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.
America to Make Its First Moon Landing in Decades on February 22, Here's How to Watch Live
21 Feb 2024, 08:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 2024 kicked off with a bang for space exploration, as in the first days of the year the American space agency and a private company called Astrobotic launched something called the Peregrine. A lander by trade, the tech was supposed to put America o...
The New Renault 5 Will Be Unveiled in Geneva Next to These Crazy Yellow Mobility Vehicles
21 Feb 2024, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is little doubt that the highlight of the French carmaker Renault's presence at the Geneva Motor Show at the end of the month will be the highly anticipated 5 E-Tech. A revival of a nameplate that was an immense hit in Europe decades ago...
Indian FTR x RSD Super Hooligan Is a Run-What-Ya-Brung Customized Beast
21 Feb 2024, 06:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Even if you are not into motorcycle racing, the terms run-what-ya-brung and Super Hooligan probably still ring some bells. That's because the bikes and riding styles they are meant to represent have long spilled over into the civilian world. ...
15 "Naked" Motorcycles You Can Ride in 2024 (and What Makes Them Cool)
20 Feb 2024, 13:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Naked motorcycles are a special breed of two-wheelers. Born some decades ago out of necessity, these machines are today among the most appreciated of their kind, and almost not a single sunny day goes by without us running into one on the street. ...
13 Places on the Moon for American Astronauts to Land
20 Feb 2024, 10:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the beginning of this year NASA announced a one-year postponement for the Artemis II and III missions. The spaceflights were supposed to take a crew of astronauts around the Moon and another one to the surface in 2024 and 2025, but now that will...
Fastest Gulfstream Aircraft Breaks Through 50+ City-Pair Speed Records
20 Feb 2024, 09:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For an aircraft maker the size of Gulfstream, the speed at which it can transport people from city to city is crucial to its success. After all, that is the nature of its business, and having nothing to brag about in this respect could be damaging ...
2024 Suzuki GSX-8R Can Lose Their Drive Chains on the Go, Recall Issued
20 Feb 2024, 08:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Technically speaking motorcycles are far less complex than four-wheeled vehicles, and that might have you believe mistakes are less likely to be made during the assembly process. Yet they do happen, and they could have unexpected and potentially da...
Porsche Doubles Down on Panamera Plug-In Hybrids, Two More Versions Now on the Table
20 Feb 2024, 07:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When it introduced the Panamera model about 15 years ago, the Germans from Porsche probably knew it was going to be a hit, just like everything else they've ever done. It would be interesting to know, however, if the company knew just how big ...
Someone Is Researching Spacecraft Propelled by the Momentum of Radioactive Isotope Decay
19 Feb 2024, 15:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been seven years since a University of Hawaii telescope spotted a strange object crossing our solar system. One-quarter mile (400 meters) long and maybe ten times as long as it is wide, thus unlike anything else we usually get to see arou...
Boeing Recoverable Launch Booster Would Have Been the Beauty Queen of Space Rockets
19 Feb 2024, 12:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A launch booster is a boring piece of machinery to look at. It's basically a cylinder filled with fuel that helps put an object into orbit, or helps a core stage do the same thing. It's in the boosters' nature to be effective, and no...
This Is How the Aeralis Modular Aircraft Reconfig and Maintenance Lines Will Work
19 Feb 2024, 11:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For several years now there has been talk over in Britain's (and the world's) aviation circles of a new kind of aircraft that could completely reshape what it means to operate a fleet of aircraft. It's a modular piece of flying machi...
Honda Africa Twin Gets Mild 2024 Refresh, Two Versions on the Table From May
19 Feb 2024, 10:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Last week was a busy time for motorcycle lovers, as several of the world's biggest bike makers, like Triumph and Buell, announced some very exciting models (or changes to existing ones) for the new model year. The Japanese from Honda joined th...
Triumph Tiger 1200 Gets Vicious for the 2024 Model Year, Engine Upgrades Take Center Stage
19 Feb 2024, 09:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Tiger nameplate is a long-lasting one over at Triumph. First used in the 1930s, the moniker has somehow endured many decades and many corporate troubles to reach our time as "the world's most capable, agile, and maneuverable large-cap...
2025 Buell Super Cruiser in Pre-Production Form to Be Shown at the Daytona Bike Week
19 Feb 2024, 07:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been exactly a year since American bike maker Buell announced the newest entry in its lineup of motorcycles, the Super Cruiser. When it was announced in 2023 the bike was merely a concept, but now, a year later, a production prototype is ...
Chrysler Halcyon Is the World's Only EV Designed for Unlimited Range, Sadly Just a Concept
13 Feb 2024, 13:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I am so old I can clearly remember a time when car concepts were mostly presented as a means for carmakers to give us a glimpse into the upcoming design lines of the industry. From time to time, they did drop some previews of future engines and oth...
Falling Camera to Snap First-Ever Third-Person Pic of Spacecraft Landing on an Alien World
13 Feb 2024, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In January 2024 the first-ever mission of the American space agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) took off. Shortly after it failed, taking with it NASA's dreams of returning to the surface of the Moon after more than half a ...
NASA Spacecraft to Fly With Aluminum Foil “Engines” Running on Light
13 Feb 2024, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In sci-fi literature and movies spacecraft powered by solar sails are pretty common. They are easy to make and fly, they require no on-board fuel to run and, given enough time, they have the potential to take you literally everywhere in this Univer...
Plastic Bricks Rocket Will Put the Image of 8.8 Million Pounds of Thrust on Your Desk
12 Feb 2024, 11:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In November 2022, the world witnessed the flight of the Space Launch System rocket for the first time. Coming at the end of a rather short development program (work on it started in 2011) and following a couple of botched attempts, the launch offic...
Harley-Davidson Gold King Is a Rolex Watch on Wheels, Made for the Strangest of Reasons
12 Feb 2024, 10:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The custom motorcycle world, especially that side of it that handles Harley-Davidsons, is extremely imaginative. We've seen that imagination express itself in countless ways over the years – most of the time in ways that honor completely...
1969 Ford Torino Talladega Briefly Starred in Furious 7, Actually Made for Greater Things
11 Feb 2024, 10:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The seventh installment of the Fast and Furious franchise, simply called Furious 7, will forever be known to fans as the last one to star Paul Walker. That's because a tragic car crash took the life of the actor, and nothing was the same after...