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.
The New Aston Martin Vantage GT4 Is a Race Car for the Young Pros of Driving
27 Feb 2024, 13:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the time of writing, the name Vantage stands for one of the youngest car models in the Aston Martin portfolio. (Re)born in 2018 as a sports car in the purest British style, the moniker got a major refresh earlier this month and became a tool &qu...
This Is the First Major Component of the Space Launch System Block 2 Mars Rocket
27 Feb 2024, 11:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, specifically devised to advance the Artemis Moon exploration program, has been described from the start as the world's most powerful rocket. It already proved its worth during the single Artemis mission pe...
MQ-9 Reaper Lands at Shaw Air Force Base for the First Time While Under Satellite Control
27 Feb 2024, 08:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite a lot of them being in the sky at the time of writing, no military drone is actually fully autonomous. Regardless of its size, type, and use, every drone currently flying has a human somewhere telling it what to do. And so does one of the m...
McLaren's Mighty Artura Gets Mightier With Power Boost and Brand New Spider Version
27 Feb 2024, 08:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Less than two years ago the world got to meet a McLaren vehicle called Artura for the first time. It was hailed back then as the company's first-ever series-production hybrid supercar, the first to be made using a new platform called the McLar...
F-35A Lightning Looks Like It's Off to Fight Aliens in Another Dimension
26 Feb 2024, 11:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There have been many movies showing how we puny humans, a species that can barely reach its planet's natural satellite, can easily beat hordes of alien warriors that have traveled countless light years to steal our water and whatever. In im...
Pods That Can Reach Airplane Speeds on the Ground to Be Made in Ferrari-Land
26 Feb 2024, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For a brief period of time not long ago the word "hyperloop” was on everybody's lips. Popularized by Elon Musk in a 2013 white paper, the idea of high-speed travel through a low-pressure tube and using capsules is all but dead. Or i...
World's Largest Operational Aircraft Takes Off With Powered Drone Attached to It. Again
26 Feb 2024, 08:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / About two months ago we got word of the first flight (kind of) of a hypersonic drone that's on the radar of the American military. Called TA-1, it is a precursor of a machine being developed by private company Stratolaunch as part of the Multi...
1957 Chevrolet Nomad Will Only Sell for the Price of Three Brand-New Corvettes
26 Feb 2024, 07:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are few cars in this world that are at the same time very old, highly customizable, and much more expensive than the most impressive new cars of our generation. The Chevrolet Nomad is part of that select few, and we've just stumbled upon...
Ducati Engines: Making Sense of the Desmo, Testastretta, Granturismo, and Superquadro
23 Feb 2024, 22:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ducati is one of the biggest names in motorcycle making, its greatness coming not only from the products it sells to the general public but also from the many racing exploits it is involved in. And on top of it all, the two-wheelers wearing the Duc...
The James Webb Telescope in LEGO Form Makes Us Dream of a Way Too Early Christmas
23 Feb 2024, 11:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / LEGO is no stranger to replicating real-life spacecraft in tiny plastic brick form. Just a quick search on the Danish toymaker's website will reveal a wealth of space-related vehicles, from the Space Shuttle Discovery to the Perseverance rover...
NASA Finds Wackiest Name for Experiment Related to the X-59 Supersonic Airplane
23 Feb 2024, 10:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The people and organizations working in space exploration are a very creative bunch. And by that I don't mean in a way relating directly to their activities, but when it comes to using acronyms for their work as well. Time and again in the ...
You Can Legally Drive This Armored Personnel Carrier on the Roads of All 50 United States
23 Feb 2024, 08:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Armored personnel carriers are the bad boys of the vehicle kin. Meant to transport soldiers into the heat of battle, they are capable of withstanding things normal cars, SUVs, and other wheeled contraptions can only dream of. The problem with th...
America Now Has an Intuitive Machine on the Moon After First Landing There in 50+ Years
23 Feb 2024, 07:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was on December 7, 1972 when the Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon. It was to be America's last crewed mission to Earth's natural satellite, but it also happens to have become the country's final mission of any kind to the plac...
Stunning 1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom Is So Exquisite You'll Never Guess It's a LEGO
22 Feb 2024, 16:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although I find that difficult to believe, there are probably few among you now reading this that aren't all that much into LEGOs. Whatever the reasons for that may be, be warned though that reading on might result in a change of opinion. T...
2017 Dodge Charger Has Something Nasty Hiding Under the Hood and No, It's Not the Engine
22 Feb 2024, 14:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you ask me, Harley Quinn is one of the least understood characters in the entire DC Comics universe. Often seen as Joker's main henchwoman, the 30-something-year-old wrongdoer was given a more humane face at the hands of Margot Robbie in &q...
Troubled Boeing Is Going to Launch the Starliner Spaceship in April
22 Feb 2024, 08:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American aerospace giant Boeing has had a pretty rough patch these past few years in all aspects of its business. When it comes to airplanes, the 737 MAX debacle, which led this week to the firing of the program's chief Ed Clark, has caused in...
Rocket That Could Carry Three School Buses to Space Rolls Out to the Pad
22 Feb 2024, 07:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After constantly making the headlines a couple of years back, Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin has entered a very deep cone of shadow, one that started in September 2022 and endures to this day. On that faithful month Blue Origin launc...
Toyota Tundras and Sequoias Creep Forward on Their Own, Recall Issued
22 Feb 2024, 07:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In certain respects it's shaping up to be a very rough week for Japanese carmaker Toyota, after its dealings in the U.S. have been impacted by no less than three recall actions. Granted, two of them are more of a hassle than a real issue when ...
2024 Great North American Eclipse to Help NASA Prove the Roundness of the Sun
21 Feb 2024, 10:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I'm pretty certain many of you out there, just like me, are most of the time under the impression the Sun is perfectly round, just like the Earth. That's because when looked at from a certain perspective, they both look like perfect spher...
U.S. Performs More Tests on Sentinel ICBM, Missile Shaping Up to Be a True Detterent
21 Feb 2024, 09:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As per the official numbers, the U.S. has exactly 400 LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) at its disposal, all of them capable of carrying nuclear warheads and all under the control of the Air Force Global Strike Comman...