Daniel Patrascu
18,928 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.
Harley-Davidson Xilla Is the Perfect Companion for the Demon With a 360 MM Rear Wheel
10 Feb 2024, 23:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / More than a year ago, in the final months of 2022, we brought before you a custom Harley-Davidson the likes of which we rarely get to see. It was a V-Rod modified at the hands of an American custom crew called Devin Diego Designs (DD) to stand out ...
All the BMW M Motorcycles You Can Buy in 2024 (and Two Toy Versions)
10 Feb 2024, 21:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Many of the world's leading carmakers have established at one point in their past performance divisions. In many cases, these divisions came about as an evolution of various racing programs (or evolved into them) and rapidly grew to embody the...
The Diablo Rojo Hot Rod Looks Low Enough to Sneak Under a Door
10 Feb 2024, 00:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are many cars from the past that keep custom garages on their toes in our time. How many times haven't we seen models originally made decades ago being given a new life at the hands of American builders, many of them looking a hell of a ...
Harley-Davidson Toxicator Is How V-Rods Were Born to Look
9 Feb 2024, 23:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's a good chance no one is so insane as to try this, but if someone would start counting all the custom Harley-Davidson motorcycles ever made, it would immediately become apparent that the V-Rods form the basis for most of these designs. ...
The Orion Spaceship Will Be Armed With Lasers When It Goes to the Moon
9 Feb 2024, 13:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Lasers are rapidly becoming the new promised land of space communications. Several times over the past few months, we've learned of different technologies being researched in this field, and their arrival has the potential to change the pace o...
This 1983 Range Rover Safari Is the Ultimate Sleeper, It's All Electric and High Tech
9 Feb 2024, 11:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you are not a James Bond fan, I'm not sure you remember a movie called Octopussy. It's a 1983 flick that starred Roger Moore as the famous British spy, and as usual, it is packed full of action, stunts, and unlikely plots to destroy th...
Black Hole Conveniently Warps Spacetime Into a Football on the Eve of Super Bowl LVIII
9 Feb 2024, 08:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's this thing happening to humans called pareidolia. That's the tendency of the human brain to find a meaningful interpretation to the things our senses perceive. Most often, that translates into seeing familiar shapes, patterns and ...
This Most Extreme VTOL Is Not Meant to Fly Over Earth
8 Feb 2024, 13:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Thanks to its relative proximity to our planet and the similarities it shares with Earth, Mars has always been a center of attention for our species. So much so that over the past decades we've sent tons of exploration missions there, more tha...
Nose-Up Dream Chaser Spaceplane Gets the Shakes Ahead of Historic Mission
8 Feb 2024, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back at the beginning of this month NASA and Sierra Space opened the gates of the Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio for the media, in a bid to give everyone interested in the topic a closer look at the Dream Chaser spaceplane. And boy,...
NASA May Just Have Found a Much Better Way to Navigate the Moon
8 Feb 2024, 08:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A few months ago we brought you a story about something called the Goddard Image Analysis and Navigation Tool. GIANT, for short, is a tech that was already tested on the OSIRIS-REx mission and may forever change the way optical navigation in space ...
People Have Been Pretending to Live on Mars for 200+ Days Now, Proving Mark Watney Right
7 Feb 2024, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Mark Watney is a super astronaut. Stranded and completely alone on the surface of Mars, he has to survive all by himself as he waits for a rescue mission to come and put an end to his ordeal. And it does, but not before over 560 Martian days of lon...
1952 Twin Beech Aircraft Used in Ford v Ferrari Goes for a Lot Less Than Some Custom Cars
7 Feb 2024, 11:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / People usually go nuts over things that have been used in movies, especially if said movie was a hit. And no one can argue that the 2019 Ford v Ferrari film was anything but a hit, so we were kind of expecting a plane briefly seen on screen to take...
Brand New Piper M700 Fury Light Aircraft Looks Better Than Those Fancy VTOLs
7 Feb 2024, 10:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The light aircraft segment of the aviation industry is a very lucrative one, even if for most of us not as visible as others. But you only have to look at how many vehicles compete for attention here to realize that's clearly so. I'm n...
The 2024 Indian Roadmaster Elite Is a Limited Edition Factory Custom With a Camelback Vibe
7 Feb 2024, 08:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is nobody around from that time to remember, but back in 1904, Indian Motorcycle introduced a model called Camelback in its lineup. It was a bike suitable for its time, with a tiny (by today's standards) intake over exhaust single-cylind...
NASA Summons Armies of Inchworm Robots to Build Us Homes in Space
6 Feb 2024, 13:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With all the sci-fi movies and books at our disposal, and with our imagination fueled even further by the increasingly daring space missions our species is attempting, it's not hard to imagine a not-so-distant future when the space around us i...
Armored Vehicle Turns Into Drone Killer With One Switch of the Turret
6 Feb 2024, 12:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Drones of all shapes, sizes, and kinds have certainly become the stars of modern-day battlefields. In all of the world's hotspots, they are used on land, in the air, and on water to inflict unexpected and most of the time serious damage to the...
Largest X-ray Telescope Ever Made Will Map the Universe and Respond to Unexpected Events
6 Feb 2024, 11:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although the space missions that involve humans (read the Artemis program) steal the spotlight these days, it is the ones that have nothing to do with astronauts that will probably seriously advance our understanding of the Universe. The last fe...
1956 Ford Thunderbird Is Worth as Much as 11 Brand New Dodge Chargers
6 Feb 2024, 09:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Last weekend marked the end of the first major car auction of the year. Organized by Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale, Arizona, it will probably forever be remembered as one where cars sold for a lot of money: just the top ten best-sellers managed to ...
Fiat 500 Collezione 1957 Brings Back the Vibes of Life From More Than Half a Century Ago
6 Feb 2024, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Fiat 500 is a peculiar member of the car family. It was first introduced in 1957, making it 67 years old this year. That's quite a lot, even by car model standard, and you would have expected its longevity to be accompanied by quite the nu...
Autonomous Helicopters Fly at One Another to See If They Can Dodge in Time
5 Feb 2024, 13:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you happened to be in the general area of Long Island Sound in late October last year, you might have been witness to a pair of helicopters performing all sorts of maneuvers in the sky. You might have thought nothing of it, but here's somet...