into my head when I came acros...
Sikorsky Finally Shows Its Impressive HEX Autonomous Tilt-Wing Hybrid-Electric VTOL
28 Feb 2024, 11:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is a very fascinating one. Just think about it: who wouldn't like to travel fast across the cities of the world in machines that are essentially a cross between a helicopter ...
USAF Cooks and Freezes T-7A Red Hawk Aircraft In Extreme Weather Lab to See What Happens
28 Feb 2024, 10:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the world of military aircraft the T-7A Red Hawk is the junior. Made by Boeing and Saab, the plane has only recently reached the hands of U.S. Air Force (USAF) pilots, who are currently hard at work validating the machine for its coming deployme...
NASAMS Fires Extended Range AMRAAM Missile for the First Time, Weapon Does Things Right
28 Feb 2024, 10:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The war in Ukraine has brought into the spotlight a series of weapons platforms and weapons that until the conflict started had never been used on such a large scale. One of them is the so-called NASAMS. NASAMS is an acronym for National Advance...
America's Number 1 Small Pickup May Start Losing Parts Out Its Rear, Huge Recall Starting
28 Feb 2024, 09:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For a nameplate that is not made by an indigenous American carmaker, the Toyota Tacoma is handling itself very well. In fact, the vehicle ended 2023 as the number 1 small pickup on the U.S. market for the 19th consecutive year, selling over 230,000...
Championship-Winning 1997 Mercedes-AMG CLK GTR GT1 Gunning for Many Millions at Auction
28 Feb 2024, 08:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Auctions are the perfect events to honor the important cars of the past and present, so we often bring before you machines that are impressive in one way or another. But even in this rich automotive world vehicles as impressive as the one we have h...
FSD 59 Is the First Crazy Motorcycle Concept of the Year, Frank Stephenson's Hand Is In It
28 Feb 2024, 07:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In some respects, the designers of the automotive world are like the superstars of the industry. Granted, most of them go pretty much unnoticed by the larger public, but there are a few that have made a real name for themselves, and are now regarde...