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.
Fireworks Exploding Behind a C-130J Super Hercules Are the Proper Way to Celebrate America
9 Jul 2024, 07:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This 4th of July America celebrated 248 years since it came to be as a nation with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. As usual, it was a momentous occasion, marked across the country and all over the world with impressive fireworks sho...
$92K Indian Challenger RR Coming to Europe to Preach Locals About Bagger Racing
8 Jul 2024, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was only a few years ago that a bunch of riders decided to take their bagger Harley-Davidsons and Indians out on the track and race each other just to see what happens. In the meantime, this "let’s see what happens" thing turned ...
Motocross Bikes See These F-15 Eagles Flying Overhead and They Immediately Start Racing
8 Jul 2024, 09:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the end of last month, people flocked to The Wick 338 racing circuit in Southwick, Massachusetts, to see some of the best people in motocross go after each other in the race held there as part of the SMX Monster Energy AMA Pro Motocross National...
Aprilia RS 457 Racing Kit Will Be Put to the Test in New Single-Make Racing Series
8 Jul 2024, 08:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Say what you like about Italians, but these guys sure know how to make machines, on any number of wheels. One only needs to look at the Aprilia RS 457, for instance, to realize that’s so. The RS 457 is the newest and perhaps the hottest sp...
Mutated 1955 Chevrolet Corvette Has a Nomad Wagon Body and a C4 Heart
8 Jul 2024, 07:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ah, the Corvette, America’s sports car. On the market since 1953, it was named after the fast strike ships used in the Second World War in a bid to make it more appealing to American men who served. The vehicle has become an icon of the indus...
Faster Version of the Hottest British EV Bike Lands Stateside with a $8,995 Price Tag
6 Jul 2024, 22:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are plenty of electric motorcycles to be had in today's market, but most of them have that nasty habit of looking all too modern for some tastes. For those wishing a more classic look for their electricity-powered two-wheeler, there are ...
Most Powerful BMW R 1300 GS Ever Gets Adventure Version, And It's Glorious
6 Jul 2024, 08:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been nine months already since German motorcycle maker BMW unleashed the most powerful version of the R 1300 GS ever made. During this time, we've seen the bike being better than a Porsche 911 at reaching the top of the Nevado Ojos d...
Grips on Honda CRF Bikes Can Fall Off, ”Stop Using” Order Issued for 40K American Riders
5 Jul 2024, 14:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although it may not seem like it at first glance, the grips on a motorcycle are crucial for a rider’s safety. Installed on the handlebar, the grips are there to prevent the hands of the person in control from slipping. If that is to happen, t...
LEGO Launches the Orca Boat From Jaws, Throws in the Shark and Martin Brody
5 Jul 2024, 13:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Be honest: how freaked out were you the first time you saw "Jaws”? Pretty much so, right? But my guess is that was the proper kind of fright, the one people tend to look back at with a bit of nostalgia once they grow older. If that'...
Breadbox Shuttle Made Rockets Heading to Space Look Like School Kids With a Backpack
5 Jul 2024, 12:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The shape of a breadbox is not something that comes to mind when thinking about space exploration vehicles. Be they rockets or spacecraft, they are all pointy and streamlined. But a breadbox shape for a space shuttle is something someone really con...
Two Asteroids Just Flew by Earth, Huge One Had a Moon in Tow
5 Jul 2024, 09:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On a cosmic level, asteroids passing in relative proximity to our planet are not uncommon – after all, there are over 20,000 near-Earth objects out there that we know of. But every now and then, some of these things fly by, and they are so in...
USAF Turns a Glider Aircraft Into a Cheap, Flying Surveillance Truck
5 Jul 2024, 08:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Military drones are certainly impressive feats of engineering, as they allow their operators to keep an eye on the enemy or even strike its capabilities from a safe distance. But many of them come with a major disadvantage: they are very expensive ...
USAF Tanker Stays Airborne for 45 Hours, First of Its Kind to Move Once Around the World
5 Jul 2024, 07:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We often bring you news of all the new combat airplanes, helicopters, and drones the U.S. Air Force (USAF) is on the verge of getting, because all of these things are pretty impressive pieces of engineering. But so are more utilitarian airplanes, e...
Asteroid to Hit Earth in 14 Years in New Impact Scenario, Enough Time for NASA to Save Us?
4 Jul 2024, 13:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are many ways our civilization could come to an abrupt end, but only a handful of them have to do with forces so powerful and out of our control that they'd be impossible to stop. An asteroid strike is one of those world-ending events we...
When American Valkyries Take Flight, This Wacky Chariot Is What Carries Them
4 Jul 2024, 11:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Valkyries are some of the most impressive mythological creatures around. Born in the minds of the people living in Northern Europe millennia ago, they are maidens whose sole purpose is to cherry-pick the dead Norse warriors worthy of entering the l...
Midnight eVTOL Transition Flight Lands Archer $55 Million More From Major Carmaker
4 Jul 2024, 09:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are several kinds of vertical take-off and landing aircraft currently being researched, and most of them rely on something called transition flight to operate. That would be the aircraft's ability to lift off and land like a helicopter, ...
Earth’s Asteroid Hunter Is About to Die on the Job, New One Coming in 2027
4 Jul 2024, 07:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are about 20 high-profile NASA spacecraft currently in operation in the solar system, each performing various missions. Only one of them, however, is dedicated to scanning the sky for objects that might endanger life here on Earth. And at the...
Block II Upgrades for Chinook Helicopters Will Make Them Better, Not Prettier
3 Jul 2024, 14:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Helicopters are, by design, kind of quirky aircraft, but on the scale of strangeness there's nothing more so than the CH-47 Chinook, the so-called king of pinnacle landings. And not even the most recent upgrade package for it doesn't make...
China Gets Its Hands on Exactly 4.26 Pounds of Moon No One Has Ever Seen Before
3 Jul 2024, 13:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On June 25, 2024, a Chinese spacecraft called Chang'e-6 delivered to Earth a capsule containing samples from the far side of the Moon. It marked the first time humanity got its hands on samples coming from the part of the Moon we never get to ...
1965 Ford Mustang Is How You Make a Monster Out of a Perfectly Fine Car
3 Jul 2024, 12:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It often happens for us to come across incredible custom builds – it is, after all, the nature of our job. But even we, the ones used to seeing extreme customs come into the spotlight, we're rendered speechless every now and then. And th...