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.
Hydrogen-Powered Motorcycle Called Hydrocyle Has Nothing to Do With Water
5 Feb 2024, 12:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When looking at today's automotive industry I can't help feeling that perhaps we took a wrong turn somewhere. Sure, the road we're on now, the one of battery-electric vehicles (BEV), does lead to a potentially cleaner future, but it ...
Formula 1-Styled Humvee Sold for as Much as 14 Average Americans Make in a Year
5 Feb 2024, 09:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 2023 is behind us by more than a month now, and that means we've had enough time to draw the lines and see what was what last year. When it comes to salaries, things are far from being great. Sure, there are a lot of factors to take into ac...
Finger-Painted Ducati Streetfighter V4 Lamborghini Probably Feels Like Riding a Picasso
5 Feb 2024, 09:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Seeing collaborations between bike maker Ducati and car maker Lamborghini is not that uncommon anymore. The fact the raging bull is Ducati's prime owner (and both are under the Volkswagen umbrella) long ago opened the doors to crossover builds...
1948 Chevy Decoliner Lost $200K in Just 2 Years Despite Looking Like Nothing Else
4 Feb 2024, 00:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of custom vehicles is so diverse that there's a little bit of something for virtually anyone. We've got trucks, SUVs, muscle, classics, and many others, all of them fighting for the attention and the money of auction-goers. And,...
1978 Yamaha XS750 Gets Kawasaki Ninja Face Swap, Bike Is Now Called Yamasaki
3 Feb 2024, 23:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in the decade before most of us today's adults were born, Japanese bike maker Yamaha made a motorcycle family called XS750. It was a three-cylinder breed of bikes meant to be unimpressive but effective in getting its users to where they n...
1970 Chevy K5 Blazer Sells for the Price of 3 Dodge Charger Scat Packs, Plus Some Change
3 Feb 2024, 00:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / You could argue that comparing a Chevrolet SUV from the old days with some of the meanest muscle on the road today isn't exactly fair, not even when the only thing being compared is price. But I think it's one of the best ways to grasp wh...
The Shaft Is a Custom Yamaha Virago XV1100 Not Even Its American Builder Likes
2 Feb 2024, 23:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are plenty of custom motorcycle garages over in America, but the vast majority of them have a few peculiar traits in common. The first would be the fact they mostly handle Harley-Davidson motorcycles, or build them from scratch. The second is...
The Most Important NASA Space Missions Launching in 2024 (And Why They Matter)
2 Feb 2024, 22:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The last few years have coalesced into something that can only be described as another golden age for space exploration. With American space agency NASA taking point, humanity's dreams of reaching further and wider into the solar system and ev...
Soviet Polyblock Rocket Could Have Dropped the Tsar Nuclear Bomb Right on America's Lap
2 Feb 2024, 14:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of nuclear weapons is a very diverse one in terms of power and range. Like everything else we humans do, one of them does however sit at the top of the food chain: the Tsar Bomba. By far the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated,...
U.S. Marine Corps Gets First Taste of Armed Troop Transport That Can Drive in the Ocean
2 Feb 2024, 13:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Amphibious vehicles are some of the most badass pieces of engineering designed on this Earth. Capable of going both over dry land and open water with equal prowess, they have long ago established themselves as favorite tools of the trade for the wo...
LEGO Goes Nuts With New Plastic Brick Cars for Speed Champions, Technic, and Icons
2 Feb 2024, 12:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first month of the new year is already over, and we can now really start thinking about how we're going to spend our next few months. If in the case of some of you the list of activities includes spending hours putting together small plast...
Only 4 Rolls-Royce Cars in This World Have Headliners With Dragons Made of Light
2 Feb 2024, 09:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On February 10 almost one and a half billion people will be celebrating the start of the Year of the Dragon. Supposedly it's the start of several months of power, success and prosperity for those who celebrate it, and perhaps for some of the r...
World's Smallest Spacecraft Completes Astronaut Testing Inside an Airplane
1 Feb 2024, 11:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The expansion in scope and reach of the American space exploration efforts does not solely cover spaceships and rockets. NASA is presently engaged in an all-out effort to modernize everything it does and uses, including the spacesuits its astronaut...
The First Metal 3D Printer Ever Sent to Space Is How Orbital Shipyards Are Born
1 Feb 2024, 10:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Our current level of technological development does not allow us to build things in space. In the best-case scenario, we are capable of assembling stuff in orbit, but the actual build of structures and whatnot still takes place on Earth. It'...
NASA Plans to Run the Moon and Mars on Nuclear Power
1 Feb 2024, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The impending arrival of humans on the Moon and their planned stay there for many years to come pose some very serious challenges for mission planners. These challenges range from transportation to resources and power generation and, believe it or ...
SpaceX Starship to Launch a Fully-Assembled Space Station to Low-Eart Orbit
1 Feb 2024, 07:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The SpaceX Starship is the hottest new kid on the space rockets block. Developed to be a heavy lifter of things that are set to be sent to the Moon and even Mars, it will become the largest and most powerful rocket our species has ever flown. Th...
This Spacecraft Will Strip Bare the Least Understood Planet in the Solar System
31 Jan 2024, 11:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The current mood of our astronomers, who not long ago ostracized Pluto, puts the number of planets in our solar system at eight. Four of them, the inner ones, are rocky, while the other half, residing on the outer reaches of our immediate neighborh...
Europe Working on Tech to Retrofit Aircraft Engines to Run on Hydrogen
31 Jan 2024, 10:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The aviation industry is rushing full throttle toward a future when fossil fuels will no longer be used as intensely as they are today, and the industry as a whole will be a lot greener. There are many avenues of research to reach this goal, and ne...
It's a LEGO Star Wars Year, Plastic Bricks Starship Bonanza Coming on March 1
31 Jan 2024, 09:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 1999, at the International Toy Fair in New York, Danish toymaker LEGO and the infamous Lucasfilm announced a partnership that would grow to light up the early years of many of us with incredible toys, recreations of all the wonders we got t...
Rolls-Royce Ghost With Carbon Fiber Package and Vossen Wheels Looks All Gangsta
31 Jan 2024, 08:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Popular belief, fueled by stories we are told when we were kids and by movies in our adulthood, is that ghosts are usually misty white and kind of diaphanous. Which is quite the opposite of what one sees when looking at this imposing Rolls-Royce Gh...