Daniel Patrascu
18,932 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.
2024 BMW R 12 and R 12 nineT Get a Powerful New Frame to Hold the Boxer Engine in Check
24 Nov 2023, 08:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 2023 is the year when German motorcycle maker BMW Motorrad is celebrating its 100th anniversary. It was only natural then for us to be subjected to a wealth of new models being launched, but I have to admit I wasn't expecting much more with so...
Aircraft on Another Planet Is Showing NASA a Thing or Two About Flying
23 Nov 2023, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When it comes to the exploration of other planets, the best we can do with our current level of technological development is to rely on robots of various shapes, sizes, and purposes. Until about a couple of years ago that meant solely orbiters, lan...
Egg and Nut Shells Become Part of This Stunning Aston Martin DB6
23 Nov 2023, 11:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The general perception is the main (and at times only) way to make a vehicle eco-friendly is to slap a zero-emissions powertrain into it. But a truly Earth-friendly car does more than that: it incorporates as many natural and sustainable materials ...
These Toyota Design Concepts Are So Wacky They Were Never Made
23 Nov 2023, 09:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The automotive world is a very dynamic one, with nearly not a single week passing by without some new vehicle or piece of technology being unveiled to the world. Yet, for every single four-wheeled machine that makes it into this world, there are pr...
1972 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Was a "Deadliest Catch" Captain’s Custom Ride, Needs New Driver
22 Nov 2023, 13:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I personally don't like and can't properly understand the human fascination with fishing (and hunting, for that matter, but that's a story for another time). By that I mean I can't understand how this is considered a sport, and ...
This Is How NASA Uses Nasty Radioactive Plutonium to Conquer Space
22 Nov 2023, 12:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Plutonium is not a fun word to speak, hear, or write. Used to depict an actinide metal we've known about for some time, it has become synonymous with human-caused destruction on a hard-to-comprehend scale. Plutonium was used to form the cor...
Running Down the New Countryman S ALL4, MINI's $39,000 Fun Machine
22 Nov 2023, 10:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / MINI has always been known for its "breaking the norm attitude." When it passed under BMW ownership in the mid-1990s, some feared the British way of making small fun machines would be replaced by German rigidity, and effectively spell doo...
Massive Custom Indian Motorcycles Competition Opens Its Doors for Insane Entries
21 Nov 2023, 13:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At first glance it may not seem so, but the European continent is a hotbed for custom motorcycle garages and their insane builds. For decades already crews there have been flooding this world with unique interpretations of production bikes, more of...
There Are 500,000 Stars in This Image and Among Them Hide Unexplained Needle Structures
21 Nov 2023, 12:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's impossible to know such things for sure, but estimates point to around 200 billion trillion stars being alive and kicking in our Universe today. That is if you consider our own Milky Way and its 100 billion suns as a standard of universal...
World's Most Advanced Air and Missile Defense Radar Tracks and Kills Live-Fire Test Target
21 Nov 2023, 11:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Offensive capabilities are crucial to winning any war, and in our day and age that means relying heavily on air power, no matter the form it takes: crewed or uncrewed aircraft, missiles, including hypersonic ones, and even drones. Yet for every suc...
Boeing MH-139A Grey Wolf Lines Ready to Roll, ICBMs Should Now Feel Safe
21 Nov 2023, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Bell UH-1N Huey helicopter has been around for more than half a century now, being used for a variety of tasks, most of them military in nature. Like many other machines this old, it could probably continue to perform its duties for years to co...
Gulfstream G600 Makes Historic First Transatlantic Flight on 100% SAF
21 Nov 2023, 08:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On November 28, 2023, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by Virgin Atlantic will depart London Heathrow heading for New York JFK. It's not the kind of trip we haven't seen before, but it will be the first time in the history of mankind when...
Bell 360 Invictus Attack Helo Gets Fitted with a New Engine, Closer to 2024 Test Flight
21 Nov 2023, 07:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was only in late October that we learned of helicopter maker Bell getting its hands on a brand engine called T901. Intended for use in the 360 Invictus attack helicopter, the engine has already been installed on the aircraft, we learned this wee...
This Is the Largest Blunt Body to Reenter Earth's Atmosphere, It Brought Back a Mystery
20 Nov 2023, 11:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back on November 10, 2022, some of you might have caught glimpses of a screaming ball of fire dropping from the sky. It wasn't an asteroid, or some satellite gone rogue, but a piece of technology the American space agency calls the LOFTID. ...
Newest Predator Drone Drone Plays With UK's Most Powerful Warship
20 Nov 2023, 10:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Royal Navy calls its newest aircraft carrier, the HMS Prince of Wales (R09), the most powerful surface warship ever made in the country. In recent months, it has also become the favorite place for various military contractors and branches to te...
Junkers Saenger Rocket-on-a-Sled Looks Like a Ridiculous Way of Launching a Spaceplane
20 Nov 2023, 08:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The way history unfolded means we humans have specific ideas of how certain things are supposed to work. Cars should have four wheels, motorcycles two, and the best way to shoot a spacecraft off the planet is by means of a vertical take-off rocket....
The Glorious Photos of Starship's Second (Dis)Integrated Flight Test
20 Nov 2023, 07:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been perhaps the most important weekend of the year for Elon Musk's SpaceX in particular, and for the space exploration industry in general. That's because the "world's most powerful launch vehicle ever developed,"...
Rolls-Royce Tests the Ultimate Turbofan Engine at Full Power, Nothing Gives Way
19 Nov 2023, 00:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The auto industry is a very dynamic one, in the way that we often get new car models, but also new powerplants meant to power them. By contrast, the aviation industry is a lot more stable, with many aircraft and engine designs being kept in operati...
The Wheels on This Custom Harley-Davidson Breakout Should Be in an Art Museum
18 Nov 2023, 23:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Pick one of the photos in this story's gallery. They all show a modified Harley-Davidson Breakout, and that should be enough to make you look at them. But zoom in on the bike's wheels in any of the pics. Did your jaw drop yet? The natu...
World's 10 Best Motor Scooters in 2023
18 Nov 2023, 10:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The word "scooter” is a bit confusing nowadays. Technically speaking, it is used to describe a vehicle used for urban mobility that is essentially a board on wheels, motorized or not, and with a support column meant to keep the rider sta...