Daniel Patrascu
18,931 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.
300-HP AMR ePower 1965 Ford Mustang Puts Muscle in Electric Drives
16 Jan 2024, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The electrification of the automotive industry is doing wonders for the environment, but also for the design of new cars, because they now can adopt styling cues that were not possible with internal combustion engines. But it also makes for the per...
1952 Twin Beech Seen in Ford v Ferrari Used to Be a Haunted House, And You Can Have It
16 Jan 2024, 08:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / No matter how you look at it, car collectors are not the same as aircraft collectors. That's why we don't often get to see the world of one group colliding with another, especially on the auction block. But that collision is kind of inevi...
Off-Road-Only Furious 7 Attack Buggy Is for Sale, Few People Seem to Care
15 Jan 2024, 15:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite the success any and every Fast and Furious movie enjoys in theaters, humanity's appeal for anything related to them seems to have toned down a little. Maybe it's because of the increasingly ludicrous path the series has taken, or ...
This Ugly Russian Space Shoe Could Have Stolen America's Thunder
15 Jan 2024, 14:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When the space race started back in the mid-1950s, people were imagining we would soon not only colonize other worlds but also begin fighting for resources beyond the confines of our own planet. Yet one of the main competitors in this race dropped ...
USNS Cody Is the U.S. Navy's First Medically-Capable Spearhead Fast Transport Ship
15 Jan 2024, 09:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the end of December 2023, we got word of the U.S. Navy being on the verge of receiving three brand-new floating hospitals. They are the Expeditionary Medical Ships (EMS) being built by Austal, but they are not the only medically capable vessels ...
Most Powerful Radio Burst Comes From Halfway Across the Universe, Has Scientists Baffled
15 Jan 2024, 09:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the oldest and most important tools humans use to unravel the mysteries of the Universe. Launched in 1990, which is more than three decades ago, it helped our species advance our knowledge of the Universe to inc...
Skunk Works' Windowless Experimental Airplane Looks Like an Alien Fightercraft
15 Jan 2024, 07:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you ask me, some of the best sci-fi movies are the ones where humanity has to fight for its survival against some technologically advanced alien race, preferably in the far reaches of space. And many of the fighter spacecraft sent against us by ...
WWII Bomber-Like 1932 Willys Is Many Levels of Badassery. And Then You See the Engine
14 Jan 2024, 00:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The American custom car scene is unlike any other in the world. Rich and vibrant, it comes with little obstacles in the way of people having their way with vehicles. Most of the time, that works like a charm, other times, less so. You be the judge ...
Someone Fixed Harley-Davidson's Biggest Heritage Classic Mistake, Bike Is Now Perfect
13 Jan 2024, 23:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Harley-Davidson's cruiser lineup is the most extensive in the American bike maker's portfolio. At the time of writing, it includes no less than seven motorcycles, ranging from the aggressive Fat Boy to the stylish and useful Low Rider ST....
Hollywood's Idea of Badass Bikes for Badass Heroes (And Why Some Just Don't Work)
13 Jan 2024, 09:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Hollywood has always had a very strange relationship with the cars and motorcycles it uses in its movies. How's that? Consider this: even when cars and motorcycles are central to the plot, you almost never know exactly what kind of vehicle is ...
Nasty Ford Bronco Raptor Could Conquer Mars and Look Good Doing It
12 Jan 2024, 23:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When American carmaker Ford announced it was reviving the Bronco nameplate three years ago, everybody knew we were in for perhaps the most capable vehicles of our time. And we were all right, obviously. The Blue Oval initially produced the Bronc...
You Can Have Your Own Yamaha XT 600 Look This Electrifying for Just $9,300, Bike Included
12 Jan 2024, 23:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I'm not sure how many of you now reading this remember the Yamaha XT 600. In fact, many of you might not even have been born when the Japanese bike maker stopped rolling off the assembly lines. The model was born as an all-purpose enduro in...
Elysian E9X Is How Airplanes Mutate When the Electric Bug Infects Them
12 Jan 2024, 12:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The automotive industry is currently enjoying a well-deserved rebirth. After more than a century of doing things pretty much the same way, electric drivetrains are here to reshape everything, from emission levels to the basic design of a car, which...
World's First Hydrogen-Powered VTOL Jet Has BMW DNA and It Seems Like a Waste of Tech
12 Jan 2024, 11:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of VTOLs is fast expanding and promises to forever change the way air travel is made. There are several driving forces behind this expansion, ranging from the need to declutter our very congested cities and airports to the need to find be...
Watch Out for Burns: 2024 Toyota GR Yaris Hot Hatch Is Now an Auto and Packs More Power
12 Jan 2024, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2020 Japanese carmaker Toyota gave one of its easy-to-overlook models a version everybody would remember. The Yaris hatchback, which had already been on the market in Europe and elsewhere since the end of the 1990s, got so hot with the Gazo...
Damon HyperSport With New Battery Pack Test Battles Mystery 1,000cc Bike on the Track
11 Jan 2024, 12:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's very hard for a newcomer to make a name for itself in the American motorcycle market. That's because the place is already occupied by a bike-making company deeply embedded into the public consciousness and a wealth of highly-regarded...
Kia Sneaks Up on Uber With Crazy Modular Vehicles, Ride-Hailing Service Says Bring Them On
11 Jan 2024, 12:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Uber was at the time of its arrival into this world the biggest invention since toilet paper. Although for all intents and purposes it was not the first company to try its luck in the then-still-new ride-hailing business, it definitely was the one ...
NASA About to Reveal Supersonic Plane That'll Be as Loud as a Closing Car Door
11 Jan 2024, 11:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Whereas on the space exploration front NASA had a pretty bad week – the Peregrine lunar mission failed, and the Artemis crewed missions to the Moon have been pushed back by a year – things are shaping up to be quite exciting for the age...
American All-Electric Drone Drops Multiple Anti-Armor Warheads for the First Time
11 Jan 2024, 08:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you've been watching the events unfolding over in Ukraine you are probably aware of the beating armored vehicles, from infantry-carrying ones to tanks, are taking from drones. Somehow, Ukrainian soldiers have proven incredibly resourceful i...
Superbike You Probably Never Heard About Is the World's First Motorcycle with Sight
10 Jan 2024, 11:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I am going to write down three words, and I want you to think really hard if they mean anything to you: Verge TS Ultra. Nothing? Don't sweat it, they didn't mean all that much to me either until I came across this bit of news from the CES...