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.
Beauty Queen of the Moto World Returns as the Ducati Panigale V4 SP2 30 Anniversario 916
8 Nov 2023, 12:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Thirty years ago a bike considered by many to be one of the most beautiful motorcycles ever made broke cover in New York. The beauty queen of the moto world, if you will, was a Ducati called 916. And its beauty came not only from its flowing shape ...
2024 KTM 990 Duke Is the New Definition of Naked Bikes
8 Nov 2023, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Duke range of two-wheelers is at the moment one of the most successful in the portfolio of Austrian bike maker KTM. Introduced 30 years ago, in 1993, it rapidly grew to include at the time of writing no less than 12 models. With the exception o...
2024 Suzuki GSX-S1000GX Is a Mouthful to Word, Blends Sport-Tourer and Adventure
8 Nov 2023, 09:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I will never understand why motorcycle makers, especially the Japanese ones (but Germans and others too), choose to sell the bikes they make under such complicated names. Sure, I get the need for an internal code to make it easier for the company i...
There's a New Electric Model S in Town, And It's Not a Tesla
8 Nov 2023, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There never was a better time to be a motorcycle fan this year that the first week of November. In the span of just a few days, a wealth of the world's most important bike makers have spilled the beans on what they have planned next, many of t...
2024 Yamaha Tenere 700 Explore Bets Big on Suspension Tweaks
7 Nov 2023, 12:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Tenere moniker has been around in Yamaha's stables ever since 1983, when the XT600Z Tenere was introduced as something inspired by two-wheeled Paris-Dakar racers. For all intents and purposes, it was the company's first adventure bike...
Moto Guzzi Reveals Three 2024 V85 Bikes, TT Travel Takes the Lion's Share
7 Nov 2023, 11:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you are into motorcycles you should turn your attention to Milan, Italy this week, as it is there where a whole lot of new two-wheeled wonders are being presented to the world as part of the 2023 EICMA show. Among these wonders, a lot of new Mot...
Vmoto APD Concept Is How All Scooters Should Look Like From Now On
7 Nov 2023, 11:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you don't take into account Vespa, the world of scooters is a very boring one. If you do take the Italian company into account, it becomes exciting, but with a certain retro feel to it. Until recently, when German bike maker BMW revealed...
2024 Moto Guzzi Stelvio Is How a Motorcycle Gets Ready to Conquer Mountain Passes
7 Nov 2023, 11:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Stelvio is the name of a mountain pass in the Eastern Alps. It borders Italy and Switzerland at an elevation of 2,757 m (9,045 feet), and has no less than 48 hairpin bends. Because of that, the pass is highly appreciated by drivers and riders, and ...
Aprilia RS 457 Drops Its Covers in Public at the 2023 EICMA Show
7 Nov 2023, 11:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Only two days separate us from the official start of the 2023 EICMA, possibly the largest motorcycle show dedicated to new production bikes (and more) in the world. Being held in Milan, it is also the perfect opportunity for Italian bike makers to ...
1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Looks Best With BMW M Paint Over Extreme Custom Work
6 Nov 2023, 11:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Chevrolet Camaro took a seat at the muscle car table in 1966, and from the get-go it made it clear it's not some second-hand guest, but might very well be the star of the dinner party. Especially when dressed in Z28 guise. At times spel...
F-35 Does a Special Kind of Landing on Royal Navy's Biggest Warship
6 Nov 2023, 09:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / They call it the HMS Prince of Wales (R09), and they describe it as the "most powerful surface warships ever constructed in the UK." And judging by its capabilities, that's not an untrue statement. The aircraft carrier is the seco...
NASA Has a Most Detailed Map of Water Spots on Mars, Here's What It's Used For
6 Nov 2023, 08:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is now little doubt we humans will eventually get to Mars. It seems that, somehow, humanity has always known that. Yet only in recent years we got to see not only talk of Mars missions intensifying, but also plans being drafted. At the mom...
Toyota Made So Many Cars You Could Park 3 of Them Every Mile Between the Earth and Sun
6 Nov 2023, 07:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the years that preceded the start of the Second World War, the then still largely secluded Japan was about to venture on the path of carmaking for the civilian market. Just four years before the Japanese launched their deadly attack on Pearl Har...
1968 Chevrolet C10 Has the Name of the End of Days, Looks Mean Enough
5 Nov 2023, 09:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Chevrolet C10 is without a doubt the most famous member of the C/K family of pickup trucks American carmaker Chevrolet produced between 1975 and 2002. That's not because of some attribute of the truck that made it indispensable or famous d...
Harley-Davidson Bat Wheeler Is What Batman Rides When He Stops Giving a Damn
4 Nov 2023, 23:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Batman is a very careful individual. It's in the nature of his job, I suppose, to make sure he doesn't only defeat his foes, but that he also remains a mystery to them – you don't have to imagine what supervillains would do if ...
1979 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Lolita Has a Bed Too Small for All the Awards It Snatched
4 Nov 2023, 14:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the odd chance you can't remember what a Chevrolet K5 Blazer is, feel free to do a quick search. The results you'll get will reveal a full-size SUV sold as part of the C/K family from 1969 to 1994. It was the smallest full-size SUV...
How to Properly Store Your Motorcycle for the Winter
4 Nov 2023, 13:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Even if a quick foray out your front door will have you convinced it's spring (at least here where I live), winter is almost upon us. It may come a little later than usual, but it will come, and with it all the hardships we're used to. ...
Harley-Davidson Hot Flames Is How You Make a Low Rider Look Cool for Under $4,000
3 Nov 2023, 23:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Whenever a custom motorcycle pops up in a conversation, talk inadvertently hits that soft spot that is cost. And generally speaking, the cost of a custom two-wheeler is often times at least as high as the cost of the base bike. But not in this case...
2024 Yamaha MT-09 SP Is a Japanese Exercise in Motorcycle Coolness
3 Nov 2023, 10:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / "Ten years ago, Yamaha changed the game with the introduction of a radical new machine which kick-started the Hyper Naked revolution and changed everything in the world of motorcycling." This is how Yamaha describes the MT-09, which just ...
2023 Shelby F-250 Super Baja Is So Extreme It Costs More Than Double the 2024 F-250 Lariat
3 Nov 2023, 09:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Because Americans love pickup trucks so much that they often overlook how much they have come to cost, carmakers don't shy away from slapping huge price stickers on their products. Just consider that just a few of us would have imagined a coup...